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What Happened to Amazon? Their web site comes back with "Http/1.1 Service Unavailable"
The Bobert wrote:
In article , "BobW" wrote: Hmmm...I have a theory -- they have a bug in their software such that if someone orders the combination of a CD, two books, and a screwdriver then it takes down their website. Let me know what I've won. Bob You get the No-Prize for the day. Can I have the booby prize? I like boobies. -- Blinky Killing all posts from Google Groups The Usenet Improvement Project -- http://improve-usenet.org Found 5/08: a free GG-blocking news *feed* -- http://usenet4all.se |
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What Happened to Amazon? Their web site comes back with "Http/1.1 Service Unavailable"
BobW wrote:
wrote in message ... BobW wrote: Hmmm...I have a theory -- they have a bug in their software such that if someone orders the combination of a CD, two books, and a screwdriver then it takes down their website. Let me know what I've won. A dinner with Alexander Abian. In 1973 I had, for two days, the secret formula for crashing the ENTIRE INTERNET (Arpanet). It happened twice before the coders figured out what the bug was in their code. Such were the early days. Doug McDonald Doug, Wow. You were active in networking during the Arpanet days? In 1973, I was still trying to see how far I could pee. Once you get old enough, that will become important to you again. -- Blinky Killing all posts from Google Groups The Usenet Improvement Project -- http://improve-usenet.org Found 5/08: a free GG-blocking news *feed* -- http://usenet4all.se |
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What Happened to Amazon? Their web site comes back with "Http/1.1 Service Unavailable"
On Fri, 06 Jun 2008 18:20:19 -0700, Gary Edstrom
you wrote: On Fri, 6 Jun 2008 17:06:11 -0700, "BobW" wrote: Wow. You were active in networking during the Arpanet days? In 1973, I was still trying to see how far I could pee. Let's see...In 1973 I was working in the secure communications center at Naval Air Station, Alameda, California. Worked on repairing cryptographic equipment and troubleshooting Navy's communications network on base whenever it went down. Those were the good old days! ASR33 teletypes pounding out hard copy at 60 words per minute. Keeping busy day and night. Good old punched paper tape with the 5-bit Baudot code for offline storage In 1974 I was worked in the communications center on Midway Island: http://gbe.dynip.com/Midway/Gary_Eds.../Q0001107A.jpg (The above picture was taken during a return visit in 2001. The building had long-since been abandoned.) Gary Hey! I was a CT(T) back then. Ah the good ole days... the elephant cage, teletype and sonagrams... |
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What Happened to Amazon? Their web site comes back with "Http/1.1Service Unavailable"
BobW wrote:
Hmmm...I have a theory -- they have a bug in their software such that if someone orders the combination of a CD, two books, and a screwdriver then it takes down their website. Oh..they're using Windows Vista? mike -- Due to the insane amount of spam and garbage, this filter blocks all postings from Gmail, Google Mail and Google Groups. http://improve-usenet.org/ |
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What Happened to Amazon? Their web site comes back with "Http/1.1 Service Unavailable"
Paul Allen wrote:
On Fri, 06 Jun 2008 11:19:29 -0700, SMS wrote: What Happened to Amazon? Their web site comes back with "Http/1.1 Service Unavailable" Are they still in business? Wow. At 11:32am, Pacific Time, they're still offline. I wonder how many billion dollars they lose for each minute they're down? Some poor Unix admin's sweating right now. :-( A CNET estimate that was slashdotted today was "more than $31,000 per minute on average", based on its last reported quarterly revenues. -- Blinky Killing all posts from Google Groups The Usenet Improvement Project -- http://improve-usenet.org Found 5/08: a free GG-blocking news *feed* -- http://usenet4all.se |
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What Happened to Amazon? Their web site comes back with "Http/1.1Service Unavailable"
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BobW wrote: Hmmm...I have a theory -- they have a bug in their software such that if someone orders the combination of a CD, two books, and a screwdriver then it takes down their website. Let me know what I've won. A dinner with Alexander Abian. In 1973 I had, for two days, the secret formula for crashing the ENTIRE INTERNET (Arpanet). It happened twice before the coders figured out what the bug was in their code. Such were the early days. And how many computers did that actually affect? 100? -- Ray Fischer |
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What Happened to Amazon? Their web site comes back with "Http/1.1Service Unavailable"
Blinky the Shark wrote:
Paul Allen wrote: On Fri, 06 Jun 2008 11:19:29 -0700, SMS wrote: What Happened to Amazon? Their web site comes back with "Http/1.1 Service Unavailable" Are they still in business? Wow. At 11:32am, Pacific Time, they're still offline. I wonder how many billion dollars they lose for each minute they're down? Some poor Unix admin's sweating right now. :-( A CNET estimate that was slashdotted today was "more than $31,000 per minute on average", based on its last reported quarterly revenues. So all those people that would have placed orders immediately gave up and went to other vendor's web sites to place orders. |
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What Happened to Amazon? Their web site comes back with "Http/1.1 Service Unavailable"
On Fri, 06 Jun 2008 23:45:15 -0700, Gary Edstrom
you wrote: snip Out on Midway Island, they saved all communications for 1 year from the date of transmission or reception. They were stored as both a hard copy, and a punched paper tape copy. That amounted to quite a bit of paper stacking up each day. One of the daily tasks was to take the year old papers to a small incinerator we had just behind the comm center. There with a witness, the papers were burned and a statement signed certifying that they had been destroyed. With those 60wpm teletypes, long messages could take quite a while to print out. Some of the flight plans for outbound pilots would take up to 45 minutes to print. We had 2 such teletypes, and during daytime hours, both were busy almost all of the time. Gary yep..we'd store them in burnbags and once a week we rotated duty to take them to the shredder out back. First we'd shred a couple hundred bags, and then the shreded material would be taken off-site and burned. That shredder would of been a very convienent way to get rid of undesirables. That honker was *huge* and we used 2 ft long planks of 2x4's to sharpen the blades. |
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What Happened to Amazon? Their web site comes back with "Http/1.1 Service Unavailable"
In message , Ray Fischer
writes wrote: BobW wrote: Hmmm...I have a theory -- they have a bug in their software such that if someone orders the combination of a CD, two books, and a screwdriver then it takes down their website. Let me know what I've won. A dinner with Alexander Abian. In 1973 I had, for two days, the secret formula for crashing the ENTIRE INTERNET (Arpanet). It happened twice before the coders figured out what the bug was in their code. Such were the early days. And how many computers did that actually affect? 100? Arpanet and the Internet are two different things. There ware may WAN networks around the works. All the Internet did was connect them. The good thing about the Internet, such as it was, in those days is that there was an entrance exam. You had to be at a Government/military establishment, a good university. a research organisation etc this generally meant the majority were University graduates and/or technically aware. Not any idiot can get on. -- \/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\ \/\/\/\/\ Chris Hills Staffs England /\/\/\/\/ \/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/ |
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What Happened to Amazon? Their web site comes back with "Http/1.1 Service Unavailable"
In message , Chris H
writes In message , Ray Fischer writes wrote: BobW wrote: Hmmm...I have a theory -- they have a bug in their software such that if someone orders the combination of a CD, two books, and a screwdriver then it takes down their website. Let me know what I've won. A dinner with Alexander Abian. In 1973 I had, for two days, the secret formula for crashing the ENTIRE INTERNET (Arpanet). It happened twice before the coders figured out what the bug was in their code. Such were the early days. And how many computers did that actually affect? 100? What I typed and what appeared are two different things :-) Arpanet and the Internet are two different things. There ware may WAN networks around the works. world All the Internet did was connect them. The good thing about the Internet, such as it was, in those days is that there was an entrance exam. You had to be at a Government/military establishment, a good university. a research organisation etc this generally meant the majority were University graduates and/or technically aware. Not NOW any idiot can get on. In Including me it seems:-))))) -- \/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\ \/\/\/\/\ Chris Hills Staffs England /\/\/\/\/ \/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/ |
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