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I've had two pos cards fail on me this weekend. Now I have to plan our oncall rota according to solar flare activity! > > > We seem to get more ram parity errors on our cisco gear > during solar flare activity. Some believe that the cosmic > rays generated from such events zap the memory. > > davec > > > I haven't been tracking outages through an entire 11 year sunspot > > cycle yet, it only seems like forever. I've looked for correlations > > of unexplained outages or directly attributable outages with previous > > solar flare warnings, but so far nothing detectable shows up. > > > > There are normal satellite outages twice a year as the sun crosses > > the Clarke belt. I've also noticed a 3,6,9 year technology obsolence > > cycle when old equipment fails before companies replace it. > > > > On Sat, 15 July 2000, [email protected] wrote: > > > Forgive this temporary segue into a potential operational issue. > > > > > > http://abcnews.go.com/sections/science/DailyNews/sunspot000714.html > > > > > > I would find it interesting if any outages observed by Sean Donelan > > > or others could be attributed to this solar storm; alternatively, > > > any higher than average incidence of outages and failures would > > > be interesting from a correlation analysis perspective. > > > > > >
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