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Re: solar storm

  • From: Neil J. McRae
  • Date: Sun Jul 16 04:42:32 2000

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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