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Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
lauren@mastodon.laurenweinstein.org ("Lauren Weinstein") wrote:
Woke up to find that a main gigabit feeder cable had failed. This took considerable time to diagnose. It took much longer to switch to a 100Mb backup circuit that I left in place when I installed the 1G, on the theory that it could indeed be a backup but would likely never be needed.
Now all these years later, bringing up that circuit had the feeling of the direct line between the two planets fighting a computer-directed "virtual war" in the original Star Trek episode "Taste of Armageddon". Yeah, there's a line, but it hasn't been used in centuries.