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SF Loses Power, Craigslist & Other Sites Unplugged

Posted By: dannysullivan 711 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://sfgate.com)
Category: Water Cooler

Power outage in San Francisco wipes out Craigslist, Yelp, Six Apart and others.

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from dannysullivan 711 days ago #

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Technorati also went out, some others:

http://laughingsquid.com/massive-power-outages-hit-san-franciscos-soma-district/

Valleywag blames a drunken employee:

http://valleywag.com/tech/breakdowns/a-drunk-employee-kills-all-of-the-websites-you-care-about-282021.php

More at Techmeme:

http://techmeme.com/#a070724p110

from Hobo 711 days ago #

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So that's what's been up with Technorati today :)

from 0thelisa 711 days ago #

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Good heavens, if I had to listen to Susan complain about how Six Apart was down one more time she would have gotten a computer monitor to the face.

Kidding!

(Sort of.)

from Susan 711 days ago #

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Lisa, have I mentioned how fired you are?

from 0thelisa 711 days ago #

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If it doesn't work when you say it on our blog, it's surely not going to work here. Nice try.

from mjwalshe 711 days ago #

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from the report it took 45 min to get the emergency power back on what teh fuck happened in the battery rooms.

Some one posted a comment on vally wag that they only tested the generators once a month - when I worked for BT we tested our genset every fraking day.

from DLPerry 711 days ago #

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Maybe they didn't have the DC plugged IN to the generator?

It's happened before.

from sreyns 711 days ago #

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Aye. Those of us out here had this kind of slowed-time touch-and-go "wtf?" going on during it e.g.

Session Start (harlequin:pineappleheadhead): Tue Jul 24 14:14:23 2007

[14:14] *** "pineapplehead" signed off at Tue Jul 24 14:14:37 2007.

[14:14] harlequin: you getting hit by brown outs to-day too? yer off and on...

[14:14] *** "pineapplehead" signed on at Tue Jul 24 14:14:50 2007.

Session Close (pineapplehead): Tue Jul 24 14:14:51 2007

Session Start (harlequin:pineapplehead): Tue Jul 24 14:14:59 2007

[14:15] pineapplehead: yep

[14:15] *** "pineapplehead" signed off at Tue Jul 24 14:15:29 2007.

[14:15] harlequin: ah, sister chaos.

Session Close (pineapplehead): Tue Jul 24 14:15:41 2007

...So in consideration of this published a week ago - http://youtube.com/watch?v=NJCyAHJ27Uw - talk about prophetic.

from Skitzzo 710 days ago #

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I've never much trusted reports from "people in the know" or "sources close to" the situation. call me a skeptic...

from johnnybravo 710 days ago #

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You would think that a huge site like Craigslist, the Google of classified ads, would have backups for such an incident. Such as generators? Satellites plugging them into the net? What happens during a thunderstorm and a telephone pole gets hit down the street from them? Are they down again?