Reading in several mid-western bussiness papers, due to the high cost of internet systems and problems involved with, this forum will be shut down at noon tomorrow, sure seems a shame to do so, I really loved it…John
It’s probably just routine maintenance. A lot of forums do that on weekends. The press always turns a smoldering cigarette butt into a four alarm blaze. If MR was shutting down the forum they’d announce it on the site.
Hmmmm…are you sure…just routine maintenance…hope so, but I think not…John
How about citing a specific source…
Lets have the names of the papers and links to their websites…
How 'bout looking at the calendar? Check tomorrow’s date!
Tom
its a lurker spreading rumors, either that or its a disgruntled member
tom
I hate April 1st for this reason…[}:)]
What’s tomorrow’s date?
Oh wait… April 1st…
'Nuff said.
I think it might all be part of this:
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Internet Cleaning
DO NOT CONNECT TO THE INTERNET FROM MARCH 31st 23:59 pm (GMT) UNTIL 12:01am (GMT) APRIL 1st.
*** Attention ***
It’s that time again! As many of you know, each year the Internet must be shut down for 24 hours in order to allow us to clean it. The cleaning process, which eliminates dead email and inactive ftp, www and gopher sites, allows for a better-working and faster Internet.
This year, the cleaning process will take place from 23:59 pm (GMT) on March 31st until 00:01 am (GMT) on April 2nd. During that 24-hour period, five powerful Internet-crawling robots situated around the world will search the Internet and delete any data that they find.
In order to protect your valuable data from deletion we ask that you do the following:
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Disconnect all terminals and local area networks from their Internet connections.
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Shut down all Internet servers, or disconnect them from the Internet.
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Disconnect all disks and hardrives from any connections to the Internet.
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Refrain from connecting any computer to the Internet in any way.
We understand the inconvenience that this may cause some Internet users, and we apologize. However, we are certain that any inconveniences will be more than made up for by the increased speed and efficiency of the Internet, once it has been cleared of electronic flotsam and jetsam.
We thank you for your cooperation.
Interconnected Network Maintenance Staff
Main Branch, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Sysops and others: Since the last Internet cleaning, the number of Internet users has grown dramatically. Please assist us in alerting the public of the upcoming Internet cleaning by posting this message where your users will be able to read it.
Please pass this message on to other sysops and Internet users as well
Hahaha
There are powerful internet-crawling robots coming!!! Run for your lives!!
You can’t “clean” the internet and there is no “Interconnected Network Maintenance Staff” @ MIT or anywhere else for that matter.
If all computers and servers were disconnected from the internet like they suggest, then there would be no internet. All the computers and servers connected together create the internet.
Internet cleaning robots? Are those anything like the phone spiders from Aqua Teen Hunger Force?
I almost wi***hey would shut it down and clean it once in a while.Lots of dead sites out there that are a waste of search time.
I thought they just blew air through the lines?!? That’s why they told people to wrap their phones in bags so the dirt wouldn’t come out the speakers and dirty the place up.
Thank goodness for fibre optics!
Hey! Isn’t the MTH K4 supposed to be coming out in April?
Hahaha
“Steve send the phone spiders!”
ATHF is hilarious and that is a great episode.
Bryan
do dead phone spiders look like ear wax…
We’ll look back on this in a month and sy “Well, they sure fooled us!”
Those guys at MIT are way efficient. If you look at the top of the MIT notice, it will take them only 2 minutes to clean the entire internet!!! Wow! These guys need to work on my garage next!
I love April 1 !!!
Dave,
Beat me to the punch. I noticed that myself, too.
Tom
Along the same lines, I just got this e-mail from BLI today:
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QUOTE:
The Birth of Broadway Limited’s Royal Stealth System
By Louis Vidmar
Many, many months ago the marketeers at BLI saw a need for a new strategy for maximizing sales in today’s competitive, litigious train market. So with that in mind, the marketeers summoned the Electronic Masterminds from the furthermost corner of the building and carefully laid out the requirements for the new system. The marketer insisted on two points; one, the sound must be the cleanest ever and two, the cost must be $75 less than the present system.
The Electronic Masterminds, we’ll call them EM’s, were beside themselves. Day and night they calculated, they figured, they experimented and finally they schemed. “Let’s order the fastest microprocessors from Intel, the most expensive semi-conductors from Texas Instruments, the finest speakers from Bose and the rest we’ll order from DigiKey. We’ll spend sixteen hour per day hours in the lab, soldering and unsoldering, measuring, figuring and listening.”
A note about the marketeers, they are a suspicious lot at best. They informed the EMs that progress reports in the form of weekly system demonstrations were in order. But the EMs had a plan. They explained that today’s cutting edge electronics were small, so small in fact, the average marketeer would not be able to see them. But, luckily, at even this early stage of development, the clean sound could be demonstrated.
“Listen closely,” said the head EM as the Centrals RS 15s glided along the track. The marketeer was a bit embarrassed because he did not hear anything. He decided the best way to camouflage his ignorance was to ask a simple question.
“Is the volume adjustable?”
“Of course. We designed the system utilizing a four step volume algorithm. I can amplify that signal four-hundre