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Election 2006 (and beyond): Digital Copyright Canada
From: Peter Timusk <ptimusk_-at-_sympatico.ca>
To: flora-admin-help_-at-_flora.org
Date: Mon, 1 Sep 2003 15:01:17 -0400
flora is featured at iww.org my unions main site too! There is a logo button to flora. This is for some linux reasons rather than politics or political content. I now link to the flora blog on my blog at http://www.crystalcomputing.blogspot.com/ On Friday, August 15, 2003, at 02:01 PM, Russell McOrmond wrote: > > On Thu, 14 Aug 2003, Russell McOrmond wrote at > http://www.flora.ca/status/219 > >> http://weblog.flora.org/article.php3?story_id=457 >> >> FLORA.org server SlashDotted >> >> An article about Gnome 2.4 on the Website of the Indian Linux Users >> Groups of Calcutta has been mentioned in an article on >> SlashDot.org. >> >> Being mentioned on SlashDot has been known to test the limits of >> any >> server, and thus the server known as calcutta.flora.ca, which is >> used >> for Volunteer and Sponsored websites, is currently under heavy >> load. > > > The load was heavy enough that calcutta.flora.ca continued to draw > power > to the point that relays in Niagara Falls, New York were tripped. This > caused a cascade that brought the power down through much of Ontario > and > north-eastern United States. > > http://www.cbc.ca/stories/2003/08/15/cause030815 > > I will look into upgrading the volunteer server > <http://calcutta.flora.ca/> such that this load problem will not > happen in > the future. > > Sorry for the inconvenience. > > > > On a more serious note: Centralization of power, whether political or > electrical, is always a critical problem to watch out for. I do hope > that > this will serve as an a wake-up call to this problem, along with the > problem of over-reliance on so-called 'modern' technologies. > > --- > Russell McOrmond, Internet Consultant: <http://www.flora.ca/> > Governance software that controls ICT, automates government policy, or > electronically counts votes, shouldn't be bought any more than > politicians should be bought. -- http://www.flora.ca/russell/ > > Peter Timusk B.Math Carleton University now studying for a B.A, in Law ptimusk@sympatico.ca www3.sympatico.ca/ptimusk www.webpagex.org web master/math tutor/security guard/poet/musician/sci-fi writer communityvolunteer/mental illness activist. Union delegate IWW Red Hat linux user/newbie, OSX newbie, XML newbie, maintainer of alt.support.schizophrenia FAQ and home page www.ncf.ca/~at571/alt.support.html
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