Watercooler is open because the Interwebs is forked

Loading up the Tequila into the watercooler and putting on the Doors on the sound bar.
This is just like the old days.

Back to DSL days, hold my beer...

At least people who go into the office are still seen as productive because they are sitting at their desk. Not like those lazy WFH slackers.

All my stuff for work is still accessible, for now.

DrJohnZoidberg said:

All my stuff for work is still accessible, for now.

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ya, fkn AWS.

everyone else is on holiday.

Here is a grappie while we wait:

So does anyone have news on was the story is behind the outage? Should have some better news by now.

B-1 said:

At least people who go into the office are still seen as productive because they are sitting at their desk. Not like those lazy WFH slackers.

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Lol we experienced quite the opposite, people distributed out of the office generally has better connectivity during, for the people in the office it was a **** show

r00igev@@r said:

So does anyone have news on was the story is behind the outage? Should have some better news by now.

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Undersea cables ... again.

DapperDanMan said:

Undersea cables ... again.

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More like where and why?

r00igev@@r said:

More like where and why?

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Probably another underwater landslide in the Atlantic, because it's a lot of the same cables as last time.

No physical cut has been confirmed and no dispatching of a repair ship.

r00igev@@r said:

No physical cut has been confirmed and no dispatching of a repair ship.

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The fact that 4 are down (WACS, ACE, MainOne and SAT–3) suggests a fault on a peering point onshore.

r00igev@@r said:

No physical cut has been confirmed and no dispatching of a repair ship.

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BBC is reporting on a possible cause.

Sounds serious!


Edit: Oh wait ...

r00igev@@r said:

No physical cut has been confirmed

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Toby sounds convinced.

DapperDanMan said:

Toby sounds convinced.

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Prove it Toby.

According to word on the street the power cables to the landing station was damaged so the lights went out on the cable.

Enjoy your work weekend, slaves!

DapperDanMan said:

Enjoy your work weekend, slaves!

Microsoft expects full Africa cable break mitigation soon - TechCentral

Microsoft services should be back to 100% working order by 8pm on Friday, as the company works to mitigate the incident.

techcentral.co.za

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I'm gonna go to rehab and try and take up drinking and braai'ing veggies in future instead of recreational pharmaceuticals over this weekend. Wish me luck!

Aghori said:

I'm gonna go to rehab and try and take up drinking and braai'ing veggies in future instead of recreational pharmaceuticals over this weekend. Wish me luck!

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Can I join you?