[aklug] Re: linux, electricity, and the internet

This is why I keep a stock of hamsters and little wheels connected to
alternators.
Patrick P wrote:
> I ran across this article today and the thought happen to occur to me that without electricity we have no internet.
> http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg20127001.300-space-storm-alert-90-seconds-from-catastrophe.html
> If
> this were to happen tomorrow would we be able to keep internet
> communications up? Assuming of course that we had water and food. Email
> and IM are mostly centralized.
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> Windows Live™: Keep your life in sync.
> http://windowslive.com/explore?ocid=TXT_TAGLM_WL_allup_1a_explore_042009
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