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interface problem,” said Rick Mill
hollin, assistant director for com
puter facilities. “It just slowed so
much that everyone thought it was
down.”
Millhollin said that although
tests indicated an Ethernet cable
{t It looks like an Ether
net interface problem. It
just slowed so much that
everyone thought it was
down.
Rick Millhollin
assistant director for
computer facilities
was working properly, when the ca
ble was replaced the server re
turned to normal speed and
worked without any problems.
Millhollin said the situation is a bit
of a mystery because the test equip
ment usually detects any problems.
“The problem’s gone away, but
we’re not sure why,” Millhollin
said.
The Oregon server began work
ing normally about 1 p.rn. Tuesday
afternoon.
Millhollin said the Oregon serv
er is at least four years old and is
currently being updated. Daisy, an
other computer server on campus,
will be replaced and the old Daisy
hardware will become the new
Oregon server. The current Oregon
server is smaller than the Daisy
server.
Despite the fact that the Oregon
server was inaccessible for less
than a day, departments on campus
still experienced some difficulty
and frustration.
“We were not able to work on
anything,” English Department sec
retary Susan Dickens said. “It was a
little frustrating because we could
n’t do anything. We couldn’t use e
mail or get into Netscape or get into
any online forms from OPS and
Telcom.”
University President Dave
Frohnmayer said that he receives
approximately 50 business related
e-mails daily. When he returned
home from a board meeting Mon
Quick take:
• The Oregon computer server
slowed down about 8 p.m. Monday.
• It was back up and running
smoothly by 1 p.m. Tuesday.
• The Oregon server mainly handles
e-mail for faculty and staff.
• The system will be going through
upgrades in the next few months.
Source: Computing Facilities
day night, he experienced the same
difficulty in accessing his e-mail as
other University faculty.
“I’m used to speedy communica
tions,” he said. “When you can’t ac
cess your e-mail, you always have a
potentially urgent message.”
Fortunately, this time he had no
urgent messages. Frohnmayer said
he was grateful to the staff at the
computing center who addressed
the problem.
“We have such an excellent staff
at the Computing Center because
they get on top of these things,” he
said.
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Rogue seal attacks four
VICTORIA, British Columbia —
The Fisheries Department is in
vestigating reports of a rogue seal
that leaps into open boats to attack
tourists.
“When somebody first phoned
me on this I thought ‘Right, some
body is pulling my leg here,’” de
partment spokesman Ed
Lochbaum said.
But after hearing there were four
similar attacks, all on people in
kayaks or open rowboats,
Lochbaum said Monday he will
investigate.
In all cases, the victims de
scribed a pale-colored seal.
“There was something dement
ed about this seal that it went for
any boaters coming around,” said
Ed Cavin, caretaker of the Shelter
Point Regional Park in the Strait of
Georgia about 80 miles northeast
ofVictoria.
Nobody was hurt, but one
kayaker was tipped into the water
and another was chased ashore.
With the rowboats, the animal
seemed to leap straight into the
boats, biting and snapping at
young children.
In one case a little girl was the
seal’s victim.
“He wrapped his paws, or flip
pers, right around her and he was
biting at her face,” Cavin said. “The
father smashed it with an oar three
times and it didn’t even faze it.
“He had to get the oar under
neath it and pry it off the boat. ”
It’s possible the seal’s behavior
was actually a misdirected panic
response to the large numbers of
killer whales that showed up in
the Strait of Georgia this past sum
mer, he said.
Resident killer whales generally
ignore seals and eat only fish.
But transient whales, which are
always on the move, often prey on
harbor seals.
Lochbaum said seals can tell the
difference between the whales
and when a transient is near, will
make huge efforts to get out of the
water — even leaping into fishing
boats.
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