IT Question - Snow on the Server???

[Dudley]

Ok, here's one for all you IT bods.

I've just been informed by our suppliers that "the snow is making our emails run slow today".  Is this possible?  How?

And, to put it back on some sort of 2000ad topicality, wouldn't sci-fi be better if it included these sort of idiotic snafus more regularly?

[Slippery PD]

Bwahahahahahahahahahaha

Nice one!  Thats a joke right?

Yer Slips

[Art]

Now, I have actually heard of heat knocking out servers and causing problems before, but never cold...

[Slippery PD]

Well I took that tongue in cheek.  Anyone with IT equipment that serves a customer should have a temperature controlled enviroment of around 22'C.  I suppose the cold could have caused the electricty supply to waver and therefore cause some problems but that would be a power fault not really the weather (and anyone worth theior salt would have a UPS backup).  I cant imagine how (with even the greatest flights of fancy) this could be affected

Yer Slips

[John Caliber]

I'm with BTBroadband and I've been having major e-mail problems since the weather took a turn for the worse ...

- John

Link: http://www.btinternet.com/~john.caliber" target="_blank">DROKK CITY

[Slippery PD]

Id expect that the network points which are outside in the cold, could be affected, but that would affect everything not just the mail system.  Also theres been a new virus flying around the last 4  or so days

Yer Slips

[Tanky]

Maybe there's leaves on the phone line? I have broadband too and couldn't get onto the net at all last night. I blame ntl. As always.

[Dudley]

Sadly, it wasn't a joke on their part, more a fairly miserable attempt at an excuse.  you've given me all the ammunition i need now, so cheers!

For non-tecchie to see through a tecchie's lies, tecchie has to be suffering from a severe imagination failure, surely?  Well do I remember the first time I was told my computer was suffering from an ID-ten-T user failure, or rather than moment I wrote it down and saw the phrase "ID10T user" staring up at me...

[judge dreddd]

more likely its anti-virus software working like bugger to stop the current wave of viruses

what can i say ?

live update rules kids !

[Steamboy]

First thing Tuesday morning our updated everyday virus protection software had quarantined  8 attachments all unfixable all that poxy doom virus, several people I know are still tryingb to clear their own PC's

CU Krestel