Hi Derek,
You are not crazy, Yes, I noticed out of the hundreds of servers we operate, alot of issues during the solar flare period.
For those net ops who are new to solar flare issues; here are some interesting links of late:

http://news.xinhuanet.com/english2010/china/2011-02/16/c_13733621.htm
http://topwirexs.com/technology-space-weather-trouble-gadgets-to-cable-internet-phone/172235/
http://www.eham.net/articles/25489
http://www.abc.net.au/science/articles/2011/02/23/3145837.htm
http://science.nasa.gov/science-news/science-at-nasa/2008/10jan_solarcycle24/

Feel free to meet up with me, I love talking solar storms (need a lead bunker)...

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   1. Solar Flare (Derek)
   2. NZRUN event requesting help (Mauricio Freitas)
   3. Re: NZRUN event requesting help (Jonathan Brewer)
   4. Re: Solar Flare (Matt Riddell)
   5. Re: NZRUN event requesting help (Mauricio Freitas)
   6. [Fwd: URGENT: Laptops for Christchurch] (Brian E Carpenter)
   7. Re: Solar Flare (Drew Whittle)
   8. Re: NZRUN event requesting help (Mauricio Freitas)
   9. Tomizone hotspots free in chch (Nathan Ward)
  10. Re: Tomizone hotspots free in chch (Russell Tester)
  11. CHIX will likely go away shortly (Tim Hoffman)
  12. Re: Solar Flare (Cameron)
  13. Fwd: Re: [SAGE-AU] Christchurch earthquake response
      (Dean Pemberton)
  14. Re: Christchurch Earthquake - Let us know if you need
      anything... (Russell Tester)
  15. Fwd: FW: URGENT - Re - Christchurch Earthquake response
      (Dean Pemberton)
  16. Re: Christchurch Earthquake - Let us know if you	need
      anything... (Mauricio Freitas)


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Message: 1
Date: Thu, 24 Feb 2011 15:02:26 +1300
From: Derek <lists@stuntkiwi.com>
To: nznog@list.waikato.ac.nz
Subject: [nznog] Solar Flare
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Hi All,

Just curious has anyone had any suspicious disturbances to 
servers/equipment in the last week?

Had an odd memory issue causing a server to self-restart earlier today, 
although running ECC memory with the news of a solar flare recently it 
had me thinking.

Cheers,
Derek
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Date: Wed, 23 Feb 2011 18:02:11 -0800
From: Mauricio Freitas <freitasm@geekzone.co.nz>
To: "nznog@list.waikato.ac.nz" <nznog@list.waikato.ac.nz>
Subject: [nznog] NZRUN event requesting help
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Hello folks...

Received this today, is there anyone able to help with resources around there? It seems they do have some stream ability, but not the connection - around Newtown Park, Wellington.

Cheers

====
I am from NZRUN, New Zealand's Leading athletics website.

I am writing to seek any help or information you may be able to provide on the following situation.

Long story short, as you are aware the Christchurch earthquake has been devastating. On Saturday a high profile athletics meeting featuring Silver Olympic medalist, Nick Willis along with many other high profile international athletes was meant to take place.

Because of the earthquake this has had to be postponed indefinitely. Willis, along with members of the Wellington Athletics community have turned around at short notice to organize a fundraising event (Track meet 4 Christchurch) to be held in Wellington at Newtown Park, featuring these high profile athletes. Willis will be receiving his Silver medal from the 2008 Beijing Olympics which is being officially presented by the NZOC. All proceeds will be going towards the Salvation Army Christchurch EQ appeal.

We at NZRUN have donated our services to provide meet coverage in the form of videoing the meet and driving online donations from our local & international viewers.

We have Live Streaming capability, but are having trouble coming up with a solution to broadcast a video stream from Newtown Park, Wellington.

The event takes place 5.00-6.30pm Saturday 26th Feb.

As far as I am aware, there is no dedicated connection at the track and I am asking if yourself or Geekzone have any recommendations on what we can do to make this live stream happen, or if you are able to pass this on to anyone in the Telecommunications industry that could possibly help us out. We understand this is very short notice but any help would be much appreciated.

For more information about the event, please visit:

http://www.nzrun.com/event/main/show/id/238474-Track-Meet-4-CHRISTCHURCH
=====














Cheers



Mauricio Freitas
http://www.geekzone.co.nz
http://www.geekzone.co.nz/freitasm
http://www.twitter.com/freitasm


-----Original Message-----
From: nznog-bounces@list.waikato.ac.nz [mailto:nznog-bounces@list.waikato.ac.nz] On Behalf Of Joel Wiramu Pauling
Sent: Tuesday, 22 February 2011 6:19 p.m.
To: nznog@list.waikato.ac.nz
Subject: Re: [nznog] Christchurch Earthquake - Let us know if youneed anything...

I have access to 10mbit/10mbit international and a bunch of servers in wellington + EC2 instance in LA cloud. Let me know if anyone sees a need for this.

There is a freenode channel ( #eqnz ) on IRC running with a lot of co-ordination is being done through tech wise:

http://webchat.freenode.net/

[
See http://wiki.crisiscommons.org/wiki/CrisisCampNZ for info ::
Have a damage report? http://christchurch.crowdmap.com/ If you are missing family, please list details here http://christchurch-2011.person-finder.appspot.com/ :: Current effort
- establishing a crowdmap & SMS shortcode]


-Joel Pauling
joel@aenertia.net

On 22 February 2011 18:13, Tristram Cheer <tristram.cheer@ubergroup.co.nz> wrote:
Adding my name to the list, I'm up north but can do techie stuff or 
just wait on hold/make calls. Cell number is below

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-----Original Message-----
From: nznog-bounces@list.waikato.ac.nz 
[mailto:nznog-bounces@list.waikato.ac.nz] On Behalf Of Dean Pemberton
Sent: Tuesday, 22 February 2011 6:11 p.m.
To: nznog@list.waikato.ac.nz
Subject: Re: [nznog] Christchurch Earthquake - Let us know if youneed anything...


I'm in Auckland, but happy to help out with router or server clue if you can't get time from your local engineers, or if they're better utilised elsewhere.

Thanks for that offer Nathan. ?That was the sort of thing I had in mind.
Given that local engineers will be worrying about things like their 
families, maybe those of us in other locations can help take some of 
the load.

Keep the offers coming.

Dean
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Date: Thu, 24 Feb 2011 15:09:29 +1300
From: Jonathan Brewer <jon.brewer@telco2.co.nz>
To: Mauricio Freitas <freitasm@geekzone.co.nz>
Cc: "nznog@list.waikato.ac.nz" <nznog@list.waikato.ac.nz>
Subject: Re: [nznog] NZRUN event requesting help
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Post contact details back to the list. Araneo has an unused sector at the
old hospital building in Melrose that looks over the park.

On Thu, Feb 24, 2011 at 3:02 PM, Mauricio Freitas
<freitasm@geekzone.co.nz>wrote:

Hello folks...

Received this today, is there anyone able to help with resources around
there? It seems they do have some stream ability, but not the connection -
around Newtown Park, Wellington.

Cheers

====
I am from NZRUN, New Zealand's Leading athletics website.

I am writing to seek any help or information you may be able to provide on
the following situation.

Long story short, as you are aware the Christchurch earthquake has been
devastating. On Saturday a high profile athletics meeting featuring Silver
Olympic medalist, Nick Willis along with many other high profile
international athletes was meant to take place.

Because of the earthquake this has had to be postponed indefinitely.
Willis, along with members of the Wellington Athletics community have turned
around at short notice to organize a fundraising event (Track meet 4
Christchurch) to be held in Wellington at Newtown Park, featuring these high
profile athletes. Willis will be receiving his Silver medal from the 2008
Beijing Olympics which is being officially presented by the NZOC. All
proceeds will be going towards the Salvation Army Christchurch EQ appeal.

We at NZRUN have donated our services to provide meet coverage in the form
of videoing the meet and driving online donations from our local &
international viewers.

We have Live Streaming capability, but are having trouble coming up with a
solution to broadcast a video stream from Newtown Park, Wellington.

The event takes place 5.00-6.30pm Saturday 26th Feb.

As far as I am aware, there is no dedicated connection at the track and I
am asking if yourself or Geekzone have any recommendations on what we can do
to make this live stream happen, or if you are able to pass this on to
anyone in the Telecommunications industry that could possibly help us out.
We understand this is very short notice but any help would be much
appreciated.

For more information about the event, please visit:

http://www.nzrun.com/event/main/show/id/238474-Track-Meet-4-CHRISTCHURCH
=====














Cheers



Mauricio Freitas
http://www.geekzone.co.nz
http://www.geekzone.co.nz/freitasm
http://www.twitter.com/freitasm


-----Original Message-----
From: nznog-bounces@list.waikato.ac.nz [mailto:
nznog-bounces@list.waikato.ac.nz] On Behalf Of Joel Wiramu Pauling
Sent: Tuesday, 22 February 2011 6:19 p.m.
To: nznog@list.waikato.ac.nz
Subject: Re: [nznog] Christchurch Earthquake - Let us know if youneed
anything...

I have access to 10mbit/10mbit international and a bunch of servers in
wellington + EC2 instance in LA cloud. Let me know if anyone sees a need for
this.

There is a freenode channel ( #eqnz ) on IRC running with a lot of
co-ordination is being done through tech wise:

http://webchat.freenode.net/

[
See http://wiki.crisiscommons.org/wiki/CrisisCampNZ for info ::
Have a damage report? http://christchurch.crowdmap.com/ If you are missing
family, please list details here
http://christchurch-2011.person-finder.appspot.com/ :: Current effort
- establishing a crowdmap & SMS shortcode]


-Joel Pauling
joel@aenertia.net

On 22 February 2011 18:13, Tristram Cheer <tristram.cheer@ubergroup.co.nz>
wrote:
Adding my name to the list, I'm up north but can do techie stuff or
just wait on hold/make calls. Cell number is below

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Tristram Cheer
Network Architect

Tel. 09 438 5472 Ext 803 | Mobile. 022 412 1985 Fax.  |
tristram.cheer@ubergroup.co.nz | www.ubergroup.co.nz




-----Original Message-----
From: nznog-bounces@list.waikato.ac.nz
[mailto:nznog-bounces@list.waikato.ac.nz] On Behalf Of Dean Pemberton
Sent: Tuesday, 22 February 2011 6:11 p.m.
To: nznog@list.waikato.ac.nz
Subject: Re: [nznog] Christchurch Earthquake - Let us know if youneed
anything...

I'm in Auckland, but happy to help out with router or server clue if you
can't get time from your local engineers, or if they're better utilised
elsewhere.

          
Thanks for that offer Nathan.  That was the sort of thing I had in mind.
Given that local engineers will be worrying about things like their
families, maybe those of us in other locations can help take some of
the load.

Keep the offers coming.

Dean
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