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Opensocial "List Friends" example that works... I recently noticed that with the push of 22nd Feb, the opensocial example for listing the names of your friends stopped working...Here is the corrected source. Source
Why was youtube down? A technical explanation of a similar event that happened in 1996 Adrian Chadd adrian at ucc.gu.uwa.edu.au Wed Aug 16 22:53:07 WST 2006 Previous message: [lore] From the bowels of internet comes a selection of ... Next message: [lore] Murphy's Law Strikes Again: AS7007 Messages sorted by: [ date ] [ thread ] [ subject ] [ author ] Applications of Murphy's Law: The "AS7007 Incident" Adrian Chadd It was an average day in 1997. The Internet, fledging compared to today's standards. Internet operators (mostly!) trusted one another. SMTP servers would be open relays; a number of open web proxies and anonymous dialout servers were available. People were worried about running out of IP space. Network Operators were worried about the CPU on their routers being taxed dealing with a full routing table of ~45,000 entries. Then, suddenly, the internet sto