2002-10-25 08:30 UTC Withdrawal
Since 2002-10-24 23:00 UTC I've been experiencing a complete loss of connectivity to the internet and loss of my interactive TV service.
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So instead of getting any work done, I've spent the last nine hours watching stuff that my TiVo had waiting for me.
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It's amazing how dependant I have become on the internet for doing any kind of work.
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All my data is on remote servers.
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Dreamhost servers, mainly, although I also have some data on mozilla.org and w3.org servers.
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I called Blueyonder several times.
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They finally answered at around 9:15am local time.
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They told me to unplug the power and cable plugs from the cable modem and reconnect them.
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I'd done it earlier and it hadn't helped.
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But I tried it anyway.
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I also typed the magic ipconfig /renew command, since without that Windows would never have noticed anything had changed.
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Inexplicably, it worked!
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Now if only I could get this annoying phrase out of my head.