The Arizona Daily Wildcat

Hardware, configuration problems to blame for disruption

The UA's Internet-access system shut down for nearly 12 hours yesterday, leaving thousands of students, faculty and staff locked out of cyberspace.

The system failed because of a breakdown in the main router that connects the university's ethernet system to the "outside world," said Manny Burruel, UA Network Control manager.

"The entire campus has been affected," Burruel said.

University of Arizona students, faculty and staff were affected by the network crash, which occurred at 6:10 a.m. yesterday.

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Quotable: Wednesday October 11, 2000

"That painting's so good I like to lick it."

Beverly McIver, ASU prof of art her painting, "Vulnerable One."

Today in history: Wednesday October 11, 2000

In 1776, during the American Revolution, a British fleet under Sir Guy Carleton defeats 15 American gunboats under the command of Brigadier General Benedict Arnold at the Battle of Valcour Island on Lake Champlain, N.Y.

In 1899, the South African Boer War begins between the British Empire and Boers of the Transvaal and Orange Free State.

In 1939, the economist Alexander Sachs, an unofficial advisor to U.S. president Franklin D. Roosevelt, presents a letter to the president written by scientist Albert Einstein. Within the letter, Einstein argues the scientific feasibility of atomic weapons, and urges the rapid development of a U.S. atomic program.