solar storm

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Forgive this temporary segue into a potential operational issue.

http://abcnews.go.com/sections/science/DailyNews/sunspot000714.html

I would find it interesting if any outages observed by Sean Donelan
or others could be attributed to this solar storm; alternatively,
any higher than average incidence of outages and failures would
be interesting from a correlation analysis perspective.

In particular, if anyone notices unusual errors or outages
affecting long copper lines (e.g. DSL), wireless, and very
high density integrated circuits (e.g. in high-end routers
or workstations), that would be cool to hear about.

        Sean.