Loading ...Things out in New Orleans are an absolute mess. There is someone at datacenter (DirectNIC) in New Orleans that has been blogging about how things are going down there and it doesn’t sound good. You can find their blog here:
http://www.livejournal.com/users/interdictor
To give you an idea of how bad things are down there here is a recent entry from Interdictor’s blog.
Jesse Jackson
Dear Sir:Respectfully, I submit that you should shut the hell up. Looting and lawlessness IS the problem. The National Guard choppers are BEING SHOT AT. The NOPD are BEING SHOT AT. You want to focus on the levee? So do they, but check this out: THEY CAN’T UNTIL THE MOB STOPS ATTACKING THE RESCUE OPERATION.
I know you’re looking at this situation with concern for the racial implications of the deterioration of civilization out here, but this is bigger than whether people are going to be racists after this is over. This is about rescuing the masses i.e. life and death.
I’m going to give you the benefit of the doubt and blame your stupid comments on your lack of knowledge of the situation. Don’t prove me a fool for doing so.
Regards,
Michael Barnett
Additionally, you can listen in to a Louisiana radio scanner via Peercast (the other sites are full up on listeners) by downloading a free client at http://www.peercast.org. Once you have the client installed you can listen to the radio chatter with this link:
peercast://pls/007D48952E4E7D0992252C52EAE7C1CF?tip=192.153.154.157:7144
If that link doesnt work, copy it and paste it into a web browser and then hit enter. Listening to the radio chatter over there things are a mess.
Additionally this WIki site is a good source for intel and information for what is going on down there:
http://wiki.nola-intel.org/index.php/Main_Page
Below are some photos that have been taken by the guys at the DirectNIC datacenter to give you an idea of what things are like:
Interdictor also has a live camera feed running from DirectNIC that can be found here:
http://194.97.144.25/NewOrleans
mms://204.251.3.10:2864/
http://old.mises.org:88/NO2
Also, don’t forget to donate to the Amercian Red Cross or The Salvation Army to help out victims of Katrina.
I don’t know what datacenter is. Who is he? What’s going on is so unreal, and a lot of people online are just trash talking people that stayed.
A data center is a facility used for housing a large amount of electronic equipment, typically computers and communications equipment. As the name implies, a data center is usually maintained by an organization for the purpose of handling the data necessary for its operations. A bank for example may have a data center, where all its customers’ account information is maintained and transactions involving this data are carried out. Practically every company that is mid-sized or larger has some kind of data center with the larger companies often having dozens of data centers. Most large cities have many purpose-built data center buildings in secure locations close to telecommunications services. Most colocation centers and Internet peering points are located in these kinds of facilities.
As data is a crucial aspect of most organizational operations, organizations tend to be very protective of their data. A data center must therefore keep high standards for assuring the integrity and functionality of its hosted computer environment. This is depicted in its physical and logical layout.
See more here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Datacenter
Basically, the guy who is doing the blogging is one of the people who helps to run the datacenter.
thank you.