eWeek: On a Wing and a Wiki

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"For about six hours yesterday, the staff of eWEEK.com was treated to a lesson in emergency improvisation. But thanks to 123 lines of Python code, running on a $7-a-month personal Web site on an Apache Web server somewhere in California, you probably didn't notice.

"On Monday, we here at Ziff Davis experienced a small technical obstacle to our daily operations. Due to the theft of network interface cards from a Verizon co-location facility in Manhattan, our New York office lost access to the Internet from 10:30 p.m. Sunday until about 4:30 p.m. Monday..."

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