So everything is slowly coming back on line after all the computers on the ISS crashed. The Russians spent the midnight shift (Earth time, of course) separating their stuff from the ISS, putting them on autonomous mode (which means to them putting on battery power) and somehow getting everything rebooted on their end. A couple of fire alarms later (literally, but no fires) and we're back in business. I guess they were seriously thinking of abandoning ship if things didn't get back up.
The good news (speaking as a programmer
) is they're saying it wasn't a software error. The bad news is that if its a hardware problem, it'll take a while for manufacturing to admit to it (also speaking as a programmer
.)