English selected as the official language of the European Union over German: "The European Commission has just announced an agreement whereby English will be the official language of the European Union rather than German, which was the other possibility. As part of the negotiations, the British Government conceded that English spelling had some room for improvement and has accepted a 5-year phase-in..."
(Via vowe dot net.)
Thursday, August 25, 2005
The funniest thing I've seen today.
FW: [IP] OT: The 2007 Beloit College Mindset List
Who is Greg Gumble?
-----Original Message-----
From: David Farber <dave@farber.net>
Date: Wednesday, Aug 24, 2005 4:43 pm
Subject: [IP] OT: The 2007 Beloit College Mindset List
Begin forwarded message:
From: Richard Forno <rforno@infowarrior.org>
Date: August 24, 2005 4:38:06 PM EDT
To: Infowarrior List <infowarrior@g2-forward.org>
Cc: Dave Farber <dave@farber.net>
Subject: OT: The 2007 Beloit College Mindset List
http://www.beloit.edu/~pubaff/mindset/
In the coming weeks, millions of students will be entering college for the
first time. On average, these members of the Class of 2009 will be 18 years
old, which means they were born in 1987. Starbucks, souped-up car stereos,
telephone voicemail systems, and Bill Gates have always been a part of their
lives.
Each August, as students start to arrive, Beloit College releases the Beloit
College Mindset List, which offers a world view of today's entering college
students. It is the creation of Beloit�s Keefer Professor of the Humanities
Tom McBride and Director of Public Affairs Ron Nief.
McBride, who directs Beloit�s First Year Initiatives (FYI) program for entering students, notes that "This year�s entering students have grown up
in a country where the main business has become business, and where
terrorism, from obscure beginnings, has built up slowly but surely to become
the threat it is today. Cable channels have become as mainstream as the 'Big
3' used to be, formality in dress has become more quaint than ever, and Aretha Franklin, Kermit the Frog and Jimmy Carter have become old-timers."
�Each year,� according to Nief, �When Beloit releases the Mindset List, it
is the birth year of the entering students that is the most disturbing fact
for most readers. This year will come as no exception and, once again, the
faculty will remain the same age as the students get younger.�
The list is distributed to faculty on campus during the New Students Days
orientation. According to McBride, �It is an important reminder, as faculty
start to show signs of �hardening of the references,� that we think about
the touchstones and benchmarks of a generation that has grown up with CNN,
home computers, AIDS awareness, digital cameras and the Bush political dynasty. We should also keep in mind that these students missed out on the
pleasures of being tossed in the back of a station wagon with a bunch of friends and told to keep the noise down, walking in the woods without fearing Lyme Disease, or setting out to try all of the 28 ice cream flavors
at Howard Johnson�s.�
According to Nief, �This is not serious in-depth research. It is meant to be
thought-provoking and fun, yet accurate. It is as relevant as possible, given the broad social and geographic diversity of our students, who are drawn from every state and 50 countries. It is always open to challenge, which has an additional benefit in that it reminds us of students� varied
backgrounds. It is still a good reflection of the attitudes and experiences
of the young people that we must be aware of from the first day of their college experience.�
BELOIT COLLEGE'S MINDSET LIST�
FOR THE CLASS OF 2009
Most students entering college this fall were born in 1987.
1. Andy Warhol, Liberace, Jackie Gleason, and Lee Marvin have always been dead.
2. They don't remember when "cut and paste" involved scissors.
3. Heart-lung transplants have always been possible.
4. Wayne Gretzky never played for Edmonton.
5. Boston has been working on the "The Big Dig" all their lives.
6. With little need to practice, most of them do not know how to tie a
tie.
7. Pay-Per-View television has always been an option.
8. They never had the fun of being thrown into the back of a station wagon with six others.
9. Iran and Iraq have never been at war with each other.
10. They are more familiar with Greg Gumbel than with Bryant Gumbel.
11. Philip Morris has always owned Kraft Foods.
12. Al-Qaida has always existed with Osama bin Laden at its head.
13. They learned to count with Lotus 1-2-3.
14. Car stereos have always rivaled home component systems.
15. Jimmy Swaggart and Jim Bakker have never preached on television.
16. Voice mail has always been available.
17. "Whatever" is not part of a question but an expression of sullen rebuke.
18. The federal budget has always been more than a trillion dollars.
19. Condoms have always been advertised on television.
20. They may have fallen asleep playing with their Gameboys in the crib.
21. They have always had the right to burn the flag.
22. For daily caffeine emergencies, Starbucks has always been around the
corner.
23. Ferdinand Marcos has never been in charge of the Philippines.
24. Money put in their savings account the year they were born earned
almost 7% interest.
25. Bill Gates has always been worth at least a billion dollars.
26. Dirty dancing has always been acceptable.
27. Southern fried chicken, prepared with a blend of 11 herbs and spices, has always been available in China.
28. Michael Jackson has always been bad, and greed has always been good.
29. The Starship Enterprise has always looked dated.
30. Pixar has always existed.
31. There has never been a "fairness doctrine" at the FCC.
32. Judicial appointments routinely have been "Borked."
33. Aretha Franklin has always been in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.
34. There have always been zebra mussels in the Great Lakes.
35. Police have always been able to search garbage without a search warrant.
36. It has always been possible to walk from England to mainland Europe
on dry land.
37. They have grown up in a single superpower world.
38. They missed the oat bran diet craze.
39. American Motors has never existed.
40. Scientists have always been able to see supernovas.
41. Les Miserables has always been on stage.
42. Halogen lights have always been available at home, with a warning.
43. "Baby M" may be a classmate, and contracts with surrogate mothers
have always been legal.
44. RU486, the "morning after pill," has always been on the market.
45. There has always been a pyramid in front of the Louvre in Paris.
46. British Airways has always been privately owned.
47. Irradiated food has always been available but controversial.
48. Snowboarding has always been a popular winter pastime.
49. Libraries have always been the best centers for computer technology
and access to good software.
50. Biosphere 2 has always been trying to create a revolution in the life sciences.
51. The Hubble Telescope has always been focused on new frontiers.
52. Researchers have always been looking for stem cells.
53. They do not remember "a kinder and gentler nation."
54. They never saw the shuttle Challenger fly.
55. The TV networks have always had cable partners.
56. Airports have always had upscale shops and restaurants.
57. Black Americans have always been known as African-Americans.
58. They never saw Pat Sajak or Arsenio Hall host a late night
television show.
59. Matt Groening has always had a Life in Hell.
60. Salman Rushdie has always been watching over his shoulder.
61. Digital cameras have always existed.
62. Tom Landry never coached the Cowboys.
63. Time Life and Warner Communications have always been joined.
64. CNBC has always been on the air.
65. The Field of Dreams has always been drawing people to Iowa.
66. They never saw a Howard Johnson's with 28 ice cream flavors.
67. Reindeer at Christmas have always distinguished between secular and
religious decorations.
68. Entertainment Weekly has always been on the newsstand.
69. Lyme Disease has always been a ticking concern in the woods.
70. Jimmy Carter has always been an elder statesman.
71. Miss Piggy and Kermit have always dwelt in Disneyland.
72. America's Funniest Home Videos has always been on television.
73. Their nervous new parents heard C. Everett Koop proclaim nicotine as
addictive as heroin.
74. Lever has always been looking for 2000 parts to clean.
75. They have always been challenged to distinguish between news and entertainment on cable TV.
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False or True...:
Is this true? (from http://www.houseoftomorrow.com/):April 30, 2005 > Work on Coraline Begins
Stephin Merritt has started work on a musical adaptation of the children's book Coraline by Neil Gaiman. The projected finish date for this is fall 2006. It will be presented at St. Ann's Warehouse, in Brooklyn, New York, as well as several other theaters around the country.Posted by CG
It's completely true. I'm a huge fan of Stephin Merritt's work, so I'm really excited. (And Stephin's Coraline play will be a completely different entity to the Henry Selick Coraline movie.)
...
"
(Via Neil Gaiman's Journal.)
Wednesday, August 24, 2005
algorithmic ring tones
The GTK2 rendering engine Cairo has the option to use algorithmic rendering for the pictures that are the backgrounds for buttons. The idea is that you rapidly get bored of the same background on all the buttons in an interface, thus leading to a paucity of button decoration.
With algorithmic rendering, each background is generated on the fly, thus creating different backgrounds for each button.
In a similar vein, I have noticed how tired I get of mobile phone ring tones. There are very few rings that I mind hearing over and over again. But what if something similar could be applied here?
The problem is that we won't notice our phones ringing unless we notice the pattern in the ring. But I wonder what kinds of patterns are needed for recognition.
Could the pitch and ring tone be varied every time the pohone rings? How far can we go?
I even wonder if a ring tone could just be a silence mask imposed on an arbitrary sound segment.
Would we recognize a pattern of pauses in arbitrary music?
I'm sure somebody has already researched this...
Here are the rankings.
As journalism grows ever more...: "
As journalism grows ever more fractured and shallow, The Washington Monthly remains one of the industry's truly noble institutions. Its sense of public service and the national welfare isn't often rewarded with the kind of 'buzz' that magazine editors obsessively pursue -- to the detriment of our collective IQs. Which is why it's great to see the Monthly's ingenious and inspiring take on the silly ritual of college rankings rewarded with a big Washington Post write-up. (You can thank the magazine's visionary founder, Charlie Peters, by checking out his well-received new book.)
"(Via Talking Points Memo.)
Tuesday, August 23, 2005
Danger in Bangladesh: "On August 17, there were 459 bomb blasts all across Bangladesh, in 63 of the 64 districts, within a space of 30 minutes. In the leaflets, in Bangla and Arabic, found with the bomb devices, Jama'atul Mujahideen, Bangladesh, which was banned on February 23 this year, said: 'It is time to implement Islamic law in Bangladesh. There is no future with man-made law.' (from the Daily Star)In the 64th district, Munshiganj, where there were no bomb blasts, 120 bombs were seized by the police on the next day ((source)
The bombs injured around 150 people and killed two; their intention seems to have been not to kill but a show of strength.
This map makes the point quite clear.
Meanwhile, Taliban-like forces terrorize the country-side. (e.g., this The young man's feet were tied to a tree, his head dangling inches above the ground. A microphone was held to his mouth while he was tortured so that the villagers who were not present to witness the 'trial' could hear his screams.
The first to hear them were the men in uniform who did not stir from the police station, not far from the tree. The screams rose and fell till the man was dead.
Their mission accomplished, the killers issued fresh warnings to villagers against straying from the Islamic way, swore their loyalty to Bangla Bhai and left the scene.
The incident is one of about 500 cases of killing and torture by Bangla Bhai's armed Islamic bands that were documented by Taskforce Against Torture, a human rights group founded in Bangladesh three years ago.
Indian retired police officer,now commentator KPS Gill writes:
Today, the Islamists, led by the Jamaat-e-Islami, who collaborated with Pakistan in the atrocities of 1971, as well as Pakistan's Inter Services Intelligence, are again firmly entrenched in the country's politics, its Government, and crucially in its institutions of education and mass culture.
The coordinated series of 459 explosions within a single hour across 63 of Bangladesh's 64 districts on August 18, 2005, was little more than the visible tip of the menacing iceberg that threatens this luckless country. All societies that foster terrorism have eventually themselves fallen prey to this scourge.
Bangladesh cannot be an exception, though the country's political leadership has sought to cover up the realities of state complicity with flat denials of state support to extremism and terror, even as they have sought to mask the steady spiral towards thuggish Islamist extremism, lawlessness and disorder.
Indeed, the falsification has gone well beyond the state. A wide range of international institutions and foreign Governments have contributed directly to the deception, speaking in glowing terms of Bangladesh's arguable 'successes' in development, in health sector reforms, in population control, and in non-governmental sector operations, all of which have been projected as examples for other developing countries to follow.
The truth of the comprehensive political mischief and administrative mismanagement in Bangladesh has systematically been brushed under the carpet.
This truth is now becoming increasingly difficult to conceal, even in the most prejudiced circles, and despite the state's relentless policy of suppression of the national Press and of denial of access to the international media.
It is significant in this context that an independent study carried out by Foreign Policy and the Fund for Peace, which drew up a listing of 60 of the world's failed and failing states on the basis of twelve specific 'indicators of instability', placed Bangladesh at the 17th position, among the 20 'critical' states that are most at risk.
There is, unfortunately, no evidence of any visible transformation in the trajectory of politics or of the orientation of the state in Bangladesh, despite the country's growing difficulties.
A vigorous American response is necessary to keep Bangladesh from becoming another jihad factory."
(Via TPMCafe - main.)
Writing in Legal Affairs, Douglas R. Burgess looks to the history of European piracy as a possible precedent for containing latter-day Islamist terrorists. Burgess admits that the analogy 'seems like a stretch' at first, but points out that England's Queen Elizbeth initially abetted the country's later pirate tormentors by recrtuiting them as adjunct forces to the Royal Navy--much as 'the United States is credited with manufacturing its own enemy by training, funding, and outfitting terrorist groups in the Middle East, Afghanistan, and Central America during the cold war.' It's unclear how pirates came by the whole blowing-themselves-up-to-achieve-eternal-reward-in-Paradise M.O., but we at Wonkette HQ are admittedly derelict in our studies of Elizabethan naval law. Actually, Burgess's argument is a thoughtful and suggestive one, noting that international jurists managed to strip pirates of most political sponsors by declaring them 'scorners of the law of nations [who] hence . . . find no protection in that law.' He also notes that any such consensus is 'very far away' in the present war on terror.
Still, as we ponder such measures, Wonkette would like to take the opportunity to plead for much greater complements of parrots, rum, and buggery in the war on terror. Also more thigh-high boots, sashes, and eyepatches; never forget this is a clash of civilizations, people.
The Dread Pirate Bin Laden [Legal Affairs]
"(Via Wonkette.)
Notional list of Klingon fairy tales: "Cory Doctorow:
This McSweeney's list of Klingon fairy tale titles is fantastic:
Link
'Little Red Riding Hood Strays Into the Neutral Zone and Is Never Heard From Again, Although There Are Rumors ... Awful, Awful Rumors'
'Hansel and Gretel Offend Vlad the Impaler'
'The Hare Foolishly Lowers His Guard and Is Devastated by the Tortoise, Whose Prowess in Battle Attracts Many Desirable Mates'
(via Kottke)
(Via Boing Boing.)
Monday, August 22, 2005
Crazed Otter Bites Stupid-Looking Dog To Death, Makes Warren’s Day: "
YOUR LITTLE DOG IS DEAD
Heather Davis thought the dark brown otter was just playing with her dog Mike.
Then the 4-foot-long otter seized Mike’s snout with its teeth and started to drag the fluffy, white dog into the lake.
Heather screamed for help. As the otter pulled the dog under, a family friend grabbed a pole, jumped into a small boat and tried to rescue Mike. But the dog already was limp and floating away. ‘The otter went under water,’ said Rick Wolf, 19. ‘Then it jumped on the back of the boat and started attacking my foot.’
‘The otter had his whole mouth around (Wolf’s) shoe,’ said Heather. Wolf, whose shoe was not penetrated by the otter’s teeth, kicked and jabbed it with the stick. The otter swam over to Mike, grabbed the dog and glided off.
The body of the dog, an American Eskimo, was found on the shore of the lake on Wednesday, a day after the attack…
(Via Warrenellis.com.)
More Fun with the Lattice of Coincidence: "
Two days ago I suggested that the Abramoff case might be the uber-scandal, rather like the BCCI case in the mid-1990s, tying together all the other threads of corruption and dishonesty of the last few years.
But here's another: Last night I saw that the former publisher of the Chicago Sun-times, F. David Radler, had been indicted on many counts of fraud in the Hollinger/Conrad Black case. Hollinger has owned the Sun-Times since 1994.
Who is the most prominent employee of the Chicago Sun-Times?
That would be Robert Novak.
Who were some people on the board of Hollinger Corp., suspected of abetting the fraud?
The best description of the board: 'the roster of independent directors reads like the politically plugged-in guest list at an American Enterprise Institute dinner' There was Henry Kissinger, former Illinois governor James Thompson, and most notably Richard Perle. Perle was a member of the executive committee, profited handsomely himself through a Hollinger investment fund he was put in charge of, and by his own admission exercised very little oversight.
What's the relationship between Robert Novak and Richard Perle?
It's not just that both have proudly worn the nickname, 'Prince of Darkness.' They are bound by their stock in trade: leaking and receiving leaks of classified information. In 1975, Perle leaked classified information to Novak with the purpose of scuttling the SALT II treaty.
Who is the prosecutor who indicted the former publisher of Novak's paper?
Patrick Fitzgerald.
"(Via The Decembrist.)
Robot News:
"
R Daneel: the robot that picks itself back up again: "
We’re pretty sure the last thing any robot-humanoid researcher wants to do fifteen times a day is pick up and
reorient a 150 pound machine every time it falls, but the R. Daneel Study 1 (whose name is not only an Asimov
reference, but means Responsive Dexterous Actions aNd Embodiment ELucidation) developed by the University of Tokyo is
officially in the running for our robot of the year award. Long gone are the days when you could disable a robot by
pushing it on its back like a turtle—looks like we’ll have to come up with a new weakness to exploit in the
future.
[Via New Scientist]
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"
(Via engadget.com.)
Sunday, August 21, 2005
Thursday, August 18, 2005
LifeStraw purifies water instantly for under $2 a year: "
gadgets that make life possible. The LifeStraw from Denmark’s Vestergaard Frandsen Group has the potential to fall into
the latter category. A device about the size of a large pen or drinking straw, the LifeStraw is a complete water
purification kit that draws its power from the person sucking down the water. The LifeStraw is the product of ten years
of development work, based on the goal of creating an efficient, affordable water-purification system for the
developing world, where water-borne illnesses are a major killer. When produced in quantity, each LifeStraw — which
uses a combination of mesh filters, iodine-impregnated beads and active carbon to remove particulate matter and
bacteria — is expected to cost under $2 and be able to provide a year’s worth of pure drinking water. When and if this
hits the market, we hope to see some worthy charity distributing them by the millions (you listening, Bill and
Melinda?).
[Thanks to everyone who sent this in]
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(Via engadget.com.)
My mind's voice automatically reads these with the voice of Jon Stewart now.
The Daily Show needs too hire these people. Seriously.
lulululululululululululululu
The Daily Show needs too hire these people. Seriously.
lulululululululululululululu
The Power of Imagination
Giblets will never under...: "
The Power of Imagination
Giblets will never understand these Iraqis. You invade them, flatten their cities, lock up and torture their relatives and what thanks do you get? Either a lot of explosives or the lamest candy-and-flowers display Giblets has ever seen. Weak, Iraqis. Very weak.
Well Giblets can end it all, and pretty damn fast. He has all he needs to end the war right now: an extra hundred thousand troops or so he intends to send to win the war. Where did he get them, you ask? Simple - for Giblets, at least. He got them with the power of imagination.
Yes, even now Giblets is searching his mighty mind for imaginary recruits and within one week expects to crush the insurgency with two thousand armored leprechauns, eight battalions of snuffalupagi, six divisions of heffalumps and the 101st Airborne Oozle Brigade! Guided by the unmatched tactical genius of Mr. Squigglesworth, Giblets's six-armed tap-dancing purple space squid and Secretary of Pretense, Operation: Wishful Thinking cannot fail! And if it does, Giblets will merely declare an Opposite Day. Losing IS winning in pretend!
Do you doubt the genius of Giblets? That is because you are made of stupid! Pretend troops are just what we need to fight for a pretend cause! Only Giblets's imaginary army will finally manage to locate Saddam's hidden stash of nukes buried deep within Fairyland! Only Giblets's fictional fighting men can spread democracy by discovering the long-lost Fountain of Freedom under Baghdad, whose magical waters turn everyone who drinks them into a fully-functioning republic! Only Giblets's dream draftees can end terror forever by assassinating the boogeyman! Everyone join hands and believe - or you stab our glorious playtime in the back! Onward, make-believe soldiers!
"(Via Fafblog.)
Wednesday, August 17, 2005
How Not to Run a Company
From: "David Koretz" <david@bluetie.com>
Date: August 12, 2005 3:45:11 PM EDT
To: <david@bluetie.com>
Subject: Full Report on BlueTie Mail Store & Backup
BlueTie Customer,
I know it has been a challenging week with the email problems that
you encountered, and I want to update you on the history and current
status of the email problems you have experienced this week.
This email is being sent now that service has been completely
restored, and all necessary information on the occurrence was
gathered, as that was our first priority.
I would like to personally apologize for any issues this may have
caused you, and assure you that we have made significant changes and
will continue to make changes to ensure that this can never happen
again.
What happened?
On Thursday August 4 the MCI hosting facility in Elmsford NY lost
both primary and backup HVAC, causing the ambient temperature to rise
to 112 degrees Fahrenheit. Had we been made aware of the condition,
we would have immediately shut down our servers to prevent
overheating. We were not notified by MCI due to a failure in their
process and therefore our servers continued to run and the redundant
RAID array on one Mail Store was damaged. Only customers on this one
Mail Store have been affected.
MCI is producing an RFO (Reason for Outage) document on Friday August
12 that will document the causes, immediate resolution, and long term
prevention of future occurrences of this outage. I will be glad to
share the document with you once we have it.
As a result, on Monday August 8th BlueTie experienced intermittent
delays and two temporary outages affecting only the BlueTie customers
housed on that particular mailstore, which includes your company.
The first was a result of a single drive in the RAID array failing at
approximately 11:45AM EST. After running diagnostics and recovery,
the RAID array was fixed and put back in service at 1:00PM EST and
service was restored to all users.
The second occurred at about 4:00PM EST when 3 drives in the same
RAID array failed simultaneously. Important points about this outage:
All mail received while the mailstore was down was queued. None of it
was lost, and it was delivered when your new mailstore came online.
We worked all through the night to recreate all of your accounts on a
new mailstore. By Tuesday morning, all users were able to login and
send and receive email. All accounts were functioning normally. This
was our highest priority.
The next step was to recover your mail from the backup system and
insert it into your new account. This was completed on Wednesday,
August 10 at approximately 4:00PM EST.
Then we merged the new email (sent or received since 4:00 PM EST
Monday August 8) with the recovered mail. This was started at 8:30PM
EST on Wednesday and was completed at 2AM EST Thursday morning. In
order to preserve data integrity we had to once again queue mail,
meaning that incoming mail would not be delivered to your new account
until the rest of the process was completed.
The final steps were to update the attributes on the mails in the
accounts on the new Mail Store (attributes are used to make email
fast and searchable) and release the queue, allowing mails received
since 8:30PM EST Wednesday to flow into your account.
We expected the entire process to be completed by 9AM EST Thursday
morning.
Between 10am and 1pm, users began to see emails restored into their
accounts. At 1:10pm we released the queue, and now all queued mail
has been delivered.
Further Complications
As we worked through the recovery process, it became increasingly
apparent that there were problems with our current backup process:
Incremental backups were not being successfully created on a nightly
basis
The full weekly backup did not backup email audit and messages more
than 100 days old
The full weekly backup retained items that users had marked as
deleted or as junk.
The full weekly backups after July 20 did not include some of the
most recent messages.
What we restored into your account is much less than perfect.
Because there are no incremental backups, emails sent or received
between the evening of August 3 and 4pm August 8 can not be
recovered. They simply do not exist anywhere.
Significant numbers of emails that should have been on the backup
were not, and therefore they are also lost. Specifically, non-POP3
users will be missing messages more than 100 days old and may be
missing messages sent or received after July 20.
Large numbers of deleted and junk mails were put back into your mailbox.
What is in your account now is all the mail that we were able to
retrieve. There is no other resource or archive that might contain
the data.
What about email audit files?
All customers using email audit should have received their CD/DVD for
the month of May. Because June, July and August through the 8th were
on the failed mailstore and were not backed up, that data is lost.
Can anything be retrieved from the damaged RAID array?
There is less than a 1% chance that data can be recovered based on
what we know about what happened to the drives. However, we have
contracted a data recovery specialist firm to try everything possible
to get information from the drives. I will send you another update
as the work progresses.
What is BlueTie doing to prevent this problem from recurring?
Installing temperature sensing equipment in the MCI facility and
connecting it to our monitoring applications so we can independently
monitor them
Completely reworking the backup policy and process to give you full
real-time replication across multiple boxes, in addition to full
daily backups of your entire mailbox
Improving our disaster recovery process and conducting quarterly
disaster recovery exercises to verify the process
Moving to geographically distributed mirror servers for all
components in the BlueTie architecture. One set will remain in the
MCI facility; the other will be in our data center at our corporate
headquarters in Rochester, NY. These servers are architected to fail
over in less than four seconds in the event of an outage.
A low level device monitoring has been implemented. This will report
disk drive deterioration so preventative action can be taken before a
drive fails.
Adding checksum verification to the backup process to validate that
the backup and mailbox are identical.
Audit data will be backed up until it is burned onto CD or DVD for
delivery to you.
BlueTie is Issuing a Service Credit
BlueTie will be crediting you for the entire month of August. You
will receive a bill marked Paid In Full for the month, along with
another letter from me that outlines the completed improvements we
have made to give you confidence that we have permanently resolved
the problem.
We are also going to have a technical auditor come in and evaluate
our new backup process and redundancy and give us an independent
verification and appraisal to give you further confidence. I am happy
to share this verification with you once we have completed the process.
I appreciate your patience and understanding during this situation,
and am totally committed to ensuring we deliver an incredibly
reliable solution that you are thrilled with.
Best regards,
David Koretz
President & CEO
BlueTie Inc.
This message is intended solely for the individual(s) to whom it is
addressed.
If you are not the intended recipient, any dissemination or copying
is strictly
prohibited. If you believe you received this message in error, please
notify
the sender and delete from your system. Thank you.
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