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Welcome to our new store. We'd like to encourage customers to brew any of our coffees using any brewing method!
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Aida's Grand Reserve - 8 oz bag/box
Each year, legendary coffee producer Aida Battle – like a vintner – tastes and crafts an incredibly special coffee composed of peaberries from her three original farms. This once-a-year, limited-edition Grand Reserve from Aida shouldn't be missed. This year's blend includes a half-dozen specially processed coffees that, when put together, represent a level of complexity that cannot be matched. This year's grand reserve represents the most refined year yet, with delicate flavors of pear, tropical fruit, and sugar cane. Learn more$37.50 -
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Decaf Finca Nueva Armenia - 12 oz bag
A mainstay of our lineup for over a decade now, this year, Finca Nueva Armenia makes its debut in decaf! We believe in offering the best possible experience to drinkers of decaffeinated coffees: coffees that taste great from farms we're excited about and relationships in which we take great pride. We send small batches of coffee to the Swiss Water decaffeination plant in Vancouver, Canada, frequently, which allows us to keep our decafs tasting fresh and to offer a larger variety of our best single-origin coffees than if we stuck with traditional, larger-batch decaffeination. Chocolate, sweet, and nutty. Learn more$17.50 -
Finca Mauritania - 12 oz bag
From Santa Ana, El Salvador, this 100% Bourbon variety coffee is carefully crafted by Aida Batlle, the most dedicated producer we know. Immaculately clean with a perfect balance of sweetness and brightness, Finca Mauritania offers notes of sweet pastry and a hint of fruit over a light and creamy body. Learn more$19.75 -
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Moisés Vicente - 12 oz bag
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Tairora Project - 12 oz bag
Early Harvest – Day Lots
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Valle del Santuario - 12 oz bag
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NBA team exec: Troubled Lamar Odom 'can't play anymore'
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08:35 AM ET 08.31 | Lamar Odom's arrest on suspicion of driving under the influence Friday morning was the latest in a series of grim developments that could endanger the veteran free agent's hopes of returning to the NBA. The former Clippers and Lakers star refused to submit to chemical testing after his arrest, adding fuel to tabloid-style accusations regarding his private life during a tumultuous off-season. Odom was already coming off the worst two seasons of his career and there are no assurances the 14-year NBA veteran, who spent last season with the Clippers, will play another game. Odom's arrest came after nearly a week of concerned tweets from former teammates and coaches regarding reports from gossip websites about alleged drug use and problems with his marriage to Khloe Kardashian Odom. Jeff Schwartz, Lamar Odom's agent, did not return calls Friday seeking comment. Odom, 33, must confront another issue that threatens his career. "Lamar can't play anymore," said one senior executive with an NBA team who spoke on condition of anonymity because he did not want to publicly discuss a free agent. The 6-foot-10 forward averaged career lows in points (4.0), assists (1.7) and minutes (19.7) last season with the Clippers.
Playing basketball should be least of his worries right now. He is n DEEP trouble. Coke addiction is nothing to sniff about.
Get some help, really soon, and rehab. Money is already in the bank.
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Too bad. Always liked Odom. Hate to see him go down like this.
Couldn't play to begin with
that's just silly-
he was a very good player for a while-
and was a vital contributor to 2 championships.
I guess Lamar won't be able to watch the banner raising in Los Angeles.
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I don't care if he ever plays again. What's important right now is that he gets the help he needs to save his LIFE! The NBA, like all other businesses, will cease to care once they feel your utility has expired! Odom should only be focused on getting clean and staying alive! Rooting for you dude.
The cornerstone of your recovery is to run away from the Kardashians. They are using your addiction to make more $$$$. Team Lamar!
It's wierd how every Lamar thread becomes a commentary about the Kardashians. I'm not sure what that means.
Men love booty?
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"Ashes to ashes, dust to dust"
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"Ashes to ashes, dust to dust"
So long, Lamar. Best wishes for the rest of your (non-NBA) life.
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At least we now know why his game went to crap his last year in L.A.
It's wierd how every Lamar thread becomes a commentary about the Kardashians. I'm not sure what that means.
I think it means that his personal life is affecting his playing career
had he not been involved in kardashian/reality world....
maybe this whole ish wouldn't have happened.
everyone has a 'real' life -
when that world is unstable (for whatever reason) it affects your job
we are all human- it has to...
The cornerstone of your recovery is to run away from the Kardashians. They are using your addiction to make more $$$$. Team Lamar!
Posters should stop blaming Khloe for all of Lamar's problem. Lamar brought everything to himself and he needs to get out of this rut. Khloe has been trying to help him but only Lamar can help himself. His NBA career is over. I hope he starts saving whatever money he has left and start investing it. He could fall into the Antoine Walker and AI category soon if he doesn't kill himself first. Get some help fast Lamar!
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Utah has 42 delegates in Texas set to vote on whether or not to allow gay boys be scouts. Gay adults remain banned from being leaders.
Peter Brownstein is a Salt Lake area Scout Master with a straight teenage son who is an Eagle Scout. They both want to see a change.
"It's hurting the entire organization as people are judging the Scouts based on this one issue and they're keeping kids out of the program," Brownstein said.
Brownstein's son, Michael, said he took an oath to be "morally straight," which has nothing to do with sexual orientation.
"Morally straight means you're a good person," Michael said. "Gay has nothing to do with whether you're a good person or not."
Several online petitions at change.org/boyscouts urge an end to the Boy Scout's ban on gay youth and parent. The petitions have a combined 1.8 million signatures.
Jason Dautel from Sugarhouse started one of the petitions.
"Scouts was wonderful for me, but I never felt like I could be open about how I felt," Dautel said. "I felt I had to hide it or lie about it and I don't think that's fair for the boys now."
Dautel said the Boy Scouts should be about inclusion, brotherhood and camaraderie, but the current policy does not allow that to happen.
The Brownstein's are hopeful the policy will change, even if critics want to keep gays out of the organization. He said a change will have lasting effects in the future.
"Even if there are a few people who will leave the program, probably many more will join causing it to be a larger organization in the long run," Brownstein added.
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I had a grand total of 30 shots on mine! Its basically brand new!
Hey guys/gals, I am completely new to DSLR. I appreciate the book someone linked before about understanding exposure and I have read about a quarter of it so far. Its pretty basic and actually helpful. I also saw people posting youtube videos on our new toy. One video was actually a 4 hour course on the whole camera but it stopped after first 20 minutes and linked to website to purchase the course, so forget that one. However, I found this guy's channel and he has like 8 videos dedicated to the D3100 alone. here is a link to his channel and I will also post in the wiki. I recommend going through the basic videos first (3 of them).
http://www.youtube.com/user/Photoix "Be Perfect"
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Obtained these via an auction in a box lot. I didn't even know they were included nor did I have any idea what they were. After speaking with some experts in the UK they told me they were most likely made in HAIDA circa 1910 and probably by one of the glass schools either Weiner Werkstatte or Glasfachschule?
I looked in my one and only art glass book and there are examples from HAIDA and the two schools that are almost the same but none the same shape. The value according to that book runs anywhere from $500 up to $20,000 depending on who painted and made them. I'm still working on finding more information out but so far no luck.
These also have a "Pauly & C" label attached which is in Murano and one of the oldest glass makers in Murano. From what I've been told back in the early 1900's they retailed glass before starting to make their own. Anyone from Archimede Seguso to Powolny sold glass there so it's been very hard to figure anything out about this set.


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I have a confession to make. I, a longtime Christian, am guilty of gossip and of slander.
Moreover, having recognized my sin, I have nevertheless continued to revel in gossip and slander.
It's been so easy to do: My whole city has been party to it, and I have been an easily swayed sheep. Over the past several weeks, Toronto has been waiting on tenterhooks for the next stage in Mayor Rob Ford's ongoing epic scandal to be uncovered. Not unlike a reality TV show, the media obsession with the mayor has proven an endless form of entertainment. It has banded strangers together in the coffee line, on the subway, while roaming the grocery aisles; and it's earned thousands of likes and shares on social media. It's cool to mock Rob Ford. Like kids bullying other kids on the playground, a jab or a quip easily cements camaraderie.
Does the name Emmett Till mean anything to you? It should. Photographs of Emmett Till are credited by some with launching the modern-day Civil Rights movement. That's right, pictures of one young man marked a turning point in racial relations in America.
How? Simple. A picture is worth a thousand words, right? Well, the "thousand words" told by a single picture of Emmett Till were shocking beyond belief. They couldn't be ignored or dismissed.
You see, Emmett Till was murdered in an exceptionally brutal fashion. His grossly disfigured body spoke volumes about the evil committed against him. Emmett's mother, against convention, against the urgings of others, chose for Emmett an open-casket funeral. By making people see Emmett, not just hear about him in the obituaries, she galvanized a population against the horrific crime of lynching.
After two failed attempts to adapt Hans Christian Andersen's "The Snow Queen," Disney finally released "Frozen." Those familiar with the original fairy tale's complex storyline might understand the challenge the screenwriters faced. The Disney version simplifies the story, but remains true to the original message of the tale.
Leading this endeavor in her directorial debut, Jennifer Lee (also the screenwriter for "Frozen" and "Wreck-It Ralph") adds depth to the characters and gives the story new life. Even though it was years in the making, "Frozen" is worth the wait.
As followers of Christ, we have become children of God. In a miraculous, grace-laden exchange, we have become citizens of Heaven, heirs of God, and co-heirs with Christ. All that was mine has been taken away; all that is Christ's has been given to me (Rom. 8:14-16, 1 Cor. 1:30, 2 Cor. 4:3-7, 5:21, Phil. 3:20).
This is not something I claim to understand; I only see dimly and know in part. What is clear, however, is that, as a child and heir, I have a holy inheritance from God Himself. It was granted to me the moment I decided to follow Christ, and it will last forever (Mt. 6:20-21, Rom 8:17, 1 Cor. 13:12, Heb. 9:15).
It's nice to have a place to go if it rains.
When we meet for worship, it's the roof over our heads that keeps us dry. The building keeps us warm in winter and fends off mosquito attacks in summer. It's also nice to have a place to sit; who wouldn't take a soft cushion over a backless wooden bench? It's true many Christians in the Renaissance stood for the duration of the service, and that tradition continues today in some Orthodox churches. Most of us, however, are adamant about having a comfortable seat when we come together as the church; in fact, more than a few congregations have split over pew style and colors.
As a bestselling Young Adult novel by Marcus Zusak, "The Book Thief" has long dominated the imaginations and bookshelves of readers of all ages, mesmerizing them with its unique and compelling narrative. Now this haunting story has become a film, featuring young Leisel Meminger (Sophie Nelisse), fostered in the little village of Molching, Germany, by kindly Hans Lubermann (Geoffrey Rush) and his gruff wife Rosa (Emily Watson)—and narrated by Death.
Liesel's story begins in a manner similar to several other children's tales. After her mother must leave her behind, she adjusts to her new surroundings, makes a new friend in the neighbor boy, Rudy (Nieco Liersch), and accepts the challenges facing her at her new school. These challenges are made more potent by both the impending Nazi control and Leisel's illiteracy. Hans and Leisel strengthen their bond by reading together every night, as around them the light in the world dies under the martial music and jackboots of Nazi jingoism.
(Note: This review contains spoilers.)
As I waited in line to watch "Star Trek: Into Darkness" a while back, a fellow nerd informed me that she "didn't think Benedict Cumberbatch was sexy until he played Khan."
While I was more than a little horrified, I wasn't too shocked, since I know people have found evil characters attractive for a very long time. Two hundred years ago, Percy Shelley said of Milton's Satan that "Nothing can exceed the energy and magnificence of the character of Satan as expressed in 'Paradise Lost.'" Villains may be quite popular nowadays, but they have been at least since the early 19th century.
I should tell you at the outset, dear reader: The author whose book is featured here is a family friend, for whom I do some freelance work. To say I think it's wonderful that his first work of fiction has been published is, well, true. But I wouldn't write a review -- or recommend his book to BreakPoint readers -- unless I believed you would find it as worthwhile and meaningful as I did. So I hope you'll read on.
Parables are distinguished from other story genres by the way they communicate a universal and enduring truth in a concise and direct manner. In "The Woodsman and the King: A Parable," Robert H. Klima has written a story that does just this, speaking to our world today through the simple yet timeless tale of a faithful father, his broken son, and their loving king whose long-awaited appearance changes their world forever.
Illustra Media's new film, "Flight: The Genius of Birds," documents with startling clarity what master-strokes of engineering our feathered friends are, and how their unique configuration of unprecedented body features makes them Darwinism's Waterloo—and the poster children par excellence for the intelligent design movement.
The central argument in the I.D. camp has always been the teleological one, or the case from design itself. The universe and all of the creatures on this Privileged Planet appear designed. And the best explanation for such appearance of design is actual design. But how do we recognize design?
"About Time" is, well, about time: how we fill it, whom we spend it with, and what it says about our lives. It's about the millions of miniscule moments that build upon each other until they make a life—and the way the moments of one life intersect with those of another . . . and another . . . and another.
Starring Domhnall Gleeson, Rachel McAdams, and Bill Nighy, "About Time" tells the story of Tim Lake and his family, and how these ideas and questions about time specifically relate to them. We meet Tim (Gleeson), a kind, slightly awkward, self-conscious young man from England, at the start of a new year, when his dad (Nighy) shares with him a deep secret: The men in their family can travel back in time. Understandably Tim believes it to be a joke, until he tries it and finds himself able to relive—and recreate—his most recent embarrassing moment.
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It's hard to talk Turkey today President Obama saving copilot of the Turkey from becoming a Thanksgiving dinner by offering up.
-- presidential pardon.
After spending the past few days Washington's five star W hotel the bird will spend the rest of his life at Mount Vernon sounds nice right.
Won the -- affected is right and fueling says it's time to -- the presidential pardon all together and it this is my favorite segment today.
I just love you -- I mean.
I'm trying to figure RU guys serious when he did you come up of these ideas -- as a tongue in cheek just -- -- opted to create some buzz to talk about what the issue is now ahead what is it that you really not want the president to pardon this in this Turkey.
Well unfortunately -- -- sorely outdated and staged events often held in partnership with the Turkey producers themselves.
And frankly it doesn't do -- thing to help Turkey's -- don't need apart and they need people not to eat them.
And as you said in a few moments ago 46 million turkeys are killed every single year for Thanksgiving.
Many of whom have their throats slit while they're still fully conscious -- -- alive and boiling hot water.
It's simply not the kind of industry that people want to support anymore and so we hope that President Obama will follow in the footsteps of former President Clinton.
Was adopted a healthy begin lifestyle.
-- food is of course a much lower in saturated fat it has no cholesterol.
It's better for the environment it's certainly better for animals who are not tortured and -- desperate -- finish these turkeys and we have a life span of two years.
Actually they can live quite a bit longer the reality is that Turkey producers pump them full growth promoting drugs and grow them so large so fast that their legs actually snap on to their own weight.
And so if they were -- naturally they would through a live for quite a bit longer than that.
But the reality is that the animals were pardoned today will probably die within the next year's simply because there but their hearts will fail from the way they don't -- Well I have to ask you this guys you have the full screen on first take a look at this this recent ad campaign night actually -- comparing Turkey.
Eating Turkey pardoning turkeys to two races that right I mean is it is what one of the ad campaigns -- as you.
All right let's take a look this -- kids you wouldn't eat your dog why would you Turkey -- -- little picture the dog's head -- -- this extreme methods aren't enough.
No it's it's a simple biological fact I mean turkeys are able to feel pain and suffering exactly the same ways as the cats and dogs who -- our homes.
And when he did -- an undercover investigation into a butterball facility we documented workers punching Turkey is as though they were punching bags stomping on their heads until their -- exploded.
Even sexually assaulting Turkey's and so people are uncomfortable with the idea of buying an animal who is sexually assaulted before having their throats slit.
And I would agree with them the best thing they -- do -- -- to enjoy a Thanksgiving -- that's that's fully -- We need to point out we're not condone any of that activity was simply saying or I'm simply saying I think it's you know it's -- did -- No we're we're carnivores we eat meat and and that's way we've been enemies saying society should change American society -- she completely eliminate me from from our -- It's -- saying they just because we've done something for so many so many years doesn't mean we have to continue doing it.
The reality is that we live in 2012 we have delicious eating meals like -- Thanksgiving -- so -- roast with meat in gravy mashed potatoes.
Green bean casserole pumpkin pie people can enjoy all the delicious.
Holiday flavors they love without supporting egregious cruelty to animals and some of your other campaigns we've had we've heard on Alec Baldwin complaining about horse drawn carriages in Central Park.
We know all the stories about -- at the subpoena by the way that throws blood on -- people wearing for.
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And it's really a light -- way to draw attention to more serious issue which is back that animals are -- only electrocuted vaginal electrocuted.
And oftentimes in the live in order to produce a fur coat.
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And end in you know using and we re raising animals for human consumption there's there's got to be aligned right now.
-- think most Americans would agree that -- that's not acceptable to slit the throats of animals while they're still fully conscious sort of -- them alive and boiling hot water but unfortunately that's what we're paying for when we by Turkey from the grocery store for Thanksgiving.
And so we're encouraging people to check out our website Peta dot org where they can check out free begin recipes and learn how to how cruelty free holiday feast this year.
Right right we're gonna have to leave it there you -- -- manager of college campaigns and outreach -- the favorite -- for joining us.
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In January 2002, the Open Source Development Labs (OSDL, www.osdl.org) established the Carrier Grade Linux (CGL) Working Group. This initiative was intended to enhance the Linux kernel to achieve a highly available, secure, scalable and easily maintained open-source platform suitable for carrier grade systems.
Many companies joined the CGL initiative, and today the CGL is composed of member companies that work together contributing to the CGL requirement definition, helping current and starting new open-source projects to meet these requirements. Many CGL member companies already have contributed pieces of various technologies to open source to make the Linux kernel a more viable option for telecom platforms. CGL activities are providing momentum for Linux in the telecom space, allowing it to be an alternative to proprietary operating systems.
Gateways, signaling and management servers are the three main areas into which the CGL Working Group expects the majority of applications implemented on CGL platforms to fall. In addition to specifying the requirements, the Working Group also identifies existing open-source projects supporting the road map, implementing required components and interfaces of the platform. When an open-source project does not exist to support a CGL requirement, the Working Group launches or supports new projects to implement the missing functionality.
The scope of the CGL Working Group covers two main areas, carrier grade enhancements to the kernel and development tools. Kernel enhancements cover availability, security, scalability and reliability, as well as changes to interfaces for hardware, user-level code, application code and development and debugging tools. Software development tools covered by CGL include debuggers and analyzers.
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Clustering supports the use of multiple carrier server systems providing higher levels of service availability through redundant resources and recovery capabilities.
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Standards: CGL specifies standards to which compliance is required, including the Linux Standard Base, POSIX standards and a number of Internet RFCs.
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Many individuals within the CGL initiative are active participants in the main-line Linux development community. In addition, the implementations providing the carrier grade enhancements to the kernel are open-source projects and are planned for integration with the Linux kernel. All of the enhancements are available from their respective project Web sites; please refer to the OSDL Web site for links.
As of January 2004, the CGL Working Group is developing CGL version 3.0. The group expects to release the final official version by October 2004. The participation in OSDL CGL is open to everyone. For more information, please visit the OSDL Web site.
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I will backport PO file support to the Eden branch and so everybody can refine, update etc. the translations for Eden up at Transifex.net.
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My entry for the `BurdaStyle Sewing Vintage Modern Contest 2013` – Option Three: Create your own variation project using one or more master pattern(s) and/or variation project(s) from the BurdaStyle Sewing Vintage Modern book.
For the bodice, I followed the Jackie O dress pattern in the book, that had me change up the pattern for
Louisa Drop-waist dress. I added a hole in the top back, that required a piece of facing there as well. I added darts in the front and the back, mostly following the bodice of the Elizabeth gathered waist dress. I added the hook and eye.
For the skirt, I did a couple inches, shortened version of the Elizabeth Gathered waist dress. I changed it to place an invisible zipper in the back. I also followed the Louisa drop-waist dress' belt, but had to shorten the length, since I added the darts. I also had to surge the edge of the skirt seam inside, because of the fabric I used.
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Five Ways Fast Growth Companies Succeed
5:35 PM EST Fri. Aug. 21, 2009Have you heard the latest business adage: Flat is the new up? The general economy is in a slowdown, no doubt, but there are a number of companies -- 100 -- that proved their mettle with outstanding growth between 2006 and 2008. The average company on our list had revenue of $192,764,257, and the average rate of increase was 87 percent. That's impressive by any measure but perhaps even more so when scores of these integrators' customers are pulling back on IT expenditures and some have even declared bankruptcy. Here are five ways that these high-growth companies have succeeded in uncertain times -- and how you can too.
1. Help customers drive down their own costs.
This is the most popular way for Fast Growth companies to sell their services to existing clients and to attract new ones. Nearly 69 percent said that while the general economy is in a slowdown, they could grow by doing work for their customers to meet the challenges of this environment, such as helping them cut their operating costs. "In light of recent economic conditions, our clients across the globe are looking inward with a focus on how they can optimize business processes to increase operational efficiency, cost savings and gain a competitive advantage," said Eric Berridge, co-founder and principal of Bluewolf (2009 Fast Growth No. 79). "We are helping them to retool core business processes around demand generation, sales force automation, opportunity management and customer service."
2. Partner with top-notch vendors.
Brand recognition goes a long way, particularly when customers are leery of opening their wallets at all. Offering companies household names is a way of cementing stability in customers' minds. The top vendors among the Fast Growth VARs are Microsoft, Cisco, Hewlett-Packard, EMC, Dell, Oracle/Symantec, Sun and NetApp. That doesn't mean new vendors and technologies aren't welcome; 35.7 percent said they are actively seeking new, innovative or complementary vendors to add to their portfolios.
3. Look at the federal government market.
With stimulus money available, now might be a strategic time to look at the government and education arena. Slightly greater than 32 percent of respondents said the federal market contributed more than 20 percent to their revenue; 24.1 percent said the same about the K-12 education segment. And, despite the meltdown in the financial sector, accounting/banking/financial was responsible for more than 20 percent of growth at 29 percent of companies. Next year could obviously show a far different picture.
4. Focus on your target market.
Know your customers better than anyone else. You are not the only one looking for new clients; the competition is too. "In order to enable fast growth in a down market, solution providers need to stay closest to their most valuable asset -- their customers. This commitment allows us to be viewed as a true trusted partner, not just another vendor," said Daniel DiSano, president and CEO of Axispoint Inc. (2009 Fast Growth 100 No. 28). "Only if your core clients are strong and you have exceptional customer retention by delivering superior care and utilizing technology to solve their most complex problems can you ever be in a position to achieve exceptional growth."
5. Prepare customers for when the tide turns.
"Our job will be to help clients tap into new and emerging markets with solutions that maximize efficiency and still provide high performance," said Bob Cagnazzi, CEO of BlueWater Communications (2009 Fast Growth 100 No. 1). "Consolidation and virtualization will remain important, unified communications will remain important and will grow as businesses better integrate collaboration into their business processes. Video will also continue to grow because of the decreasing costs in this area and the ability to greatly reduce costs and improve collaboration."


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- Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality
- Introducing my new project: Quelology organizes books
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- Why is my /tmp/ directory suddenly only 1MB big?
Mon, 31 Dec 2012
iPod nano 5g on linux -- works!
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For Christmas I got an iPod nano (5th generation). Since I use only Linux on my home computers, I searched the Internet for how well it is supported by Linux-based tools. The results looked bleak, but they were mostly from 2009.
Now (December 2012) on my Debian/Wheezy system, it just worked.
The iPod nano 5g presents itself as an ordinary USB storage device, which you can mount without problems. However simply copying files on it won't make the iPod show those files in the play lists, because there is some meta data stored on the device that must be updated too.
There are several user-space programs that allow you to import and export music from and to the iPod, and update those meta data files as necessary. The first one I tried, gtkpod 2.1.2, worked fine.
Other user-space programs reputed to work with the iPod are rhythmbox and amarok (which both not only organize but also play music).
Although I don't think anything really depends on some particular versions here (except that you need a new enough version of gtkpod), here is what I used:
- Architecture: amd64
- Linux: 3.2.0-4-amd64 #1 SMP Debian 3.2.35-2
- Userland: Debian GNU/Linux "Wheezy" (currently "testing")
- gtkpod: 2.1.2-1
Thu, 23 Aug 2012
Correctness in Computer Programs and Mathematical Proofs
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While reading On Proof and Progress in Mathematics by Fields Medal winner Bill Thurston (recently deceased I was sorry to hear), I came across this gem:
The standard of correctness and completeness necessary to get a computer program to work at all is a couple of orders of magnitude higher than the mathematical community's standard of valid proofs. Nonetheless, large computer programs, even when they have been very carefully written and very carefully tested, always seem to have bugs.
I noticed that mathematicians are often sloppy about the scope of their symbols. Sometimes they use the same symbol for two different meanings, and you have to guess from context which on is meant.
This kind of sloppiness generally doesn't have an impact on the validity of the ideas that are communicated, as long as it's still understandable to the reader.
I guess on reason is that most mathematical publications still stick to one-letter symbol names, and there aren't that many letters in the alphabets that are generally accepted for usage (Latin, Greek, a few letters from Hebrew). And in the programming world we snort derisively at FORTRAN 77 that limited variable names to a length of 6 characters.
Sun, 26 Jun 2011
Introducing my new project: Quelology organizes books
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For about half a year I've been working on a website called quelology, which collects book series and translations.
It is intended to answer questions of the form: I've now read "Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix", which is the next book in that series? or What's the name of the French translation of that book?
The website and data mining behind it are written in Perl, and it is based on book meta data by isfdb, amazon and worldcat.
I'm working on importing data from more sources, next up will be the Swedish National Library.
After completing the data mining stage, I'll add an interfaces that allows the visitor to edit the book, series and translations data, so that users can extend the data body.
Tue, 14 Jun 2011
Why is my /tmp/ directory suddenly only 1MB big?
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Today I got a really weird error on my Debian "Squeeze" Linux box --
a processes tried to write a temp file, and it complained that there was
No space left on device
The weird thing is, just yesterday my root parition was full, and I had made about 7GB free space in it.
I checked, there was still plenty of room today. But behold:
$ df -h /tmp/ Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on overflow 1.0M 632K 392K 62% /tmp
So, suddenly my /tmp/ directory was a ram disc with just 1MB of space. And
it didn't show up in /etc/fstab
, so I had no idea what cause
After googling a bit around, I found the likely reason: as a protection against low disc space, some daemon automatically "shadows" the current /tmp/ dir with a ram disc if the the root partition runs out of disc space. Sadly there's no automatic reversion of that process once enough disc space is free again.
To remove the mount, you can say (as root)
umount -l /tmp/
And to permanently disable this feature, use
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Mon, 22 Nov 2010
Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality
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What if Harry Potter had been raised by a loving stepmother? What if his stepfather was a scientist? What happens when somebody tries to analyze magic with scientific methods? What happens if an eleven year old boy is too smart for his own good?
A piece of fan fiction, Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality by "Less Wrong" answers those questions - and makes quite a good read. If you are into fantasy books and science, you might really love it. I did.
But be warned: only read this if you've read all seven Harry Potter books by J.K.Rowling, because the fan fiction piece contains lots of spoilers.
So far 60 chapters for varying length have been published, and just a few more to be written before the first year ends. I look forward to the final chapters.
Tue, 08 Dec 2009
Keep it stupid, stupid!
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How hard is it to build a good search engine? Very hard. So far I thought that only one company has managed to build a search engine that's not only decent, but good.
Sadly, they seem to have overdone it. Today I searched for tagged dfa. I was looking for a technique used in regex engines. On the front page three out of ten results actually dealt with the subjects, the other uses of dfa meant dog friendly area, department of foreign affairs or other unrelated things.
That's neither bad nor unexpected. But I wanted more specific results, so I decided against using the abbreviation, and searched for the full form: tagged deterministic finite automaton. You'd think that would give better results, no?
No. It gave worse. On the first result page only one of the hits actually dealt with the DFAs I was looking for. Actually the first hit contained none of my search terms. None. It just contained a phrase, which is also sometimes abbreviated dfa.
WTF? Google seemed to have internally converted my query into an ambiguous, abbreviated form, and then used that to find matches, without filtering. So it attempted to be very smart, and came out very stupid.
I doubt that any Google engineer is ever going to read this rant. But if one is: Please, Google, keep it stupid, stupid.
I'm fine with getting automatic suggestions on how to improve my search query; but please don't automatically "improve" it for me. I want to find what I search for. I'm not interested in dog friendly areas.
Sat, 05 Dec 2009
Doubt and Confidence
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<meta>From my useless musings series.</meta>
As a programmer you have to have confidence in your skills, to some extent, and at the same time you have to constantly doubt them. Weird, eh?
You need some level of confidence to do anything efficiently. Planning ahead requires confidence that you can achieve the steps on your way.
As a programmer you also need some confidence with the language, libraries and other tools you're using.
If you program for money, you also have to assess what kind of programs you can write, and where you might have problems.
In the process of programming you make a lot of assumptions, some of the explicit, some of them implicit. If you want to write a good program, it's essential that you are aware of as many assumptions as possible.
When you find a bug in your program, you have to challenge previous assumptions, and that's where doubt comes in. You not only suspect, but you know that at least one of the assumptions was false (or maybe just a bit too specific), and you know that you did something wrong.
Sometimes programmers make really stupid mistakes which are rather tricky to track down. That's when you have to question your own sanity.
One example (that luckily doesn't happen all that often to me) is when I edit my program, and nothing seems to change. Nothing at all. Depending on the setup it might be some cache, but something it is even more devious - for example I didn't notice that the console where I edit and the console where I test are on different hosts - and thus the edits actually have no effect at all.
After having done such a thing once or twice I adopted the habit of just
adding a die('BOOM');
instruction to my code, to verify that
the part I'm looking at is actually run.
These are moments when I question my own sanity, thinking "how could I have possibly done such a stupid thing?". Doubt.
The same phenomena applies when doing scientific research: since you usually do things that nobody has done before (or at nobody has published about it yet), you can't know the results beforehand -- if you could, your research would be rather boring. So you have no external reference for verification, only your intuition and discussion with peers.
Sat, 10 Oct 2009
Fun and No-Fun with SVG
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Lately I've been playing a lot of with SVG, and all in all I greatly enjoyed it. I wrote some Perl 6 programs that generate graphical output, and being a new programming language it doesn't have many bindings to graphic libraries. Simply emitting a text description of a graphic and then viewing it in the browser is a nice and simple way out.
I also enjoy getting visual feedback from my programs. I'd even more enjoy it if the feedback was more consistent.
I generally test my svg images with three different viewers: Firefox 3.0.6-3, inkscape (or inkview) 0.46-2.lenny2 and Opera 10.00.4585.gcc4.qt3. Often they produce two or more different renderings of the same SVG file.
Consider this seemingly simple SVG file:
<svg width="400" height="250" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" xmlns:svg="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink" style="background-color: white" > <defs> <path id="curve" d="M 20 100 C 60 30 320 30 380 100" style="fill:none; stroke:black; stroke-width: 2" /> </defs> <text font-size="40" textLength="390" > <use xlink:href="#curve" /> <textPath xlink:href="#curve">SPRIXEL</textPath> </text> </svg>
If your browser supports SVG, you can view it directly here.
This SVG file first defines a path, and then references it twice: once a text is placed on the path, the second time it is simply referenced and given some styling information.
Rendered by Firefox:
Rendered by Inkview:
Rendered by Opera:
Three renderers, three outputs. Neither Firefox nor Inkview support the
attribute, which is a real pity, because it's the only
way you can make a program emit SVG files where text is guaranteed not to
If you scale text in Inkscape and then put it onto a path, the scaling is
lost. I found no way to reproduce opera's output with inkscape without
resorting to really evil trickery (like decomposing the text into paths, can
then cutting the letters apart and placing them manually). (Equally useful is
the dominant-baseline
attribute, which Inkscape doesn't support
The second difference is that only Firefox shows the shape of the path.
Firefox is correct here. The SVG specification clearly
states about the use
For user agents that support Styling with CSS, the conceptual deep cloning of the referenced element into a non-exposed DOM tree also copies any property values resulting from the CSS cascade [CSS2-CASCADE] on the referenced element and its contents. CSS2 selectors can be applied to the original (i.e., referenced) elements because they are part of the formal document structure. CSS2 selectors cannot be applied to the (conceptually) cloned DOM tree because its contents are not part of the formal document structure.
Sadly it seems to be a coincidence that Firefox works correctly here. If
the styling information is moved from the path
to the
element the curve is still displayed - even though it should
not be.
Using SVG feels like writing HTML and CSS for 15 year old browsers, which had their very own, idiosyncratic idea of how to render what, and what to support and what not.
Just like with HTML I have high hopes that the overall state will improve;
Indeed I've been told that Firefox 3.5 now supports the
attribute. I'd also love to see wide-spread support
for SVG animations, which could replace some inaccessible flash
Tue, 04 Aug 2009
Goodby Iron Man
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<update> (from 2009-08-23) It turned out that my disappearance on the ironman blog feed was due to a broken RSS feed. Matt S. Trout tried to inform me by blog comment, my blog marked it as spam and swallowed it.
So now we talked on IRC, clarified things, and I'm back in the game. </update>
So I accepted the Iron Man blogging challenge a few month ago. And last week I discovered that my blog was gone from their feed. For the second time. Without any notification.
Image: rusty iron man, by courtesy of artvixn, available under a create commons non-commerical by-attribution license.
The first time they had a good reason: the date tags in my RSS feed were goofed; still I'd thought it would be nice to at least notify me of such a removal. After some mails back and forth I was able to fix it; after the second removal without any notification I'm simply fed up and don't want to investigate any more energy into this.
Still I'll continue to follow the collected RSS feed, there are still many interesting blogs to be read there.
Tue, 23 Jun 2009
Iron Man Challenge - Am I a Stone Man?
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Gabor asked what I'm missing from the Iron Man blogging challenge. Gabor focused on the contents of the blog posts, I'll talk about the challenge itself.
I'm missing the things announced on their website: a way to find out to which level you made it, a monthly selection of best blog posts, and all these other things that were designed to create some competition, and more fun.
Don't get me wrong, I like to read the blog of my fellow Perl programmers, and it motivates me to write more often myself. But that's not all that was promised to us.
One thing I'd like to add about the content, though: So far most of what I read was very good and informative, but it was all text. I know it's not easy to find nice on-topic programming pictures, and use.perl.org doesn't even allow the inclusion of pictures in posts, and I don't do it often myself, but having more picture or charts would be nice.
Mon, 01 Jun 2009
Why Design By Contract Does Not Replace a Test Suite
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"Design By Contract" (DBC) usually refers both to very sophisticated assertion systems (for example in which assertions are inherited along with the methods to which they belong), and to the practice of using such assertions extensively, not only for quality assurance but also as a form of documentation.
When I was mostly programming in Eiffel some years ago, I liked DBC very much, and I still think that it's a very good idea, and that more programming language should offer good support for it.
However there's one comment that I've seen frequently on the web, in blogs and on IRC. Often DBC evangelists say something along these lines: "We have DBC, we don't need a test suite". I find such comments incredibly stupid, and here I want to write down why.
Code needs to run
If you want to verify that the code does what you want, you have to actually run it - otherwise the assertions won't be triggered, and are worthless as a verification tool.
You don't have to just run it, but should, when possible, cover every code path - just like you'd do it when you write tests. Doing that manually requires much work, so you still need a test suite that you can run to verify that some changes didn't break anything.
Examples are easy, general rules are hard
Test cases are just example input, paired with the expected output. Usually it's pretty easy to come with examples, so writing tests is also easy, even for corner cases.
On the other hand assertions are rules that have to hold for all possible input data, so to formulate them, you have to consider the general case - that's usually rather hard, so the lazy programmer leaves out the hard cases.
A simple example: suppose you've written a subroutine that adds two numbers (for example for a bignum library). Writing assertions for the general case of addition is quite hard if you can't trust your subtraction routine; so the only things you can really do is to check the signs (positive number plus positive number is positive etc.), but that won't catch any off-by-one errors.
So you should also write tests; tests like add(3, 4) == 7
trivial to come up with, and catch potential errors.
Design by Contract and testing should go hand in hand so that the tests exercise as many code paths as possible, and should cover those areas that are hard to validate with assertions.
DBC should not be viewed as a replacement for tests.
Thu, 18 Dec 2008
My Diploma Thesis: Spin Transport in Mesoscopic Systems
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Sometimes people ask me what I'm doing right now, and I tell them "I'm writing my diploma thesis on mesoscopic spin transport", and they know just as much as before. So here I want to explain what that means.
Mesoscopic systems
A mesoscopic system is one that is larger than a few nanometers, but still small enough that you have to care about quantum effects.
That's not a very precise definition, so I'll try again: Consider a metallic wire. For macroscopic systems (ie the ones that we are used to in day-to-day live) you might know that the electrical resistance of such a wire increases linearly as you increase its length, and decreases linearly if you increase its cross section.
This is very intuitive, because electrical resistance describes how hard it is for an electron to travel through our wire. If the wire is longer, it sees more obstacles, so the resistance is higher. If the wire has a larger cross section, it's easier for the electron to find a way that's not blocked, so the resistance is smaller. That's called Ohm's law.
These relations aren't true anymore for rather small systems. If you have a very thin wire, say 20 nanometers, and increase its diameter by another nanometer, the resistance might not change at all. Then you increase its diameter by another nanometer, the resistance suddenly jumps down by a few percent.
All these systems that are too small for Ohm's law to apply are called mesoscopic. All mesoscopic effects have to be explained with quantum physics, at least at some point.
Electron Spin
Electrons have something called Spin. Everybody knows that it has a charge, and it acts as if it rotated around its own axis very fast. So it looks like a current which runs in a circle, and that creates a small magnetic field.
If you try to measure the magnetic field of one electron, you will only ever get two possible values, which we call spin up and spin down.
Spin Optics
In a semiconductor, one can split up a beam of electrons into two beams of spin-up and spin-down electrons, just like in optics with polarized light. That splitting can be influenced by an external voltage, like a classical transistor.
The topic of my diploma thesis is to figure out how such spin polarized electron beams behave in certain semiconductor systems.


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Our vendor will be performing maintenance on September 26th 02:00 to 04:00 in Bend, OR. They will be upgrading their network hardware. You should expect to experience a brief outage during this maintenance window.
Primary Contact: Joel Burks, firstname.lastname@example.com
Our vendor will be performing maintenance on September 19th 02:00 to 04:00 in Bend, OR. They will be upgrading their network hardware. You should expect to experience a brief outage during this maintenance window.
Incident, resolved: Most services on campus Date and Time: 09/06/2013 – 6:00 through 6:30 pm
In bringing back online a redundant switch responsible for most services in OSU's data centers, an outage occurred for a wide variety of services for about 10 minutes between 6 PM and 6:30 PM today.
This was caused by reconvergence of the redundant switches themselves.
All services are back in production.
Incident, not resolved: DataCenter Networks Date and Time: 09/06/2013 – 6:01pm
We are experiencing intermittent outages as one of the nexus 7000s is reconnected. More information to follow.
_________________________________________________________________________ Info: Contact Information: Joseph T. Duncan email: firstname.lastname@example.com Shared Infrastructure Group phone: 541-737-2556
Primary Contact: Joel Burks, firstname.lastname@example.com
One of the pair of the main data center switches will be powered down at 6 am, moved to a new location, and brought back up on 6 am the next day. This should have no affect on the network.
Over the Labor Day weekend, Enterprise Computing Services staff successfully completed the upgrade to a number of Banner modules. All Banner modules and related systems (Appworx, Nolij, OSCAR, MyDegrees, BRM, the myOSU portal, data warehouses, Touchnet, and Online Services) are now restored and fully operational.
We would like to express our sincere gratitude to the folks who made this upgrade successful, and who gave up their Labor Day weekend to the benefit of all: Eddy Beamer, Deborah Maguire, Shari Tanguay, Lanling He, Les Haverland, Tom Hartsook, and Andy Weiss. We would also like to to recognize those end-users who took the time to test Banner yesterday and today: Mark Bierly, Scott Campbell, Jim Day, Dan Hough, Heather Howell, Sue Knowles, Nancy Laurence, Hollie Pitts, and Gabe Williams. Also, a special shout-out to Eddy Beamer who led the ECS team through this year's upgrade!
Thank you all for a job superbly well done.
Questions? If you have any questions about this annual upgrade, please contact Kent Kuo (firstname.lastname@example.com or 737-3525). We greatly appreciated your patience and support as we completed these critical upgrades to our central administrative system.
Thanks, Kent.
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Over the Labor Day weekend, Enterprise Computing Services staff will be completing the upgrade to a number of Banner modules. This annual Banner upgrade process will affect most Banner-related systems.
Outage Starts: 8/30, Friday 11:55 pm
Outage Ends: 9/2, Monday 5:00 pm
What is affected:
Why is this important each year:
Many updates and patches are required to improve stability and performance. New features and functions are being implemented for specific user groups and affected users will receive communications and documentation as appropriate from their units.
Primary Contact: Anthony Brock, firstname.lastname@example.com
We will be rebooting the router for University Plaza tonight at 10 pm. This will result in a brief (10 minute) outage for phones and computers while the device reloads.
On Wednesday August 28th CWS will be updating CWS Hosted Drupal 7 sites to the latest version of Drupal 7 and included modules. This will only affect Drupal 7 production sites. Although this will incur a 2 to 3 minute interruption in service to the affected websites, most site visitors will not notice the interruption, as most pages are cached. This will be a rolling upgrade and we cannot say exactly when or on which day a specific site will be affected.
This release includes some important security patches, bug fixes, and an update to the Feature Story module which makes it work with swipe on touch enabled devices. If you are using Feature Story on a Drupal 7 site, be sure to check this out after the upgrade.
If you have any questions or concerns please contact us through our form at http://oregonstate.edu/is/services/cws/contact.
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The AriWave server will be down, while we rebuild it with the latest software release. This will only affect monitoring of the wireless network.
The rebuild will begin after business hours on Friday 23rd August 2013.
Primary Contact: Michael Gromek, firstname.lastname@example.com
Network Engineering is planning to make a change to resolve a bandwidth constriction on the uplink from a switch connecting various buildings on campus. This change will cause a brief loss of connectivity (15 seconds) to the following buildings: CascadehallGCA, Burt2, Covell, WB, Navy, Bates, LARC, WC, VRL, PrSB, Dawes, EHSshop, GossStdm, WGrn, Clark_trlr, InfoBooth, HP, AdmsAnx, DefMaint, MoPl, Lang, ClkL, IFPa, Wgnd, KeyShop, GVGC, Bldg45, OATF, NACC, ConstShop, Gill, Dryd, Paint, Vlib, Softball, NS Storage, COE Dearborn
This change is planned for Saturday, August 24 at 10PM. The short outages may be noticed by some monitoring systems but should not cause any other impact to network performance.
I will be patching several servers during our standard maintenance window starting at 10 PM, this Saturday Aug. 24th. The servers affected will be CN-Share, CN-Home, TSS-Data, TSS1 and TSS4. I will also be upgrading the SEP anti-virus clients on those machines to the latest versions. There will be short outages during the required restarts of these systems.
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NERO, one of OSU's network providers, will be performing maintenance during the following windows:
2013/08/22: 0:00-6:00 am Level3 fiber maintenance between Eugene and Salem 2013/08/22: 5:00-6:00 am Router hardware upgrade in Pendleton Hub 2013/08/23: 5:00-6:00 am Router hardware upgrade in EOU/La Grande Hub 2013/08/24: 8:00-9:00 am Router hardware upgrade in Hermiston Hub
The first maintenance is not expected to cause a service outage. The last three will affect customers located in Pendleton, Ontario, La Grande and Hermiston. None of these are expected to directly affect OSU's campus in Corvallis or our branch campuses in Bend or Newport.
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Comcast will be performing maintenance on the date and time shown below, which may result in an outage for some external network locations that connect through that Portland location.
Start date: 08-21-2013 Start time: 12:00 AM local time End date: 08-21-2013 End time: 06:00 AM local time Maintenance Ticket Number: CM000827427 Company Name: Oregon State University Impact Duration: 2 hours Location(s): 921 SW WASHINGTON AVE PORTLAND,OREGON 97205 1207 NAITO NW PORTLAND, 97209
The DegreeWorks upgrade is now complete. Rebecca and I would like to thank Deb Maguire, Evan Juntunen, Martin Main, Amanda Champagne, and Nancy Laurence for their exceptional effort and work in achieving this success.
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The ONID-FS Windows share, which provides access to ONID home directories for Windows clients, was unavailable from 9:02am to 9:50am today. The system was unable to resolve usernames during this time because the name service cache daemon stopped running.
I think this was related to the changes made to the ONID LDAP server SSL certificate. After the old SSL certificate was no longer available, ONID-FS could not establish new LDAP connections until I restarted the ldap_cachemgr process and the name service cache daemon. In hindsight, I could have restarted these services gracefully after configuring them for the new SSL certificate. It wasn't obvious that they would fail to load the new SSL certificate chain without a restart.
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The ClassroomSAN will be down 1 week for maintenance. Since there are no classes using the ClassroomSAN this summer, the impact is minimal.
ECS and the Office of the Registrar are in the process of upgrading the DegreeWorks (MyDegrees) application to version 188.8.131.52. This process began last night (August 15, 2013) at 5:00pm, and is scheduled to remain out-of-service through 8:00am on Tuesday, August 21, 2013. We anticipate bringing the system back online before that 8:00am deadline, and will notify you accordingly when it is complete.
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Sent: Wednesday, August 14, 2013 4:23 PM Cc: Laurence, Nancy; Champagne, Amanda; Main, Martin
Hello Advisors,
This is a reminder that MyDegrees will be down beginning this Thursday, August 15th at 5pm until approximately Tuesday the 20th for the planned upgrade. Please pass this along to other staff and faculty members who use MyDegrees.
Thank you everyone who helped test MyDegrees Stage this week! Your participation is helping us ensure a successful upgrade.
We will keep you informed up the status on this project as it goes.
Thank you, Rebecca
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The IS Server Support team will performing maintenance on the Exchange Voicemail servers on Sunday morning. We do not expect this maintenance to cause a service outage.
Who will this affect: This maintenance should be transparent to customers since we are running redundant voicemail servers. However, there may be a short period where the message waiting indicator lamps are out of sync.
When will this happen: The maintenance will occur on Sunday mornings between 9:30 and 11:00 am.
What are we doing: Applying Exchange 2010 Service Pack 3 CU1
Why are we doing this: To stay current on Exchange and to resolve known issues & bugs. This release also allows a coexistence mode for Exchange 2013 so we can prepare for the next version.
If you have any questions or concerns please feel free to contact us.
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