When you visit a website, you are allowing that site to access a lot of information about your computer. Combined, this information can create a kind of fingerprint — a signature that could be used to identify you and your computer. But how effective would this kind of online tracking be?

Your browser fingerprint appears to be unique among the 60,715 tested so far. Currently, we estimate that your browser has a fingerprint that conveys at least 15.89 bits of identifying information.

Our technical administrators have identified a service issue and are
working to resolve it as quickly as possible. Since your system may be
among those affected, you may experience some disruption in service
for the next 24 hours while we resolve this issue.

On December 10th at 2:00am EST, our technicians discovered a malfunction
in the server that hosts your site. Currently, your website is still offline.

However, we have isolated the malfunction and are working to restore your
service as quickly as possible. The restoration of your website will be
complete tonight around 10:00pm EST. You will not experience any loss of data.

We know that you trust us with one of your most important resources, your
website, and we are truly sorry for the negative impact that this outage has
had on your business or personal web presence.

Please be assured that we have done everything within our capacity in handling
this matter. Our technicians understand the priority of this, and have followed
all procedures in place to ensure limited downtime for your site, which is our
primary concern.

We are investigating any improvements we can make to our processes for the
future to ensure that an incident like this does not develop to a major outage.

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Technical Information:
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The web server that your site is hosted on has been offline due to a hardware
failure in the RAID setup.

RAID stands for "Redundant Array of Independent Disks" and is a technology
that employs the simultaneous use of two or more hard disk drives to achieve
greater levels of reliability and performance.

Your website is stored across the RAID system twice over different hard drives,
if one of the hard drives fails your web site will continue to run. The failed
hard drive is replaced and the data that was on the drive copied again from the
other drives within the RAID, this is known as rebuilding the RAID, and normally
happens seamlessly without any effect to the web hosting server or your website.

This is a daily task performed in our data centers and is standard for large
data storage systems such as used in the web hosting environment.

In this instance, we replaced the failed drive with a new drive and the RAID
started to rebuild. While this was happening the rebuild process failed,
corrupting all the data within the RAID set. This should not happen and we
have open tickets with the RAID manufacturer to understand what went wrong
in this case and to ensure that they can prevent this for the future.

Our system administrators do not rely on the RAID system as our only source
of backup. We run a rolling backup of the live system to external backup servers
to ensure that in a case like this we have a restore solution.

After the RAID corruption occurred, our engineers analyzed the situation and
found that the only solution left to us was to recover the data from our backup
systems. At this point the RAID was reinitialized ready to receive data, this
process itself takes several hours to perform.

This is an update with the back up you have requested.
Unfortunately, our administrators was not able to restored
files in your web space.
We sincerely apologized for the inconvenienced this has caused you.

1. Perform backups regularly. (read it again!) Perform backups regularly!
2. Don't trust 1and1 with your website. Pick somebody else. ¹⁴⁸⁴⁷

He Saw It All
by Booth Brothers

I was working in town one afternoon
Attending some business affairs
I heard a commotion a couple streets over
And wondered whats happening there
A young man was running from in that direction
and stopped just to catch his breath

I asked him to please tell me what was the hurry
He smiled up at me and he said
I was trying to catch the crippled man,
Did he run past this way
He was rushing home to tell everyone
What Jesus did today
And the mute man was telling myself
And the deaf girl He's leaving to
Answer God's call

It's hard to believe but if you don't trust me
Ask the blind man, he saw it all
Ask the blind man, he saw it all

My friend if the troubles and burdens you carry
Are heavy and dragging you down
And you've tried everything
You can possibly think of
But there's no relief to be found

That very same Jesus that altered the future
Of the blind man, the deaf and the lame
He's still reaching out
In your hour of trouble
One touch and you're never be the same

You'll be trying to catch the cripped man
Did he run past this way
He was rushing home to tell everyone
What Jesus did today
And the mute man was telling myself
And the deaf girl He's leaving to
Answer God's call
It's hard to believe but if you don't trust me
Ask the blind man he saw it all
Ask the blind man he saw it all

Ask the blind man he saw it all

Q. The president's progress with the battered economy has been both praised and criticized. How well are his efforts measuring up with you?

• Extremely well. We are undoubtedly moving in the right direction.


• Fairly well. There's still a long way to go.


• Not well at all. His plans are hurting more than helping.


• Not sure/No opinion.

   My number one priority has been to preserve Chrysler and the livelihoods of thousands of people who depend on its success.
                                          - Bob Nardelli
                                          (Chrysler Chairman & CEO)

    Start with a good AntiVirus package. My two top choices in order are Avast and AVG, both are free. I've used AVG for years, but now I prefer Avast. Avast now rates better at stopping the baddies, so I would recommend it over AVG. Avast requires a free email address registration that's good for a year, and you can renew each year, still free. Most Anti-Virus packages these days also protect your email, instant messenger conversations, peer to peer exchanges, and web browsing. Make sure you get the anti-virus updates. Most programs do it automatically. Avast even announces when it has rec'd the latest updates. Stay away from McAfee and Norton. Norton used to be the best, but now it is a total resource hog, as is McAfee.
   If you have an XP machine, you'll need a personal firewall. The Vista version of Microsoft's firewall is better than the one that comes with XP, so you can probably get by without a third partry replacement. For XP, get ZoneAlarm or Comodo. Comodo is more effective, but ZoneAlarm is a lot quieter - fewer popups asking you what to do.
   For other malware defense, install Malwarebytes' Anti-Malware and Spybot Search & Destroy, and run them manually at least once a month. The free versions don't do any automatic protection.
   Equally important, make sure the automatic updates from Microsoft are downloaded and installed religiously. These patches help close security loopholes that are constantly discovered. Make sure updates are turned on.
   Most PCs come with recovery disks or a way to make them. If you have to create your own recovery CDs, your system should prompt you, and the documentation that came with it should explain it. Make sure you
have or make these CDs. If your system crashes, you can't go back and make the CDs. And it will cost you buck$ to replace them from the manufacturer.
   For reading PDF files, Adobe Acrobat Reader is the most common program, but I'd recommend Fox-it PDF Reader, The basic version is free, and contains more features for free than 99% of folks will every use.
   If you can get a student license installation of Microsoft Office through your college or university, go with it. It's cheap (compared to $430 regular price) or even free, depending on whatever deal the college has put
together with Microsoft. Otherwise, get Open Office which is free and getting pretty darn good. It reads and writes Microsoft Office compatible files, as well as open document formatted files.
   Then, go through and check all the garbahzh that runs at boot up time from the manufacturer. If you don't need it regularly, it doesn't need to load and be running all the time. You'll be surprised how much your system speeds up.
   For a list of Freeware picks that are, for the most part, best in class, check out this list from MajorGeeks. It'll give you some good options to pick from. Some have issues, so you can run any selections back past me and I'll give you my $.02 for free.
   Finally, get e-Sword. It is the best Bible and Bible study software available at any price. (Yes, it's free. Thank Rick Meier for that!) You can get lots of Bible versions, commentaries, Bible dictionaries, and concordances. I use it regularly.