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Company Presses Your Ashes Into Vinyl When You Die 101

Posted by samzenpus from the music-of-the-soul dept.
Lanxon writes "Music lovers can now be immortalized when they die by having their ashes baked into vinyl records to leave behind for loved ones, reports Wired. A UK company called And Vinyly is offering people the chance to press their ashes in a vinyl recording of their own voice, their favorite tunes or their last will and testament. Minimalist audiophiles might want to go for the simple option of having no tunes or voiceover, and simply pressing the ashes into the vinyl to result in pops and crackles."

Comment Re:Question. (Score 1) 190

by bswooden (#33393886) Attached to: State of Virginia Technology Centers Down

Umm, so what's the point of having a SAN if it weren't redundant? Me thinks there is more to this story.

from working with VITA on a daily basis, I can assure you there is probably not much more to the story than this. I have never seen a more disorganized bunch of clowns in my life.
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State of Virginia Technology Centers Down 190

Posted by Soulskill from the your-tax-dollars-at-work dept.
bswooden writes "Some rather important departments (DMV, Social Services, Taxation) in the state of Virginia are currently without access to documents and information as a technology meltdown has caused much of their infrastructure to be offline for over 24 hours now. State CIO Sam Nixon said, 'A failure occurred in one memory card in what is known as a "storage area network," or SAN, at Virginia's Information Technologies Agency (VITA) suburban Richmond computing center, one of several data storage systems across Virginia.' How does the IT for some of the largest departments in a state come to a screeching halt over a single memory card? Oh, and also, the state is paying Northrup Grumman $2.4 billion over 10 years to manage the state's IT infrastructure." Reader miller60 adds, "Virginia's IT systems drew scrutiny last fall when state agencies reported rolling outages due to the lack of network redundancy."

Submission + - State of Virginia technology centers down (hamptonroads.com)

Submitted by bswooden
bswooden writes: Some rather important departments (DMV, Social Services, Taxation) in the state of Virginia are currently without access to many documents and information as a technology meltdown has caused much of their technology to be offline for over 24 hours now. State CIO Sam Nixon said "A failure occurred in one memory card in what is known as a 'storage area network,' or SAN, at Virginia's Information Technologies Agency (VITA) suburban Richmond computing center, one of several data storage systems across Virginia." How does the IT for some of the largest departments in a state come to a screeching halt over a single memory card? Oh and also the state is paying Northrup Grumman $2.4 billion over 10 years to manage the states IT infrastructure.

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