You may have noticed that there have been a few occasions over the past week in which our new Humanist Chaplaincy (http:\/\/hcs.harvard.edu\/humanist) has been down\/unavailable. In fact, it is down as I write this and will be unavailable until sometime Monday morning, September 25. This isn’t our site’s fault (I promise) but rather is due to the fact that our server, Harvard Computer Services (HCS), keeps crashing. Unfortunately we had to go with HCS, a student run group, for the time-being because it is free and the Humanist Chaplaincy’s budget is still so small. We’re working on fundraising, but we need your help to avoid such problems in the future!<\/p>\n
In the meantime, here is a statement from Matt Fasman, a student at Harvard HCS, written Sunday morning:<\/p>\n
“Yes, it is down. You certainly have a right to be frustrated by the instability,<\/em>
\n especially as it occurs over such long periods of time and with such frequency. We are<\/em> planning to scrap that machine this week and install a new one which will be more<\/em> reliable. As for getting this one back online, we only have M-F, 9-5 access to the<\/em> machines, so that won’t be an option until tomorrow morning. I’m really sorry about this,<\/em> and we are going to fix it as soon as we can, but that will not be for another 20 hours.”<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\nOf course, the above was written on Sunday and as of Wednesday we now know that those 20 hours were not at all sufficient. The site has been down most of the week! Here are some more comments from HCS about this latest “development:”<\/p>\n
Greg,<\/em><\/p>\n
Believe me when i tell you that we deserver the anger. I’m as upset
\nabout this as any ones is. The problem is that our hardware is outdated
\nand being overused. We’re moving to new, much more powerful hardware
\nand the end of the week. Until then, access to hcs websites will be
\nintermittent as the machine is unstable.<\/em><\/p>\nI’m very sorry for the trouble and we’re working as qucikly as possible
\nto remedy the problem,<\/em><\/p>\nGrant Dasher
\nHCS Systems<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\nWe can’t wait to serve you, however, and aren’t willing to risk this happening again. So help us with your vote: do you prefer www.harvardhumanist.org or www.humanistchaplaincy.org as our new URL? Or something else? Leave a comment with your opinion!<\/p>\n
And for the time being, don’t forget you can still access all of our upcoming events here<\/strong><\/a>, <\/strong>and if you’re looking for more information about Humanism right away, check back to my June 2006 post on “summer reading.”<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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