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On Aug 28, 4:55 am, Omar al-Bashir <jismqu...@yahoo.com> wrote:
> NORTHROP GRUMMAN is already on-board with a $2-billion-dollar tax-
> supported contract for state computer "services" that doesn't work but
> will cost $400-million to terminate!
>
> Governor Robert "Bob's for Jobs" McRobertson shrugs it off, saying,
> "It's just God's holy will."
>
> --------------------
> "Statewide computer meltdown in Virginia disrupts DMV, other
> government business"
>
> By Derek Kravitz
> Washington Post Staff Writer
> Saturday, August 28, 2010; B04
>
> FOR A THIRD STRAIGHT DAY Friday, none of Virginia's Department of
> Motor Vehicles locations were able to issue driver's licenses because
> of a statewide government computer breakdown.
>
> The outage, the widest-reaching in the state since 2007, also left
> food stamp applicants unable to alter their payments late this week,
> and on Thursday, those filing for unemployment claims found the Web
> site shut down, officials said.
>
> The computer troubles were traced to a hardware malfunction at the
> state's data center near Richmond, which caused 228 storage servers to
> go off-line. Workers restored at least 75 percent of the servers
> overnight.
>
> But the state's 74 DMV locations are still facing problems, with
> customers unable to obtain new or replacement driver's licenses or
> identification cards, said Melanie Stokes, a Virginia DMV spokeswoman.
> The outages are expected to last through at least Saturday.
>
> "Managers are standing outside, telling folks that they're sorry but
> we can't process driver's license requests," said Stokes, who
> estimated that about 6,500 people daily seek licenses in person.
>
> August traditionally brings the longest average wait times of the year
> at the DMV, and many Northern Virginia service centers were swamped
> with frustrated drivers. The last week in August is typically the
> busiest week of the month, and DMV officials say they will be staffed
> to full capacity next week.
>
> At the Tysons Corner DMV office on Gallows Road, a security guard told
> customers about the computer issues and advised them to use the
> state's Web site to renew their licenses. But many of those in line
> said their renewal notices explicitly stated that they were not
> eligible to bring their documents up to date online.
>
> Tarek Elalaily, 33, of McLean said he showed up at the Tysons Corner
> DMV office for three consecutive days -- Wednesday, Thursday and
> Friday -- in an attempt to get his New York driver's license switched
> over to Virginia, to no avail.
>
> "You'd think we're in a third-world country," Elalaily said Friday.
> "It's just frustrating, and they don't know when it will be fixed."
>
> Ruth Perlman, 49, of Dunn Loring called the DMV's problems "a huge
> inconvenience."
>
> "You have to leave work to come here, and they say it's not working,"
> she said. "That's money lost."
>
> Twenty-four of the state's nearly 90 agencies were impacted. Other
> affected agencies include the departments of Transportation, Taxation,
> Social Services, Emergency Management, Alcoholic Beverage cControl and
> the Virginia Employment Commission.
>
> This week's computer troubles are the latest episode involving
> Northrop Grumman's $2 billion computer contract, the largest contract
> of any kind in the commonwealth's history. A Virginia legislative
> audit released October found that the computer system had adversely
> affected almost every state agency that uses a computer and that the
> cost to terminate the contract could run $400 million.
>
> Virginia officials, which had awarded Northrop the contract in 2005,
> reworked its agreement in April and extended its contract by three
> years, expanding its scope and adding to the price tag.
>
> This week's hardware meltdown, officials said, was caused when a
> component of the servers and its backup both failed.
>
> Marcella Williamson, a spokeswoman for the Virginia Information
> Technology Agency, said that there is no timetable for restoration of
> services but that officials were optimistic that its online tools
> would be "back up Monday morning."
>
> http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/08/27/AR201...

Bob Keane?
Not Bob Keane?

Oh.