Karl & Liesl Kranich

(a .pdf of this letter is available here)

Technology makes the world go round! (or so it seems these days) In the last couple of weeks we’ve gotten our hands on some new updates and interesting facts about what our Information Technology Group (ITG) does. We enjoyed being reminded of some of the magnitude of our ministry to our staff and to you and thought you might enjoy seeing a bit of it, too!

Did You Know That ITG has…

• 233 servers
• 3,562 network ports
• 70,000 messages received per day
• 534,000 Spam messages received per day that are filtered out! Meaning 88% of messages received per day are spam! (Can you imagine the loss of man hours if each staff member had to sort through all that each day!)
• Two 9 Megabit per second Web links
• 66 Gigabytes per day of data transmitted over the web links
• Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) Telecommunications (think Vonage on a grand scale, which translates into fantastic savings for the ministry)
• 42 Terabytes of Disk storage ( I asked what on earth that meant. Translation: our computer room alone has about the equivalent of 1000 home computers’ storage space, not counting all the individual computers our staff use!)
• A data backup consisting of 18 Terabytes per week, which is the equivalent of 18 million copies of the Lord of the Rings!

Continue reading ‘September newsletter’ »

At the beginning of the year, I converted our web site into a blog.  For those of you who don’t know, that’s a shortening of “web log”, and it just means a web site that’s easy to update.

Since the blog has a feature to email people whenever a new entry is posted, I’ve retired our previous list server and added all of the people who were subscribed to the “blog email notification” list.  If you got this emailed to you, you’re on the list.

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JAARS, the technical support arm of Wycliffe and SIL, has put out a fabulous publication called Rev. 7 (named for Revelations 7:9-10, where people from every tribe, people, and language are worshiping God).

The Summer 2006 issue is all about Information Technology in Missions, and how it’s changed over the years. Check it out!