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Hacker Destroys Avsim.com, Along With Its Backups
el americano writes "Flight Simulator community website Avsim has experienced a total data loss after both of their online servers were hacked. The site's founder, Tom Allensworth, explained why 13 years of community developed terrains, skins, and mods will not be restored from backups: 'Some have asked whether or not we had back ups. Yes, we dutifully backed up our servers every day. Unfortunately, we backed up the servers between our two servers. The hacker took out both servers, destroying our ability to use one or the other back up to remedy the situation.'"
Owned.
You now will be escorted off-site.
Maybe future historians will consider this a dark age, whose intellectual production was lost.
Please don't say our treasured facebook, twitter, slashdot posts, wikipedia revision wars and v1agra spam may not be preserved for posterity.
I'm not yet convinced that information that today exists only on the internet is really meant for eternity :)
Wait, we have to care? I thought we were supposed to point and laugh...
Blank until
Anyone who hacks a flight-sim sight has no life and really needs to get laid.
Coming from a slashdotter that is pretty rough.
"I don't necessarily agree with everything I say." - Marshall McLuhan
But then who's going to take out the Gibson?
Only goatse is eternal. The rest is being used to seed a randomness generator somewhere.
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I kept them in my other pocket.
A public viewing will be available at:
http://web.archive.org/web/20080116064652/http://www.avsim.com/
No date has been set for the funeral.
I hear it's murder. ;)
-- "Government is the great fiction through which everybody endeavors to live at the expense of everybody else."
Thirteen years is a lot of data.
Bah--it's not that bad. They actually have crude backups of all their terrain data. They just have to figure out how to restore from 'IRL' format.
There's no place like
How about we start shooting people who can't recognize jokes. Sheesh.
Then who would mod for slashdot?
Just callin' it like I see it.
So, when rats attack your cellar, you pick the most intelligent and ask for advice?
Or just kill them by anything at hand.
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So, when rats attack your cellar, you pick the most intelligent and ask for advice?
Yes, he said don't worry about it and go back to posting on Slashdot.
Because after all, we know that words only have one meaning, so if someone uses the word "hacker" one way, it must mean the same thing as when everyone uses the word hacker.
I think everybody in the Linux and MS-DOS-prompt community knows what a hacker is. However, I will supply you with a formal definition:
According to Eric S. Raymond, a confirmed higher deity and the mastermind behind the geek unification conspiracy, hackers are a group of neo-pagan, anarchist, smelly, arrogant, gun nuts and highly intelligent bastards who wish to establish an intellectual junta, which will be known as The Irate Rand-worshiping Anarchist THC-growing E-lliance, or IRATE.
- Ref: http://uncyclopedia.wikia.com/wiki/Hacker
Wikipedia revision wars will be a GOLDMINE for future archeologist.
Think about just how much they reveal about a certain topic.
Such as the difference of opinion about the color variations of the carrot !
What, you mean like this guy? You probably wouldn't even have the browser you're using right now if it weren't for that particular, uh. hacker.
And ironically, JWZ has a pretty good simple guide on backups: http://www.jwz.org/doc/backups.html
Why would you put that on your resume?
lightening hits your building or arson or theft
I thought lightening came under theft
which is totally what she said
Oh, we can make a good car analogy out of this: Having a backup car in case your primary car crashes is a great idea (if you can afford it). Except that instead of keeping their backup car locked in the garage, these people attached their backup car to their primary car with a tow bar and dragged it around everywhere they went. When the primary car crashed, the backup ran into it a fraction of a second later. Now they're sad that their backup car is dead too and are somehow suprised they don't have anything to drive.
You only have 4GB of irreplaceable data?
Just my family photos/videos archive broke the 2TB boundary this year, and that doesn't include the 1TB of archive media from my personal projects (images, old versions of personal websites, video montages, etc).
I think having a normally off, seldom used mirror of my 3TB of data the best backup solution I can muster.
You only have 3TB of irreplaceable data? I'm currently up to 5PB, though half of that is my pr0n collection.
To any sysadmins and DBAs...
Make sure you have offsite backups
Any person in the IT community who was alive to remember the events of 9/11 should have learned a valuable IT lesson from that event.
Repeat after me. I will not store my "offsite" backups in the other tower.
Who really needs their services knows howe to contact them and knows that if he has to ask the price, then it's too expensive for his needs.
The A-Team does data recoveries now?
That's not an archive, pal, that's evidence.
You wanna destroy that stuff, the sooner the better.
You are welcome on my lawn.
Note to self: never, ever ask you about your hobbies.
"It's too bad that stupidity isn't painful." - Anton LaVey
Sheesh, so many questions. Why worry about that junk? We'll just let the flight simulation software deal with that.....oh wait...