This happened 1 month ago: due to a power outage and a subsequantly very high level of electricity, the UPS wasn't able to filter out this shock and the two disks of the RAID-1 were damaged. One of them was completely gone, the other had a lot of damaged sectors and fsck'ed inodes. The PCI IDE RAID card was giving errors at kernel level, and a reboot was requird every time I tried to access the damaged sectors. But the worst "luck" was that in the last week the backups weren't working correctly. Let me explain that backup policy: - a DVD+/-RW writer with 4 DVD-RAMs one for monday + wednesday one for tuesday + thursday one for friday one for the last friday of the month so, the accident happened on the last weekend of the month; and the backup was failing because I was just making a plain.ISO of their data (which was far below 4gb) so they could access it from any other computer with a DVD reader. Now, the backup failure was due to a file with a VERY long name, more than ISO+Joliet could handle. It failed for the last week (I wasn't paid to check it every day.. not even to give them assistance) so it spoiled the - "last friday" backup - "tue + thu" backup - "mon + wed" backup - "friday" backup basically we had NO backup, and a damaged raid.
Solution? This software helped us a lot:
http://www.stellarinfo.com/download.htm#anchor3
we mounted the less-damaged HD on a windows PC, and ran that software. It recovered everything smoothly. I tried dd'ing the disk and fsck'ing but I got only a lot of sparse chunks (one per inode) of the recovered files.. and Word could not recover sparse files divided in chunks.
Lessons learned: 1) no matter if you're not paid, check your servers daily or at least set up a quick-and-dirty e-mail alert system 2) tar is your friend 3) a low-cost UPS is a bad choice 4) IDE PCI RAID adaptors don't convince me too much..now bash# me
1) it is proven that helps to relax 2) no RIAA bugging you
but please make it longer than the usual 30seconds.. and it would be nice to "beep" loud when someone answers the phone, in case the on-hold time will take longer than 2 minutes.
...but in the Silmarillion it is also said that the Men didn't fully understand the music (of the water), but were moved by it. Perhaps we should ask some elf.
so NOW I'd like to see who's complaining that the internet is used to share music without paying royalities.
On the other hand (seriously now) this reminds me of the Silmarillion, a book of J.R.R.Tolkien that describes the beginning of the Universe as a Music... cool.
the first thing I would do if I had a stolen laptop would be open it, check for extra gadgets (like active gps receivers), then fsck the hard drive. Then I might decide to plug it to the internet.
If, on the other hand, I am interested in the data it contains, I'd remove the hard driver and dd it somewhere else.
1. who decides what to censor? are "terrorist movies" censored in those days? what kind of speech is "good", and who decides it?
2. if a movie has nudity or cursing, it's a choice of the director. it has a meaning, no matter if you like it or not. Censoring would be like going around with glasses that make you go blind every time you see a begger on the street. I know you don't want to see it, but it's there and ignoring won't solve the problem (which, in this case, would be that nudity and violence are part of society and not only of TV).
I have enough spare time to cope with it, and will collect enough money from the whole Italian anti-SCO community to give them a hell of a hard time over Europe that they'll all become pizza-makers shortly.
It would be fun to be sued by SCO. Maybe'll meet Linus himself!!
Obviously I'm kidding. But a "SCO please sue me" t-shirt would be nice to wear in the summer.
I'm ok with it, as long as it makes a federal crime bugging me by retrieving my personal information from WHOIS servers without my explicit acknowledgement.
how long before RFIDs disrupters? It's ok to me if a company wants to add RFID for internal purposes. It's not ok if they want to track me down. So I want to make the RFID non working.
if the entire infrastructure of a country depends on a single operating system (a virus could not disrupt more than one OS) - it will be a digital pearl harbour.
after PA the US military learned some useful things (at the expenses of taxpayers and soldiers, but this is another issue). After the digital PA the US corporations will learn something else, and maybe heads will roll.
I hope that people will get angry enough with monopolies and dirty business tactics to screw the customer to make corporations change.. but I fear that's utopy.
so, now that it's clear that it's impossible to get full control on users' machines (see also: "palladium"), big corporations are trying to sell applications online in order to gain more control on people's pc?
does exactly what you said. you can lock your screen with a screensaver (so you'll have to enter a password, and being cogniscent), and maybe set up your BIOS to turn the computer on at a given time, if it is supported.
also, every day you can wake up with a different music to get a different mood (ever heard about 'mood organs' in "do android dream electric sheeps"?)
excellent move, in such times. now terrorists won't even worry about giving their name to get a cellphone. they can buy one, call whoever they want to call, then throw the evidence away.
this makes me think that when there's the chance to make some profit no fear-of-terrorist can stop it. it's interesting to see that this "culture of fear" only arises when profit is under threat, and is forgotten when no money can be harmed.
am I the only one who thinks we are running short of good-sounding names?..could anyone please make people at redh^H^H^Hwhatever it is called now change the names of their products? thanks!
do you think that windows would have been so successful if they called it "thypikes"? (with all respect for all those called thypikes out there)
Imagine if you were a sysad trying to explain an average secretary how to deal with troubles in linux. The problem is, that there might be a lot of troubles that the average guy isn't ready to deal with. In windows you reboot and things go fine 99% of the times. In linux you can keep rebooting and it won't improve your situation. It's true that in Linux you have less chances of "strange errors", but - if you have an untrained person on the other side of the phone, every error is a strange error (that in windows you solve by telling them "reboot").
conclusion: if you think that linux is ready for the average desktop guy, try installing into a mid-sized company and deal with end users.
The Desktop is not a conquer - in fact, GNU/Linux is what it is for the sake of it. It's not a race! C'mon, who cares who wins the desktop in 2003? What's more important is that linux will become more and more stable and superior because its code quality and standards.
On the long run linux will prevale. Right now that's not the top priority.
if it just wasn't for all those script kiddies exploiting vulnerabilities of such a beautiful language.. let's hope they make script kidding illegal with the next version of the Patriot ACT, codenamed LongCorn..
people at SCO aren't stupid. I mean - they are, but not THAT stupid. I wonder 1. who is leading the strategy 2. why is he/she doing that 3. where is he/she going and finally 4. what is he/she REALLY pursuing.
What's the reason for all that? I look at it as just smoke in the eyes. I fear that there might be something behind it. I don't want to talk about paranoia and conspiracy theories, but this looks like "using a corpse to see how far the enemy can shoot".
SCO is dead meat. No matter how they are going to put it, customers are losing their faith in that company. They may change name but it won't solve much - SCO Unix/Linux is SCO. They'll have to give assistance for the product, so changing name won't help. So, given that SCO is already dead, I think that "they" are using it as a shooting target to see how far the GPL and the Open Source community can go. After that, I think that the OS world will have to face an ever-increasing slope of legal challenges.
You know - if you can't show you're superior, or if you just are not superior, you can always sue the opponent and gain territory on another front. This is how things work in the corporate world.
Those are just my opinions, believe in them or not. I have no interest in posting facts over here, those are just thoughts. I don't want to convince anyone about anything - just making people think.
please, push those documents on p2p networks and on freenet (for those of you who use it) too. it is the best way to preserve them and it will make Diebold's life much harder.
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This happened 1 month ago: due to a power outage and a subsequantly very high level of electricity, the UPS wasn't able to filter out this shock and the two disks of the RAID-1 were damaged. .ISO of their data (which was far below 4gb) so they could access it from any other computer with a DVD reader.
..now bash# me
One of them was completely gone, the other had a lot of damaged sectors and fsck'ed inodes. The PCI IDE RAID card was giving errors at kernel level, and a reboot was requird every time I tried to access the damaged sectors.
But the worst "luck" was that in the last week the backups weren't working correctly. Let me explain that backup policy:
- a DVD+/-RW writer with 4 DVD-RAMs
one for monday + wednesday
one for tuesday + thursday
one for friday
one for the last friday of the month
so, the accident happened on the last weekend of the month; and the backup was failing because I was just making a plain
Now, the backup failure was due to a file with a VERY long name, more than ISO+Joliet could handle.
It failed for the last week (I wasn't paid to check it every day.. not even to give them assistance) so it spoiled the
- "last friday" backup
- "tue + thu" backup
- "mon + wed" backup
- "friday" backup
basically we had NO backup, and a damaged raid.
Solution? This software helped us a lot:
http://www.stellarinfo.com/download.htm#anchor3
we mounted the less-damaged HD on a windows PC, and ran that software. It recovered everything smoothly.
I tried dd'ing the disk and fsck'ing but I got only a lot of sparse chunks (one per inode) of the recovered files.. and Word could not recover sparse files divided in chunks.
Lessons learned:
1) no matter if you're not paid, check your servers daily or at least set up a quick-and-dirty e-mail alert system
2) tar is your friend
3) a low-cost UPS is a bad choice
4) IDE PCI RAID adaptors don't convince me too much
so good I live in Europe where we have Euro and not dollars, so I don't have to spend my tax dollars for that.
"fortunately" it needs users who clicks without thinking?
:) EVERY lUser clicks without thinking. If it was not so, we would not be talking about viruses now.
where's the luck in that?
1) it is proven that helps to relax
2) no RIAA bugging you
but please make it longer than the usual 30seconds.. and it would be nice to "beep" loud when someone answers the phone, in case the on-hold time will take longer than 2 minutes.
...but in the Silmarillion it is also said that the Men didn't fully understand the music (of the water), but were moved by it.
Perhaps we should ask some elf.
Any Noldor lying around here?
so NOW I'd like to see who's complaining that the internet is used to share music without paying royalities.
On the other hand (seriously now) this reminds me of the Silmarillion, a book of J.R.R.Tolkien that describes the beginning of the Universe as a Music... cool.
...does anybody wants to pre-register "you.have.a.very.low.iq" with me?
...whops! i'm not politically correct! now sue me.
or perhaps a joke about the bush administration would be appreciated by the iraqis.
the first thing I would do if I had a stolen laptop would be open it, check for extra gadgets (like active gps receivers), then fsck the hard drive. Then I might decide to plug it to the internet.
If, on the other hand, I am interested in the data it contains, I'd remove the hard driver and dd it somewhere else.
My problem is:
1. who decides what to censor? are "terrorist movies" censored in those days? what kind of speech is "good", and who decides it?
2. if a movie has nudity or cursing, it's a choice of the director. it has a meaning, no matter if you like it or not. Censoring would be like going around with glasses that make you go blind every time you see a begger on the street. I know you don't want to see it, but it's there and ignoring won't solve the problem (which, in this case, would be that nudity and violence are part of society and not only of TV).
questions?
please, sue me.
I have enough spare time to cope with it, and will collect enough money from the whole Italian anti-SCO community to give them a hell of a hard time over Europe that they'll all become pizza-makers shortly.
It would be fun to be sued by SCO. Maybe'll meet Linus himself!!
Obviously I'm kidding. But a "SCO please sue me" t-shirt would be nice to wear in the summer.
I'm ok with it, as long as it makes a federal crime bugging me by retrieving my personal information from WHOIS servers without my explicit acknowledgement.
how long before RFIDs disrupters? It's ok to me if a company wants to add RFID for internal purposes. It's not ok if they want to track me down. So I want to make the RFID non working.
Any clue?
if the entire infrastructure of a country depends on a single operating system (a virus could not disrupt more than one OS) - it will be a digital pearl harbour.
after PA the US military learned some useful things (at the expenses of taxpayers and soldiers, but this is another issue). After the digital PA the US corporations will learn something else, and maybe heads will roll.
I hope that people will get angry enough with monopolies and dirty business tactics to screw the customer to make corporations change.. but I fear that's utopy.
so, now that it's clear that it's impossible to get full control on users' machines (see also: "palladium"), big corporations are trying to sell applications online in order to gain more control on people's pc?
no, thanks.
I have always wanted to build a Country. Now I can build a Planet without DMCA and marketing!!
Anyone coming with me?
does exactly what you said. you can lock your screen with a screensaver (so you'll have to enter a password, and being cogniscent), and maybe set up your BIOS to turn the computer on at a given time, if it is supported.
also, every day you can wake up with a different music to get a different mood (ever heard about 'mood organs' in "do android dream electric sheeps"?)
cheers
CVS.
I wonder if the RIAA-equivalent in Australia would ask for the same punishment if they were their sons.
I think asking yourself this question every time you doubt the effectiveness of a punition may help a lot..
great. now we'll finally see how computer producers will integrate software DRM (a la Palladium) into their hardware! ..open source hardware anyone?
excellent move, in such times. now terrorists won't even worry about giving their name to get a cellphone. they can buy one, call whoever they want to call, then throw the evidence away.
this makes me think that when there's the chance to make some profit no fear-of-terrorist can stop it. it's interesting to see that this "culture of fear" only arises when profit is under threat, and is forgotten when no money can be harmed.
am I the only one who thinks we are running short of good-sounding names? ..could anyone please make people at redh^H^H^Hwhatever it is called now change the names of their products? thanks!
do you think that windows would have been so successful if they called it "thypikes"?
(with all respect for all those called thypikes out there)
Imagine if you were a sysad trying to explain an average secretary how to deal with troubles in linux. The problem is, that there might be a lot of troubles that the average guy isn't ready to deal with. In windows you reboot and things go fine 99% of the times. In linux you can keep rebooting and it won't improve your situation.
It's true that in Linux you have less chances of "strange errors", but - if you have an untrained person on the other side of the phone, every error is a strange error (that in windows you solve by telling them "reboot").
conclusion: if you think that linux is ready for the average desktop guy, try installing into a mid-sized company and deal with end users.
The Desktop is not a conquer - in fact, GNU/Linux is what it is for the sake of it. It's not a race! C'mon, who cares who wins the desktop in 2003? What's more important is that linux will become more and more stable and superior because its code quality and standards.
On the long run linux will prevale. Right now that's not the top priority.
now mod me down.
it's called visual basic.
if it just wasn't for all those script kiddies exploiting vulnerabilities of such a beautiful language.. let's hope they make script kidding illegal with the next version of the Patriot ACT, codenamed LongCorn..
people at SCO aren't stupid. I mean - they are, but not THAT stupid. I wonder
1. who is leading the strategy
2. why is he/she doing that
3. where is he/she going
and finally
4. what is he/she REALLY pursuing.
What's the reason for all that? I look at it as just smoke in the eyes. I fear that there might be something behind it. I don't want to talk about paranoia and conspiracy theories, but this looks like "using a corpse to see how far the enemy can shoot".
SCO is dead meat. No matter how they are going to put it, customers are losing their faith in that company. They may change name but it won't solve much - SCO Unix/Linux is SCO. They'll have to give assistance for the product, so changing name won't help. So, given that SCO is already dead, I think that "they" are using it as a shooting target to see how far the GPL and the Open Source community can go.
After that, I think that the OS world will have to face an ever-increasing slope of legal challenges.
You know - if you can't show you're superior, or if you just are not superior, you can always sue the opponent and gain territory on another front. This is how things work in the corporate world.
Those are just my opinions, believe in them or not. I have no interest in posting facts over here, those are just thoughts. I don't want to convince anyone about anything - just making people think.
Have fun
please, push those documents on p2p networks and on freenet (for those of you who use it) too. it is the best way to preserve them and it will make Diebold's life much harder.