This event dates from late September. As far as I know he was caught, before he could sell anything.
But, the Swiss Secret Service was lucky: The guy was caught because his bank became suspicious when he wanted to set up bank accounts to receive the future price for the loot.
The guy essentially walked out of the place with disk drives full of data. As he was the IT maintenance guy, he could pull this off without anybody getting suspicious. If your IT guy replaces 'broken' disk drives, everything is ok, other employees thought. As Switzerland is small, that department was small too, so there was a lack of resources.
Data chunks (like web site backups) you want to keep together: weed out / move to their new permanent destination
Create a file database with CRC data (see comment by Spazmania)
Write a script to eliminate duplicate data using the file database. I would go through the files I have in the new system and delete their duplicates elsewhere.
Manually clean up / move to new destination for all remaining files.
The Swiss economy is still doing fine, finding work is not a problem. Salaries are good too, compared to Europe. The downside is that prices (especially housing near the economic centers) are high too. Quality of life is good too.
For an European, getting a work and residency permit is a formality so you'll have no problems there. You can get by in English initially and pick the local language up later (French / German / Italian, depending where you go).
Good uptime is great, but unfortunately very expensive in terms of hardware, software and manpower.
Questions you should ask yourself:
- What is the maximum allowable downtime duration ?
- How many outages can you tolerate per year ?
- What is actual cost to you of a one day/evening outage ?
- How many such outages did you have with your actual infrastructure ?
I think the best option in your case is to have two identical servers/PCs of good quality with two mirrored harddrives each in hot-swap slots. If a harddrive fails, you can carry on for the evening and replace it the next day. If something else fails you swap the SQL server drives into the second server/PCs and fix the problem later. This is simple enough that you can instruct someone by phone to do that, when you are absent yourself.
This looks to me to be similar to Bluegene supercomputers. A Bluegene essentially consists of packaged PowerPC processors with a scalable high-performance switch interface on board. The two first current generation Bluegenes were using 32bit CPUs as well.
This Google experiment proves that you can build a self driving car who can drive safely for thousands of miles on actual public roads. Yes, there are some additional conditions which are not practical (like the driving the path manually before to record a precise map), but it has been done.
Most drivers are not very much 'observing', I just read somewhere that the Blackberry outage caused vehicle accidents to drop by 20-40% in some Gulf states. Observing drivers, Ha !
Just compare how many accidents are caused by trees falling onto the street compared to texting.
The biggest problems to solve are the cultural, legal and liability issues.
I'm very much in favor of my car driving instead of me. I'm sure it will drive safer and better. For me the daily commute is a chore and I'd be very happy to leave it to a machine.
I'm sure there will be viruses/sabotage. But I'm also sure human drives cause more accidents than viruses/sabotage will.
> Even if you decided to maintain a VM system, the idea of a unified storage system (DRAM+DISK as one device) is pretty fascinating.
You can buy this from IBM since >20 years. It is called 'System/38', 'AS/400' or 'iSeries'. The system has a flat 64-bit address space and memory essentially serves as cache for disk.
Such projects are always based on estimated performance numbers. It looks to me like the estimated (and contractually signed) target performance was higher than what IBM could deliver in the budget envelope and the target timeframe. Probably the technology advance was not delivering as expected. As the U of Illinois was not ready to soften on some aspects to make it fit IBM had the choice of either delivering much more hardware at a loss or to pull out.
From my (limited) search it looks like the project was signed in 2008, so back then IBM estimated they can deliver a PetaFLOP for $200M in 2011. It looks like they were wrong.
I witnessed similar situation where the machine could deliver the promised performance using a benchmarking program, but real apps were unable to get to similar numbers. Improving the software stack made the performance available to apps, but it took 2 years to get there. The hardware was performing well, but immature software was spoiling it.
The ones who should tell their Customers about the problem is Siemens. But they will play the problem down because it might affect the sales of the next batch of stuff.
The evil hacker will just buy a bunch of systems, analyze it and find the vulnerabilities. This completely independent of the disclosure. Stuxnet was developed before this disclosure and I think the vulnerabilities used by Stuxnet are still there.
This is why security by obscurity does not work in the real world.
I alway think defending against such lasers is quite easy and low-cost: Just put up a good-quality mirror and the beam gets reflected. If you aim well, you could even attack the ship with its own laser-beam.
I don't know about SGI, but I do know that the biggest AIX/Power7 box you can get today has 256 cores (32 chips with 8 cores each). I know there was kernel work involved but the scaling problems I remember mentioned involved the number threads (1024) as the P7 core has 4-way multithreading.
The Linux certainly may need work for such machines, but a new operating system ? bullshit.
Use standard HTML for as much as possible. Complement the rest with flash.
If you choose Silverlight you'll exclude automatically all platforms which are not Windows mainstream (Vista and 7). Flash is well supported about everywhere.
I'm typing this on a Ubuntu workstation with Chrome. No Silverlight available here.
I'd like that screen on my mobile phone. That's where I'd need a sunlight-readable, battery conserving display most. Most GPS functions only work outside due to feeble GPS signals, but at the same time the display become almost unreadable.
There are plenty of business opportunities and markets for Mary Lou to explore !
On and Android Phone there is an application called 'Market' this application allow you to browse all applications on the google android market, install the ones you like, uninstall what you don't want any more, etc. In addition this application periodically checks with the server to see if there are new versions of your installed apps and offers to update those.
I suppose the market did check for the offending apps and found that they had the 'remove' flag set and removed them from the phone.
If you would have installed the same apps without market (downloading the apk file) the market would not know about them and leave them alone.
The title of this article is bullshit an the contents in large parts. The journalist has apparently no clue what he/she is talking about and just aims to grab attention with a grossly wrong article.
Baki is correct, there are proposals under way to create a new law. Among them an extreme 'full ban'. The likely outcome is something 'eurocompatible', e.g. similar to what the other countries (France, Germany) do.
I agree. this is the kind of device I want. The sunlight-readable screen and the long battery life are essential. Finally I can read my ebooks on the beach !
I might prefer Chrome-OS or a Linux tablet edition over Android. We'll see.
About the microcode part. The drive pretends to be a 512byte drive, but internally is using 4k sectors and and claims to 'translate transparently'. I can understand that in a random-access scenario it it has to read-modify-write 2 sectors each time and performance suffers (2 additional reads and one additional write). But in a sequential access scenario, the penalty should be once per sequence/file, not once per sector. Here the microcode fails completely to make the best out of the suboptimal situation.
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I'm afraid to admit that it looks very much like it
This event dates from late September. As far as I know he was caught, before he could sell anything.
But, the Swiss Secret Service was lucky: The guy was caught because his bank became suspicious when he wanted to set up bank accounts to receive the future price for the loot.
The guy essentially walked out of the place with disk drives full of data. As he was the IT maintenance guy, he could pull this off without anybody getting suspicious. If your IT guy replaces 'broken' disk drives, everything is ok, other employees thought. As Switzerland is small, that department was small too, so there was a lack of resources.
Markus
I agree, DVD renting as business is on the way out. in the not-too-far future there will be too few customers to keep him in business.
If he wants to stay in retail he has to start selling/renting things customer want to buy/rent in a brick and mortar store.
You don't say what your desired outcome is.
If this was my data I would proceed as this:
There will be a lot of manual cleanup, I think.
For an European, getting a work and residency permit is a formality so you'll have no problems there. You can get by in English initially and pick the local language up later (French / German / Italian, depending where you go).
Good uptime is great, but unfortunately very expensive in terms of hardware, software and manpower. Questions you should ask yourself: - What is the maximum allowable downtime duration ? - How many outages can you tolerate per year ? - What is actual cost to you of a one day/evening outage ? - How many such outages did you have with your actual infrastructure ? I think the best option in your case is to have two identical servers/PCs of good quality with two mirrored harddrives each in hot-swap slots. If a harddrive fails, you can carry on for the evening and replace it the next day. If something else fails you swap the SQL server drives into the second server/PCs and fix the problem later. This is simple enough that you can instruct someone by phone to do that, when you are absent yourself.
This looks to me to be similar to Bluegene supercomputers. A Bluegene essentially consists of packaged PowerPC processors with a scalable high-performance switch interface on board. The two first current generation Bluegenes were using 32bit CPUs as well.
Markus
This Google experiment proves that you can build a self driving car who can drive safely for thousands of miles on actual public roads. Yes, there are some additional conditions which are not practical (like the driving the path manually before to record a precise map), but it has been done.
Most drivers are not very much 'observing', I just read somewhere that the Blackberry outage caused vehicle accidents to drop by 20-40% in some Gulf states. Observing drivers, Ha !
Just compare how many accidents are caused by trees falling onto the street compared to texting.
The biggest problems to solve are the cultural, legal and liability issues.
Markus
I'm very much in favor of my car driving instead of me. I'm sure it will drive safer and better. For me the daily commute is a chore and I'd be very happy to leave it to a machine.
I'm sure there will be viruses/sabotage. But I'm also sure human drives cause more accidents than viruses/sabotage will.
Markus
Markus
You can buy this from IBM since >20 years. It is called 'System/38', 'AS/400' or 'iSeries'. The system has a flat 64-bit address space and memory essentially serves as cache for disk.
Markus
Such projects are always based on estimated performance numbers. It looks to me like the estimated (and contractually signed) target performance was higher than what IBM could deliver in the budget envelope and the target timeframe. Probably the technology advance was not delivering as expected. As the U of Illinois was not ready to soften on some aspects to make it fit IBM had the choice of either delivering much more hardware at a loss or to pull out.
From my (limited) search it looks like the project was signed in 2008, so back then IBM estimated they can deliver a PetaFLOP for $200M in 2011. It looks like they were wrong.
I witnessed similar situation where the machine could deliver the promised performance using a benchmarking program, but real apps were unable to get to similar numbers. Improving the software stack made the performance available to apps, but it took 2 years to get there. The hardware was performing well, but immature software was spoiling it.
Markus
That is exactly what will not happen.
The ones who should tell their Customers about the problem is Siemens. But they will play the problem down because it might affect the sales of the next batch of stuff.
The evil hacker will just buy a bunch of systems, analyze it and find the vulnerabilities. This completely independent of the disclosure. Stuxnet was developed before this disclosure and I think the vulnerabilities used by Stuxnet are still there.
This is why security by obscurity does not work in the real world.
I alway think defending against such lasers is quite easy and low-cost: Just put up a good-quality mirror and the beam gets reflected. If you aim well, you could even attack the ship with its own laser-beam.
Markus
Imagine: One core for the phone and three cores transparently decompressing the battery in the background. You'd get three times the battery life !
Finally a smartphone with a battery lasting a full week !
I don't know about SGI, but I do know that the biggest AIX/Power7 box you can get today has 256 cores (32 chips with 8 cores each). I know there was kernel work involved but the scaling problems I remember mentioned involved the number threads (1024) as the P7 core has 4-way multithreading.
The Linux certainly may need work for such machines, but a new operating system ? bullshit.
Use standard HTML for as much as possible. Complement the rest with flash.
If you choose Silverlight you'll exclude automatically all platforms which are not Windows mainstream (Vista and 7). Flash is well supported about everywhere.
I'm typing this on a Ubuntu workstation with Chrome. No Silverlight available here.
You don't post any specific minimal specs you need, so here what I'd want for my lab:
I've seen many intelligent discussion on avrfreaks.net about the topic Oscilloscope search on avrfreaks
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I hope Motorola get's a nice class-action suit out of this.
Imagine a nice little virus, designed to trigger the 'self-destruct' and some innocent users getting infected.
Markus
I'd like that screen on my mobile phone. That's where I'd need a sunlight-readable, battery conserving display most. Most GPS functions only work outside due to feeble GPS signals, but at the same time the display become almost unreadable.
There are plenty of business opportunities and markets for Mary Lou to explore !
Markus
On and Android Phone there is an application called 'Market' this application allow you to browse all applications on the google android market, install the ones you like, uninstall what you don't want any more, etc. In addition this application periodically checks with the server to see if there are new versions of your installed apps and offers to update those.
I suppose the market did check for the offending apps and found that they had the 'remove' flag set and removed them from the phone.
If you would have installed the same apps without market (downloading the apk file) the market would not know about them and leave them alone.
Markus
This might be a case where the EFF might be interested to help.
Also, banding all together, you are 35 people strong, considerably lowering expenses.
Markus
The title of this article is bullshit an the contents in large parts. The journalist has apparently no clue what he/she is talking about and just aims to grab attention with a grossly wrong article.
Baki is correct, there are proposals under way to create a new law. Among them an extreme 'full ban'. The likely outcome is something 'eurocompatible', e.g. similar to what the other countries (France, Germany) do.
Markus
I agree. this is the kind of device I want. The sunlight-readable screen and the long battery life are essential. Finally I can read my ebooks on the beach !
I might prefer Chrome-OS or a Linux tablet edition over Android. We'll see.
About the microcode part. The drive pretends to be a 512byte drive, but internally is using 4k sectors and and claims to 'translate transparently'. I can understand that in a random-access scenario it it has to read-modify-write 2 sectors each time and performance suffers (2 additional reads and one additional write). But in a sequential access scenario, the penalty should be once per sequence/file, not once per sector. Here the microcode fails completely to make the best out of the suboptimal situation.