I've gotta say I only clicked on this article because I thought it was referencing some sort of epic overhaul of code for the iPhone OS.
I can't be the only one disappointed to have thought "oh, that Doom."
Image from inside the motion sensor, i now see why it was codenamed the "revolution", i can imagine it took them many many years of research and development to come up with that!
Firstly you need to understand that in an attempt to recover the data swiftly, the engineer who deleted the 3 volumes in the first place swiftly followed up his error by immediately trying to create a volume of the same size as the 1st of the volumes in the same place. This is an old sysadm "trick" that on some file systems could have revealed the lost data, however in this case, it did not work, and in fact caused us more problems, as you will see later on in this account.
Within 2 hours of the data being deleted, a data recovery company had been contacted and within 3 hours the NAS was in transit to them. By 14:00 on that day the specialists were racking the NAS and began the process of copying all the 1's and 0's from our equipment to their own. This is standard operating procedure for anyone working in the field of data recovery, and is simply about ensuring that there is always an untouched copy of the information in case something further goes wrong while working on the recovery. Due to the volume of data that was being dealt with, the copy took until the early hours of the following morning.
At that point, based on their initial investigations, the data recovery specialists set the expectation with us, that we would recover some of the data, possibly not all of it though, and that it could take 4-5 days. From that point forward we have a tale of increasing woe as each new deadline set by the data recovery people was broken as they discovered more and more problems. In the following paragraphs I will briefly cover off the main problems that have been encountered.
The Sun NAS that we had selected for the mail storage platform is the first series of products to emerge from Sun since their purchase of StorageTek, and as such does not run the usual Sun OS of Solaris. It uses StorageTek's own proprietary OS which is a heavily modified FFS2 (Fast File System 2). The modifications are all about increasing the performance of the system to ensure enterprise level performance.
As the kit is fairly new to market, the data recovery specialists had not worked on this specific OS before, though they do have a lot of experience with NAS's in general, Therefore they had to significantly rewrite the tools that they use for analysing and recovering data. They utilised their engineering departments in both the UK and the US to work around the clock to achieve a re-worked set of tools.
Apart from the tools issue, the proprietary OS, uses the 1st volume it has access to, to store the master inode table. For more information about inodes, take a look at the Wikipedia article http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inode. Essentially this is the table that tells the system where all the other files on the system are. As I mentioned earlier, the PlusNet engineer involved, had attempted to recover the data by creating a volume of the same size in the same place as the 1st volume. That action more than any other has caused us the most issues. By creating a new volume, the existing inodes were wiped and all data that was on that volume was essentially gone. Without that master inode table and with no knowledge of where the system stored it's back-up copy of this table, it has proved very difficult to work out what the data on the relatively undamaged 2nd and 3rd volumes actually is.
We have received a partial file list from the 2nd and 3rd volumes. This list amounts to a list of inodes and the data in them, not the list of complete files. Without even a partial directory structure it becomes vastly more complex to work out which inodes are associated with which other inodes and therefore piece together t
Plusnet also accidentally deleted all of our websites that they were hosting on several occasions last year, without having any backups. They say that it is our duty to ensure that our websites are backed up properly.
Do we actually know what would happen if small scale black holes were produced? Could they grow and swallow everything? Or would they only exist for the briefest of moments before disappearing?
So now when i'm travelling to work on the train every morning, not only do i have to put up with excessively loud music coming from peoples headphones, and people talking on their mobile phones, but *now also* people talking to their ipods. Great, just ******* great. -_-
Anyone know where i can buy a portable, re-usable EMP device with say a 50m range?
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I guess those people are the cleaners?
I've gotta say I only clicked on this article because I thought it was referencing some sort of epic overhaul of code for the iPhone OS. I can't be the only one disappointed to have thought "oh, that Doom."
You can battle/trade across the world via wi-fi now.
Will it be anything like Rez?
Wouldn't mind seeing a new Alex Kidd game for one of the handheld systems. Alex Kidd in Miracle World was far better than anything Sonic related.
Yeah... thanks for mentioning "The Game" in the summary... i just lost.
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Image from inside the motion sensor, i now see why it was codenamed the "revolution", i can imagine it took them many many years of research and development to come up with that!
I can middle click to close tabs without needing the mouse gestures extension? Did they change this in 2.0? =/
I guess Sony and Microsoft don't like traditions then. =/
Here:
"As with my initial posting on the loss of customer email data - http://usergroup.plus.net/forum/index.php/topic,24 72.0.html, what follows is an open and honest account of the events surrounding the attempt to recover the data.
Firstly you need to understand that in an attempt to recover the data swiftly, the engineer who deleted the 3 volumes in the first place swiftly followed up his error by immediately trying to create a volume of the same size as the 1st of the volumes in the same place. This is an old sysadm "trick" that on some file systems could have revealed the lost data, however in this case, it did not work, and in fact caused us more problems, as you will see later on in this account.
Within 2 hours of the data being deleted, a data recovery company had been contacted and within 3 hours the NAS was in transit to them. By 14:00 on that day the specialists were racking the NAS and began the process of copying all the 1's and 0's from our equipment to their own. This is standard operating procedure for anyone working in the field of data recovery, and is simply about ensuring that there is always an untouched copy of the information in case something further goes wrong while working on the recovery. Due to the volume of data that was being dealt with, the copy took until the early hours of the following morning.
At that point, based on their initial investigations, the data recovery specialists set the expectation with us, that we would recover some of the data, possibly not all of it though, and that it could take 4-5 days. From that point forward we have a tale of increasing woe as each new deadline set by the data recovery people was broken as they discovered more and more problems. In the following paragraphs I will briefly cover off the main problems that have been encountered.
The Sun NAS that we had selected for the mail storage platform is the first series of products to emerge from Sun since their purchase of StorageTek, and as such does not run the usual Sun OS of Solaris. It uses StorageTek's own proprietary OS which is a heavily modified FFS2 (Fast File System 2). The modifications are all about increasing the performance of the system to ensure enterprise level performance.
As the kit is fairly new to market, the data recovery specialists had not worked on this specific OS before, though they do have a lot of experience with NAS's in general, Therefore they had to significantly rewrite the tools that they use for analysing and recovering data. They utilised their engineering departments in both the UK and the US to work around the clock to achieve a re-worked set of tools.
Apart from the tools issue, the proprietary OS, uses the 1st volume it has access to, to store the master inode table. For more information about inodes, take a look at the Wikipedia article http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inode. Essentially this is the table that tells the system where all the other files on the system are. As I mentioned earlier, the PlusNet engineer involved, had attempted to recover the data by creating a volume of the same size in the same place as the 1st volume. That action more than any other has caused us the most issues. By creating a new volume, the existing inodes were wiped and all data that was on that volume was essentially gone. Without that master inode table and with no knowledge of where the system stored it's back-up copy of this table, it has proved very difficult to work out what the data on the relatively undamaged 2nd and 3rd volumes actually is.
We have received a partial file list from the 2nd and 3rd volumes. This list amounts to a list of inodes and the data in them, not the list of complete files. Without even a partial directory structure it becomes vastly more complex to work out which inodes are associated with which other inodes and therefore piece together t
Haha, it's funny you should say that.
Plusnet also accidentally deleted all of our websites that they were hosting on several occasions last year, without having any backups. They say that it is our duty to ensure that our websites are backed up properly.
Do i dare ask what "circle jerks" are?
I also read that in several places.
Do we actually know what would happen if small scale black holes were produced? Could they grow and swallow everything? Or would they only exist for the briefest of moments before disappearing?
"It'll take you many hours to wade through it all, but the gems in there make it worth the trip."
Wow, i really should learn to read things properly, at first glance i thought the above sentence said "I'll take you to my house...".
Surely i can't be the only one wondering where all this money goes if/when Microsoft pay. Who gets to keep it? What is it spent on?
Wouldn't the phishers then just change the email address once they've logged on?
So now when i'm travelling to work on the train every morning, not only do i have to put up with excessively loud music coming from peoples headphones, and people talking on their mobile phones, but *now also* people talking to their ipods. Great, just ******* great. -_-
Anyone know where i can buy a portable, re-usable EMP device with say a 50m range?
The only thing that is slightly strange about the graphics..... are there *really* that many clouds in space?
Heh... that *is* the actual gameplay. ^_^
It's all very pretty.
Hmm... reminds me of Pluto's Kiss.
Well you can't expect too much when there's that big "MSN" logo in the top-left. ;)
I think the main point was that this is being done by an official source, and not just some scanlation group.
Umm... i thought it was kinda obvious, but i guess not.
It's news because they're launching a *daily* webcomic type thing. It gets updated daily with the next page.
Of course they're not gonna have volumes and volumes of stuff available, since it's only launched.
I too would be interested in the US/Europe subscriber numbers, because to be quite honest, Codemasters have made a real mess of the servers.
I know a hell of a lot of players (myself included) left due to the totally unbalanced race numbers on certain servers.
Nice to see EVE-Online's figures still going steadily up. :)