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FIVE days of missing posts?

Unread postby KaiserJeep » Thu 30 Nov 2017, 13:01:02

Any chance we'll get them back? There were a lot of good thoughts in those posts...
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Re: FIVE days of missing posts?

Unread postby Plantagenet » Thu 30 Nov 2017, 13:19:52

Hooray for the MODS for getting the site up and back on line so fast.

Thanks.

Cheers!
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Re: FIVE days of missing posts?

Unread postby KaiserJeep » Thu 30 Nov 2017, 13:44:33

Plantagenet wrote:Hooray for the MODS for getting the site up and back on line so fast.

Thanks.

Cheers!


Yes, it was a good effort with conventional computers. I was spoiled by my career in fault-tolerant computing. We used our own Tandem products, even for corporate E-Mail. Then when Compaq bought Tandem, we had to adjust to flakey Microsoft software and flakey Intel servers. It was a rude shock, discovering that regular computers ate your messages and your thoughts you had embedded in those messages. For years, between Christmas and New Year's day, I would sort through and archive all my mail to CDs. Mainly it involved deleting all the unimportant stuff and keeping everything that amounted to work product on the various design projects. These were retained for the mandated legal period then shredded. I kept my own stash of humor and personal postings, but I shredded those two years back, after discovering that Outlook and the various standard E-Mail apps would not read the CDs and display the threads.
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Re: FIVE days of missing posts?

Unread postby Tanada » Thu 30 Nov 2017, 14:48:45

KaiserJeep wrote:Any chance we'll get them back? There were a lot of good thoughts in those posts...


I sent an enquiry to the site owner when I was able to log back in but have not heard back yet. When I know for certain I will let the user membership know.
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Re: FIVE days of missing posts?

Unread postby Outcast_Searcher » Thu 30 Nov 2017, 15:22:42

If things were bad enough that they had to do a full restore from the offsite backups, I wouldn't hold my breath. I've seen enough SQL messages here over the years to be reasonably sure they're using relational databases, with logs, etc.

The effort to try and mix and match stuff to recover such data reliably would be prodigious, based on the last half of my career -- unless I'm somehow way off the mark in terms of the technology being used.
Given the track record of the perma-doomer blogs, I wouldn't bet a fast crash doomer's money on their predictions.
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Re: FIVE days of missing posts?

Unread postby Cog » Thu 30 Nov 2017, 17:04:13

Shorty says he keeps a copy of every post he has made. So we could all make sure we didn't lose out on a single post he made. ;) I know this is weighing heavily on people's minds.
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Re: FIVE days of missing posts?

Unread postby Cog » Thu 30 Nov 2017, 17:46:56

pstarr wrote:
Cog wrote:Shorty says he keeps a copy of every post he has made. So we could all make sure we didn't lose out on a single post he made. ;) I know this is weighing heavily on people's minds.

Obvious sarcasm, not out of character and not to be missed.

Shortonoil's posts are invaluable, given his wide-ranging academic and professional experience and understanding of our predicament. .


Now that is true sarcasm. Bravo
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Re: FIVE days of missing posts?

Unread postby Newfie » Thu 30 Nov 2017, 17:49:32

Well things got back to normal quickly.
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Re: FIVE days of missing posts?

Unread postby Tanada » Thu 30 Nov 2017, 20:34:09

Heard back from the owner of our circus here. The hackers not only deleted the active posts, they destroyed the server operating system. We should all consider it good luck the attackers did the damage less than a week after the full backup was archived so we lost a few days instead of a week or more.
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Re: FIVE days of missing posts?

Unread postby Newfie » Thu 30 Nov 2017, 22:35:55

Thanks Tanada
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Re: FIVE days of missing posts?

Unread postby j.b.c » Fri 01 Dec 2017, 00:00:31

I still can't see the main page. What is the new IP address or the domain name?
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Re: FIVE days of missing posts?

Unread postby Tanada » Fri 01 Dec 2017, 11:25:32

j.b.c wrote:I still can't see the main page. What is the new IP address or the domain name?


Links to these are in the menu on the upper left side of every screen on this website.
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Re: FIVE days of missing posts?

Unread postby jedrider » Fri 01 Dec 2017, 11:30:19

Tanada wrote:Heard back from the owner of our circus here. The hackers not only deleted the active posts, they destroyed the server operating system. We should all consider it good luck the attackers did the damage less than a week after the full backup was archived so we lost a few days instead of a week or more.


Well, that's one way of being rescued from DOOM ;-)
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Re: FIVE days of missing posts?

Unread postby GoghGoner » Fri 01 Dec 2017, 12:09:30

Peak oil is the bomb -- glad this site is back up.
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Re: FIVE days of missing posts?

Unread postby ROCKMAN » Fri 01 Dec 2017, 16:03:39

T - "...so we lost a few days instead of a week or more." I don't think the Rockman posted anything during that period. So great news: nothing of real value was lost. LOL.
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Re: FIVE days of missing posts?

Unread postby phaster » Sat 02 Dec 2017, 20:08:03

I confess, I know nothing (about the hack!!!)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UmzsWxPLIOo

:lol:
truth is,...

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Re: FIVE days of missing posts?

Unread postby Rod_Cloutier » Sun 03 Dec 2017, 10:54:41

Five days of missing dopamine hits...

Nothing has really changed
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