Comment everything old is new again. (Score 1) 331
Aside from the part where you make money from your extra space, it sure sounds a lot like D.I.B.S.
Comment Use CoPilot from Fog Creek (Score 1) 418
Copilot is free on weekends.
Comment Their targets are getting bigger... (Score 1) 245
They are getting more govt. agencies on their systems.
http://googleenterprise.blogspot.com/2012/01/noaa-moves-25000-to-google-apps.html
Comment Interesting times (Score 1) 38
So they sell their hard drive business to seagate and buy out Sony tv.
Curious.
http://hardware.slashdot.org/story/11/04/19/139259/samsung-hd-unit-bought-by-seagate
Comment Re:They've obviously obfusticated the data, obviou (Score 1) 182
Retrieving the data on the tapes would require knowledge of and access to specific hardware and software and knowledge of the system and data structure
-Who wants to bet that all you need to pull the data out is something like: dd if=/dev/tape | strings, perhaps with conv=ascii given to dd... and maybe gunzip or bunzip2. Sigh. Specific hardware: tape drive and a scsi card. Software: any recent unix would do. Knowledge of data structure: they obviously Huffman-coded all their SQL dumps, right? Haha.
I'd take that bet.
Its not Unix, its OpenVMS.
The software is written in MUMPS.
When code looks like this http://www.hardhats.org/history/chcs4.htm you certainly do need to have specific knowledge of the system and datastructure.
Again, assuming this is the old system that has been in place for 30+ years because with the new system all data is sent to DISA Alabama.
Comment Re:Why no encryption? This is why... (Score 1) 182
Rather this:
http://labs.hoffmanlabs.com/node/85
Comment Re:Why no encryption? This is why... (Score 1) 182
Comment Why no encryption? This is why... (Score 1) 182
Speaking as a former sysadmin at an Army hospital...
The tapes in question were probably these: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_Linear_Tape
Running backups on a cluster of these babies: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DEC_AlphaServer#AlphaServer_SC
This is essentially a 30 year old platform. Back then, nobody ever imagined identity theft would be such a problem or guessed there would be legislation for HIPPA/PII like we have today.
Comment Re:Great, now if only they could fix *real* proble (Score 1) 157
... or let me use my Apps for Domains account
Submission + - Limewire being sued for 75 Trillion. (law.com)
DarthVain writes: "Apparently 13 record companies are trying to sue Limewire for 75 Trillion. The NYC judge thinks it is "absurd". Its almost like these media companies are their worst enemy trying to make themselves look ridiculous."
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