I've been unable to get onto it for at least 2 weeks now. Not good!

Ha-harr! That's a cracker, Nick!

And let's hope that your info about the network drive holds out.

striker wrote on May 15^th, 2009 at 2:26pm:



NO ONE at AVSIM in management has accused him of taking down AVSIM.. that is BUZZ created by the masses and not AVSIM

HE HAS been nailed for stealing email addresses and using them for spam

HE WAS rightfully accused of what he did. Tom Allensworth never SPAMMED anyone and that was a bold-face immature BS suggestion on your part


LAST

For someone who is such a professional you sure have a very immature way of showing it very much like the kiddies perpetuating the RUMOR that this person took down AVSIM except the opposite.. you jump on the other side without READING.


They posted quite clearly their network backups may be OK.. they do not know because they lost communication with the server and must go there to check out what happened. They do not know the entire extent of the damage at this point and will not until this weekend


OPEN MOUTH < INSERT FOOT


I hope you understand my position  

striker wrote on May 15^th, 2009 at 5:25pm:



No.. I believe what I have in hard facts and evidence.. And I have all I need for the email issue right here at home.

I do not subscribe to hearsay however as Bill said.. when it stinks the dog is not far from the pile. In that I will wait to see the result of the investigation before making any solid decisions around it. Regardless he was nailed for what he did and I for one am glad Tom had the guts to make sure everyone knew it. People like that should be exposed for breaking privacy laws in gain

None the less, based on what happened with the email addresses I would not trust the person who stole those addresses to run a clean game of jacks much less anything with my data on it.

As for the rest.. son, I worked with MS on AI algorithms for LIVE Search and their data systems out at the Quincy, WA facility.

I am completely aware of how servers work and the list of possibilities in why AVSIM can not communicate with theirs. I suggest you may wish to get a refresher in IT and quit sputtering tech out of some misplaced anger you do not completely understand

Even though I am in a real-life situation right now that has hindered my ability to continue my favorate hobby, I was compelled to come back to Simviation to express how shocked I am to hear about this.

I was just about to go to AvSim just to see how everything is going and to see what new addons were available for FSX when all of a sudden I was unable to access the website. At first, I thought it was just a typical server hiccup that most websites go through. I then decided to go into Google and seach AvSim to see if maybe the address has changed. It didn't. However, in the search results, I noticed a small article about AvSim. The title of the article startled me. When I read the article, I quickly found out that AvSim has been hacked and left crippled for good. I just couldn't believe it!

I mean, I can't believe bad it was. This means that AvSim will have to rebuilt what's left of its 13 year career and reputation. I feel sorry for the folks who have friends in the forums who are no longer able to contact each other. I feel sorry for the developers who saw much of their works lost to an attack by a hacker(s). I hope AvSim does recover and takes stronger measures to prevent this from ever happening again.

Nice to see I'm not the only one who thinks that...   

This is the latest update as of May 19 2009 2030 ESDT.
Due to the generosity of hundreds of community members, we will be able to bring online sometime over the weekend an AVSIM System that all of us will be proud of, I am sure.

High on our list of attributes that these new systems will provide are:

Virtualization
Clustering
Load Leveling
We will be effectively running the equivalent of 20 servers in two boxes.

In addition, we have purchased a 3Com 5500G 1 Gigabit 24 port switch to replace the existing 3C router.

I don’t want to bore you with the details, but here is the inventory of systems that will be brought back online Saturday or Sunday:

• Two HP Proliant DL380 G5’s with quad core Xeon E5450 processors working at 3 GHz.
• 32 GIG of DR2 Ram per G5
• 1.2 terabytes of storage on each G5 using 4 x 300 GB SATA-300/SAS drives.
• In addition, we will be bring back online, or repairing to bring online, our existing three severs, GREEN, PURPLE and WHITE
• We will also bring our NAS back into operation as our primary storage device for the system array.

SYSTEM SOFTWARE AND FUNCTIONALITY:

I am going to put my neck on the line here a bit based upon a briefing I received today, and say that our confidence is building about the state of the library. It is my hope that we can have our legacy library back up and running on Sunday. Our email system would also be back in operation.

We will have a Web site back and operating sometime over the weekend. If we can get the old system up and running, great. If not, we’ll create a redirect page for all three domains back to this forum system. In the meantime, the design team continues to work on the web and library redesigns and we will bring them online as soon as the team gives us the go ahead.

As for the Forums system; our confidence is increasing in that there may be something retrievable there. Again, we won’t know until we can inspect the material that we have since recovered and placed on WHITE for storage. More on that later.

Every one keep there fingers crossed