Monday, February 18, 2019

TWID Feb 18, 2019: Bruno Ganz, Red hat dropping MongoDB, 500px hacked, VFEmail

This is a post detailing some stuff I did, learned, posted and tweeted this week, I call this TWID (This week in Denis). I am doing this mostly for myself... a kind of an online journal so that I can look back on this later on. Will use the label TWID for these



This Week I Learned


Continued reading the book The Annotated Turing: A Guided Tour Through Alan Turing's Historic Paper on Computability and the Turing Machine by Charles Petzold

I was translating a block of T-SQL code that calculated sexy primes into PostgreSQL and found out that in order to use variables, you need to wrap it into a function in PostgreSQL . I also found out that PostgreSQL up until version 11 didn't really have stored procedures either but you could have functions behave like procs




This Week I Tweeted

Hackers wipe US servers of email provider VFEmail

"At this time, the attacker has formatted all the disks on every server," the company said yesterday. "Every VM is lost. Every file server is lost, every backup server is lost."

"This was more than a multi-password via SSH exploit, and there was no ransom. Just attack and destroy," VFEmail said.

Yep someone got pissed of for something and this was a big F U operation


500px Hacked: Personal Data Exposed for All 14.8 Million Users

The popular photo-sharing service 500px has announced that it was the victim of a hack back in 2018 and that personal data was exposed for all the roughly 14.8 million accounts that existed at the time.

In an email sent out to users and an announcement posted to its website, 500px states that it was only on February 8th, 2019, that its team learned of an unauthorized intrusion to its system that occurred on or around July 5th, 2018.

The personal data that may have been stolen by the intruder includes first and last names, usernames, email addresses, password hashes (i.e. not plaintext passwords), location (i.e. city, state, country), birth date, and gender.

Took over 6 months to find out...  that is a very long time.. as always make sure that your password is unique for each site that you use



Google will spend $13 billion on U.S. real estate in 2019, expanding into Nevada, Ohio  and Texas

CEO Sundar Pichai said in a blog post on Wednesday that the company is building new data centers and offices and expanding several key locations across the U.S., spending $13 billion this year.

Pichai outlined the plans, which include opening new data centers in Nevada, Ohio, Texas and Nebraska, the first time the company will have infrastructure locations in those states. The company is also doubling its workforce in Virginia, providing greater access to Washington, D.C., with a new office and more data center space, and expanding its New York campus at Hudson Square.

Have to spend all that that money to catch up to Amazon and Microsoft in the cloud



Red Hat Satellite to standardize on PostgreSQL backend, will be dropping MongoDB

When will MongoDB Community Edition be dropped as an embedded database within Red Hat Satellite?
This database change is a still to come, but the product team wanted to go ahead and communicate this intent to our users so they were not caught by surprise as this is a change to the underlying databases of Satellite.  No specific timing or release is being communicated at this time. At this point we’re simply hoping to raise awareness of the change that is coming to help users of Satellite prepare for the removal of MongoDB.


This is in response to the license changes that MongoDB made recently... Looking at the chart below..it looks like this is no worry to investors, MongoDB  just hit a all time high

MongoDB  just hit a all time high



RIP Bruno Ganz, who Gen X remembers as the angel in "Wings of Desire" and millennials remember as Hitler in that bunker scene.

You have seen all the parodies of course, I actually only watched this movie on January 6th 2018. Downfall is an excellent movie, if you have some time, make sure to watch it


 




Some cool stuff you might enjoy



I wrote this post for a friend so that he has a reference on how to install SonarQUbe and how to get started. This post explain how you can user SonarQube to run static code analysis against your T-SQL procs and functions



February release of @AzureDataStudio is now available! 

- Admin Pack for SQL Server extension
- Auto-sizing columns in results
- Notebook UI improvements
- Profiler Filtering
- Save Results as XML
- Deploy scripts

I am still using SSMS but maybe I will switch to DataStudio one of these days


Someone took 50,000 images of the night sky to make an 81 Megapixel image of the moon  It's beautiful 
See it here: https://www.reddit.com/r/space/comments/arer0k/i_took_nearly_50000_images_of_the_night_sky_to/ … 

mirrors of both JPG and PNG in zoomable versions here:

https://micr.io/i/clIZW  (JPG)
https://micr.io/i/WFjqr  (PNG)


Finding rows where the column starts or ends with a 'bad' character  

Another post I wrote because of a problem that a co-worker had with some data


A nice view while going to the Princeton Junction train station...  had to take a pic

Princeton Junction parking lot path

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