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* After all drives are replaced and the rebuild finished you can grow your storage array using [1]
* After all drives are replaced and the rebuild finished you can grow your storage array using
mdadm --grow /dev/md2 -z max
mdadm --grow /dev/md2 -z max
Revision as of 21:04, 20 March 2011
This manual describes step by step the replacement of all drives in a Terastation Live. It can eventually applied also to other Terastations. The requirements are only a RAID-System based on mdadm and a XFS file system.
This document not only outlines the steps necessary to swap the drives but to also upgrade your Terastation's storage capacity without the need to backup all of its data. It is, however, important to note that you undertake the following with the potential risk of losing your data.
Buffalo Terastation comprising 4x Samsung SP2504C 250GB SATA-II
New drives: 4x Samsung HD501LJ 500GB SATA-II
NOTE: 4x Samsung HD1000HJ 1000GB SATA-II drives have also been used
Necessary tools:
- Java Runtime Environment
- acp_commander
- mdadm
- xfs_growfs
- fdisk
Necessary connectivity:
- You will need console (telnet) access to your TeraStation in order to complete this process. If you are not familiar with how to gain this access, please read (at least the first part of) the "Open Stock Firmware" page here on NAS-Central.
We often start with a full array as shown by the 'df -h' command:
root@DATEN:~# df -h Filesystem Size Used Available Use% Mounted on /dev/md1 481.6M 306.9M 174.7M 64% / /dev/ram1 15.0M 116.0k 14.9M 1% /mnt/ram /dev/md0 281.0M 15.0M 265.9M 5% /boot /dev/md2 695.6G 631.4G 64.2G 91% /mnt/array1
Replace drives
- Shut down the Terastation down via web interface, command line or power button
- Start with the 4th drive, remove it and replace it with another disc of same size or bigger (you can follow the instructions from the Buffalo Terastation manual.
- Start the Terastation and it will show you a failed drive - don't panic :-)
- Now you have to gain root console access via telnet or ssh. It is important that you do not try to repair the raid(s) from the web interface! [1]
- Take a look at the partition table of a working hard drive like /dev/sda
fdisk -l /dev/sda Disk /dev/sda: 250.0 GB, 250059350016 bytes 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 30401 cylinders Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System /dev/sda1 1 37 297171 83 Linux /dev/sda2 38 99 498015 83 Linux /dev/sda4 100 30401 243400815 5 Extended /dev/sda5 100 116 136521 82 Linux swap /dev/sda6 117 30390 243175873+ 83 Linux
- Create an identical partition table using fdisk on the newly inserted drive (/dev/sdd). This can be done through the command:
fdisk /dev/sdd
- Important - If you are upgrading to larger drives, you will want to extend the size of the extended partition and partition 6 to the maximum available size (last cylinder number).
- Create /dev/sdd1 & sdd2 as primary partitions number 1 & 2, respectively. Use starting & ending cylinder numbers to match /dev/sda1 & sda2 from your 'fdisk -l /dev/sda' output.
- Create /dev/sdd4 as an extended partition using the remaining cylinders.
- Create /dev/sdd5 & sdd6 as logical partitions. Use the same starting & ending cylinder number matching--as shown in your 'fdisk -l /dev/sda' output--for these partitions.
- Change partition number 5 to a Linux Swap partition. Press 'l' (lowercase L) within fdisk to verify that Linux Swap partitions are assigned hexadecimal 82. And then press 't' to change partition 5 to the appropriate type/number.
Disk /dev/sdd: 500.1 GB, 500107862016 bytes 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 60801 cylinders Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System /dev/sdd1 1 37 297171 83 Linux /dev/sdd2 38 99 498015 83 Linux /dev/sdd4 100 60801 487588815 5 Extended /dev/sdd5 100 116 136521 82 Linux swap /dev/sdd6 117 60801 487452231 83 Linux
- apply mkswap to the fifth partition
mkswap /dev/sdd5
- now rebuild all three raids (0-2), the steps are as follows
- [1]
mdadm -a /dev/md0 /dev/sdd1 mdadm -a /dev/md1 /dev/sdd2 mdadm -a /dev/md2 /dev/sdd6
- now you can check if this was done correctly with
root@daten# mdadm --detail /dev/md0 /dev/md0: Version : 00.90.03 Creation Time : Wed Jun 13 15:47:40 2007 Raid Level : raid1 Array Size : 297088 (290.17 MiB 304.22 MB) Device Size : 297088 (290.17 MiB 304.22 MB) Raid Devices : 4 Total Devices : 4 Preferred Minor : 0 Persistence : Superblock is persistent Update Time : Tue Oct 30 07:39:29 2007 State : clean Active Devices : 4 Working Devices : 4 Failed Devices : 0 Spare Devices : 0 UUID : ec67ebdb:01b029ce:000bb777:9d5fd144 Events : 0.730 Number Major Minor RaidDevice State 0 8 1 0 active sync /dev/sda1 1 8 17 1 active sync /dev/sdb1 2 8 33 2 active sync /dev/sdc1 3 8 49 3 active sync /dev/sdd1
- The rebuilding of arrays 0 & 1 runs quickly, but the large array can take several hours. If you access your NAS' web interface, the home page will contain a link indicating that it is rebuilding array 1. By following that link, you can get an approximation of the rebuild time.
- Important - do not replace any other drives until the array rebuilding is done.
- Repeat all these steps, including the shutdown and restart for all drives.
Growing the array and file system
- After all drives are replaced and the rebuild finished you can grow your storage array using
- [1]
mdadm --grow /dev/md2 -z max
- the array daemon starts a resync subsequently after growing the array
root@DATEN:~# mdadm --detail /dev/md2 /dev/md2: Version : 00.90.03 Creation Time : Wed Jun 13 08:29:22 2007 Raid Level : raid5 Array Size : 1462356480 (1394.61 GiB 1497.45 GB) Device Size : 487452160 (464.87 GiB 499.15 GB) Raid Devices : 4 Total Devices : 4 Preferred Minor : 2 Persistence : Superblock is persistent Update Time : Wed Oct 31 08:36:13 2007 State : active, resyncing Active Devices : 4 Working Devices : 4 Failed Devices : 0 Spare Devices : 0 Layout : left-symmetric Chunk Size : 64K Rebuild Status : 50% complete UUID : 05c76307:69dff621:a11d513a:e4478523 Events : 0.1320002 Number Major Minor RaidDevice State 0 8 6 0 active sync /dev/sda6 1 8 22 1 active sync /dev/sdb6 2 8 38 2 active sync /dev/sdc6 3 8 54 3 active sync /dev/sdd6
- this step will also take several hours (about 5 hours in this case)
- the last step is growing the file system which runs very quick, just run
xfs_growfs /mnt/array1/
- and you can do that before the resync finished.
- so we end up with a enlarged array without any data loss or need to backup the data! :-)
root@DATEN:~# df -h Filesystem Size Used Available Use% Mounted on /dev/md1 481.6M 307.0M 174.6M 64% / /dev/ram1 15.0M 116.0k 14.9M 1% /mnt/ram /dev/md0 281.0M 15.0M 265.9M 5% /boot /dev/md2 1.4T 631.4G 763.1G 45% /mnt/array1
- you can watch the progress by using the web interface or looking into /proc/mdstat
root@DATEN:~# cat /proc/mdstat Personalities : [linear] [raid0] [raid1] [raid5] [raid4] md2 : active raid5 sda6[0] sdb6[1] sdd6[3] sdc6[2] 1462356480 blocks level 5, 64k chunk, algorithm 2 [4/4] [UUUU] [============>........] resync = 64.8% (315880576/487452160) finish=191.9min speed=14865K/sec md1 : active raid1 sda2[0] sdb2[1] sdd2[3] sdc2[2] 497920 blocks [4/4] [UUUU] md0 : active raid1 sda1[0] sdb1[1] sdd1[3] sdc1[2] 297088 blocks [4/4] [UUUU] unused devices: <none>
- [1] If you have an empty Terastation, or you have a good backup of the data you keep on there, you can skip the parts of these instructions that reference /dev/md2, including growing the array and filesystem. If you do skip those parts, you can then create your new storage array in the web interface, but as mentioned before, DO NOT try to fix any old arrays from the web interface.


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[An audience member said] it sounded like firecrackers until someone ran into Theater 8 yelling "they're shooting out here!"...
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Nor does anyone else. Unfortunate, but true.
I think it's largely pointless anyway...
Most people (myself included) use a web based email client, where the plain text form of the email would be easily snatchable by the one party with any likely chance to actually intercept an email.
Cryptographic signing has a place, but even that falls into the cryptogeek fantasy realm, but If you're into that sorta thing.. you can always join the Debian community.
"cryptogeek fantasy realm" indeed. Reminds me of this comic that tells it like it is.
http://xkcd.com/538/ [xkcd.com]
I am tired of seeing this comic used as a dismissal of encryption, it is a joke. If you actually think someone is going to drug you or hit you with a wrench, then you have reached a level of paranoia far more ridiculous than the idea of using 4096 bit encryption.
I use the very user friendly disk encryption that the Fedora installer provides, and I feel much more at ease taking my laptop out in public.
As for email, no I don't encrypt them, but I might be willing to learn if the summary had more info than a wikipedia article for PGP.
Indeed. This argument does nothing to diminish the usefulness of crypto.
Yes people can force you to do various things, but the likeliness of that is lower than the chance that they'll do the same thing secretly if they can get away with it.
Just because someone can hit you with a wrench and take your card-key, it doesn't follow that locking your house is useless. Just because someone can hit you with a wrench until you give up your PIN-code, it doesn't follow that having the card be pin-protected is useless.
That something doesn't protect against -all- threaths, doesn't make it useless. It's still useful if it protects against *some* threaths.
Or the hollywood presentation of secure computing.
I wonder; if I am using gmail, and send an "email" to another gmail user -- both users are required to use https to connect to gmail, does that mean we're in effect using encrypted (RC4_128 according to gmail/chrome) email?
I believe that would be a "no" unless you consider parading your message past Google, who probably keeps a bigger file on you than any other entity, private. And it might be a worse than that--saying it's only Google that sees the message assumes that Google doesn't decrypt the message in one facility, send it from that data center to another in the clear, then re-encrypt and send to your recipient. Whose to say your mail server is in the same facility as his just because both accounts are with Google?
Whoever has access to your google information, probably has physical access to whatever server your email would sit on otherwise*. I guess it's not an 100% effective means, but in terms of point-to-point email encryption, it's probably the easiest and/or most widely used email encryption scheme avalible to the general public.
*The old rule that if they have physical access to your machine, your software security is already nullified
*The old rule that if they have physical access to your machine, your software security is already nullified
That depends on what you are trying to protect. No, software will not prevent them from controlling the machine, copying the HDD, etc, but it CAN prevent them from being able to USE any of that data. Encryption is the ONLY weapon software has against physical access, but it's a VERY effective one if used properly.
No you're not using encrypted e-mail. Because your e-mails are stored in clear on Google servers. Which means that Google admins can read your e-mails, and so they can give access to it to other entities that may want it (governments...).
No, on Gmail your e-mails are not more private than somewhere else.
That's why there are S/MIME browser plugins like Penango [penango.com] for GMail.
Pretty much. If the NSA or Gogle wants to snoop on my recipes and Christmas lists, feel free. Anything important goes through the company's servers, so that's their problem. Anything important in my personal life is done with RFC 1149 (I can't afford 2549).
Precisely, when news reports surface of emails being leaked or stolen, rarely if ever do those reports refer to emails being stolen en route. Almost always they're leaked by somebody with access to either the mail server for that domain or the person's own computer.
Sure one could catch an email en route, but in practice that's hit or miss without having control of the networks to which either the sending or receiving server connects and full knowledge that the email is coming. Without that it's not likely to be profitable to do so as you'd never know which emails to collect.
Turns out that a lot of email leaks to typo domains. So in fact encrypting the email would have been a really good idea in these cases.
The reason encryption hasn't taken off is that it's not done by default, and can't be enabled by clicking a checkbox.
The reason encryption hasn't taken off is that it's not done by default, and can't be enabled by clicking a checkbox.
Mac OS X's Mail client automatically supports PGP email certificates on both send and receive. You have to go sign up for one at some place like comodo, and download the cert. Double click and keychain assistant opens up and asks if you want to import it. Setup is complete.
Now go to your mail app and you will see an open padlock. Any email you send will be automatically signed, and recipients with intelligent email clients will automatically and transparently import your public key into their user's keychain for later use, for both verification of additional received emails and encryption of mail back to you.
If that person clicks reply, they will also have a padlock available, since their system now has your public key, so they can then send an encrypted reply back to you. If they also have a key pair in their keychain, their reply also includes their public key, allowing you to send them encrypted email in the same way. Of course for maximum security you'd need to have a more personal, direct key exchange rather than email, because a tinfoil hat would argue a skilled black hat could be in between you two when you are trying to exchange keys, and be feeding you two false keys. That's where key-signing parties come in.
Incredibly easy to use and built-in. Only takes a little effort to go download a free cert from comodo or someone else. What got me into it at first is a previous employer required me to email in my mileage reports for reimbursement, and required me to sign them.
So at least for the mac users, it's ready by default, and is just a check box away.
If Mac OS X's Mail client automatically supports PGP, it is not necessary to obtain any certificate from an outside source. With an OpenPGP application installed on your own computer -- Mac, PC, UNIX, Linux, etc -- you generate your own certificate. See my http://www.rossde.com/PGP/index.html [rossde.com].
Pretty sure that's S/MIME, not PGP. Which in my opinion is the most correct of the email encryption options, and has the least support.
Most people are lazy and don't feel they have the need to encrypt their communications. If they are willing to post the shit they do on Facebook, they are already a lost cause from a privacy/anonymity viewpoint.
Setting up email to send encrypted payloads is not easy for most people, and the people that know how, quickly lose interest after spending an hour to set up one person.
Now, all of my emails *are* encrypted, and not just in transit. I use a special IMAP connector for Outlook that encrypts all traffic with SSL to the mail server. The web portal for my email server is encrypted with SSL as well. Where *possible* my mail server will negotiate a secure connection to a remote server, but that is pretty damn rare. On my personal computer the message store is located on a TrueCrypt drive, so if my computer is lost or stolen, I am not worried about the message store, which is temporary anyways since the email is stored on the server.
All of it is pointless if the other party is not doing the same exact thing, which is most of the time. So I never send anything in the clear that I don't want analyzed, categorized, and used by private corporations and government.
For correspondence that needs to remain secure I usually set up an email account on the same server. That way everything is encrypted down to the message store and emails sent between domains hosted on the same mail server are just internally routed.
This is the same reason why truly secure phone calls are next to impossible in systems that must be able to perform call setups to any other phone. Too many intermediary points that cannot handle it. ZRTP, while interesting, is a long way from implementation, and will never address insecure endpoints like landlines and cell phones.
It's the other end that is problem, just as you say, but it is also the points in between. As long as there are free services that won't waste the CPU cycles to negotiate encryption between mail servers, it does not make that much sense.
Bottom line, I am secure where I need to be, not through encryption specifically, but choosing what I say, when I say it, and what communications medium I choose.
I use GPG/OpenPGP for some mail and "secure" web mail for other applications. I do not use third party web mail (such as gmail) because I can't control the dissemination or privacy (or longevity) of my mail and while my life is generally boring enough to fit within Eric Schmidt's idea of privacy ("If you have something that you don't want anyone [someone] to know, maybe you shouldn't be doing it in the first place [at least not though a google property]."), I occasionally write a personal opinion of someone I wouldn't want them to be able to Google later or share a business detail that could be economically damaging or embarrassing (or is subject to NDA) and gMail and all other web mail services are effectively public.
I've used PGP (and eventually GPG) since about '94 and my keyring has about 20 people on it: more than 1 new key a year! Alas, 25% of those keys expired in the late 90s. My address book has about 1500 entries. Why so few keys? As the OP pointed out, it isn't all that difficult.
The answer for me is that the model for encouraging encryption has to be more like S-WAN than GPG-like. I'd love to turn on "encrypt everything" and forget it, but I'd get an error message for 99% of my correspondents, so obviously that isn't going to happen. So I set my prefs to reply to encrypted messages with encryption, which is fine, but it means I rarely (almost never) initiate an encrypted thread.
What I'd like is an opportunistic encryption mode where any message to an address in my keyring is encrypted by default. Any message to anyone I don't have a key for gets a nice little
One annoying problem is that encrypted mail is not searchable. To solve that, I want my client to extract a keyword list on decryption then upload that keyword list to (my own) server as an unencrypted header to enable searching (implemented, of course, with a stop list for words you wouldn't want to appear in the clear even out of context or perhaps particularly out of context).
For the truly paranoid, this list could be a hash list, though you could still fairly effectively dictionary hash fish, but it would provide some security and reduce the easy availability of information. In fact, all headers could be hashed and still generally be searchable (except maybe date ranges).
I also want my server to store my public key and encrypt all incoming mail with it. Of course it is already transported in the clear, but it makes my server less vulnerable. Once the mail has had an index extracted and the body encrypted, someone cracking into my IMAP server would, at least, not find a historical trove of clear-text data. And my friends without keys would get annoying sig files evangelizing encryption.
When it comes down to it, there is no one program that can truly automate good security. At some point, users cannot be spoon fed and have to do it themselves. CAs can be spoofed, trusted introducers can be hacked or bribed, and so on.
In reality, if you want security these days (I mean actual security, not some pretty spiffy lock icon promising security), then one will have to go out and pack your own parachute, just as people did in the early 1990s.
It is easier now than it was back then -- gpg and the commercial PGP versions can encrypt and decrypt clipboard contents, both Android and the iPhone have implementations of this. It also easier that the specter of encryption being outlawed is not over our heads as it was back in the days of the Clipper Chip.
So, it boils to a social issue more than technical now. Do people want to do proper keysigning gatherings, stick their PGP IDs and signatures on their business cards, and have this info as much a part of their contact info as their E-mail address and FB contacts? If we can get people to understand this and the concept of a web of trust, security in general will be much improved.
Nor does anyone else. Unfortunate, but true.
Are you kidding? I don't even talk to my wife without a Feistel cipher. My daughter's first words were via a one-time pad.
We're careful in my house.
Did I ever tell my story (this part is true) about the Bletchley Park alum that my wife worked with when she first got a tenure track position? I don't want to use his name because he passed not too long ago, but when he had office hours for his students, he'd show up in pajama bottoms with burnholes from the pipe he always kept stoked in his mouth. He was a sweet old dude, but you'd wonder how he made it out of the house every morning. In his final few years he was convinced that someone was out to get him and eventually it turned into unnamed Jews who were planning his demise. He was a British subject and there were stories of the stuff he did a Bletchley during the war when he was like 17 or 18 so what do I know? Maybe the Jews were out to get him.
Anyway, naw, I don't encrypt anything. I have a hard enough time communicating in open text. All of my passwords are my dog's name. I just say the opposite of everything I mean to throw off the New World Order. So when I email my wife, I'll write, "Don't meet me at the 5:10pm train and don't pick up my shirts at the laundry." Neat, huh?
Anyway, naw, I don't encrypt anything. I have a hard enough time communicating in open text. All of my passwords are my dog's name. I just say the opposite of everything I mean to throw off the New World Order. So when I email my wife, I'll write, "Don't meet me at the 5:10pm train and don't pick up my shirts at the laundry." Neat, huh?
Same here. The only problem is that our dog does not come when I call. It seems that dogs have a problem recognizing names that are 41 random characters...
So when I email my wife, I'll write, "Don't meet me at the 5:10pm train and don't pick up my shirts at the laundry." Neat, huh?
You're probably one of the very few dudes that has a wife that listens..
So when I email my wife, I'll write, "Don't meet me at the 5:10pm train and don't pick up my shirts at the laundry." Neat, huh?
You're probably one of the very few dudes that has a wife that listens..
It's not a wife. It's an encrypted husband.
Mostly emails I received are senseless..
I don't. I use GMail. I might as well use "1234" as a password.
Seriously speaking, at least with Gmail (or pretty much any other email system out there), you actually have the option of having a password longer than 4 numerical digits, even though it's just for your email. Same goes for most websites; you can have a nice, long secure password on Facebook even though it's only protecting your account where you make inane posts and show stupid pictures of yourself that no one cares about.
But for protecting your financial transactions, your debit/ATM card limits you to those 4 numerical digits. I think there's something wrong with this picture.
The 4-digit PIN normally only applies to buttons that you push with your finger, where brute-force attacks are not really an option. If your bank has ATMs that permit 10,000 attempts before they swallow the card, or uses a 4-digit PIN as a password for their online services, I suggest you take your money elsewhere.
This is not true, unless you think the ATM itself is also manually pushing 4 buttons with its finger to authenticate to your bank. Somewhere along the line, that manual action has a digital analogue.
Hell, finance in general is retarded.
I have a "regular password" that I tend to use for everything (about a year ago, I started adding a use-specific suffix so someone who stole one password wouldn't automatically have the rest).
It's a fairly secure one, but it includes a _, a $ and a * (as well as a number and letters of both cases). Linux was fine with it. Windows was fine with it. GMail was fine with it. Slashdot was fine with it. Various mailing lists were fine with it. The only things not fine with it?
Debit card PIN (only four numbers!)
Voicemail passcode (also only four numbers!)
Wachovia's online banking system (wait, what?)
Yep. Wachovia did not allow passwords with symbols. No !@#$%^&* allowed. Just letters and numbers.
Not only did that significantly decrease password strength (it went from 77^x to 62^x for a given length x), it also made it impossible for me to remember my password. I had to write down instructions on how to regenerate it (change the $ to 4, * to 8, and so on by not using shift, and drop the _ entirely). Most people would've just wrote down their password, making it even more secure.
Needless to say, I rarely used their website anyways, as it was unimaginably slow as well as pointlessly undersecure. Just waited for the monthly snail-mail summary to check my balance.
I don't. I use GMail. I might as well use "1234" as a password.
GMail actually had a labs feature for a while that enabled PGP signed and encrypted e-mail. Obviously, since the encryption/decryption was done on Google's servers it didn't provide privacy against Google -- but it did provide security against snooping by ISPs, backbone operators, people who might gain access to the recipients e-mail inbox (but not his PGP keys), etc.
It was discontinued because, I assume, not enough people used it to be worth bothering with. I used it, and configured it to encrypt e-mai
This. Encrypting email to those who don't know how to decrypt it is useless. And for those who do, email certificates in Outlook work just fine.
Although, while at a conference I came upon a really nice package call Encryptix (or Encryptics, can't recall which.) It packages up the email, including attachments, encrypts the package, then sends it as an attachment with a link to the viewer. It's trusted by government, so take that for what it's worth to you. And it's not free (yearly subscription, but reasonable) so take that for what it's worth to you.
Is PGP that easy these days? Haven't touched it in years due to reasons already mentioned.
I was negotiating a mortgage a few years ago, and the bank happily was transitioning from faxes to email. So I sent them all the somewhat sensitive docs they requested, encrypted by hushmail/web. I sent them decryption instructions out of band.
The pretty simple decryption procedure baffled the hell out of them, at first. Then they figured out it was a great excuse to delay the loan. After a few weeks they came back saying they couldn't follow the hushmail retrieval procedure because they had no internet access.
Finally I just faxed everything.
After a few weeks they came back saying they couldn't follow the hushmail retrieval procedure because they had no internet access.
I know of one bank that only allows the employees to access only whitelisted web sites on the internet. I wouldn't be surprised if this was the standard security for banks.
More importantly, we email people who's mail server admins don't know PGP from ABC.
Many years ago I found that my GPG signed mails were getting quarantined by brain-dead spam and virus filters, because my mails contained a "suspicious attachment". That was the death knell for my use of GPG. Not knowing whether your mail will be received is not really acceptable. Of course that's they way it is with all mail these days...but that's the fault of incompetent law enforcement being unable to shut down spam/trojan/botnets.
PGP was defeated by stupidity.
Nobody does. Mail with stupid backgrounds and embedded photos abound, but even a signed pgp message never comes across my way
exactly. now please delete all other comments and just leave the parent here. not even sure why this question needed to be asked.
Does anyone here encipher their paper mail?
No, but I also don't leave the envelopes unsealed either.
Does anyone here encipher their paper mail?
lgnge nfiax paavb fxvzv abval agrrh rcjnf zvarp rnrfy agrgj
zvpju rrgrr rnirr qfvvy bfrcn pbfun lgbur oofqf ffbqp vggrz
hrwug vfprn tcagp pupee buegr vnrnf nxpty lhrau nyoay oheva
Slashdotters who know enough to have encrypted such things simply don't send that sort of thing in email.
the place I worked this summer had it set up (it was an option at my level, maybe it was more mandatory/more necessary elsewhere in the organization
so I used it on some work email.
other than that, no.
not that paranoid, didn't want to set it up, recipients aren't set up to deal with it (even at the office, some recipients had trouble, especially when readign email on their blackberries)
What's the point. Orig PGP removed, reposted with offending features changed...accordingly. Ahem
Encryption is easy
Getting the people in your address book to encrypt their email is another story. They think that their internet provider's terms of service and privacy policies mean their email is private. This does not take into account other service providers, pipes, and countries along the way that have other ideas about unencrypted streams of text.
Instant messaging over ssl or other end-to-end encryption (like skype) is more secure, as a result.
True to a point, and it's really not hard to understand either. Most people understand websites should have "https" for banking and buying stuff. What's hard, is that you need something else on top of it to encrypt it usually, or a container, or another program. Where as everything else(skype, im, etc) and other end-to-end, which use ssl are seamless. If this was the case for email programs, or webmail, and the like which provided an easy to use repository for *insert key service*, where people could p
Ultimately decisions about email encryption come down to what threats you think you might be protecting yourself against. I have a PGP key, and on occasion I use it to sign and decrypt emails when I think it matters. The rest of the time I send mail, over SSL, through my own mail server, which will use SMTP's 'startTLS' command whenever possible. Most people I know read their mail either using SSH on the machine that runs the mail server or over some SSL-protected IMAP or webmail interface. Thus, for most c
In our business, I routinely communicate with customers using s/mime mail. We set it up as part of the contract (not in the terms, just as part of the meet-n-greet kickoff), so anything related to the contract work goes through encrypted.
Crypto is our business... so it only makes sense.
I tried encrypting my mail for a while, but gave up. Bottom line - I got tired of explaining to people what they needed to do just to read my email.
Then I tried just digitally signing my email. That caused problems too, because most of our end users have Outlook and Outlook had issues with responding/forwarding when multiple people are involved. A lot of the emails that come my way end up being part of long multi-user threads.
Now I'm on Gmail, so there's not even an encryption option available. Well, techni
Except for work, my email is pretty darn non-interesting to anyone. Well except the ones that contain steganographic payloads, but they don't look encrypted of course
For internal work email, my employer owns the email system and I connect to it via encrypted connection. Aside from in my browser it never leaves their system. No need for additional encryption.
My sig (since 2002/2001) on
The answer is simple -- there was never a critical mass of people exchanging keys nor was there an easy-to-explain web of trust, nor was there a simple, free reliable certificate authority.
In 2002, Outlook Express offered integrated s/mime encryption + digital signatures. Once you installed your certificate (which, was simply double clicking a
No one I knew used it.
Even today; Windows Live mail + Thunderbird offer integrated s/mime encryption. Maybe 1 or 2 of my technically literate friends use it. And of those 2, i think only one persists using it to this day.
Back then, when all I had was my Palm Pilot IIIxe, I thought "Whoa. I hold in my hand a portable computer that I can use to exchange digital signatures with". I even kept my pgp key in a note I could beam to someone, given the chance. Never happened.
Nowadays, even AGP on Android doesn't let me exchange keys with someone meet on the street, on the off change they happen to use it. Secure key exchange would be a trivial problem for today's smart phones (provided the carrier isn't using carrieriq to swipe your data....), but there still is no critical mass to make this worthwhile.
And, with most folks using webmail, You'd have to come up with a hackish way to encrypt mail client side (pgp copy/paste to the clipboard? w/ Rich text? attachments?), or just hand your keys to your provider. Doing the encryption server side would make the service provider an easy target for legal and hacking threats.
It's a tough nugget to crack, and it's not going to be solved until mail encryption is as easy to use as Facebook.
In 2002, Outlook Express offered integrated s/mime encryption + digital signatures. Once you installed your certificate (which, was simply double clicking a
.p12 file, and entering your import password), you could encrypt or sign email going out, with a single click. It verified signatures in inbound email too, all in an integrated UI.
Unfortunately, even that's not easy enough for my mom. Nowehere near easy enough, in fact. In order to popularise encrypted email, you have to surrender the idea of out of band key exchange and the concept of web of trust. You also need a highly interoparable way to have it just magically work by default. One good starting place would be a "Public Key At URL" header standard in all email. If you had that, you can imagine a future scenario circa 2015...
Ordinary corporate email user email@example.com fires up Outlook 2014. A key has been automatically generated for the user without them knowing it on the Exchange server. Alice sends an ordinary unsecured email to email@example.com without pushing any extra buttons. This is the first time they have corresponded. Alice's email client includes a header for public-key-location which states that her public key is stored at "https://exchange.example.com/keys/alice". Bob doesn't specifically check email headers, so he just sees a normal email in his inbox. He decides to reply. His email client sees that he is sending to an email address with a known public key location, so it downloads alice's key automatically, and uses it to encrypt bob's message to alice so that only she can read it. This fact manifests itself as a discreet "encrypt" checkbox in the compose email window of bob's mail client. He never needs to manually intervene in the process unless he wants to install a key manually, or actively turn off encryption. Most people would never specifically do that.
The technology for that kind of infrastructure has been in place for ages. But, there isn't a critical mass that want's it. The security die hards want a system with manual key verification, and user awareness and training. Microsoft might create something similar to what I describe, but it would only work with Outlook and be explicitly incompatible with anything that isn't an Exchange client. And, they would do all decryption server side with decrypted mail stores so IT can audit corporate email. The overwhelming majority of users just don't care. But, basically one of the big players (Microsoft? Google?) needs to create a whole ecosystem in one swoop, with a massive installed base automatically, in order to get any real traction.
And the rest of us tend to put anything important through a medium other than email. scp for files, ssh tunnels for random things, ssh and talk for nefarious conversations.
Email is simply not a medium I would even consider using for sending sensitive information precisely because there are countless places between me and my correspondents where a message could be intercepted. In such circumstances, encrypting my email would simply alert anyone watching that something sensitive is being transmitted. And since the only "anyone watching" that I'd worry about is the government, why bother attracting the attention? If they want to know what I'm sending, all they have to do is wait for me to go to work, enter my house, and install a keylogger on my box. It's not like they even need warrants nowadays for that crap.
If I was going to do something I wanted to hide from the government -- and let's face it, that would almost have to be a major federal felony -- and if I absolutely had to have documentation and accomplices, none of it would be in electronic form to begin with, never mind transmitted over the public internet. Encryption is useful for governments and major corporations that are basically above the law. It's not terribly useful for private citizens unless you're just trying to hide your porn folder from your roommate.
If I encrypted it the government would start reading it.
gpg: Signature made Mon Dec 19 21:46:40 2011 CST using DSA key ID 98EF9A49
gpg: Good signature from
Not posting the rest, but you can get the name and email address from the signature.
My GPG fingerprint is also written on
my business card, so that everyone who I met can fetch my private key
from any of the major key servers, and check its fingerprint.
Can I have one of your business cards?
Hash: SHA1
Why, yes. Yes I do. At least for the few recipients that do too. And
all my messages are signed.
Version: GnuPG v1.4.7 (Darwin)
Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ [mozdev.org]
If you do software remotely with a group of people, in my experience some kind of email encryption is always used even by non-programmers/managers.
I have observed technical people is more inclined to use pgp/enigmail solutions while corporate clients tend to use S/MIME.
Not everything I write is encrypted, but non-encrypted work-related sensible stuff is the exception, not the rule.
The average email user doesn't even know what SSL means or why they should only enter their bank passwords after they have verified that they are on a secure site.
So sure I could encrypt my email but no one would take the steps to actually read it then.
The problem is interoperability. Yes, yes...I know, you can just give out your PGP public key to everyone and they'll be able to decrypt their email. If, that is, they use PGP too, which almost nobody does. And granted, sure...you can install an S/MIME cert in your copy of Outlook and...what's that? Some people aren't using the full-fledged, Microsoft Office-included version of Outlook? Some people are on smartphones too, and have the AUDACITY to want to be able to read the emails I send them on their iPhones? Bah...idiots. They should focus on more important things than the incredibly sensitive email they send back and forth...like encryption!
I've had PGP for over 10 years, but I'm putting it aside and getting behind S/MIME.
S/MIME has great enterprise support, is built into mail clients like Outlook, OS X Mail, Mozilla Thunderbird, iPhones, iPads, and even has browser plugins for GMail [penango.com]. PGP has none of this, sadly.
Yes, no, maybe.
I use GPG (Enigmail) for really sensitive stuff but typing my very long passphrase every 15 minutes gets old. Also, those e-mails do not participate in my global search, so I try to keep them as limited as possible. My mail store is on a LUKS volume anyway, so GPG is doing a narrow function.
Occasionally I'll find somebody who speaks S/MIME, and then that happens automagically for me. That's nice, but largely a function of mailer integration.
But, in the meantime, a good half of my e-mail, and most of the important stuff, travels out my network on SMTP/STARTTLS connections, so that window of eavesdropping is closing as well.
Use as much encryption as makes sense (oh, that's the hard part, eh?)
I sign all mail, regardless of whether the recipient has a clue what digital signing even is. In order to encrypt mail, however, both the recipient and the sender must be security aware.
Practically nobody I communicate with - even among the ones who use Linux - cares enough about security to even own a key, even though they regularly include obviously sensitive information in a message.
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Michelle Ryan sees the potential for economic growth in these districts. But the trick will be in identifying the unique characteristics of each one and developing a marketing plan to support existing businesses and attracting new ones, she said.
"We have 31st Street, Broadway, Grand/Prairie, Ogden Avenue, 47th Street and even a light industrial area," Ryan said. "It really takes some expertise to develop a plan for the village. … It's a matter of getting a focus on it and knowing where to go."
Ryan will draw on her experience in urban and regional planning as the newest member of the Brookfield Village Board. She was appointed to the board May 28 to fill the vacancy left when Kit Ketchmark took over as village president.
Ryan's specialty is in transportation issues. Her background includes working as an analyst for the Regional Transportation Authority in its corridor planning studies division as well as for the DuPage Mayors and Managers Conference as a transportation program director and liaison with the Chicago Metropolitan Agency for Planning. She previously served in the planned development division of the Chicago Area Transportation Study, which merged with the Northeastern Illinois Planning Commission to form CMAP.
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The economy remains detrimental to startup businesses, Ryan said.
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March 13—Too often it is after the fact that teachers discover their students are worrying less about math and reading and more about where the next meal comes from.
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"Symptoms are typically upper respiratory and it's dangerous for people who have other respiratory health conditions," said Hillman. "I would strongly encourage anyone over the age of six months to get a flu shot. You can expect fever, cough, runny nose, aches, soar throat and fatigue. There have also been cases of vomiting and diarrhea."
Illinois Department of Public Health spokeswoman Melanie Arnold said last year the state of Illinois had a pretty mild flu season with the peak occurring in the first part of February. Typically, Arnold said, things tend to peak in January or February, but the state had already reached the peak level from last year and surpassed it by the last week of December.
"When we say peak, we are talking about the number of people who have gone to a health provider or doctor's office," said Arnold. "We're looking at outpatient visits, specifically the number of people who had an influenza-like illness."
In general, Hillman said she would encourage people who are seeing symptoms of the flu to call their medical provider because the anti-viral medication seems to be effective. The key is starting the medication within 48 hours of the onset of symptoms.
This year, Hillman said the health department is already completely out of its influenza vaccines, although they can order more if the need arises. With more than 2,000 flu shots distributed in their facility alone, Hillman said their personal numbers have actually dropped, but she would still recommend a vaccine at a pharmacy or doctor's office for anyone over six months of age.
"Go out and get a flu shot, it's not too late at this point," said Arnold. "It does take two weeks for the shot to become effective, people should know it takes some time to build up immunity to the strain."
One thing the Illinois Department of Public Health is recommending to people across the state is to not go into the emergency room if at all possible. This season, there are 11 reported hospitals throughout Illinois, mostly in the Chicago area, which have gone on "bypass," which means the emergency department had so many people, they were at capacity levels and an ambulance going to take a non-critical person to that hospital was instructed to go to the next nearest hospital.
"It's not uncommon for a hospital to go on 'bypass,' but the thing that made this amount of hospitals so unusual is that so many of them were on 'bypass' at one time," said Arnold. "Again, most of these were in the Chicago area, but we are asking people to see a health official who can give a professional opinion on the symptoms a person is experiencing before seeking emergency medical treatment. For most of us, once we get the flu it's just a matter of having it run its course."
As of the Dec. 29 report, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the Illinois Department of Public Health surveillance report showed there were six flu-related intensive care-unit deaths across the state. Arnold pointed out that most people who come in contact with the virus should not expect such an extreme result, however it's not a bad idea to practice good health habits.
"The flu is now widespread over the vast majority of the United States," said Hillman. "We need to go back to common principals such as washing hands frequently, covering the mouth before a cough or sneeze and staying home if you are sick so you don't expose people."
Flu season early, more severe
Flu season this year has hit Illinois a month earlier than usual according to Livingston County Health Department Director MaLinda Hillman. If that weren't bad enough, Hillman also said this year's influenza strain, known as "Influenza A," or more specifically the H3N2 strain, is causing more severe illness around the country.


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The Rangerettes will host the first-ever Kilgore Casino Night on Saturday, Oct. 20, as part of Homecoming festivities at Kilgore College.
The event is set for 7 p.m. to midnight at the Kilgore National Guard Armory, 1807 Stone Road.
Entry fee is $25 per person which includes dinner by Bodacious Bar-B-Q and chips to play Texas Hold'em, Black Jack and Craps.
A sit-down dinner is also available for $200 which begins at 7 p.m.
Only those 21 and older will be allowed to attend.
Entertainment will be provided by Mad Men Swing Band, the Rangerettes and the Kilgore High School Hi-Steppers.
Money raised from the event will benefit Rangerette scholarships and the Boys and Girls Club of Kilgore.
Childcare will also be provided for $10 per child at the Rangerette Gym on the Kilgore campus.
Tickets will be sold at the door, but can also be purchased prior to the event by calling Erin Oian at 903-983-8282.


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The launch March 2013 in Helsinki follows-up on the PEER Research on Ecosystem Services (PRESS) project.
On the 12th and 13th of March 2013, OpenNESS (OPEratioNalisation of Natural capital and EcoSystem Services) celebrated its official kick-off in Helsinki, Finland.
As a follow-up of PRESS, the Partnership for European Environmental Research (PEER) plays a strong role in this FP7-funded initiative aiming to translate the concepts of Natural Capital (NC) and Ecosystem Services (ES) into operational frameworks that provide tested, practical and tailored solutions for integrating ES into land, water and urban management and decision-making. Till 2016, it will examine how the concepts link to, and support, wider EU economic, social and environmental policy initiatives and scrutinize the potential and limitations of the concepts of ES and NC.
Almost 100 participants from the consortium consisting of 25 research institutes and 10 SMEs from 22 European and four non-European countries took part to the meeting which was hosted at the Helsinki House of the Estates by the Finnish Environment Institute (SYKE), the OpenNESS coordinating body.
The purpose of the kick-off was to meet each other, get a better understanding of the OpenNESS concept and its policy and research challenges, as well as an overview of the tasks under each work package. During break-out sessions each work package had a facilitated session about its approach, methodology and working structure. Also possible collaboration and cross-cutting themes between the work packages were identified.
Central to OpenNESS is the multi-scale case study approach, designed to ground concepts and theories on real world observations and analysis. More than 30 representatives of these case studies and SMEs attended the kick-off meeting. During a very interactive and fun 'understanding case studies' session, all of them were introduced to the whole consortium.
Detailed information about each case study will be published on the OpenNESS website in the coming days.
The Partnership for European Environmental Research gathers together seven major public environmental research centres in Europe pursuing a joint scientific strategy to support national and EU policy makers, industry and society in achieving ecological sustainability. The member Institutes are Alterra, CEH, DCE, Irstea, JRC-IES, SYKE and UFZ.
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Homeland Security Grants Went To 'Zombie Apocalypse' Training – Daily Caller
Most believe zombies are relegated to the movies and video games, but Oklahoma Republican Sen. Tom Coburn has highlighted the Department of Homeland Security's participation in a staged "zombie apocalypse."
According to Coburn's most recent oversight report "Safety at Any Price: Assessing the Impact of Homeland Security Spending in U.S. Cities," first responders were approved grant funds for a $1,000 entry fee to a week-long HALO Counter-Terrorism Summit in San Diego where the "marquee" event was a demonstration of a "zombie apocalypse."
"[Strategic Operations] performed two shows on Halloween, which featured 40 actors dressed as zombies getting gunned down by a military tactical unit. Conference attendees were invited to watch the shows as part of their education in emergency response training. [HALO president Brad] Barker explained that, 'the idea is to challenge authorities as they respond to extreme medical situations where people become crazed and violent, creating widespread fear and disorder,'" the report reads.
Coburn was not pleased by the event or much of the waste detailed in his report.
"For instance, paying for first responders to attend a HALO Counterterrorism Summit at a California island spa resort featuring a simulated zombie apocalypse does little to discourage potential terrorists. I hope this report encourages DHS to award funds based on calculated risk, not politics," Coburn said upon the report's release. "Congress has a duty to ensure that this grant program does not become a parochial, pork-barrel entitlement program. We need to help the program fulfill its original goal of providing funds for projects in areas most at risk."
The government has spent over $35 billion on DHS grant programs since 2003, and according to Coburn, there is no measure that Americans are safer today than they were before the multibillion dollar expenditures.
Also highlighted in the report is an underwater robot purchased with a $98,000 grant to look for "sunken treasure," surveillance at the Seattle Mariners and San Diego Padres spring training facilities at a price of $90,000, a Bearcat armored vehicles to protect a small town's pumpkin festival, $41,000 for a Remote-Control Helicopter in Seattle and $6,200 in sno-cone machine purchases.
"We have seen the value of these grants time and again," said DHS spokesman Matthew Chandler in a statement reported by The Huffington Post. "As envisioned by Congress, these grants have directly supported the development and sustainment of core state and local capabilities identified as national strengths in the 2012 National Preparedness Report – from helping to save lives and minimize damage during the tornadoes in the South and Midwest, Hurricanes Irene and Sandy to building a national network of fusion centers to strengthen critical information sharing and terrorism prevention."


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Charles Rowe shares four reasons/benefits he's come up with that should make you think about choosing MySQLi over the normal MySQL libraries for PHP for your application.
There still seems to be a lot of confusion over the differences between the two extensions despite the length of time that mysqli has been in the wild. I wanted to briefly review the four major benefits of mysqli.
Here's the list
- Prepared Statements
- Secure MySQL connections
- Multi query
- Object Oriented Interface
He also includes a few more links to further information (besides the explanation for each of the topics listed above) including an article from the Zend Developer Zone and a tutorial covering making the switch to MySQLi.


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Digital is recasting the landscape of maps, a metamorphosis that's not yet complete. It has rewritten the rules by which maps behave and what they can do. This makes it not just an inflection point in the map category but in the history of human experience. We'll share the latest development in map technology and show how a collection of digital and non digital inputs – including past history, social media and even mood - when added to basic geographic wayfaring expands the boundaries of human possibility. It's navigation that enriches the human condition like never before. You may never see a map the same way again.
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Original URL: https://www.theregister.co.uk/2010/11/25/ofcom_local_numbers/
Ofcom mulls popular number charge
New plans to cut line wastage
Posted in Networks, 25th November 2010 16:30 GMT
Ofcom is considering charging companies which want numbers in popular area codes, and getting rid of local phone dialling to eke out the existing number ranges.
The two measures are open to consultation until February next year. They are designed to provide more local phone numbers - which are running critically short - by encouraging companies to apply only for what they need and hand back what they're not using, while increasing the quantity of numbers available by making everyone dial an area code for every call.
That would allow local phone numbers to start with "0" and "1", something they can't do at present as "01" and "02" are always area codes under the existing system. But Ofcom reckons that with more than 300 communication providers being allocated numbers there's a lot of wastage going on - for technical reasons the minimum allocation is often 1000 numbers, so companies are sitting on lots of numbers they're not using.
The best way to get those numbers back, according to Ofcom, is to make the companies pay for numbers in the more popular area codes. That should provide them with an incentive to aggregate their customers, and share number blocks with other providers.
It's possible to imagine a provider with only two customers, but in separate 1000-number blocks (one acquired through acquisition of a competitor, for example) that provider can't hand back either block without changing a customer number, and has no incentive to do so. Once those numbers have a financial value the provider might push both customers into one block, or even sub-let a couple of numbers from a competitor and return 2,000 numbers to Ofcom.
Getting everyone to dial area codes might prove more controversial to end users, though the same condition already applies to mobile phones and most users seem to have got the hang of that (though it was a big deal in the early days).
The fact is there aren't enough numbers, with suitable area codes, to go around - but if you've a better way to spread them out then Ofcom will be delighted to hear from you. ®


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"Because fluid bovine milk is considered a high-quality protein in that it provides all essential amino acids and the carbohydrate content provided in chocolate milk exceeds that of white milk, fat-free chocolate milk holds particular intrigue as a recovery beverage for endurance athletes," said Dr. William Lunn and colleagues in Medicine & Science in Sports & Exercise.
Eight male runners took part in the studies. Both studies had two parts, separated by seven days. In each part, the men completed a 45-minute run. Afterwards, they were given 480 ml (16 ounces) of fat-free chocolate milk or a carbohydrate-only beverage during a three-hour recovery period. Both drinks had 296 calories; the chocolate milk had 16 grams of protein as well. Men given the chocolate milk during the first part of each study were given the carbohydrate-only drink during the second part, and vice versa.
This isn't the first time that chocolate milk has made the news as an exercise recovery drink. A 2011 study in the Journal of Strength & Conditioning Research concluded chocolate milk promoted recovery between exercise sessions as well as a combination carbohydrate-electrolyte replacement drink.
It makes sense that a protein-rich drink (like chocolate milk) would help spare muscle protein during recovery from intense exercise. Future studies should investigate other (nondairy) protein sources and complex carbohydrates as components of post-exercise drinks.
(Med Sci Sports Exerc 2012; DOI: 10.1249/MSS.0b013e3182364162)
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May 8, 2013
HOUSTON - Under near perfect conditions, University of Houston Men's and Women's Golf fans recently had a fun time at the Dave Williams Pro-Am sponsored by Insperity.
More than 100 players competed as teams of four in this annual event, which was held on the Tournament course at The Woodlands Country Club. Together, that group raised nearly $200,000, which will be used to pay for the construction of the state-of-the-art Dave Williams Golf Academy at Redstone Golf Club and benefit Houston Men's Golf and the new Women's Golf program.
Before the round started, competitors had a chance to purchase players from the Champions Tour in an auction. Houston lettermen Bill Rogers, Billy Ray Brown, Bruce Lietzke, Keith Fergus, Steve Elkington, Champions Tour stars Gary Hallberg, Lanny Wadkins, Russ Cochran, Steve Jones and Willie Wood and 2013 Insperity Championship winner Esteban Toledo graciously donated their time Monday morning to compete with Cougar fans.
By the time the auction - under the leadership of former Golf lettermen and auctioneer Mike Neece - had ended, more than $70,000 had been raised, thanks to the generous support of donors Ken Bailey, Roland Beck, Joe Chastang, Chad Clay, Greg Harper, George McLean, Jay Mincks, Richard Rawson, Paul Sarvadi, Darryl Schroeder and Bill Stephenson.
After the auction, the competition on the course began. In Gross scoring, the team of Mike Lindsey, Alex Jackson, Doug Deaver and Joran Meeks finished first with a score of 58. The team of Steve Bussmann, Mike Neece, Don Houchin, Pete Hessemer and pro Hal Underwood placed second with a score of 60.
In Net scoring, the team of Paul Savardi, Jason Ervin, Bill Wood, Howard Lederer and pro Esteban Toledo won in a playoff against Clay Hoster, Walter Hecht, Dennis Watson, Hill Adams and pro Billy Tuten. Both teams finished with scores of 49.
In the Closest to the Pin competitions, Bill Worrell took first place on No. 3, while Zona Trahan won on No. 8. University of Houston Alumni Association President/CEO Mike Pede was closest on No. 14, and Ken Plunkett took top honors on No. 16.
In the Long Drive competition, Chad Spencer captured first place on No. 11.
The tournament is named after legendary former Houston head coach Dave Williams, who led the Cougars to 16 NCAA team national championships from 1962-87. In his brilliant career, Williams guided Houston to 14 conference titles and more than 340 team tournament titles across 24 states and foreign countries.
Known as the "Father of Collegiate Golf", Williams created the scoring system that continues to be used at collegiate events today.
He was inducted into the Golf Coaches Association of America, Texas Sports and Texas Golf halls of fame as well as the University of Houston Hall of Honor. In addition, the GCAA named its national men's collegiate golf Coach of the Year award in his honor in 1988.
Williams passed away in December 1998.
Funds from the Dave Williams Pro-Am benefit the Houston Men's and Women's Golf programs as well as the construction of the Dave Williams Golf Academy at Redstone Golf Club.
The Cougars moved into the Williams Golf Academy in late August 2012. Located on the Redstone Golf Club Tournament Course driving range, the Academy covers 4,400 square feet and features the latest technology.
It has four indoor/outdoor hitting bays with Launch Monitors to allow student-athletes to practice length, dispersion and trajectories of any shot. A SAM PuttLab takes ultrasound measurements of putting strokes and a 3-dimensional biomechanical measuring system to help refine how a student-athlete's body should move during a swing.
The Academy also has a student-athletes' lounge and a reception area will showcase the rich history of Houston Golf. The facility makes Houston the only school in the state of Texas to enjoy a golf facility/home course that annually hosts a PGA TOUR event (Shell Houston Open).


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Crash Course in the Torahby Rabbi Avraham Goldhar
A 24-part video series that makes it easy.
A 24-part video series that makes it easy.
Exploring Judaism's unique claim that no other religion in history has made.
A big picture look at the books of the Bible and the Oral Law.
Identifying information that only the author knows.
What supports the claim that God spoke to the entire Jewish people at the foot of Mount Sinai?
More than the Five Books of Moses, Torah is the guide to living.
Taking care not to erase the written name of God.
Our special relationship with sacred books.
Who composed the original Torah? How is a scroll written today? Is our current text accurate?
The great success of Jewish tradition is the meticulous transmission of the Torah text. But actually how accurate is it?
Everyone knows that the Talmud is full of disagreements. Does this mean that the information is inaccurate? Actually it proves the opposite!


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"Remember, Atkins was a New Yorker. He had no concept of fidelity to southern roots and culinary traditions."
If you want to make your fortune as an author, just crank out a new diet book. Judging by the number on the market and how long they stay on the bestseller lists, it must be the key to fame and fortune. I could write one but I am going to share my own diet with you today at absolutely no cost except the fifty cents you paid for this newspaper.
One of my motivations is that I care for you. I'm a politician and I wouldn't lie to you. I am completely fed up with the way fat people are abused by the hollow promises of expensive diet books. Another motivation is that I am a super nice guy and want you to learn to trust me so I can write on more interesting topics like improving your love life.
Like you, I have seen hundreds of friends follow a diet long enough to shuck a few pounds but I have never seen one person keep it off. Let that sink in. Not one person. So you have nothing at all to lose by trying my diet.
The good news is that my diet will not require you to be gnawing on a cow all the time. None of that Atkins all-meat-and-no-potatoes foolishness. Neither will it require you to graze all the time in soybean fields.
Some experts criticize the meat and protein diets for the high fat level. My main criticism is that they are all unpatriotic in forbidding cornbread. It is unthinkable for a southerner to eliminate cornbread from its time-honored place on the daily table. Remember, Atkins was a New Yorker. He had no concept of fidelity to southern roots and culinary traditions. If anyone tries to take away your cornbread, get you a rifle and take a stand.
If you like meat, you will have no problem staying with my diet.
It allows barbecue for breakfast, squirrel and dumplings once a week and a Sunday dinner of possum and sweet potatoes. Possum and squirrel are readily available in this part of the country and birdwatchers consider it patriotic to serve squirrel. The highway department provides appreciation certificates for those who serve possum.
If you don't know how to cook them, my sister has a cookbook from Hog Valley, Florida(1) with a wonderful recipe for squirrel and dumplings. It doesn't matter how you cook possum and sweet potatoes. It has the same memorable aroma and sweet taste no matter how it is cooked.
The secret to healthy meat eating is to never overeat. There is no record in the annals of dietary science of anyone ever overeating squirrel and possum, making them the safest meats for human consumption. You can't beat a record of zero heart attacks.
When you dine out, the only requirement is that you sit in the smoking section. It will clog all eight sinuses and take away your taste. Ever notice how much less you eat when you can't taste?
Your age will determine how closely you have to adhere to my diet.
From birth to 10, nothing will make you fat but Milky Ways, Snickers and milk shakes. From 10 through 40 nothing will make you fat except gravy and biscuits. From 40 to 60, a simple diet of tree bark will widen you in the middle. After 60, oxygen will do it. It grieves me to tell you but after 60 you must quit breathing to lose a pound.
The centerpiece of my diet is a daily breakfast of biscuits and sawmill gravy.(2) All you want. I am especially faithful in following this part of the diet. Most of the time I don't want a bite for lunch and nothing to drink except Alka Seltzers. Hey, Alka Seltzers don't have a single calorie!
If you adopt this fine diet, please send me before and after pictures. I can see the ad now: "Just look what possum can do."
* This article is reproduced with kind permission of the author, Dalton Roberts ("The Downhome Philosopher"), from the Friday, May 7, 2004 issue of the Chattanooga Times Free Press, Chattanooga, Tennessee TimesFreePress.com. To read more of Mr. Dalton's amusing columns, visit his website at DaltonRoberts.com. E-mail Dalton Roberts at email@example.com
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So, for a recent assignment, I've decided to gather data from a variety of songs (similar in Key & BPM) by calculating the sum of each of 12 frequency bands levels through the course of the song. In other words, how much Bass, Mid-tones, and Treble is played independently throughout the track.
I have no issues in regards to the collection of the data, however, my hurdle is finding a meaningful way to compare these values. By calculating a raw sum value for each frequency band of said song, I have the means to compare the songs, but without any type of analytic/modeling process the data has no real substance.
What would be a useful tool/test, analytic procedure, or process of data manipulation that would serve as a legitimate statistical way to compare songs?
Please, any insightful contribution or reasoning would be really cool. It'd be great to see the different approaches to this one.
P.S. Don't hesitate to post highly complex methodologies. I'm really interested in seeing what can be argued as method of comparing something subjective/artistic such as a piece of music.


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The Oklahoma Department of Transportation (ODOT) has since turned the proposals over to an evaluation committee, which will have 90 days from January 31, 2014, to make a recommendation to ODOT.
The Sooner Subdivision rail line was one of the several rail corridors facing abandonment in the late 90s and ODOT acquired it at salvage value with the intent of preservation for future use.
In 2012, several private rail companies had shown interest in the line, prompting ODOT to begin exploring the possible sale of the Sooner Subdivision and began accepting proposals in November 2013.


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Boudjellal: Toulon are 'prize idiots'
Toulon's outspoken President, Mourad Boudjellal, wondered if coach Bernard Laporte return to training after their latest loss.
An interception try from Fiji wing Alipate Ratini two minutes from full-time, converted by Julien Caminati, handed Grenoble a dramatic 22-21 victory over Toulon in Top 14 action on Saturday.
The last-gasp defeat even left Toulon's outspoken president, Mourad Boudjellal, wondering if coach Bernard Laporte would even be at training on Monday, such was the latter's disappointment at the result.
"We're prize idiots," Boudjellal blasted after his side's first home defeat in almost a year.
"We've got to get it into our heads that we're no longer European champions, nor of anything else. We're no longer talking about first or second place but to finish in the top six in the Top 14."
Boudjellal, well known for often-emotional outbursts, added: "I hope the players will be able to regroup. My main concern is whether Bernard [Laporte] will be at training on Monday.
"He's disappointed with many things in rugby: the refereeing which sometimes verges on amateurism and the sport which he no longer recognises since he returned to it.
"He's far away from his loved ones [his family live in Paris] and I can tell you that he's had a gutsful."
The European champions looked to have sealed the win thanks to seven Jonny Wilkinson penalties that had given them a 21-15 lead at the 78th minute.
But Grenoble have proven themselves to be doughty fighters this season and they duly stuck to their task this time around to claim their first victory at Toulon since 1999.
When Wilkinson, the veteran Englishman who was a World Cup winner back in 2003, fired out a late pass on the left wing with an overlap abegging, Ratini read it perfectly, came out of the line and claimed the ball.
There was to be no catching the former Fiji 100m sprint champion, Caminati stepping up to kick the decisive conversion from in front of the posts.
Laporte was left fuming as, in the build-up to the interception, referee Laurent Cardona had indicated that he was playing advantage for Toulon, though that did look to have run its course by the time Wilkinson flung out his pass.
Grenoble, who were surprise 28-26 winners over Toulon the first time the two sides met this season, had four Valentin Courrent penalties and a Fabien Gengenbacher drop-goal to their credit before the dramatic denouement.
Toulon threw the ball around in a desperate attempt to get out of their own half following Ratini's late effort, but replacement forward Florian Faure caught hold of Delon Armitage with the full-back isolated, forcing the turnover and causing Grenoble coach Fabrice Landreau to burst into tears.
Racing-Metro suffered another shock defeat in their topsy-turvy season, going down 6-0 to promoted Oyonnax in a match played in terrible conditions.
Having beaten Clermont 13-9 in the European Cup, Racing upset Toulon 14-3 at home in the league last weekend.
Yet that apart, it has been a poor season for the expensively-assembled Parisians and two penalties by Regis Lespinas was enough for Oyonnax to scrape a valuable win.
Rock-bottom Biarritz went down 18-6 to Stade Francais, while Perpignan bucked a five-match losing run with a 20-8 victory over Bayonne.
Castres closed to three points off leaders Clermont after an uninspiring 15-9 win over struggling Bordeaux-Begles on Friday.
This weekend of Top 14 action comes ahead of back-to-back European Cup matches that complete the pool stages over the next two weeks.
CA Brive-Corrèze 15-9 Montpellier Hérault
Biarritz Olympique 6-18 Stade Français
Oyonnax 6-0 Racing Métro 92
Perpignan 20-8 Aviron Bayonnais
Toulonnais 21-22 Grenoble
Castres Olympique 15-9 Union Bordeaux-Bègles
Stade Toulousain 19-12 ASM Clermont