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Before Saturday's match against Chicago, the Crew honored the first responders from April's legendary scoreboard fire. After Saturday's match against Chicago, it was "Scoreboard: Fire."
One week after an impressive win over first-place Montreal, the Crew dropped a 2-1 home decision to the rival Chicago Fire. Another night of missed opportunities and punished mistakes prevented the Crew from building on the previous week's win and moving up the standings.
"It's obviously very disappointing," said Crew forward Dominic Oduro. "As I said last week, we have to keep the momentum going. We did good the first half. The second half was not good. We cannot be dropping points like that at home. We should have had points in this game. Just so many mistakes. Silly goals, silly mistakes on our part. We will just try and go back and drop all of the silly mistakes and play like we did in the first half. Especially going back to the game against Montreal, which was really good. We need to get back to that. Obviously tonight was not good enough."
For the second game in a row, Oduro stole the ball from the last defender and went in one-on-one with the goalkeeper. Last week, Oduro put the ball inside the right post for this seventh goal of the season. This week, he never had the chance. After Oduro stole the ball from Chicago defender Austin Berry, he was taken down in the box by Fire goalkeeper Sean Johnson, thereby earning a penalty kick.
"I'm just trying to use my speed to create chances for the team," Oduro said. "I'm glad I was able to do that again today. He knew I was quick, so I don't know what he was waiting for there. I just ran as fast as I could to try to get the ball, run into the box, and hopefully put the ball in the net. Then I got taken down by the goalie."
Federico Higuain buried the 7th minute penalty kick, meaning Oduro's roadrunner robbery has resulted in a pair of goals in as many games.
Regarding his recent high-pressure plundering spree, Oduro said, "I think my job up there is to make it tough for defenders, and I think I did that."
The Fire grabbed the lead with a pair of quick goals early in the second half. In the 52nd minute, the Crew got worked on a throw-in, and Joel Lindpere's cross found former Crew midfielder Dilly Duka as he peeled away to the far post. Duka volleyed the ball into the net to tie the score. In the 54th minute, Lindpere served another cross into the box. Josh Williams and Mike Magee went up for the ball, but it was Magee who chested the ball into the goal. It would prove to be the game-winner for the Fire.
"They were pretty similar," Crew goalkeeper Andy Gruenebaum said of the goals. "The first one is 2v2 on our right side. He splits them and we slide as we should, but Dilly made a good run to the back post. The second one was a good ball in, but again, it was preventable. We need to do a good job of doing the little things to win the game."
Williams took immediate ownership of the second goal.
"The first one, I'm going to have to take a look, but the second one, I already know that's on me," Williams said. "I will take full responsibility for that. He just snuck in. Magee is a crafty guy and he snuck over my shoulder there. I went to clear it and it nicked off me and went off him and in. At the end of the day, that's 100% my fault. I've got to do better there."
An early lead not built upon and some defensive lapses that were duly punished left the Crew feeling empty.
"I think everyone feels like we let one get away and that if we really want to do something this year, we need to start taking advantage of those early leads," Gruenebaum said. "We can't let off the gas after we score goals. We should have the energy to go after them, and we didn't do that."
Former Crew goalkeeper William Hesmer, a Massive Champion, attended Saturday night's game, sporting a Kirk Urso jersey.
Hesmer married his wife, Tacey, in December, and now the couple lives in Raleigh, North Carolina, where Hesmer serves as a financial advisor at Raymond James.
"New wife, new job, new city, new house, so yeah, it's been a fun transition," Hesmer said. "It's been great. It's the first time in my life I've had my weekends, so I spend a lot of time with my family and we go to the beach. It's been a lot of fun."
Over his final two seasons with the Crew, Hesmer interned in the finance field, preparing for his life after soccer. Now reaping the rewards of that preparation, he is working with professional athletes and other high net worth individuals to help them meet their financial planning goals.
"It's a lot of long hours that I never thought I'd enjoy," he said, "but when you're building your own business and putting all those hours into your own success, it's just like soccer. It's fun."
Earlier in the week, Hesmer spoke to the Crew's players about financial planning and life after soccer. He has been an advocate for this sort of life training, as the lack of planning and information has been a common lament of players near the end of the career. The players' union used to provide assistance in this area, but it has fallen off over the years. Hesmer is hoping to rekindle the discussions, and it obviously made sense to start with his former teammates on the Crew.
"We'll see how it goes," Hesmer said. "I think it was received well here. I think we talked in the player rep meetings and the union meetings about having a guy come around. Eddie Pope did it some, I believe, but the idea is to have a guy come around who has been in their shoes and say, 'Your time, as much as you think it is infinite, it's not. It's not a matter of if you will stop playing, but when. If that day came, are you ready? Are you doing all of the little things that you can to take a step toward whatever it is—if you want to be a pilot, or an assistant coach, or anything else. Are you meeting the right people? Are you asking the right questions?' We're not saying you need to have a second career while you're playing, but start thinking about that stuff. I think that message is something that's kind of fallen by the wayside the last three or four years, and I don't think guys think about it much, especially the young guys just coming up."
It's an all-too-common story to learn of a professional athlete who has gone bankrupt once his playing days are over. Granted, most MLS players aren't making stupid money like players in the other major American sports, On one hand, perhaps MLS players won't succumb to as many lifestyle traps, bit on the other hand, it also means that preparing for life after sports can be even more important since MLS players don't make "set for life" money.
"I told these guys that there's a stat that about 70% of professional athletes – and we're talking NFL, NBA, and so on— have financial problems after they're done playing," Hesmer said. "A lot of it is trying to keep up that lifestyle when they're done playing, squandering that money while they are playing, and not being prepared for a second career and having a way to keep some income rolling in and to use some of the income that they had made over the years. It's simple stuff, really, If you do it and you do it the right way, you'll be all right. As long as they've got that information, there's no excuse. Obviously, whenever you're talking to a large group of guys, there are going to be guys that are like, 'Okay, I just want to go home and fall asleep on my couch now.' But I think that overall, the guys wanted to be there. Obviously, they know me better than they'd know somebody else, so maybe that helped it go a little better."
Josh Williams felt that Hesmer's session was informative.
"I thought that was exactly what we need," Williams said. "The league basically covers everything else except for financial planning and planning for what happens in life after soccer. With Will, I think it helps a lot with us that he's been around the team and that we all know he's definitely a smart guy who knows what he's talking about. I think it's exactly what, not only us, but what the league needs."
To that end, Hesmer plans to take his show on the road at least one more time.
"I'm going to go to Philly and meet with those guys sometime in the next couple weeks," he said. "We'll see how that one goes, then assess it and see if it's something we want to do for all of the teams."
Upon learning about the bottle rocket lawsuit, Gruenebaum started contemplating his own financial picture.
"I did not see that article, but that's smart," he said. "I've thought about doing something ridiculous and suing someone. I mean, that's the American way, isn't it? It's a way to make a quick buck. I'm looking for a retirement plan, so the next time someone doesn't put 'hot coffee' on their coffee cup, I'm pouring it all over my eyeballs and suing them. So if you're a coffee company, you better make sure your cups have 'hot coffee' on there."
Was this retirement planning advice from William Hesmer?
"No," Gruenebaum said, "but I'm sure once it happens, Will will know what to do with my money."
So, to reiterate, it was just a coincidence that Hesmer came in and talked to the Crew about preparing for life after soccer and Gruenebaum is planning to scald his eyeballs with hot coffee to fund his retirement.
"Will's a bit brighter than that," Gruenebaum said. "This is my dumb idea. But I'll tell you what, if I ever do get that kind of money from a lawsuit or the lottery, everybody in this room is getting some, except for Josh. Josh is doing all right. He's got some sponsorships, plus Josh is best friends with LeBron. What else does he need? Why would he need anything?"
Despite being a Cleveland Cavaliers fan, Williams was excited to see fellow Akronite (and best friend) LeBron James win his second consecutive NBA title last week.
"I'm just relieved that I don't have to put up with any hassling for the next year," said Williams, who gets hectored by people who dislike LeBron and the Heat. "I was just like, 'Please win so I can rub it in for a day and then I don't have to put up with all that hassling.' He stepped up. You can't really say anything about him."
James dominated game seven and was declared the NBA Finals MVP. After game, James gave a speech about being "just a kid from Akron, Ohio" and how he wasn't even supposed to be there. That speech is surely truer for Josh Williams and his MLS career than the guy who was known as "King James" and "The Chosen One" while his high school games were broadcast on national TV, but whatever. I figured that speech might have resonated with Williams as a result of his improbable journey to MLS.
"I actually didn't even see that," Williams said, "As soon as the game was over, I went to bed. I was actually at home in Akron and then I had to get up early to drive down for practice, so I went to bed right when the game was over and had sweet dreams."
After the game, I saw Gruenebaum and equipment manager Rusty Wummel engage in a conversation centered around a pair of shorts. Gruenebaum tugged at the waistband and Wummel inspected the inside of the shorts. I wasn't close enough to hear the conversation, but I was curious as to what that was all about.
It turns out that Gruenebaum encountered a problem where the drawstring area on the inside of his shorts became torn from within, meaning his shorts were loose even when fully tied. The Hebrew Hammer was at risk of de-pantsing himself in front of over 19,000 people.
"The entire second half, if I would have had to do a breakaway slide and smother the ball, my shorts would have been down around my ankles," Gruenebaum said. "I want to stress that this is my only complaint about anything that adidas has ever done. I love adidas products. This drawstring problem is my only concern. It's just a little something for the suggestion box."
Gruenebaum then reiterated his love of adidas in the strangest of ways.
"I have an adidas tattoo," he said. "I'm not going to tell you where."
On April 27, everyone in Crew Stadium witnessed The Massive Scoreboard Fire of 2013, an event that will forever live in Crew lore. Nobody in attendance that day will ever forget the sight of flames and smoke pouring out the scoreboard, or the brave men and women of the Columbus Fire Department who even climbed into the charred wreckage to make sure the situation was safe and that the game could continue.
Knowing that Saturday's crowd was going to be the biggest of the year thus far, the Crew felt it would be an opportune time to thank the Columbus Fire Department for their efforts on that surreal evening.
"It seems like the only time we recognize first responders is after some sort of tragedy like 9/11 or the Boston Marathon," said Arica Kress, the Crew's Senior Director of Marketing. "We felt that it would be nice to recognize them for the job they do every single day, not just after a terrible tragedy. Obviously, our scoreboard fire was a big deal to us, but the Columbus Fire Department put it out quickly and made sure everyone was safe. They did such a great job that we were even able to play the game that night. We were so grateful for their courage and skill, so we wanted to celebrate that in a situation that wasn't a tragedy and where nobody got hurt. That way it could truly be about them and the amazing job that they do every single day."
Earlier that evening, the Columbus Police Department and Columbus Fire Department played a game on the Crew Stadium field. Then right before kickoff, Crew legend Frankie Hejduk and Crew President and General Manager Mark McCullers presented personalized Crew jerseys in recognition of the following first responders to The Massive Scoreboard Fire of 2013:
Station 1 – Union Station Engine House: Ladder 1
Station 2 – Nance Fire Station: Rescue 2
Station 7 – Buckeye Fire Station: Engine 7
Station 13 – Old North Columbus Fire Station: Engine 13, Ladder 13, and Medic 13
Station 16 – Mock Orchard Fire Station: Engine 16 and Medic 16
Station 18 – South Linden Fire Station: Engine 18 and Medic 18.
On a night where the Fire won and Columbus lost, this photo is a good reminder of how often the opposite holds true.
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Linux Security Measures
Part 1
Written By: Nitro
Email: firstname.lastname@example.com
2 July 2002
This is my first tutorial, and I decided to do it on something that I am currently
learning: linux security. Now the techniques/practices I use are not the only ones,
however, they are pretty common. The techniques/practices I use are also ones I
read about in various tutorials, so I will be incorporating some of the pieces from
the other tuts. You can look at my bibliography at the end of my tutorial to see
my resources.
| Contents:
| 1. Shutting down services
| 2. Commenting-out startup scripts
| 3. Deleting default usernames
| 4. Permissions
| 5. SUID/SGID programs
| 6. Logs
| 7. IPV4 settings (brief overview)
| 8. Closing
| 9. Bibliography
1. Shutting down services
First off, to find out what services we have running on our computer, we use the 'grep'
command. Example:
$ grep -v "^#" /etc/inetd.conf
By using the '-v' option of grep, we tell it to look for all lines that DO NOT match
"^#" in the file /etc/inetd.conf.
So in effect, grep outputs all of the lines in the inetd.conf file that are not commented
out, thus we get all the services running on our computer.
If you are just going to be a home user that surfs the internet, you probably don't want
all if any of these services running. So what do we do to get rid of the services we don't
want? Easy. You want to open /etc/inetd.conf in your text editor of choice (i.e., vi),
and put comments (#) on the lines where the services you don't want are. Example:
$ vi /etc/inetd.conf
See the "#" symbols in front of the services? You just commented them out, so now they
won't run.
Type (without quotes):
to write (save) and quit vi. Now we need to restart inetd so our new settings take
$ ps -x # find /usr/bin/inetd's PID
332 ? s 0:00 /usr/sbin/inetd
Ah, inetd's PID is 332. So how do we restart it? Check this out:
$ kill -HUP 332 # restarts /usr/sbin/inetd
There we go. Take a look at your services that are running now:
$ ps -x # see if the services we shutdown are still running...
Nope. They're not running anymore. That's a good thing.
2. Commenting-out startup scripts
In Linux, there is a directory called '/etc/rc.d' that holds the files that tells your
system what to run at boot time. All you have to do is comment-out the scripts you don't
need (just like we did for our Internet services).
3. Deleting default usernames
You really want to get rid of any default usernames that come with Linux. The only ones
you really need are 'root' (obviously) and your own usernames (and the usernames you
create). To delete usernames, do this (as root):
root# userdel -r <username>
This brings me to another security point. You are going to need to manage which users
you want to be able to 'su' up to root. My suggestion is to change the group that
/bin/su runs under (which is default 'root'). Second, you are going to want to change
the mode of /bin/su to something a little more secure; say something like an SUID root
file, root has read, write, and execute permissions, group 'wheel' has read and
execute permissions, while other users not in group 'wheel' have no access whatsoever.
How do we do that you ask? Like this:
root# /bin/chgrp wheel /bin/su
root# /bin/chmod 4750 /bin/su
Now 'su' will only be permitted to users in the group 'wheel' (and root of course).
So how do you change what groups users belong to? Well, you would use the
'usermod' program. However, you must add ALL the groups <user> belongs to first, then
you can add other groups. You have to remember to include all groups the user belongs
to, or he/she will only belong to one group. Here is the command you can use to modify
a user account:
root# usermod -G users,wheel,<other_groups> <username>
Also with this command, you must remember not to leave any whitespace in between groups
and commas. And that is how you can add users to different groups. Check out
'man usermod' for more information regarding this.
4. Permissions
File permissions are the heart and soul of Linux security. You don't want an unauthorized
user gaining access to a root file and modifying it, deleting it, or even backdooring your
binaries. You have to lock these down big time; one slip up and you might have a lot of
trouble on your hands. One thing you should change file permissions on are all of your
world-writable files/directories. You should really only have world-writable directories
and files in some rare conditions (i.e., your 'tmp' directories and 'tmp' files).
So how do we find world-writable files? Try this:
$ find / -perm -0002 -type f -ls
To find world-writable directories:
$ find / -perm -0002 -type d -ls
The 'find' command searches the root directory for files with world-writable permissions
(-perm -0002), searches for -type f (files), and on the second line searches for
-type d (directories), then the '-ls' tells find to output the results in the form of
'ls -dils'.
So let's say we found two world-writable files in the directory /home/nitro. They
are called 'linuxsecurity.txt' and 'testscript.txt'. (I am assuming /home/nitro
is our present directory).
-rw-rw-rw 1 nitro users 4096 Jul 2 10:34 linuxsecurity.txt
-rw-rw-rw 1 nitro users 4096 Jul 2 11:29 testscript.txt
As they are now, anybody in the group 'users' and anybody else who is not in group 'users'
can read and write to those files.
NOTE: if you don't know about permissions and how they are set up, I strongly recommend
that you 'man chmod' to learn more.
So, what permissions should we give to these files? I think we'll give the owner read
and write permissions, and everybody else has no access.
$ chmod 0600 linuxsecurity.txt testscript.txt
Do an 'ls -l' to see your new permissions:
$ ls -l
-rw------- 1 nitro users 4096 Jul 2 10:34 linuxsecurity.txt
-rw------- 1 nitro users 4096 Jul 2 13:56 testscript.txt
Now those files can only be read from and written to by the owner (in
this case, 'nitro'). You should go through your Linux OS and look at all the file
permissions and make modifications if you feel it's necessary.
5. SUID/SGID programs
I will start out by explaining what SUID (setuid) programs are. In short, they are
programs that run as a different user. So let's say user 'nitro' executes
/usr/sbin/traceroute; since traceroute is SUID root, nitro essentially is the root
user for as long as the program is running. Now having traceroute SUID root isn't
that big of a security risk, but I might make it 'chmod 4750' and change the group
to 'wheel' so only members of 'wheel' can execute the program as SUID root.
The main risk with letting anybody use SUID root programs is that you might get a
malicious user on your computer who has an exploit to overflow a buffer in a
SUID root program.
This is a little beyond the scope of this paper, however, I am talking about security
and SUID root programs; so what happens if a user runs a buffer overflow exploit on a
SUID root program? Well, the buffer will overflow with information and once that
happens, the malicious user can send commands via his/her exploit through the SUID root
program. The malicious user now has root access to your computer.
Going back to 'traceroute', I don't know of any times that someone wrote an exploit that
gained root access through it. So I'm pretty confident that you can keep traceroute
SUID root and not have very many problems, if any.
SGID programs are the same as SUID programs, just that instead of having different user
permissions while running the program, you have different group permissions.
What we need to do is find all SUID and SGID programs and if need be, alter them.
root# find / -type f -perm +6000 -ls
'find' looks in the root directory for all normal files with permissions of '6000'.
Permissions of '6000' means to look for SUID/SGID files (hopefully you read 'man chmod'
by now). '6000', in "human format" would be ---s--s--, however, since we told the
computer to find '-perm +6000', we are looking for any and all files with SUID/SGID set,
no matter if they are '-rwsrwsrwx' or '---s--s---'; we are looking for all files in
between those sets of permissions. Refer to 'man find' for more information.
Now that we have a list of SUID/SGID files, we can go through and 'chmod -s' all files
we don't think need to run as root.
Some files you can leave as SUID root are:
traceroute, ping, su, passwd, screen
6. Logs
By default, there are only two logs in Linux: 'syslog' and 'messages'. I am going to
show you how to make your own logs so you can log what you want.
Logs are made from two daemons: 'klogd' and 'syslogd'. 'klogd' intercepts and logs
linux kernel messages, and 'syslogd' logs all system messages. To configure your logs,
you must edit /etc/syslog.conf; this file tells 'syslogd' what to log and where to put
Do a 'man syslog.conf' to learn more about the log configuration. Here is an example
of my own /etc/syslog.conf file:
# all info and notices
*.=info;*.=notice /usr/adm/messages
# all debug messages
*.=debug /usr/adm/debug
# all error messages
*.=err /usr/adm/syslog
# all alert messages sent directly to me
*.=alert root,nitro
# all emergency messages sent directly to me
*.=emerg root,nitro
# connections and logins
authpriv.*;auth.* /admin/nitro/auth.log
authpriv.*;auth.* /var/log/secure
# mail messages
mail.info;mail.notice /var/log/maillog
# daemon messages
daemon.info;daemon.notice /var/log/daemon.log
# send all logs to sys.log
*.* /admin/nitro/sys.log
I think it's pretty self-explanatory, I made my own logs to log what I wanted.
So now we have to make sure our logs are secure and can't be altered by anyone except
root. You should 'chmod 0660' or 'chmod 0600' all your logs so only root can write to
them. Then you should 'chattr +a' all of them so your logs can only be appended to.
Read 'man chattr' for more information. You also want to make your /etc/syslog.conf
file super-secure so no one can alter or even look at it to find out where your logs are.
I would suggest a 'chmod 0000' and a 'chattr +a' for /etc/syslog.conf; you can always
'chmod 0600' and 'chattr -a' when you (root) need to alter syslog.conf.
7. IPV4 settings
You can find the ipv4 settings in the /proc/sys/net/ipv4 directory. These files control
various things that have to do with the internet (ICMP, IP, TCP). I am going to list
some of the most common ones and tell you how to make them act the way you want. This
list isn't complete, but the ones I don't mention you can look up and learn about on
your own.
ICMP settings
If this option is set to '1' (on), it tells the kernel to ignore icmp echo requests.
If it is set to '0' (off), then it allows icmp echo requests. To enable this option,
type in your shell (as root):
root# echo "1" > /proc/sys/net/ipv4/icmp_echo_ignore_all
This command writes a '1' to the icmp_echo_ignore_all file. To disable (to allow icmp echo
requests), type:
root# echo "0" > /proc/sys/net/ipv4/icmp_echo_ignore_all
If set to '1' (on), your computer will ignore icmp echo broadcasts. If you have this
set to '0', your computer may be used to receive icmp packets set to broadcast, and then
send them (like a router) to their destination. This could be abused by a malicious remote
user to use your computer as a gateway for sending DoS attacks through.
A value of zero disables replying to packets that are trying to reach destinations
unreachable. Any positive number sets the maximum package rate in hundredths of seconds.
You should keep this disabled unless you are using this computer as a router.
icmp_echoreply_rate, icmp_paramprob_rate, and icmp_timeexceed_rate have the same
parameters as icmp_destunreach_rate.
IP settings
This file is set to '1' if your computer received its IP configuration by RARP, BOOTP,
DHCP, or similar. Otherwise it's set to '0'.
Time to Live for IPV4 interfaces. Set to max number of hops a packet may travel.
root# echo "30" > /proc/sys/net/ipv4/ip_default_ttl
Enable dynamic IP addresses. Useful for dialup, but can be used with any connection
(as far as I know). '1' enables, '0' disables.
Enable or disable the forwarding of packets between interfaces. Use this (enabled) if
your system is properly firewalled and is being used as a router/gateway between your
internal network and the Internet (or other network). For normal users, this should
be disabled (set to '0').
Range of ports used by TCP and UDP to choose a local port. Default range of ports is
1024-4999 (as all ports 0-1023 are reserved). To change:
root# echo "5000-10000" > /proc/sys/net/ipv4/ip_local_port_range
The range can be any numbers you want except the reserved ones.
Global switch to turn path MTU discovery off. '1' for no path MTU discovery, '0' to allow
path MTU discovery.
Enable/disable debugging of IP masquerading.
ipfrag_high_thresh and ipfrag_low_thresh:
Maximum memory used to reassemble IP fragments. When ipfrag_high_thresh bytes of memory
is allocated, the fragment handler will toss packets until ipfrag_low_thresh is reached.
Time in seconds to keep an IP fragment in memory. Example:
root# echo "30" > /proc/sys/net/ipv4/ipfrag_time
TCP settings
tcp_retrans_collapse: On retransmit, try to send larger packets to work around bugs in
certain TCP stacks. Set to '0' to disable, '1' to enable.
Number of 'keep alive' probes TCP sends out (when enabled) before it determines the
connection was lost.
How often TCP sends out 'keep alive' messages (when enabled). Default is two hours.
Select acknowledgements. Used to convey extended acknowledgement information from the
receiver to the sender over an established TCP connection. See RFC 2018 for more
Defines how often an answer to a TCP connection request is retransmitted before giving up.
Defines how often a TCP packet is retransmitted before giving up.
Enable timestamps. See RFC 1323 section 3.2 for more information.
Enable the strict RFC 793 interpretation of the TCP urgent pointer field. Enabling this
option may lead to interoperability problems. It is disabled by default.
Send out 'syncookies' when the SYN backlog queue of a socket overflows. This prevents
SYN flood attacks when enabled. It is disable by default, so make sure you:
root# echo "1" > /proc/sys/net/ipv4/tcp_syncookies
to turn it on.
See RFC 1323 for more information.
The amount of time in seconds it takes to receive a final FIN packet before the socket is
closed. Although it is a violation of the TCP specification, I doubt anyone will complain
because, when enabled, this option can prevent DoS attacks.
Indicates how many keep alive probes are sent per slow timer run. Do not set it too high
or your probes will be sent in quick bursts.
Length of the per-socket backlog queue. When syncookies are enabled, the packets are still
answered and the maximum queue is ignored.
8. Closing
This is the end of my first tutorial on linux security; I hope that I can continue making
other parts to this tutorial, so if you have any feedback, questions, problems, requests
for what should be on my next tutorial, etc, just email me (email@example.com)
I hope you have learned alot, or if you are already an expert in linux security, I would
love to read your tuts as well
9. Bibliography
a. Bronc Buster's tutorial on linux security. It can be found at:
b. IPV4 security.
c. there are probably other places I got information from, just can't remember.
the attachment is a copy of the tutorial...I put it here cuz the formatting is bad when I posted to AO lol


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Everything you ever wanted to know about teen depression is on the Internet. Just type in the words "teen depression," and it's all there. In a website entitled Teen Depression, I found the following:
Depression is the most common mental health disorder in the United States among teens and adults, and can have a serious impact on the lives of the many teens who suffer from depression.
Teen depression can affect a teen regardless of gender, social background, income level, race, or school or other achievements, though teenage girls report suffering from depression more often than teenage boys. Teenage boys are less likely to seek help or recognize that they suffer from depression, probably due to different social expectations for boys and girls — girls are encouraged to express their feelings while boys are not. Teenage girls' somewhat stronger dependence on social ties, however, can increase the chances of teen depression being triggered by social factors, such as loss of friends.
Note that the depression suffered by these teens is serious enough to require medical intervention, which generally includes psychiatric therapy and taking drugs to alleviate the mental pain caused by depression. Apparently there are also many depressed teens who manage to cope and don't seek medical treatment. Some of them commit suicide to alleviate the pain of being alive.
Here is a list of symptoms of teen depression as given on a website for the drug Abilify:
Sadness most of the day
Low energy or fatigue
Loss of interest in favorite activities
Feelings of hopelessness and/or pessimism
Difficulty concentrating
Irritability, restlessness, or being slowed down
Feeling worthless or guilty
Trouble sleeping or sleeping too much
Significant weight change
Thoughts about suicide or dying
Thoughts about suicide or dying. But that's what the schools teach. They teach about death and dying. Children write their own obituaries in school. They are told there is no God and that life is purposeless. If a child is taught that his or her life is no more significant than a cat's or dog's life, that will make one feel pretty worthless.
Atheist schools even destroy the joy of Christmas by banning any mention of Christmas in the holiday season. The students are supposed to celebrate the "Winter Solstice," which is probably what the worshippers at the Stonehenge celebrated.
The fact that neither parents, therapists, nor educators will even admit that removing God from education can produce depression is a sign of how spiritually perverse our society has become. Teachers of death education admit that teaching about death and dying, and the writing of obituaries can cause student depression. But that doesn't seem to bother them. Indeed, over 50,000 American teenagers have committed suicide since the introduction of death education in America's public schools.
According to Education Week (10/31/84), there were 18 teenage suicides a day in the United States, about 6,570 per year. A more recent statement about teen suicide was given by The American Academy of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry:
Suicides among young people continue to be a serious problem. Each year in the U.S., thousands of teenagers commit suicide. Suicide is the third leading cause of death for 15-to-24-year-olds, and the sixth leading cause of death for 5-to-14-year-olds.
Teenagers experience strong feelings of stress, confusion, self-doubt, pressure to succeed, financial uncertainty, and other fears while growing up. For some teenagers, divorce, the formation of a new family with step-parents and step-siblings, or moving to a new community can be very unsettling and can intensify self-doubts. For some teens, suicide may appear to be a solution to their problems and stress.
Depression and suicidal feelings are treatable mental disorders. The child or adolescent needs to have his or her illness recognized and diagnosed, and appropriate treatment plans developed. When parents are in doubt whether their child has a serious problem, a psychiatric examination can be very helpful.
Note that suicide is the sixth leading cause of death for 5- to 14-year-olds. The idea of child suicide was unheard of before the schools became atheistic. It is true that family dysfunctions can depress a child, especially if that child has no recourse to God, because the school told him that there is no God, just as there is no Santa Claus.
Everybody wonders why there have been so many shootings and massacres in schools and elsewhere, so many teen suicides, and so much self-destructive behavior among teens. But the obvious is too unbelievable to atheist-humanist America. Simply put, Godless education leads to depression.
Death educator Nina Ribak Rosenthal, in an article entitled "Death Education: Help or Hurt?" which appeared in The Clearing House of January 1980, wrote:
Death arouses emotions. Some students may get depressed; others may get angry; many will ask questions or make statements that can cause concern for the instructor ... Students may discuss the fact that they are having nightmares or that the course is making them depressed or feeling morbid. ... Others may have no reactions or feel a great sense of relief that someone finally is talking about the things they often felt they could not say. Others may become frightened. In fact, Bailis and Kennedy report that secondary students increased their fear of death and dying as a result of participating in a death education program.
Depression, fear, anger, nightmares, morbidity. These are the negative emotions and reactions stirred up in students by death education. Is this what parents want their children to experience? Is this why they send their children to school so that they can learn about death rather than life? However, according to the misguided Ms. Rosenthal, simply because death education can cause such emotional turmoil and anxiety is no reason not to teach it. "Since death has been such a taboo topic, open and honest communication is essential. Such communication," she writes, "helps to desensitize students to anxiety-arousing items."
Thus, the purpose of death education is to "desensitize" children to death — to remove or reduce that reasonable, rational, and useful antipathy toward death that helps us preserve our lives. It is when children begin to see death as "friendly" and nonthreatening that they begin to be drawn into death's orbit and lured to self-destruction. It's a phenomenon that might be called "death seduction," in which an individual is drawn irresistibly into a fascination and then obsession with death. The individual begins to disdain life and love death.
Atheist schools play with fire. They play with the emotional lives of their students and are nonplussed when the students act up. According to an article in Education Week (12/14/88),
A nationwide poll of 22,000 public-school teachers sponsored by the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching, has revealed a disturbing picture of the problems teachers encounter in their classrooms.
Nearly 90 percent reported disruptive behavior and student apathy to be serious problems in their classrooms. Almost 70 percent identified theft and vandalism as problems in their schools, and 50 percent said that alcohol and drugs were problems. Ninety percent complained about lack of parental support; 44 percent were concerned about violence against students; and 24 percent they considered violence against teachers a problem.
That's a perfect picture of what happens in a school without God. Violence, vandalism, theft, apathy, drugs — and add to that suicides, shootings and massacres, plus low test scores and children who can't read and you get an idea of how serious the problem of Godless education has become for this nation. None of the reform programs offered by the establishment addresses any of these problems because the establishment refuses to acknowledge the need for biblical religion in education.
When I was attending public school in the 1930s and '40s, the principal read the 23rd Psalm at every assembly. That was enough to inform the student body that there was a God and that He protected us from evil. The curriculum was a solid one based on traditional teaching methods. We learned to read with phonics, write in cursive script, learned the arithmetic facts by rote, and learned about our history in chronological order.
All of that is gone today, and the educators refuse to go back to the methods that worked and the biblically-based morality that governed the schools. Thus parents have no recourse but to refuse to put their children in atheist schools and either teach them at home or enroll them in decent private schools where religion can be taught.
Computer technology has made homeschooling the most effective form of education in America today. But 85 percent of American children still attend public schools, sent by parents who have no idea what goes on in those classrooms. The very decent parents of the two Columbine killers had no idea what the school was doing to their sons.
And when children come home from school depressed, parents have no idea why. The school is never blamed, so there must be something wrong with the children. If a child can't learn to read, it's not the fault of the school's teaching methods, it's the fault of the child who was born with a learning handicap. If schools hand out condoms to teenagers, they are not contributing to the delinquency of minors, they are protecting them from a sexually transmitted disease and unwanted pregnancy.
It's time for American parents to wake up. Atheist schools are a danger to the health, safety, and emotional lives of their children. These schools should either be abolished or reconstituted as genuine institutions of learning in which God is acknowledged as the Creator of the universe and all of life in it.


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CHP Systems, Inc., Morristown, TN, has launched a new website featuring several metalforming-equipment manufacturers: Benchmaster, Blow Press, Cieco, Feed Lease, Greenerd Press & Machine, and Orrtech. Visitors to the site also will appreciate an expanded technical library loaded with helpful information for metal stampers; www.chpsys.com.
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Dave's ESL Cafe's Student Discussion Forums :: View topic - Do you like the Christmas? Dave's ESL Cafe's Student Discussion Forums"The Internet's Meeting Place for ESL/EFL Students and Teachers from Around the World!" FAQ Search Memberlist Usergroups Register Profile Log in to check your private messages Log in Do you like the Christmas? Dave's ESL Cafe's Student Discussion Forums Forum Index -> Holidays View previous topic :: View next topic Author Message VivianaqaJoined: 04 Dec 2006Posts: 14Location: Costa Rica Posted: Tue Dec 05, 2006 10:45 am Post subject: Do you like the Christmas? Hi, I like this holiday because in my family we do a party in the nigth of december 24, and I give a gift for all the members in my family and my friends... What do you do this holiday? Or what is your favorite? Back to top augusto_101Joined: 16 Apr 2007Posts: 5 Posted: Mon Apr 23, 2007 9:48 am Post subject: Hi everyone! I like very much the Christmas because I have many good souvenirs about this date... It's my favorite time of the year. My family ussually do a party with my relatives and I have many relatives, my cousins, aunts, uncles and my grandparents are a big family. Everyone give and win many presents. And I and my family always go to a church day 24 or 23 December. Christmas means a good thing to me too because My Vacation begin. And I always get see many people whose many time ago I didn't see... Back to top Rainie leeJoined: 28 Apr 2009Posts: 2 Posted: Mon May 04, 2009 2:35 am Post subject: I like the Christmas day. I can go to eat big meal with my friends. We always change prestents to each other. Back to top KotchapornJoined: 19 Nov 2010Posts: 2 Posted: Sun Nov 28, 2010 9:48 am Post subject: I like the Christmas day too because I will have a long holiday and the weather is not hot. In this day my family has a party in the evening and my relative always joy with us. I and my cousin enjoy about decorating our Christmas tree, barter our gifts and play a many games. My mom, aunt and grandmother are cooking for our big meal that is very delicious. The main reason that I like this day is all of the mall will be a special prices before Christmas. I and mom like go shopping in this time very much because there is many things that we want to buy. So this is the best chance that we should go shopping. Back to top c02wakanaJoined: 21 Nov 2010Posts: 8 Posted: Sun Dec 05, 2010 4:43 pm Post subject: I do love Christmas!! Cuz I can listen Christmas song everywhere and see beautiful decollations and Christmas trees in any towns Love this atmosphere!!! In Japan, this event is almost for couple! Any restaurants are full up with couples <3 When I worked at Japanese restaurant I was usually working at there on Christmas. But this year I will spend time with my friends and have a Christmas party! Im so excited about it and maybe we will wear Santa Claus's costumes It is going to be a great Christmas this year! I can not wait I hope everyone would have good time!!!! Back to top c18harukaJoined: 21 Nov 2010Posts: 5 Posted: Sun Dec 05, 2010 6:08 pm Post subject: I love Christmas so much. In Japan, Christmas is last big event a year. I like atmosphere of Christmas in downtown. Its start to decoration on December. Christmas illuminations start in everywhere. And there were many couples in town. But Ill spend this Christmas with my friends. I cant wait for Christmas day. Back to top Mill MoonJoined: 12 Jul 2016Posts: 7 Posted: Thu Jul 21, 2016 9:06 am Post subject: I like Chirstmas, too! Although my family don't hold a party or give some gift, I like the atmosphere in Christmas! When It snows in Christmas, it seems that Santa comes over to me at night. It's warm and relaxing for me.. Back to top light0508Joined: 16 Jul 2016Posts: 4 Posted: Sun Jul 24, 2016 8:00 pm Post subject: Holidays I like the Christmas. Because every December 25th I can go travel or play with friends. Sometimes I can get a festival to celebrate the Christmas. Back to top opel17Joined: 05 Dec 2016Posts: 2 Posted: Thu Dec 22, 2016 12:38 pm Post subject: Hi everyone I'm from Thailand. This is first time for Christmas. I thing I like Christmas day because it's no school and I'm very excited to my host family give me present. Back to top MandryJoined: 02 Mar 2017Posts: 2 Posted: Fri Dec 15, 2017 9:37 am Post subject: Christmas isnât a season. Itâs a feeling._________________Good morning love quotes
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Barack Hussein Obama considers himself above the law, as he has shown on myriad occasions during his reign of durance vile. His DeMarxist Congressional leaders certainly have not scruple one between them. We can go right on down the list of his government from top to bottom.
Hillary Clinton is culpable in what is obviously and rapidly becoming the greatest foreign policy implosion in modern history. The Justice Department, under the uber-lawless Eric Holder, has set new and ominous standards for the utter disregard of the rule of law and the US Constitution. Take your pick. From Kathleen Sebelius, who aided and abetted Planned Parenthood's illegalities in the State of Kansas… to the activities of Janet (the mustache) Napolitano, who has fostered an entire hierarchy in her department of "like-minded" individuals who have made harassment of a sexual nature an unpleasant reality for those who have to serve under them. More on Ms. Janet later.
MaoBama's phantasmagorical flight of fancy in which he, and he alone, would be the arbiter between a greatly weakened and diminished America and the seventh century savages that make up the world of Islam, has collapsed like a deflated balloon. Make no mistake about it… this administration, which has left our embassies and our foreign service personnel virtually defenseless in the most unstable region on the planet, is culpable as hell.
The fact that they clung to the narrative as long as they did… that a 14-minute trailer to a supposed film no one has seen and which, incidentally, was shot months ago, inflamed the whole middle east, would indicate naiveté and a disconnect with reality which is difficult for any thinking person to fathom.
Whether on the international scene, or the increasingly desperate thrashings of MaoBama and his DeMarxists here at home, there are disturbing indications that Mao may have already set the stage for an end run around our election laws and the electoral process. Needless to say, the Constitution would not present much of a barrier to Mr Mao should he decide to stage a coup. 'Not in this country', you say. Don't be too sure. El Flaco Communista has shown all the propensities of a third world tyrant… Developing…..
Semper Vigilans, Semper Fidelis
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Experts Discuss How to Make the Most of Search and Social Media
FORT LAUDERDALE, FL--(Marketwire - Dec 27, 2012) - Out with the old, in with the new! Companies ready to shift to a more effective online PR strategy will want to attend the South Florida Interactive Marketing Association's first event of the new year, "Using Search and Social Media to Maximize Online PR." On January 10, a panel discussion featuring noted speaker, writer and consultant Lisa Buyer will cover the key ingredients needed for great PR results online.
Buyer will be joined by Toby Srebnik who oversees digital media efforts for well-known local brands such as Aventura Mall and Anthony's Coal-Fired Pizza, and has launched successful campaigns for Dunkin' Donuts and Truly Nolen of America. The panel will also feature South Florida-based attorney and foreclosure defense expert Roy Oppenheim, a partner at Oppenheim Law who gained local, regional and national media coverage using Buyer's social media PR strategies. The discussion will be moderated by Joe Laratro, past SFIMA president and founder of SEO consulting firm Tandem Interactive.
Interactive marketers, PR pros and SEO geeks alike will discover how to mix up search engine marketing, social media and public relations to ensure their stories make it to journalist newsfeeds, search engines, social networks, and directly to the eyeballs of customers. Attendees will leave with actionable items they can implement immediately to create a new online PR routine for 2013.
Lisa Buyer is the CEO of The Buyer Group, an interactive public relations and branding agency based in Florida. The Buyer Group's Social PR/SEO clients consist of public and private companies in the technology, real estate and health/beauty industries. The firm also offers consulting services to agencies transitioning to today's best search engine strategies. Buyer writes a monthly column on Search Engine Watch and publishes SocialPR Chat. She is also a Certified Google Adword Professional (just for the fun of it), past member of SEMPO, SFIMA and Agency Management Roundtable.
Toby Srebnik is director of social media for O'Connell & Goldberg Public Relations in Hollywood, Fla., where he manages social media initiatives for clients while also deepening the firm's social media branding strategy. Prior to joining O'Connell & Goldberg, Srebnik served as Manager of Social Media for Tilson Communications in Boca Raton. He has presented at numerous universities and businesses about the influence of social media, and is a Social Media Club South Florida board member and the 2013 President for the Public Relations Society of America's Greater Fort Lauderdale chapter.
Roy Oppenheim is the co-founder and senior partner at Oppenheim Law, a firm he founded in 1989 with his wife, Ellen Pilelsky. He is a successful serial entrepreneur and attorney focusing on Florida foreclosure defense, Internet ventures and direct sales companies. Oppenheim is a motivational speaker and shares his inspirations and Florida foreclosure expertise through his social media channels, including an award-winning South Florida foreclosure law blog www.southfloridalawblog.com, Twitter @oplaw, foreclosure defense YouTube Channel, and interactive communications with his peers, clients and colleagues.
The SFIMA discussion takes place Thursday, January 10, at the IGFA Fishing Hall of Fame and Museum in Dania Beach, Fla. Networking runs from 6:30 p.m. to 7:15 p.m. The discussion runs from 7:30 p.m. to 8:30 p.m. The event is free for SFIMA members. Non-members pay $39 in advance, $49 at the door. To register, visit http://tinyurl.com/bwndlhe.
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FactCheck.org Hits Obama Campaign for 'Inflated' Jobs Claims (by Over 4 Million)
Although it should have used harsher language in its headline, FactCheck.org, the Annenberg Foundation-funded outfit, has apparently set its leftist bias aside long enough to take shots at an ad narrated by President Barack Obama which claims 5.2 million jobs created and gives all but the most alert viewers the impression that the number represents those created during his entire administration. Perhaps predictably, the item, which was at the top at Yahoo News just a few hours ago, is not on the home page of Yahoo's U.S. home page and is on the verge of falling off at its main page.
Excerpts from Brooks Jackson's writeup follow the jump, including FactCheck's review of claims made at the "learn more" web link mentioned in the ad (bolds are mine):
Obama's Inflated Jobs Claim
In a new TV ad, President Obama makes an inflated claim to have added 5.2 million new jobs. The total added during his time in office is actually about 325,000.
In the ad, the president says "over 5 million new jobs" while the figure "5.2 million" appears on screen. But that's a doubly misleading figure.
Viewers would need to pay close attention to the on-screen graphic to know that the ad refers only to employment gains starting in March 2010, omitting the 4.3 million jobs that were lost in the first year of Obama's term.
And there's no way a viewer would know that the total counts only private-sector jobs, omitting continuing losses in government employment.
According to the most recent employment figures from the Bureau of Labor Statistics, the economy has eked out a net gain of 325,000 jobs since January 2009, when Obama took office. And that's giving credit for roughly 386,000 jobs that the BLS has announced, on a preliminary basis, that it will be adding to this year's employment totals next year, as a result of its routine annual "benchmarking" analysis.
Looking only at private-sector jobs, it's true that the total has risen just under 5.2 million since February 2010 — provided that credit is given for roughly 453,000 private-sector jobs to be added next year through the BLS benchmarking process. But over Obama's entire term, those private-sector jobs have gone up only 967,000, even counting benchmarking additions.
... viewers who follow the ad's invitation to visit an Obama website for further information will find some false and misleading claims. There, the campaign, for example, states that "Mitt Romney criticized the end of the Iraq war as 'tragic,' and has offered no plan withdraw our troops from Afghanistan." In fact, as we've reported before, Romney did not call the end of the Iraq war "tragic." He used that word to describe the president's pace of troop withdrawal, not ending a war. And more important, there is no longer any difference between Romney's position and Obama's plan to pull all U.S. combat troops out of Afghanistan by the end of 2014.
The main flaw in Jackson's analysis is that he didn't look at changes in the number of people who are self-employed since Obama took office. This is relevant because the figures the Obama campaign cites are payroll jobs identified in phone calls to employers. During the March 2010 to September 2012 period about which Team Obama brags (found by making appropriate data retrieval selections at Table A-8 at the Bureau of Labor Statistics), total seasonally adjusted unincorporated self-employment per the government's Household Survey has dropped by 295,000 (140,000 in agriculture and 155,000 in all other lines of work). Since Obama took office, the equivalent drop-pff is 112,000 by (132,000 in agriculture minus a 20,000 pickup elsewhere).
The main flaw in the article's headline is its use of the word "inflated." Exaggerating by a few hundred thousand is inflated; overstating by over 4 million -- something which as noted earlier only alert viewers could catch (if there's an equivalent radio ad, it obviously wouldn't be caught at all) -- is engaging in flat-out falsehood and fantasy.
Cross-posted at BizzyBlog.com.


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It's home remodeling season, the time of the year when do-it-yourselfers get ready for new home improvement adventures.
DIY projects accounted for 37 percent of all home remodeling projects performed nationwide in 2010 and 2011, according to the Department of Housing and Urban Development and the U.S. Census Bureau.
You can save money by doing a remodeling project on your own, but before you start knocking down walls around the house, make sure you can handle the project.
Homeowners should consider safety risks, time delays and hidden costs before embarking on DIY home improvements, says the National Association of Home Builders Remodelers.
"Remodeling can be complex and oftentimes full of surprises, even for experts like our members," says NAHB Remodelers chairman Bill Shaw.
These are not DIY projects
Projects involving plumbing, electrical work and any structural changes should be avoided by DIYers, says Paul Hamtil, owner of Hamtil Construction in St. Louis, and a member of the National Association of the Remodeling Industry.
"When you start messing with those types of things, you can quickly create a hazard without even knowing," he says. "Do the finishes, smaller surface projects, things like re-tiling."