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Note: I'm perfectly aware that what I wrote was not actually a virus. Virus definitions define it various ways ranging from a trojan to "potentially unwanted software". In the purest sense it wasn't a virus, trojan, worm, or any other derivative–which is fine by me. It wasn't my intention to write a virus in the first place.
Every so often and a few of my close friends love to casually mention that I "wrote a virus". This is usually in front of a cute girl or a large group of people who I don't know very well.
This invariably leaves me in the position of either a) letting the remarks stand umodified, or b) qualifying the story with the facts. I usually choose b. A story like this might not be the key to a ladies heart (or anyone else's for that matter), but I guess I get points for being unique.
It's been a long time since these things happened so a lot of the details are hazy. I don't think about it often and when I do think about it, it seems like it happened in another lifetime. Because of all of this, I'm going to write all of the details down to assist my memory, and possibly entertain you with the antics of a 19 year old with too much time and too little social life.
The Background
Almost five years ago (gosh, has it really been that long?) I had few responsibilities and more free time. That's the nice way of saying I spent a lot of my time in my room, on my computer. Much of this free time was spent on self invented projects, useful and useless. A few of the things I worked on around this time include:
- Extenshun – A program to interface with bulletin boards and allow people to track their posts.
- I hosted a website called DebateGrounds.com which encouraged people to discuss politics, religion, and science. It had a decent commnunity with some good discussions.
- I helped write a couple of chapters in a published technology book.
- I hosted a collaborative blog called blogzine back before blogs were mainstream (I have since lost the domain–don't ever let a domain lapse, ever)
- I designed websites for local businesses and musicians.
- I was the main system administrator for a small, now failed, venture capitalist company.
- Etc.
I was a bit of a loser, but I don't significantly regret it because these years have signicantly contributed to my success in college and my career.
During this time, I became "friends" with someone I only knew as Justin. We both frequented the FlashKit forums and had a common interest in being obnoxious. Justin lived in Chicago. He had a girlfriend named Megan. He also liked to stir up trouble and seemed to always be online.
Justin's permanence online helped me with a lot of projects, in truth. His technical prowess was much greater than my own. If I had an idea, he could often help me implement it in about 10% of the time. He was a huge fan of all things open source and snobbishly preferred BSD flavors of *nix over anything Linux.
The idea for the virus started very primitive. We decided we wanted to put something on file share networks (Gnutella at the time) that would chastise people for pirating software. I viewed it as a social experiment. The pay off for us was simple: after it chastised them, it would tell us how long they had read the message. Simple application, simple goal.
I wrote the first version myself in .NET. We codenamed it "Walk The Plank". (You know, pirates…the whole gig.) It took me around 30 minutes and we quickly put it on Gnutella with some fake names. Such as:
- Microsoft Office 2000 Crack.exe
- Britney Spears – Hit Me One More Time.mp3.exe
- Etc, etc, etc. (We had about 500 names we released it under)
We got a few downloads but very few logged executions. We determined this was due to .NET being a new technology (version 1.1 at the time) and almost no one having the framework installed. (In other words, no one could open our program without downloading a 20 MB file from Microsoft.)
We realized that to make this really work, we were going to have to write in C or C++ and do it right. I started working on a version in C. (Did I mention I hate writing in C?) I got the basic functionality working, but we realized at this point, we wanted more.
You see, there is this time in the life of software that usually coincides with the completion of its first version. You suddenly have a thousand ideas for additional features. Often times you have to completly rewrite your application to be satisfied. This second version of WTP (Walk the Plank) was functional, but we thought of number of ways to make it more ingenious.
- We wanted to specifically track the progress of the application across the Internet. (The various connected interwebs, if you will)
- We wanted to know exactly what they had been trying to download. (i.e., Britney Spears of a software crack)
- We wanted the data we collected to be publicly accessible.
- Lest someone hijack our work and we get blamed for it, we wanted it to delete itself if it was modified.
I should pause to mention: We had no intention of becoming famous at this time. None whatsoever. This was a little experiment for our own satisfaction. The fact that people trying to participate in illegal activities were the brunt of this joke made it all the better.
Accomplishing those goals required a lot of technical back flips that, had I been working by myself, I would have never finished. The program was designed like this:
Embedded in the software was an ID number. When a user would execute the program and click the button, a number of things would happen:
- It would contact our website and report the amount of time the message was viewed and what their ID number was.
- Our server would report back a new, unique ID number.
- We wrote out a separate executable to the temporary directory and executed it. This executable would modify the original program and replace the old ID number with the new one.
- If the program size was different than expected, it would delete the original executable.
Relatively simple on the surface, difficult in its implementation. (It's hard to write a binary that contains another binary that will delete your original binary if the size is wrong because you have no good idea of what the final size will be until you're done. The size of the original binary changes everytime you update the embedded binary to reflect the size of the container…it's a merry-go-round.) We called this new version Operation Dust Bunny or (ODB) as it became known:
This final version of Operation Dust Bunny is nearly identical in appearance to the first version.
We released Operation Dust Bunny onto several networks, the primary one being Gnutella (you may remember it as Grokster, Kazaa, etc…). Same 500 names. I enlisted a friend to help distribute for a total of 3 people sharing 500 small files.
The number of downloads grew exponentially. Not only were people stupid enough to download it, they were also stupid enough not to delete it. We setup a website that showed how many hours of pirate's time we had wasted, and a comprehensive list of all executions. You could click on someone's ID and find out who they had gotten it from, all the way back to the first download. We also listed their complete IP address and country of origin. We made an unfortunate decision to host this site on my own computer on my cable connection. It was nearly permanently inaccessible after the story broke and I don't have a copy of it today. (Not even archive.org has it. )
After about 12,000 individual users were logged as executing the program with over 85 hours of execution time, we realized it was much bigger than originally anticipated. We decided to add to this feat by trying to get noticed.
We first published information about it on our blog (blogzine) and posted it on a few bulletin boards. (See below for the original article as we posted it.) One of the bulletin boards we posted at was DSLReports.com. They soon picked up the story officially. All of this attracted the attention of Kevin Poulsen at SecurityFocus. He called my cellphone number while I was running the cash register at my parents service station. I was totally unprepared. I managed to stay conscious during his impromptu phone interview. A few hours later he published the story with the title "Anti-piracy vigilantes track file sharers." Their story alone resulted in a myriad of attention that I was neither ready for nor sure I wanted.
Having been published, we submitted the story to Slashdot, the biggest most viewed technology news site. They picked up the story and that's when the "fit" really hit the "shan".
At this time, I had only my common sense to tell me I wasn't going to get in trouble. I knew that the program was not a true trojan as SecurityFocus had suggested. I knew that it had caused no damage, physically or monetarily. My attitude became somewhat fatalistic. "Why stop now?" I thought.
The night after Slashdot picked up the story, we sent some instant messages on AIM to a technologically oriented talk show host, David Lawrence, who hosted a program in California, Online Tonight With David Lawrence. I had some friends help me send him some messages pretending to be interested listeners.
I can't really describe how cool it was to hear the first words of a syndicated radio program ring something like this "Alright, alright we will be talking about this DustBunny virus…" But this ended up being the least exciting part of the evening. Within a few minutes of the show going on the air, I was emailed by the program director asking if I would agree to be on the air.
This put me in a difficult position. I had already achieved much more fame at this point than I really wanted. I was enjoying it, but I was also crapping my pants. The thought of being on the radio had never crossed my mind. Even more complicated, I hadn't told my parents about any of this. The only thing I knew for sure is that there was no way in heck I could say no. So I said yes.
He had me on the show for about an hour. I sounded like cliched 19 year old nerd who who found himself suddenly in the limelight would: not that good. I will update this post soon with the audio of this program. (if my ego can handle it!) UPDATE: You can listen here.
The fallout of all of this was minor. People soon forgot about the story. I was never approached by lawyers or more than verbally maligned. The coolest things that resulted were the following:
- 9 different antivirus companies included Dust Bunny in their definitions under various aliases. Trojan.Win32.DusBunn being the most common. McAfee was most correct in their analysis, calling it "potentially unwanted".
- Someone filled up my voicemail with dead air.
- I got a threat letter with a–I kid you not–pirate sticker. "It's your choice, Clifton. You can be with us or against us. You decide…"
- A lot of news organizations picked up the story. Tons of technology sites linked to it. Even more bulletin boards.
It was overall a positive experience. My parents eventually found out, and while they were concerned that I had acted so foolishly, they mostly found the story to be entertaining and enjoyed passing the links to news sites around to friends.
I'm not sure if I have the source code for any of this, but if I do, I will post it online as an open source project. I probably do not have the source code for the embedded binary or the online backend.
Thanks for reading. I hope it was somewhat entertaining.
Original article, complete with hyperbole:
Behold: Walk the Plank and Operation Dust Bunny
Note: Due to responses by certain detractors, we've updated our legal section (again) to further clarify our stance.
Apparently, this is becoming more and more newsworthy. Security Focus called today and interviewed me. Here is the resulting article: http://securityfocus.com/news/8279
At the start of this year, we (Justin and Clif, Clif and Justin) decided to start a new project. We declared war on illegal file sharing and pirates. The goal was to waste their time and bandwidth while tracking them and how the file moves around.
Results Pages for the Impatient: Walk the Plank Status Page | Dust Bunny Status Page (I no longer have this information, sadly)
Walk the Plank, You Pirates!
The first version of this was more-or-less a test to see if it would work. We created a program in C# that would pop-up a message scolding the user. When the program closes, it would "phone home" to our servers, giving us the filename, how long the program ran (run time), and their IP address. We entered the information we collected into a database.
We copied the binary then renamed it to a bunch of warez-like filenames that we found via Jigle.com and searching different P2P networks. We put it up on the Gnutella file sharing network and waited. Within minutes, we had downloads. However, we didn't have entries in the database. The next day we came to the conclusion that people didn't have .NET installed and thus couldn't run the C# binary.
So we rewrote it in C++. Once finished, we replaced all of the C# binaries with the C++ binary. Again within moments, we had downloads and this time we have entries in the database. Goes to show the penetration of .NET.
After about two weeks, we noticed something: The file was spreading without our help. We stopped sharing after we realized this and the file kept propagating, and propagating, and propagating. In no time flat, we wasted over 16 hours of pirate time.
The Next Step: Operation Dust Bunny
The original idea we had went beyond simply logging filename and run time. We wanted to track who got what file from who. So a month after WTP, we wrote Dust Bunny. It was a two-binary system that would read the Pirate ID (PID) encoded in itself, send it to a server, then grab a unique PID returned from the server, and rewrite the ID that is encoded in the binary. Using this information, we could see who got what binary from who.
Written with one person using Visual Studio 2003, another using Dev-C++; one binary in C++, the other in C; and only one person knowing how to code in either language. It was a challenge since the "rabbit" (the GUI program) had to include the "eye" (the program that contacted the server and rewrote the rabbit) for execution. Plus the eye needed an offset that could only be gathered once the rabbit was compiled with eye included. Thanks to TightVNC and a lot of trading of information, we got through it.
Just to be safe, we added a "kill switch" to the eye. If the server returned a special ID number, the eye would delete the rabbit. This way, in case it got out of control as WTP did, we could stop it. Also, if someone renamed it to a filename we didn't like, we could add that filename to the "evil filename list" on the server.
After it was completed, we replaced all the binaries with the new version. Once again, they started to be downloaded instantly. The next day, we already had redistributions — someone downloaded a copy from someone other then us. We could tell since we were logging the PIDs. It didn't take long until we had multi-branch trees of pirates.
We decided after one month time of sharing Dust Bunny, we'd stop and let it propagate on it's own. That marker was around March 9th, 2004.
Current Status
By now, WTP has racked up over 62 hours in wasted pirate time. Dust Bunny is well on its way with 20 hours. Dust Bunny has around 3,500 unique pirates and over 6,200 executions. It's estimated that WTP has around 9,000 unique pirates and is known to have over 18,000 executions.
WTP is still going strong, with around 400 executions a day. Dust Bunny has slowed down since we stopped sharing it and are relying on redistributions. We contribute WTPs success due in part because each file is exactly the same, so the hashes are the same and P2P clients group based on hash. Each Dust Bunny binary is unique since each one has a unique ID. So even though there may be 40 Dust Bunny's in search results on Gnutella, a P2P client will not group them together.
Oddly, Pinnacle Studio 9 keygen was a very popular filename on both operations. Most of the WTP executions are Pinnacle Studio 9 keygen. On Dust Bunny, it's the most popular filename with over 530 unique executions. This really surprised us considering some of the other filenames we had.
In February, TurboTax became a pretty popular filename we logged. I guess they don't mind breaking copyright laws but have to get their taxes in. In just the past two days, Unreal Tournament 2004 keygen and cracks have become popular filenames.
When the Windows source code was leaked, we immediately renamed a copy to the rumored source code filename. In minutes, people were downloading it. Apparently the 204KB size didn't bother them.
One thing that had us scratching our heads were the filenames "/home/caleb/LimeWire/Shared/ windows 2000 source code.zip.exe" and "/home/heihoe/Downloads/pinnacle studio 9 edition keygen.exe". Since we didn't log the complete filename (we strip out the path of the file), we aren't sure if these are executions under WINE or Linux filesystems being mounted on Windows or something completely different. If anyone could share some insight, we'd appreciate it. I think it's good to see people aren't running as root.
Is this legal?
We believe so. People spread it willingly, not covertly like mass-mailing viruses. Other then rewriting itself, it doesn't add, delete, or modify any files. It doesn't remain active or start on boot. It's not destructive or malicious in anyway. Removing it is simply deleting the file they downloaded off of the P2P network. For all of these reasons and more, we feel it's not any type of malware and is perfectly legal. But it wouldn't surprise us if anti-virus vendors labeled it as some type of malware.
Much more debate than we ever thought would be given to this has occurred on various websites since we went "public" with our program this yesterday evening. Some issues bear clearing up.
- No data is collected by our software that isn't already collected when our software is downloaded.
The only personally identifiable information that we have would be the executer's IP address. However this information is freely available at time of download and is completly public information.
- The software acts with the confines of its own entity.
The program does not compromise their system in any way, shape, or form. Every action it performs it performs soley for the purposes of logging an event. We are not in this to compromise downloader's systems, only to learn a little bit about who they are. It's a social experiment.
- We dissagree with the notion that this is a "Trojan".
A trojan horse gains access to a system through deviant methods. Not through user initiated downloads on a P2P network. Secondly, a trojan horse by definition has a payload or attempts to give the author access by working from the inside. Our program is aboslutely dormant unless specifically and purposefully executed by the downloader. And the program is riddled with cues to what the contents might be. For instance, the company name is "C.R.A.P. Citizens Raging Against Pirates". Not what you'd expect from a "legitimate" crack or keygen.
- We are not raging against pirates, we are studying them in a clever way.
While we joked in private this was our "war against piracy" the sole purpose of this project was to collaborate on a technically merited application for fun. It's always cool to see something you created take on a life of its own, and that is exactly what occurred here. If you are someone who was trying to download illegal software, or just searching for our file…relax. The information we collected is absolutely harmless to you.
Old update:
Some people think this is illegal. They think it's entrapment or we are
stealing data. They think this is some type of malware. It's not.
First, this can't be entrapment. We aren't reporting these people to anyone in
the law enforment field, even though we should be.
Second, it's not malware. It doesn't modify, add, or delete files other
then itself.
So, to the pirates out there who think this is in some way illegal, it's
not. However, what you do is illegal.
Men With No Titles: Clifton Griffin and Justin X. B.
E-mail: email@example.com
Website: http://blogzine.net


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Debbie Bacigalupi, a highly sought after speaker throughout the west, will discuss political, economic, and environmental issues that impact Californians at 6:30 p.m., July 15, at the Best Western Yosemite Restaurant, 40530 Highway 41.
Hosted by the Oakhurst/Coarsegold Tea Party, organizers feel regardless of party affiliation, these issues have crossed party lines where a growing movement of diverse citizens concur something is not quite right in California,
"California is experiencing many crises at the top of many list is water, food, and private property," Bacigalupi said.
She has strong feelings about water shortage and the removal of some dams in the state.
"It is shocking to see major rivers like the Klamath River, the Sacramento River, and the American River flowing to or near capacity and reservoir and storage lakes at devastating low levels so early in the year," Bacigalupi said. "Billions of acre feet of fresh water we need now is being wasted out to a salty sea, a sea some claim is rising due to global warming and climate change. At record numbers, dams are being destroyed or are being considered for removal even if those dams are clean green renewable energy dams, like those on the Klamath River. Why? Our government is predicting catastrophic wildfires this year don't we need more stored water and not less ... especially as livelihoods and the environment are both at stake."
Bacigalupi said droughts, extreme heat, and the need for more water are not new issues. She remembers growing up in Sacramento in the 1970s and 80s and playing soccer in 100+ degree weather. She remembers summers where people could only water every couple of days.
"There is nothing new under the sun and the changes in weather we have experienced over the last 100 years should have provided our government with enough experience to know that in order to combat drought, fire, flood, and famine, is by storing water saving water for those times in need," Bacigalupi said. "Our government has been reckless when it comes to water storage and aquifer recharge... releasing water from dams and destroying dams to save 'native' fish."
She calls California's history extraordinary and again points to the water situation and politics. She said California is the bread basket of the world and once the world's fifth largest economy (now ranked ninth), and as a result of the state's ability to manage water and grow food, more people moved to California.
"Agriculture is responsible for the building of other California mega economies including Hollywood, hi-tech, bio-tech, tourism, wine, and timber... multi-billion dollar industries that help create a better world for people and the planet," Bacigalupi said. "We created the bread basket of the world and we did so while preserving much of its beauty and nature. To take a semi-arid state with rich soil, where early settlers figured out how to move water via canals, reservoirs, and diversions to create a state of extraordinary agriculture mixed with nature and human settlement. Then we try to implement an agenda that's goals are to aggressively 'return' millions of acres 'back to the wild' where a non-native, disease carrying predator like the Canadian Gray Wolf has more protection in California than a sixth generation farmer who provides people with food and cares for the environment this is head shaking."
Bacigalupi, who ran unsuccessfully for the US House of Representatives in District 14 in 2012 against incumbent Jackie Speier, said on average, five businesses, on average, leave California weekly due to high taxes, over-regulation , and an unfriendly business environment.
She has attended conferences such as the 2012 United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development, the Navigating the American Carbon World on Cap-N-Trade, the Western Governors Association CHAT Conference, and attends many California Fish and Wildlife meetings and hearings concerning the Endangered Species Act.
About her bid for Congress, Bacigalupi feels everyone should run for something whether for cemetery board, school board, city council, or Congress.
"At first I ran on a typical party platform (jobs, economy, and education) at the insistence of the 'establishment.' When I changed my platform to what I'm most passionate about the truth about "environmentalism," and the threat to our farmers, ranchers, and quality of life, I finally started having fun and enjoyed running. What a blast to meet people of all sorts of political persuasion and once they heard what I'm all about they were so encouraging even in an area where incumbents 'rule.'"
The sixth generation Californian and daughter of ranchers and farmers in Siskiyou County, Bacigalupi is known for her lively and interactive presentations on a number of topics. She will show a brief preview of a documentary she is co-director of that focuses on Fresno and the water crisis in San Joaquin Valley called, "No water, no farmer, no food."
Bacigalupi holds a bachelor's of science degree in business and a masters in business administration from Notre Dame de Namur University, is a Certified Wine Sommelier, a Certified Meeting Professional, a biotech consultant, and an entrepreneur in the anti-aging skin care industry.
Her mother's family owned the first grocery stores in Oakhland and her father's family opened the Bank of Italy, a Bay Area bank that helped immigrant businesses.
A self-described passionate researcher, Bacigalupi says her No. 1 goal is to get the truth out.
"Knowledge is power and when the public regains the key to their own future by being informed, holding their elected officials accountable, or running for office themselves, they will be living in a world where we can be Americans again. What government and politicians fear, as history shows, is the truth exposing the corruption followed by the public coming together to overturn government. My goal is to return our country to where career politicians are a thing of the past." Details: (408) 893-8348.

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KNOXVILLE, Tenn. (AP) -- Three Tennessee Valley Authority visitor centers have opened for the season.
They are at Fontana Dam in North Carolina, Raccoon Mountain Pumped Storage Plant near Chattanooga and Norris Dam in Norris, Tenn.
The three offer information about TVA history, how the agency operates its electric system and how it manages the Tennessee River and its tributaries. The centers all have maps, videos, displays and written information about TVA history and the construction of each site. TVA retirees are guides.


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Huge Second Half Run Lifts No.1 FGCU Over No.8 ETSU in A-Sun Quarterfinal
|Florida Gulf Coast
|Stats at a Glance
|FG Percentage
|.400 (26-65)
|.423 (22-52)
|3P FG Percentage
|.188 (3-16)
|.346 (9-26)
|FT Percentage
|.800 (8-10)
|.867 (26-30)
|Offensive Rebounds
|Defensive Rebounds
|Total Rebounds
|Bench Points
|Statistical Leaders
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- 22
- 6
- 8
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- 7
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MACON, Ga. - Behind a 17-0 run to open the second half, the No. 28 FGCU women's basketball team opened its first-ever appearance in the Atlantic Sun Tournament with a 79-63 win over eighth-seeded ETSU in the quarterfinals held Wednesday afternoon at the University Center.
With their 19th straight win, the top-seeded Eagles (27-2) move on to play the winner of fourth-seeded North Florida and fifth-seeded Kennesaw State on Friday, March 2 and noon. It marked the Blue and Green's sixth straight win over the Lady Bucs (8-22), including three this season.
Redshirt sophomore and A-Sun All-Conference first team choice Sarah Hansen (McKean, Pa./General McLane HS) led the way for FGCU with her third straight and ninth 20-point game of the season. Hansen poured in a game-high 22 points, highlighted by 14 in the second half, on 9-of-16 from the floor to go along with six rebounds and a career-high four blocks.
The Eagles, who lead the nation in three-point field goals per game (10.8), knocked down 9-of-26 shots from behind the arc and now have 313 triples as a team. FGCU is now just 28 triples away from breaking the NCAA record for three-pointers in a season (340), which is currently held by the 2009-10 Morehead St. team.
After getting out-rebounded by a 47-31 margin just five days ago in Johnson City, Tenn. that included 26 ETSU offensive rebounds, FGCU dominated the glass in this meeting. The Eagles finished with a commanding 43-30 advantage on the boards, while limiting the league's second-best offensive rebounding team (16.7) to just eight second chance boards.
Ranked No. 3 in the CollegInsider.com Mid-Major poll and receiving votes in both national polls, the Green and Blue knocked down a season-high 26 free throws on a season-high 30 attempts (86.7 percent). The FGCU defense stepped up as the Eagles, who lead the conference in scoring defense (53.1 ppg), held the Lady Bucs to 63 points, which marked the 26th time that FGCU has held opponent to 65 points or fewer this season.
Senior Eglah Griffin (Fort Myers, Fla./Dunbar HS/Seminole CC) chipped in with 16 points and eight rebounds in 32 minutes of action. Senior Courtney Chihil (Tipp City, Ohio/Alter HS) tallied 15 points, five rebounds and three assists. Chihil also knocked down 10-of-10 from the charity stripe to set a new career high. Freshman Whitney Knight (Winston-Salem, N.C./R.J. Reynolds HS) pitched in with 12 points and four boards, while senior Nicoya Jackson (Houston, Texas/Cypress Springs HS/Southwestern Christian) finished with seven points and seven rebounds.
The Lady Bucs raced out to an early 12-8 lead after Maria Bond converted an old-fashioned three-point play with 14:30 on the clock, but the Eagles responded with a 7-2 run to take a 15-14 lead with 11:13 remaining.
Trailing the Lady Bucs 21-20, FGCU got a pair of Hansen free throws and a Griffin triple to open a four-point lead, 25-21. ETSU answered with a 5-0 spurt to regain a one-point lead, 26-25, but the Green and Blue outscored the Lady Bucs 13-8 over the final 4:07 to take a 38-34 lead into the locker room at the intermission.
FGCU knocked down 9-of-29 (31 percent) from the field and 4-of-17 (23.5 percent) from behind the arc in the opening period, while ETSU shot 42.4 percent (14-of-33) from the floor and 28.6 percent (2-of-7) from long range.
The Eagles opened the second half with a 17-0 run, highlighted by seven points from Griffin and six from Hansen, to take a commanding 55-34 lead with 15:44 remaining in the game. The Lady Bucs answered with five unanswered points, but the Eagles used an 11-2 spurt over the next three minutes to grab their largest lead of the game (24), 66-42, with less than 12 minutes left in the contest.
The Eagles went on to hold off ETSU, not letting their advantage shrink lower than 16 points, and picked up the program's first win at the A-Sun Tournament with the 79-63 victory.
The No. 1 seeded Eagles return to the court on Friday, Mar. 2 to face the winner of Thursday's (Mar. 1) quarterfinal contest between No. 4 UNF vs. No. 5 Kennesaw State in the semifinal round of the 2012 Atlantic Sun Tournament. Tip at Mercer's University Center is set for 12:00 ET and the game can be seen live on Comcast Sports South (CSS) or online at ASun.TV. The game can also be heard live on ESPN 770AM in Fort Myers or online at www.770ESPN.com with David Moulton and Mark Miller on the call.
FGCU is one win shy of equaling the program Division I record for wins (28), set last season … FGCU has scored 75+ points in a game 16 times this season … the double figure win was FGCU's 21st … the Eagles are a combined 14-2 in road and neutral games … five different players grabbed 5+ rebounds to help FGCU finish with its third-best rebound margin (+13) … Hansen has scored in double figures 10 straight games and a team-best 22 times on the season … she has a block in eight of the last 11 games … Griffin's eight rebounds were a season-high and her 16 points marked her 11th double-digit outing … her four offensive rebounds were also a season-best … Chihil has 38 double figure games in her career and is now 19 points short of becoming the fifth player in FGCU history to score 1,000 points … Knight's has scored in double figures 11 times off the bench … Kennedy now has 80 assists on the season with just 42 turnovers (1.9) … her seven assists are her most since Dec. 30 vs. Alcorn State.
|Copyright ©2014 FGCU Athletics. All Rights Reserved.


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Week 1 is in the books, and many teams didn't escape unscathed. In addition to the injuries they had coming into the week, some NFC South franchises are dealing with new setbacks.
Three members of the New Orleans Saints had to leave Sunday's game against Washington early -- cornerback Johnny Patrick had to be helped off because of a leg injury, wide receiver Devery Henderson took a knee to the head and linebacker Scott Shanle suffered a leg injury. Details of those injuries have not been released.
The Atlanta Falcons lost cornerback Brent Grimes to a calf injury in the fourth quarter of their win over the Chiefs. Grimes made the Pro Bowl in 2010. After the game, Falcons head coach Mike Smith said he is not certain of the injury's severity and did not offer a timetable for return.
The Carolina Panthers did not have running back Jonathan Stewart in their loss to the Bucs on Sunday. Stewart is still working his way back from an ankle injury suffered during Carolina's third preseason game. He was listed as questionable for the opener.
The Tampa Bay Buccaneers were without wide receiver Arrelious Benn and cornerbacks Anthony Gaitor and E.J. Biggers on Sunday.
For more on these teams, visit Saints blog Canal Street Chronicles, Panthers blog Cat Scratch Reader, Buccaneers blog Bucs Nation and Falcons blog The Falcoholic.


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By the way, if you've invited me to speak/debate and don't see your event on this list, contact me immediately!
This is the rough schedule. I'll get details added as I get them.
Edit: Postponed (was March 24th)
- Sam Houston University
- Topic: The Superiority of Secular Morality
My apologies…the event at Sam Houston University this Saturday has been postponed. As soon as I have a new date, I'll let you know. In the meanwhile, if you're not going to the Reason Rally, be sure to follow all of the bloggers and news stations that are covering it!
April 14th
- North Texas Secular Student Convention
- Debate: "Does a god/God exist?"
- JT Eberhard and Matt Dillahunty vs. John Ferrer and Dr. Lee
April 21st
- Binghamton, New York
- Debate: "Does God Exist?"
- Debaters: Jay Lucas vs. Matt Dillahunty
- Time: 7PM to 9PM
- Location: Binghamton University, Lecture Hall 1
April 28th
- UW-Madison "AtheistFest"
- Topic: The Superiority of Secular Morality
May 18th-20th
- Imagine No Religion 2
- Kamloops, British Columbia
- Chris DiCarlo and Matt Dillahunty vs.
July 6-8
- SSA Convention
Edit… my speaking schedule originally listed FreeOK (The Oklahoma Freethought Convention). That was a mistake. I did that event last year and won't be speaking at this year…but you should all still go. It was a great event and looks like it may be even better this year! It's June 23rd…go and free Oklahoma!


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"They too are observing everything you do online." Big Brother is here to stay! ALL HAIL BIG BROTHER!!! ALL HAIL BIG BROTHER!!! You have a great day and weekend in spite of it all though!
The thing is that the analysts and Obama and others were saying there'd be 1 million or more new green energy sector jobs; hasn't happened. It won't even happen by 2020 with how they're doing things.
"Highly exaggeration about jobs." That's right! I had expected about 250k new jobs in the green energy sector since 2008, but there's only been about 70k to 100k new ones created. The thing is the government will lie and say the bus driver driving a hybrid bus is now a green sector employee; kinda like they use people working part-time to lower the unemployment rate. Hell, there's a record number of people, well past 45 million now, that are on food stamps, This economy IS NOT better.
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A crash slowed westbound Interstate 70 traffic near Brooklyn Avenue for a time on Friday morning.
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- Uehara latest Rangers reliever with injury
- Kinsler ejected after arguing strike call
- Lowe ready to step up in Texas bullpen
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ARLINGTON -- Outfielder Nelson Cruz was back in the Rangers' starting lineup on Thursday after being out for three games with the combination of a strained right Achilles and virus. With right-hander Daniel Hudson on the mound for the D-backs, that meant Craig Gentry did not start for the first time in six games.Playing against both left-handers and right-handers, Gentry was 9-for-17 in those five games, including a game-winning hit in the Rangers' 1-0 victory over the D-backs on Wednesday. "He has been good, real good," manager Ron Washington said. "He has taken total advantage of the situation and done a good job offensively, defensively and running the bases. The kid has got some good skill sets." When the Rangers have a completely healthy outfield, Washington has been starting Gentry against left-handers and David Murphy against right-handers. That is still the plan. "Gentry's shown he can hit anybody right now," Washington said. "Still, his role is to play center field against left-handers." Gentry went into Thursday's game hitting .340 on the season, including .377 against lefties and .298 against righties. "I'm just going up there and staying with my approach," Gentry said. "I'm not trying to do too much. I've definitely had some lucky hits in there, but that's part of it. Like I said, I'm just trying to go up there and stay with my approach. "I've felt good at the plate last year, earlier this year for a while. But sometimes it's just a matter of where you hit it. You can hit the ball hard, feel great, but still get outs. Or you can be 5-for-5 with five bloop hits and still feel terrible out at the plate."
Uehara latest Rangers reliever with injury
ARLINGTON -- The Rangers' bullpen has been a strength all season, but injuries have taken a toll. The latest was when Koji Uehara went down with a strained muscle under his right armpit. He could be sidelined for 2-3 weeks."I don't think it's that severe," Uehara said. "But the MRI showed a tear -- a minor, minor tear. Until that heals, I don't know." The Rangers are already without Alexi Ogando, who is out for 4-6 weeks with a strained right groin muscle. The bullpen also lost Scott Feldman in mid-May when he had to go into the rotation to replace Neftali Feliz, who is out until mid-July with a sprained right elbow. The Rangers still have closer Joe Nathan and eighth-inning setup reliever Mike Adams. They have Mark Lowe and Yoshinori Tateyama from the right side behind them, and left-handers Robbie Ross and Michael Kirkman. Rookie right-hander Tanner Scheppers is their middle/long reliever. "It's fine, our bullpen is in good shape," Rangers manager Ron Washington said. "We're going to miss Ogando, we're going to miss Feliz and we miss Feldman. But this gives Robbie Ross, Mark Lowe and all those guys a chance to step up. I believe they will." Rangers relievers went into Thursday's game with a combined ERA of 2.78, the fourth lowest in the American League. Now they will see how they do without both Ogando and Uehara. "We lost two key guys in our bullpen," Adams said. "We're not exactly sure how long we're going to miss them. But I definitely understand that my role is going to get kicked up a little bit. I know I'm going to have to be a little more solid than I've been. But those two guys down just open up opportunities for somebody else, and it gives them an opportunity to step up and fill a role and see how they take it.
"I think we have enough depth that we have guys that can step up in those roles and make a name for themselves."
Kinsler ejected after arguing strike call
ARLINGTON -- Ian Kinsler was ejected by home-plate umpire Eric Cooper after being called out on strikes during the Rangers' 11-3 loss to the D-backs on Thursday night.Kinsler watched a 1-2 fastball from D-backs starter Daniel Hudson and retreated to the dugout, where he expressed his disagreement with the called strike. Cooper then ejected Kinsler, prompting manager Ron Washington to come out of the dugout. Washington approached Cooper and returned to the dugout shortly afterward. Kinsler declined to comment on the incident after the game. "There's nothing to say," Kinsler said. Kinsler, making his seventh start of the season at designated hitter, was 0-for-3 when he got ejected. He was replaced in the lineup by Alberto Gonzalez, who grounded out to first in his only at-bat. The American League leader in doubles (22) and runs (47), Kinsler is batting .224 over his last 16 games.
Lowe ready to step up in Texas bullpen
ARLINGTON -- The Rangers have used right-handed reliever Mark Lowe in a variety of roles over the past two seasons. This year it has been mainly in middle relief, when they are behind or in mop-up situations.That will likely change now that Alexi Ogando and Koji Uehara are on the disabled list. Lowe could have a chance to take over the seventh-inning setup role. "I just take every outing like I'm in a big game," Lowe said. "I haven't pitched in many close games, but my mindset is I'm in one. You've got to keep rolling, things like this happen the game, it's part of 162 games." Lowe went into Thursday's game with a 3.09 ERA, while opponents are hitting .224 off him.
"I'm throwing a lot of strikes," Lowe said. "I'm attacking and getting ahead of hitters and trying to get out there throwing as few pitches as possible."
Worth noting
The Rangers became the first Major League team to win multiple 1-0 games this season in a victory over the D-backs on Wednesday. Craig Gentry's RBI single in the eighth inning marked the latest the Rangers pulled ahead in a 1-0 win since an 11-inning, walk-off triumph over the Blue Jays in 2000. Double-A Frisco had eight players selected to the Texas League All-Star Game on June 28 in Omaha, Neb. Shortstop Jurickson Profar, third baseman Mike Olt, center fielder Engel Beltre and catcher Zach Zaneski are the four position players that were named to the South Divison All-Star team. Pitchers Chad Bell, Jake Brigham, Barrett Loux and Justin Grimm were selected, as well. Ian Kinsler made his seventh start at designated hitter on Thursday, with Michael Young starting at second base.
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The Grove boulders are a collection of granite rocks that lie in a large group of aspen trees. When our group visited, we could tell that the boulders were not climbed regularly, but many of them had a lot of potential. Very vague descriptions of these boulders can be found in Bob Horan's Bouldering Colorado. This would also be a great place to throw up a tent as there are many existing fire pits right off the road. Also, one wouldn't have to pay for a campsite or car permit. As we explored the area, there was obviously a lot of FA potential. The landings are generally very good and some of the boulders high, so a pad would be very useful. If you want to drive right up to these boulders, 4-wheel drive is necessary.
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Coming from Woodland Park on US 24, go through the small town of Lake George. Take a left at CR 92 (The sign on US 24 reads "Elevenmile State Parks"). This roads winds through the canyon for about 11 miles to the ranger station. There are many small dirt side roads, but just stay on the pavement. You will pass the ranger's station on your right and continue for about another mile. You will then see a sign for CR 335. Take a right on 335 and continue up that dirt road for about 0.65 miles. You will then see an unmarked dirt 4x4 path on the right. Take that path over a rough ridge. Once you reach the top of the small ridge, there will be a 4 way split. Veer right in the road and continue downhill (you should see a brown post with an arrow pointing down the road). From there, you see a barbed wire fence line on your right. From CR 335, it should only be 0.8 mile to the boulders. If you do not have 4-wheel drive, it would be possible to park right off the dirt road and do a short approach hike in.
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SyFy struck gold with their original movie "Sharknado," and last night (July 30) the network rolled out a much-anticipated sequel called "Sharknado 2: The Second One," starring Ian Ziering, Tara Reid, Kelly Osbourne, Andy Dick, Billy Ray Cyrus, and Matt Lauer.
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It's a big day here in America as we celebrate our independence from British rule that occurred over two centuries ago.
And plenty of celebrities are feeling patriotic on this Fourth of July, both domestic stars and famous international folks.
He was fully emersed in his performance of "Play it Again" during last week's CMT Music Awards in Nashville, TN when Luke Bryan got an unexpected surprise during his walk through the excited crowd.
While the 37-year-old country star approached his wild fans, a female audience member grabbed his bum, giving Bryan quite the goosing!
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Kicking things off with a stellar opening skit, Kristen Bell was nothing short of hilarious on the 2014 CMT Music Awards last night (June 4).
As the "Veronica Mars" vixen tried to hype herself up for her first solo hosting gig, she happened upon an elevator in the backstage area of Bridgestone Arena.
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Bringing his sex appeal, Luke Bryan was ready to party at the 2014 CMT Awards earlier tonight (June 4).
The "Play it Again" star gave the ladies at Nashville's Bridgestone Arena a thrill as he moseyed past the paparazzi, stopping for a few photos along the way.
His live shows are always eventful however, Luke Bryan made a memory during his gig in Charlotte, North Carolina last night (May 29) that he may wish he could forget.
The 37-year-old country crooner was in the middle of singing Macklemore & Ryan Lewis' ditty "Can't Hold Us" when he suddenly lost his footing and fell from the stage and onto the arena floor.
She's still trying to prove herself as a bona fide pop singer, and Ariana Grande still has a ways to go according to Rihanna and Luke Bryan.
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Feeding the Multitudes
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Feeding the Multitudes is an annual outreach event where churches from all denominations come together to provide a bag of unprepared food to feed a family of five during the Thanksgiving Holiday. Most importantly the church shares the Gospel of Jesus Christ and offers hope through prayer and encouragement. If your church would like to be a host church please email Jeff Peacock at firstname.lastname@example.com.
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The U of T Intramural Program is primarily for current UTM students. In addition, there are limited opportunities for Membership holding UTM Alumni and Staff. UTM Teams will represent UTM in different sport leagues and tournaments in the University of Toronto Intramural Program. The Program is administered by the St. George Faculty of Kinesiology and Physical Education along with the Athletic Deparments of UTM and UTSC (U of T Scarborough).
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If you have played at your high school or in a community league, then we need you to play for UTM. Be sure to get out to a try-out. We are often one or two players short of fielding teams so please come out.
UTM's highest level of Intramural competition. Leagues are meant to give participants a near varsity experience. The St. George Faculty of Kinesiology and Physical Education will offer Tri-Campus Intramural Leagues for Men's Ice Hockey, Men's Outdoor Soccer, Men's Volleyball, Men's Cricket, Men's Indoor Soccer, Women's Basketball, Women's Volleyball and Women's Indoor Soccer. These leagues are usually comprised of 4 or 6 teams. One or two teams from UTM and UTSC and two all-star teams who will represent the St. George Campus.
In addition to regular league games, our more competitive Tri-Campus teams will occasionally play OCAA schools in exhibition games as well as varsity and extramural tournaments!
New for 2013 - Men's Tri-Campus Hockey is now Non-Contact.
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Sweden is host to more multinational companies per capita than any other nation in the world and is a leader in international trade and commerce. The capital city of Stockholm spans fourteen islands between the Baltic Sea and Lake Mälaren. The diversification of trade across many industries, including natural resources, pharmaceutical, and telecommunications equips students with skills applicable to the variety of challenges posed by conducting business at the global level.
Stockholm is the financial center of Sweden and most major banks and insurance companies are headquartered in the city. Many of the city's residents work in the service industry with a recent influx in technology firms such as IBM and Ericsson.
The Stockholm School of Economics (SSE) was founded in 1909 through private initiatives and has always enjoyed close cooperation and collaboration with Swedish and international corporations—Sweden hosts more multinational companies per capita than any other nation in the world. SSE was recently ranked #8 in European management masters programs by Financial Times. The SSE curriculum is internationally recognized for developing applied management skills and cross-cultural fluency, and Management Consulting, Consumer Products, and Investment Banking are its primary strengths.
The SSE Career Center assists students entering the job market, and an average of 3–4 company presentations are held weekly. While recruiting is ongoing throughout the year, the largest event is the SSE Business Forum each spring semester.
To be eligible for this education abroad program, you must be:
The University of Minnesota is committed to the policy that all persons shall have equal access to its programs, facilities and employment without regard to race, color, creed, religion, national origin, sex, age, marital status, disability, public assistance status, veteran status, or sexual orientation.
Students in the program are enrolled in a block of Carlson School International Business (IBUS 5300) credits equivalent to their courseload while at SSE. The semester is broken into two periods, each with their own exam period, and students enroll in 2 classes per term in order to be considered full-time and confer the credits.
Many courses are offered in English in the following areas:
SSE also offers courses in East Asian Studies that offer insights into international business practice in the East from a Scandinavian perspective. This is a unique opportunity which reflects the growing trend of international networks collaborating for access to emerging Asian markets.
A free six-hour introductory course in basic Swedish is offered to international students.
SSE can arrange accommodations for incoming exchange students. Student are housed in either Lappkärrsberget (Lappis), a student complex on the campus of Stockholm University and five kilometers from Stockholm City or at Saltmätargatan (Saltis) next to the school.
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This week, we review the past week's games, as well has the many problems in Edmonton, the Blues' contribution to the world of gifs, the mounting injuries in St Louis, and an appreciation of all things Bryzgalov... and more!!
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Twelve contract workers have been transported to Baptist and St. Elizabeth Hospitals after a flash fire Wednesday at ExxonMobil, 1795 Burt Street, Beaumont.
The fire started around 10:30 a.m. within a processing unit that was down for maintenance, according to ExxonMobil public affairs manager Kathleen Jackson.
The fire was quickly extinguished by ExxonMobil's fire department before the refinery called the Beaumont Fire Department for assistance, Jackson said, and all employees have been accounted for. Gulf State Road was shut down.
The injuries varied — including broken bones — and three contract workers have sustained critical injuries. Beaumont Fire Department Chief Brad Penisson said that helicopters were scheduled to fly in from Houston and transport the burn victims to the Galveston Burn Center. However, due to inclement weather, all flights were canceled.
"Normally we'd stabilize them here and then transport them by helicopter, but the delay factor was too great," Penisson said. "This is not good helicopter weather."
Tara Bettis, a longtime resident of Doucette Street near the refinery, said it is common practice for ExxonMobil to blow whistles when an incident like this one occurs, to notify the people who live nearby.
"I've been here 40 years, and they always blow whistles so you know if something happens in the middle of the night," Bettis said. "You never know if something happens that could trigger something else. I wish we'd been informed."
However, Jackson assured Bettis that she and other residents were in no danger. She also said ExxonMobil is conducting a full investigation to determine the cause of the fire.
"We have representatives with each individual who was injured, and we are working with all appropriate authorities to conduct an investigation," Jackson said. "It's a long, very comprehensive process to determine what caused the fire. Our thoughts are with the folks who have been injured, that they will receive the necessary treatment and make a full recovery."


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For one season that was not so great, Atlanta Dream fans thought that guard Ivory Latta was the greatest thing around, and were very fortunate to have her.
Don Nelson produced quite a few fan favorites in his time with the Golden State Warriors, but few can claim as far-reaching an impact as 7-foot-7 center Manute Bol.
Chuck Hayes, the Rockets' cult classic.
Orlando Pinstriped Post salutes Bo Outlaw as the Orlando Magic's cult-classic player.
SBNation NBA is taking a look at the Cult Classics- players who may not have made much of an impact on the court but certainly made a lasting impression in our hearts.
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Monty Program Ab has signed up to be a sponsor at the Open Database Camp Sardinia 2011, and has donated the logo placement to the MariaDB project.
As a company we definitely plan to have a few employees attend and speak about all the things we've been working on in MariaDB. Will you be there? Go fill out the attendee list.
We're all very excited at the first Open Database Camp (with a similar OpenSQLCamp format) and are especially excited for it being hosted in the beautiful island of Sardinia. See you there!
OpenSQLCamp Boston 2010 happens 16-17 October 2010, at MIT in Boston (there is an evening social session on Friday the 15th as well). Its organised by MySQL community aficionado Sheeri Cabral, and by looking at the schedule and sponsors, it is going to be one of the most diverse OpenSQLCamp's by far.
Monty Program is a sponsor, and I (Colin) will be participating on behalf of Monty Program to bring some information about what's new from the Istanbul company meeting. More of the company certainly wanted to be at the event, but most are going to be spending some quality vacation time in Istanbul, since our all company meeting only ends on the 12th.
If you have not already registered to attend, what's keeping you? Its free to attend, and Sheeri tells me that there's some very cool schwag available for grabs.
With OpenSQL Camp and FrOSCon being over for almost a week now, it's time to come up with a short summary. I traveled home on Monday morning and then took Tuesday off, so I had some catching up to do...
As for the past years, FrOSCon rocked again! According to the closing keynote, they had around 1.500 (unique) visitors and I had a great time there. I really enjoyed meeting all the old and new faces of the various Open Source communities. The lineup of speakers was excellent, Jon "maddog" Hall's keynote about "Free and Open Source Software in the Developing World" was quite insightful and inspiring.
Most of the time I was busy with[Read more...]
In just two days the OpenSQL Camp Europe (hosted by the excellent FrOSCon) will kick off!
We've had a few last-minute changes to the schedule, as some speakers could not make it due to visa or family issues. But we managed to keep all slots filled on both days and I think we've come up with a very nice program! In addition to the two sessions I already had, I've volunteered to take over Giuseppe's talk about Shooting from the Hip. MySQL at the Command Line.
The most up-to-date version of the schedule is on the OpenSQL Camp Wiki, I expect the remaining changes to be reflected on the[Read more...]
If you wonder why there hasn't been an update from me for quite a while — I just returned from two months of paternal leave, in which I actually managed to stay away from the PC most of the time. In the meanwhile, I've officially become an Oracle employee and there is a lot of administrative things to take care of... But it feels good to be back!
During my absence, Giuseppe and Felix kicked off the Call for Papers for this year's European OpenSQL Camp, which will again take place in parallel to FrOSCon in St. Augustin (Germany) on August[Read more...]
OpenSQLCamp is less than 4 months away, and I have finally gotten around to updating the site. Special thanks go to Bradley Kuzsmaul and the folks at Tokutek for getting the ball rolling and making the reservation at MIT. Using MIT means that we will have *free* reliable wireless guest access and projects.
OpenSQL Camp is a free unconference for people interested in open source databases (MySQL, SQLite, Postgres, Drizzle), including non-relational databases, database alternatives like NoSQL stores, and database tools such as Gearman. We are not focusing on any one project, and hope to see representatives from a variety of open source database projects attend. As usual I am one of the main organizers of Open SQL Camp (in previous years, Baron Schwartz, Selena Deckelmann and Eric Day have been main organizers too; this year Bradley[Read more...]
This is not my notes about the MySQL conference that just occurred. These are my thoughts about MySQL conferences in general. Baron wrote in The History of OpenSQL Camp:
After O'Reilly/MySQL co-hosted MySQL Conference and Expo (a large commercial event) that year, there was a bit of dissatisfaction amongst a few people about the increasingly commercial and marketing-oriented nature of that conference. Some people refused to call the conference by its new name (Conference and Expo) and wanted to put pressure on MySQL to keep it a MySQL User's Conference.
During this year's conference, I heard a lot of concern about whether or not O'Reilly would have a MySQL conference, and whether or not Oracle would decide to sponsor. I heard all of the following (in no particular[Read more...]
Antony is travelling up to Portland for this great event that's about to start Fri evening and going over the weekend. He'll be showing other devs and people more about the OQGRAPH engine, and gathering useful feedback.
Open Query is, together with many others (I see Giuseppe, Facebook, Gear6, Google, Infobright, Jeremy Cole, PrimeBase Technologies, Percona, Monty Program, and lots more), sponsoring the event so that it's accessible for everybody – reducing the key factor to getting there rather than having to worry about high conf fees.
Having acquired the world's biggest jetlag flying to Charlottesville VA for last year's OpenSQL Camp, I can confirm from personal experience that it's a great event. While I can't be there this time, I'm looking forward to hearing all about it!
As pointed out by Schlomi Noach on my last blog, MySAR was already taken by a project related to Squid reports with MySQL. I decided then to look for a new name, and as I posted initially, I want to keep the sar prefix to describe the script's purpose by association with the OS utility of the same name. I brainstormed many names. I liked Dave Edwards's suggestion: SARkila, but it sounds too close to tequila, so I settled with Sheeri Cabral's suggestion: sar-sql.
The title of the Launchpad page already reflects the change. What remains to be done is: a) change the name of the Perl script and documentation; and b) change the Launchpad URL. It is likely that I will change the name of the script when I release[Read more...]
This time of the year is usually a very busy one, as there are plenty of events and conferences to attend. Just take a look at our calendar of OSS events on the MySQL Forge to see what I mean! Here's a quick summary of the ones that I will attend and speak at until the end of this year:
On November 14-15, I'll attend the openSQL Camp in Portland (OR), USA. I missed the first one that took place in Charlottesville (VA) in 2008, but had a lot of fun organizing the European Edition earlier this year. The upcoming one will be more like an[Read more...]
FOSDEM, the Free and Opensource Conference, will again take place in Brussels, Belgium on Saturday and Sunday (6th and 7th February, 2010). Now happening for the 10th time (congratulations!), it is one of the largest Open Source conferences in Europe, with a strong focus on developers. Sun/MySQL have been regular sponsors of and contributors to the event in the past and it is alway a great experience to be there. It's very rare to meet so many well-known and bright people from such a wide range of OSS projects.
They have now opened their Call for Participation - the organizers are seeking input on talks for the main conference tracks (deadline: 2009-11-22) ,[Read more...]
OpenSQL Camp Portland 2009 is coming up on the 14th and 15th of November. Eric Day (of the Drizzle project) is the lead organiser this time around.
I went to the first edition in Charlottesville VA last year which was organised by Baron Schwartz (Percona). It was a great event, like other unconferences but with specific focus on database technologies. Monty (MySQL), Brian (Drizzle), Richard (SQLite), Jim (Interbase/Firebird/Falcon), Bruce (PostgreSQL) were all these, as were various storage engine builders. Very interesting, and lots of informal fun. If you're anywhere near, do go!
Even though noone from our gang is able to make it to this one, Open Query is sponsoring this event – for all the above reasons. It rocks and deserves every support.
We're supporting the OpenSQL Camp, which will be held in Portland on November 14.
One of my objectives for the camp is to make progress on a universal storage engine API, to make it possible to use the same storage engines in MySQL, PostgreSQL, Ingres, or any other database. I'm also looking forward to hearing other people's great ideas.
After OpenSQLcamp, I'll be attending Supercomputing'09. Supercomputing and database hardware technology seems to be converging. Many of the fastest databases today look like a supercomputer with disks attached. Will there be other kinds of convergence? For example, what kind of convergence will we see between multicore computing and cluster computing? Today we program multicore machines very differently from clusters. I think in the future that difference will vanish.
It's almost two weeks now since FrOSCon and the OpenSQL Camp subconference have taken place in Sankt Augustin, Germany — about time for a summary and update from my side!
First off, I would like to thank all of the participants and supporters, particularly my colleagues Regina Steyer and Iris Musiol for the perfect logistics and co-sponsoring as well as Uli Graef, Thorsten Frueauf, Matthias Schmidt, Alexander Rubin and Joerg Moellenkamp for manning the Sun booth and the help on site.
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I got to meet, and share a meal with a most interesting Darren Cassar at FRoSCon/OpenSQLCamp, who's the mastermind behind SecuRich. Some sparse notes, while we await his slides. I think there's some great potential here, and SecuRich is exciting and should be given some more love.
Designed to work with Sybase and MySQL in mind (because he's hacking on migrating Sybase to MySQL).
How often do we audit user privileges and access levels? How often do we forget temporary elevated privileges?
What you have in MySQL today: Authentication against 'username'@'hostname', and the password is hashed by PASSWORD() function. There is wide range of privileges, and the granting of privileges is controlled.
What are limitations in MySQL[Read more...]
This is the Sharding for the masses: Introducing the SPIDER storage engine by Giuseppe Maxia, given at OpenSQLCamp, at FrOSCon, in August 2009. These are somewhat live notes, and the slides are available too.
Why sharding? Scaling, of course. The MySQL way to solve this, is replication (even Yahoo! and Google use this).
When the master doesn't have enough resources to cope with what you do (i.e. large data sets), replication[Read more...]
In record time, less than a week after the conference (thanks to the free Pinnacle Video Spin and YouTube), all 11 videos that were taken at OpenSQLCamp Europe are online.
For those who missed the sessions, or just want to relive the fun!
Almost all the sessions were filmed; regrettably Darren Cassar's Securich – MySQL user administration and security made easy! and Stephane Combaudon's Minimizing data access with covering indexes were not.
The YouTube videos have the descriptions and resources from the official conference pages, and links to pages. If there is more information to add (for example, the slides from[Read more...]
I'm happy to announce that the schedule for OpenSQL Camp 2009 (European Edition) has been published on the FrOSCon timetable now. We have a great selection of topics and speakers, so don't miss it! OpenSQL Camp is a subconference of FrOSCon, the Free and Open Source Conference, which will take place on August 22nd and 23rd in St. Augustin, Germany.
The admission fee for the entire conference (both days, incl. OpenSQL Camp) is 5 EUR, you can pre-register here until August 10th (and if you do so today, you[Read more...]
The Call for Papers for the OpenSQL Camp 2009 (European Edition) has ended yesterday — we received 27 excellent session proposals from various Open Source Database projects. I would like to say a big "Thank You" to everyone who submitted a talk! In the beginning I was a bit concerned that the conference would become too MySQL-centric, but this fortunately changed in the last few days.
Sadly we now have more than double the amount of sessions than we can actually host, which means that we will have to review and vote on the sessions to distill the[Read more...]
Open SQL Camp will be organized in St Augustin, Germany on the weekend of 22-23 August. Unfortunately, at Monty Program, it looks like we have already scheduled a company meeting at the same time and all of us will be in Spain instead. Consequently, there are now no MariaDB talks proposed for the conference, which is a shame.
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