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A quick look at the box score shows exactly what many expected from Northern Iowa's 45-14 rout of Drake University: too much UNI offense.
David Johnson rushed for over 140 yards and Sawyer Kollmorgen threw for two touchdowns. UNI's offensive starters were out of the game midway through the third quarter. Check, check and check.
But the Panthers never scored a touchdown in the first half when they started a drive on their own side of the 50 yard-line, even though the score was 31-0 at halftime.
"Drake's a great team. It's credit to them," Kollmorgen said. "They came out with some stuff that was new to us. Once we learned that, we overcame it. We don't have to put together 60 yard touchdown drives all the time."
In scoring their 24 offensive points in the first half, the Panthers never drove the ball further than 44 yards. The other seven points came when Jake Farley recovered a fumble and returned it for a touchdown.
"It's a great momentum boost, just like a sack," UNI defensive lineman Xavier Williams said of Farley's touchdown. "It's a defensive touchdown. It's rare. That will always get you ready to go more."
Williams finished the game with two and a half sacks.
Johnson finally reversed the offense's struggles in the second half with a 65-yard touchdown rush, which was his final play on the field. He finished the game with 143 yards on 13 carries.
Drake put their first points on the board when quarterback Andy Rice threw a seven-yard pass to Gary Scott to cap off a seven-play, 65-yard drive to start the second half.
The only other touchdown came from a Mike Ratelle pick-six off of UNI quarterback Brion Carnes.
"I felt we needed to evaluate what Brion was as a quarterback to our team. Unfortunately, after (Drake's touchdown) we had to get some guys back in the game that we already knew about," UNI coach Mark Farley said.
The Panthers, who have a bye next Saturday, will face Northern Colorado in Greeney, Colo., on Sept. 21. UNI will be without senior linebacker Sam Tim for the first half of the game. Tim was ejected from the game in the second half due to a targeting penalty.
By rule, a player who is ejected in the second half due to a targeting penalty must sit out the first half of his team's proceeding game barring an overturn during a review of the play.
"I felt that Sam was already releasing his hit on him by the time he was going down. That's part of the rule. Hopefully it will be looked at and we'll see where it goes," Farley said.
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Roberto Mancini believes Manchester City can reignite the title race by cutting Manchester United's Premier League lead before next month's derby. The Italian has refused to concede defeat despite the champions falling 12 points behind the Red Devils a month ago and being given no opportunity by their rivals to reduce the deficit since.
Mancini is relying on favours from elsewhere, but is determined to pounce on any United slip-ups in the two rounds of fixtures before the sides meet at Old Trafford on 8 April.
"The next two or three games will be crucial," said the former Sampdoria forward. "If they lose a point in the next two games, maybe. After the two games, we have the derby.
"But it all depends on us. When you are behind, you should win every game. We hope we can play a derby with nine, seven points, maybe ten [difference]. Less than 12 would be better. From the derby to the end of the season, they have three or four difficult games."
City will get the chance to apply some pressure to United as they are the first in action this weekend. City take on Everton at Goodison Park at Saturday lunchtime before United face struggling Reading at Old Trafford in the evening.
But Mancini accepts keeping City's end of the bargain will be tough enough with his side having a poor recent record against the Toffees. City have lost five of their last seven against the Merseysiders, and they played out a 1-1 draw at the Etihad Stadium in December.
Mancini said: "Every game against Everton is very hard. It is difficult because Everton are a top team, they play always 100 per cent. They are strong, they have good players and a good manager. They always play well against top clubs.
"If you want to beat Everton, you should be ready to fight in every position. They work hard as a team. For every team it is difficult against them. Tomorrow for us will be important."
Kompany absence concerns Mancini
City will again be without injured captain Vincent Kompany and Sergio Aguero. The Belgium defender has missed seven games with calf problems, while the Argentina striker has been back to his homeland to receive treatment on the knee injury that has sidelined him for the last two matches.
Mancini has said on several occasions that Kompany is close to fitness, only for his return to keep getting pushed back. He will now not feature for City at least until they face Newcastle United, after the next international break, on 30 March. Mancini continues to play down the seriousness but he accepts the influential 26-year-old's absence is a "big problem".
He said: "Sergio comes back Sunday, and Monday he starts to run here. He needs to do swimming pool strength. I think he will be ready for Newcastle.
"Vinny is not in our plans for tomorrow. Also for Vinny, he will be ready, like Sergio, for Newcastle. It is difficult because Vinny is a very important player for us, but now it is 45 days he is out. This is a big problem."
With Aguero missing, Carlos Tevez, scorer of six goals in his last four games, including a hat-trick against Barnsley last week, could again lead the attack.
Mancini dismisses Zenit rumours
Mancini's future at City is often the subject of speculation, but he has regularly said his position is not under threat and he has now dismissed rumours linking him with Russian side Zenit.
He said: "It is colder here, I think, than Saint Petersburg! It is not true, absolutely not true. I don't know - like every day some newspapers say about new managers for other teams."


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Nice man, had a feeling you would have done yours already. Just hoping it gets back to me before thursday so i don't have to rush it and i can let the promo flow! Haha!
Aye. Gave Krow and Eddie my start a few hours back. So it's now on your guys :P
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I use the term "groups" loosely here. On my list of features that are needed in Lion Server (a much smaller since the advent of 10.7.3 btw) is the fact that Address Book Server doesn't have groups, resources or whatever you want to call a logical structure that is a place for groups of users to keep contacts whose access can be limited to only certain users. The Address Book client fully understands such constructs, given that it separates the GAL from a user's contacts and that user's can themselves have groups of contacts. This area is a huge miss. The reason this annoys me is that you have the ability to do this stuff with iCal Server, which uses roughly the same technology (Twisted CalDAV vs. CardDAV). You can include LDAP contacts in an Address Book search, which just gives users access to users configured on the local server. Helpful if your user base is a walled garden. And don't tell me that it kinda' works the same in Exchange. Because a contact is not a user in Exchange…
Anyway, one way to get a shared list of contacts is to create a user just to be the shared list. This user is going to have a password. That password is going to end up in the keychain for all users who we install this account for. Furthermore, all of those users can delete contacts. And those users will invariably delete an account and blame said deletion on the server. Given that servers don't delete data on their own, the blame is basically poorly placed.
If you need granular permissions control over shared contact lists, then Address Book server is not for you. But if you just need a "group" or two that is wide open permission-wise for all users, then consider this strategy. First, let's enable Address Book services. To do so, first open the Server application from an Open Directory Master. Then, click on the Address Book entry in the Server application's sidebar. Here, click on the ON button (by the way, I could have just used this paragraph as an article on Setting Up Address Book Server).
Now that the service is started, click on Users. Then click on New User.
At the New User screen, let's pick an arbitrary name that someone who gets access to this computer won't think anything of, should they notice this account.
Once created, to make sure that the user has access to the Address Book service. To do so, click on the account and then select Edit Access to Services… from the cog wheel icon and verify that the Address Book service is enabled for the user.
Now, let's check out how this looks on a client. These accounts can be deployed through profiles easily. But we like doing things the hard way. Therefore, let's open the nifty Mail, Contacts & Calendars System Preference pane and then click on the Add Account… button. From the Choose an account type field, click on the Add a CardDAV account button. Click on the Create… button.
Provide the username and password recently created, as well as the name or IP of the server.
Now open Address Book. Click on the red bookmark icon. You'll then see your contact stash. Click on it and you can create, delete and otherwise do whatever you like here. If you create contacts and install this account on multiple machines then you'll be able to edit or delete them from any of the stations they're installed on.
You can install the accounts on iOS devices as well, using the Mail, Contacts & Calendars option in the Settings app.
Good luck. And may Billy Madison have mercy on your Address Book.
There have been a number of articles on using the Podcast Producer service in Snow Leopard and previous operating systems. The Podcast Producer service itself in Lion remains unchanged. It still needs shared storage (e.g. NFS, Xsan, etc), Xgrid, Kerberos (for Xgrid) and while seeming to sit atop a house of cards, is one of the coolest and most complex services in Mac OS X Server. But there have been a lot of environments where Podcast Producer seemed out of reach where it shouldn't have. If you have a single server, why do you need shared storage, a truly scalable grid computing cluster and all that complex workflow goodness at your fingertips? In Lion Server, you don't. In fact, it's easier than ever to get up and running, access Podcasts from a web browser and even subscribe to Podcasts in iTunes.
Setting Up the Podcast Service
Podcasting can now become one of the easiest services to use in Lion Server, provided your needs are as simple as the new Podcast service is to use. As with most services in Lion Server, you'll need a working Open Directory master. You can still use Active Directory accounts, and when you initially configure the Podcast service you can enable an Open Directory master on your server; however, you should configure Open Directory prior to setting it up (as I believe you should with all services). You should also populate the list of Open Directory users with all of the users you'd like to have access to create podcasts and administer them before setting up the Podcast service. Okay, okay, so Open Directory isn't actually required. You can use local accounts. But don't, it's easy to setup Open Directory and it will be very helpful in the future if you need to migrate to Podcast Producer some day!
Once Open Directory has been configured, open up the Podcast service by clicking on Podcast in the Server application's sidebar. From here, you'll see a whopping two settings. The first controls who can access the Podcast service. The options are:
The second option is who can administer the Podcast wiki. Here, use the plus sign to add each user who should be able to administer Podcasts. Once your admins are added, start the Wiki service as well, by clicking on Wiki in the Server sidebar and then clicking on the ON button, leaving the defaults untouched.
You should also have the Web service enabled, so click on it in the Server sidebar and click on the ON button as well (again, leaving the settings as default for now).
The Podcast service is now setup and you can move on to creating some podcasts and actual content.
Content Creation
Once you've enabled all three services, it's time to create a Podcast and capture some content. To get started, open the Podcast Publisher application from /Applications/Utilities. From here, click on the Podcast Publisher menu and then click on Preferences. Here, you'll be able to configure the connection to the server. Enter the address (IP address or hostname of the server), username (one of the administrative user names from earlier) and password that you want to use for podcasts.
Once you've supplied your credentials, close the Settings window. Then click on the New Podcast button to see the pin board, as I call it. Here, provide a name to your Podcast. Each podcast will have its own feed and be able to be subscribed to in iTunes. Each podcast is comprised of one or more episodes. The podcasts appear as pin boards, the episodes will appear as though they were photos on the pin board. Click on the Add a new episode… button. (you can also choose New Movie Episode or New Audio Episode from the list by clicking the down arrow towards the bottom of the screen.
At the Episode screen, you'll see two buttons in the bottom left corner of the screen. Here, click on the film strip icon (the one on the left side) to record video from a camera or the screen recording icon (the one on the right side) to capture video from the video screen. Click on the button in the middle of the screen with a red dot to start recording.
After a 3 second countdown, the screen recording will begin. Don't rush. Get ready and then start speaking into your microphone and record video as you so choose. Pay attention to the volume level, trying to keep an even level towards the middle of the indicator. Click on the red button again when you're finished capturing the video (I usually like to minimize the Podcast Publisher screen and then open it to stop the recording.
At the next screen, you'll be able to provide a title for your podcast. Enter the title and then use the yellow bar at the bottom to remove any video from the front and back of the video you actually want to use (as you drag the double lines you'll scrub through video). Use the TRIM button to remove any of the video that you no longer need. You can also use the Play button to play the video and pause it to make sure you're happy or trimming to the right location(s).
Or if you'd like to start over, click on the Record button, which will bring up the Overwrite screen that basically tells you it's going to ditch the clip you just created and start over.
Assuming you would like to save the Podcast, you can now share it or just click done to keep a local copy. Let's click Done just to see what happens. You'll now see a photo of your clip thumb-tacked to the pin board. Here, double-click on the board to see a list of all of your local episodes for that podcast.
When the list of episodes fills the Podcast Publisher screen, you'll be able to do a new GUI-level feature. Control-click (or right-click) on the podcast and you'll be able to Get Info or Delete. You can now delete episodes from the GUI. Hooray as my daughter often says!
The Get Info screen also lets you change the title of an episode, add an author and provide a description. Click Show Advanced to see that you can also fake out the date you captured the episode, change the order that the episode will appear in iTunes (no more having to record in the exact opposite order you want episodes to appear in iTunes!) and even add an Advisory Label, which lets you indicate that your podcast is better geared for adults if that's what you're into.
At this point, the video is still local to your computer. Click back on the board and then double-click on the episode again and let's send it to the server. Click on the Share button to bring up a menu of places you can send your video to. These include:
Once you click on Podcast Library, the video clip will be created, put in the right location and the entry in the Wiki created. You can use then use the All Podcasts navigation towards the top of the screen to go back to the list of podcasts.
The longer episodes are, the longer they take to upload. Once done, you'll then get an indication that the episode has been published. If it fails, make sure the account you're using has access to write to the server. Click OK or use the Announce button to send a link to view your vicious rant to your friends/coworkers/stalkers.
If you'd like to create another episode use the New Movie Episode or New Audio Episode buttons. Or to create a new Podcast, click the New Podcast button. At the All Podcasts screen, use the left and right arrow keys or click through to new podcast boards. As your library grows, you can also use the spotlight field(s) in the lower right corner of the screen to find recorded content (although I haven't been able to get Spotlight to work on my library just as of yet). You can also use the View menu to bring up the Media Browser. Here, you can drag video or audio previously captured onto a pin board (podcast) to import the media into that podcasts library on your local computer and share the media if you so choose. You can also trim content from previously captured video, pretty cool if you're gonna' be bringing in video from an iOS based device!
Accessing Podcasts
Now that we've captured some content, let's look at how users and administrators will access that content. From the server, you can access Podcasts by pointing your favorite web browser at the URL https://127.0.0.1/wiki/podcasts. From a client, just replace the 127.0.0.1 with the name or IP address of the server. Here, you'll see a list of Podcasts available.
Keep in mind that back when we set up the service, you defined who should be able to access your podcasts. If podcasts are shared to everyone then you should see them listed. Click on each to see a list of their episodes and click on the Play button to view an episode in a web browser.
Click on the X in the upper left corner of the episode to close it. If you have to authenticate to see podcasts, you'll need to authenticate now. You can also authenticate in order to delete podcasts or configure who can access each podcast. To authenticate, click on the lock icon in the grey toolbar that runs along the top of the screen.
When prompted, provide the appropriate user name and password. Once authenticated, if you are an administrative user, you can use the x beside any podcast or episode name to delete that podcast or episode. Clicking on a podcast also adds the Settings… button into the cog wheel menu.
The Settings screen enables you to configure who can access podcasts. Owners can create, edit and delete episodes whereas users with Read & Write access can create and edit podcasts and Read Only users can only view content. All logged in users includes anyone with an account on the server and All guests are anyone that can load the web page. Add users by typing their name in the provided field and clicking them when their name appears. Click on the Save button when you've configured who can access what.
One of the coolest aspects of Podcast Producer and the Podcast service are that both can quickly provide access to users in iTunes. To subscribe a client in iTunes, click on the cog wheel icon and then click on the Subscribe in iTunes button. The Podcast will then be added into iTunes automatically and the first episode will begin to synchronize. When it's done, double-click to watch (assuming your DNS is cool, given that the links are DNS-based).
The link works by sending a past:// based URL to the client. For example, pcast://127.0.0.1/podcastlibrary/collection/uuid/ followed by the uuid of the podcast you are viewing in the browser.
That's It!
The new Podcast Library is pretty awesome in how accessible it is to almost anyone with a functioning server. It's not for anyone that's going to need an Xgrid cluster to act as a render farm because they're capturing so many podcasts. It's also not for people needing custom workflows or the ability to capture podcasts of content from the web (e.g. Windows or Linux clients). But what it is, is easy. If you're sitting at home and thinking that you'd like to build a podcast so your friends can look at your new hair color, your followers can see the Top 10 Screamo Videos of All Time you like to post, helping a classroom podcast as a way of teaching them various subjects, capturing corporate training videos or you're showing your parents videos of your children, the new Podcast library is simple, fast and can be highly impactful.
If you need more, then look to Podcast Producer. It can write to a variety of systems, has a full suite of command line management functions and in general is the grown up version of Podcast. Not that Podcast isn't pretty cool in and of itself in the right circumstances. It's like having your own little YouTube!
Whenever someone mentions Apple and BYOD devices, this is what immediately springs to mind as what will invariably walk through the door requiring support:
"We're too young and still under NDA, so please don't talk about us publicly just yet!"
One of my favorite tools for penetration testing is Nessus from Tenable Network Security. Nessus 5 is the latest release in the family of vulnerability scanners that is probably amongst the most prolific. Nessus 5 does discovery, configuration auditing, profiling, looks at patch management and performs vulnerability analysis on a variety of platforms. Nessus can also run on a Linux, Windows or Mac OS X and can be used to scan and keep track of vulnerabilities for practically any platform, including Mac OS X.
To install Nessus, go to the Nessus site and click on the Download button, around the middle of the page. Agree to the download agreement and then choose the version that is right for you (Mac OS X in this case).
The software will then download and need to be installed. Once downloaded, open the Nessus dmg and extract it. Inside will be the Nessus 5 package installer.
Open the installer and click through the defaults to perform a basic installation.
Once done, you'll have the Nessus Server Manager and Nessus Client.url in a Nessus folder in the Applications directory.
Open the Nessus Server Manager and authenticate as an administrator when prompted. When you downloaded the software you would have been prompted for registration. Provide that information in the registration field. Then click on Update plugins to make sure all of the Nessus plugins are running the latest version. Finally, click on Manager Users… to create your users.
At the list of Nessus users, click on the plus sign and create a new user, likely making the user an admin (I see few vulnerability scanning stations that have non-administrative users, which would just be for viewing reports and the such). Click Save to create the user and then close at the List of users screen.
If the Nessus server isn't started, click on Start Nessus Server. Then click on the Nessus Client.url file back where the Nessus Server manager was accessed. At the Nessus login screen, provide the username and password for the Nessus server that was previously created.
Once authenticated, you will be placed in the Scans screen. Before we configure any scans, we're first going to create a Policy (which defines how a scan operates for the most part). To do so, click on Policies and then click on the Add button. There are four policy tabs (aligned on the left sidebar). In the General pane, you will configure the name for the Policy, "Mac Servers" in this example. Then we're going to check the boxes in the Scan section for Designate Hosts by their DNS Name, Log Scan Details to Server, Stop Host Scan on Disconnect and Avoid Sequential Scans. Then check the boxes in the Port Scanners section for TCP, SYN, SNMP, Netstat SSH and Ping Host. Leave the Port Scan Range set to default and the Performance options at their default values as well. These are useful when you're done tinkerating to get better performance out of the system, but we're not really there just yet.
Click on the Next button to define any credentials you'll use during scans. Initially, I'd leave this blank, although you can provide SMB information for up to 4 accounts to see what kind of access users have. You can also define Kerberos, SSH and various cleartext credentials as well. We're going to skip that for now and click Next to define the Plugins.
At the Plugins screen, we're initially going to leave all of the plugins on. The reason for this is that many of the Lion Server services are similar to those of the various Unix and Linux variants and we can scan SMB with the Windows plugins. These can't hurt, they might just waste a little time though. Clicking on a Family and then a plugin will show you what each does. Clicking on the green light for each will disable it.
Click on Preferences and define any preferences that you need. Amongst the plugin preferences I usually enable network printer scanning, CGI scanning, Enable experimental scripts, set my Report verbosity to Verbose, provide any certificates needed and then hit Submit to create the new Policy.
Next, let's click back on Scans in the navigation bar on the screen. As you can see here, I've created a few template scans, but we're going to create a new one by clicking on the Add button.
Provide a name for the scan and then choose the Policy you just created. Set the Type to Run Now (since we're just testing) and put the IP address of a target into the Scan Targets field. You can also import a large set of targets using the Brows button and a csv file or use Schedule or Template rather than Run Now in the Type field to schedule scans or create a template scan. Click Launch to kick off the first scan.
Once started, click on the Reports button in the top nav bar to see the status of the scan.
Once the scan is finished, click on the scan to see a list of vulnerabilities and open ports, sorted by the severity of issues. Here, double-click on the host.
The Report screen then shows each service and the vulnerabilities found for that service. Click on one of the vulnerabilities to see what Nessus thinks is problematic with it.
Now for the fun part. Each of the vulnerabilities listed will have CVEs attached.
By default, Nessus is just looking at the service banners to determine vulnerabilities. If you look up the CVE at CVE Details or PacketStorm you'll see that it was patched a few months ago by most vendors. Now Nessus can get things wrong with Mac OS X. The issue is that Apple forks the code for many open source projects, not always updating version numbers on banners. Looking up or testing whether a vulnerability is still applicable can be tedious but would likely need to be done per service according to your internal security policies.
An easy way to test these vulnerabilities is to use Metasploit, a tool I'm long overdue to write an article on. Another way is to try and run the exploit against the host. Apple does a pretty good job of addressing CVEs in their security updates, so don't waste a lot of time trying things if Apple has already patched them. I have found a really good tool for automatically attempting to exploit via msf + nessus to be Carlos Perez' auto exploit tool, available on github.
Finally, Nessus is a great tool for scripting. One of the big differences that throws off many an experienced Nessus operator off with the version for the Mac is the location of the Nessus binaries. They are in /Library/Nessus/run/bin. In here you'll find nasal, nessus, nessus-fetch, nessuscmd etc. The command line control here is pretty awesome. Let's run nessuscmd to scan a net mask of hosts (192.168.210.0/24):
sudo /Library/Nessus/run/bin/nessuscmd 192.168.210.0/24
There are tons of other options for nessuscmd, such as adding ssh keys, smb logins, scanner options, using a remote nessus server, etc. Or use the nessus binary to kick off scans using a nessus config file. The nessus.conf file is also stored in the /Library/Nessus/run/etc/nessus directory, worth looking into.
In an email to the Mac Enterprise list, Ed Marczak of Google announced that Google is open sourcing their much heralded FileVault 2 code, once again proving how awesome the Mac team at Google really is:
I'm very happy to announce Cauliflower Vest: a new, open source
product that is an end-to-end Mac OS X FileVault 2 recovery key escrow
solution. In short, this brings missing features that allow you to
better manage FileVault 2 machines.
Cauliflower Vest allows you to:
– Forcefully enable FileVault 2 encryption.
– Automatically escrow recovery keys.
– Delegate secure access to recovery keys so that volumes may be
unlocked or reverted.
If you *just* want to have a command-line tool to enable FV2, that's
in there, too.
For more information about Cauliflower Vest, please see the blog post
at http://google-opensource.blogspot.com/2012/02/cauliflower-vest-end-to-end-os-x.html,
and visit the Google Code page at
In search of the American Dream? Apple has sold approximately 122 million Macs over the course of 28 years. They have sold 55 million iPads since those were released in April 2010 (in less than 2 years) and sold 156 million iOS Devices for 2011 alone, bringing the total of iOS devices to 316 million. The handset market is set to increase by around 33 percent and there's really no telling where the tablet market is set to go over the course of the next few years.
What does all of this mean? It means that iOS is continuing to increase in visibility, that App Store sales will continue to rise and that integration into mainstream business will continue. The traffic for mobile device data is set to increase 8 times over the course of the next four years, Cisco and other companies are starting to jump into the mobility space with product offerings and Windows 8 is supposedly going to make a big splash on release.
The Apple App Store is about to hit 25,000,000,000 downloads. That's a lot of zeros. And that's a lot of Angry Birds, 99 cent fart jokes and useful business apps that are driving innovation. Mobility as a term is on every CIOs mind at at the tip of their tongue. Giants such as IBM and HP are starting to jump into the MDM space that has previously been occupied by companies like JAMF Software and AirWatch.
I witnessed something similar to this twice before. The first was the final and complete domination of all things IT by Windows at the beginning of my career. Back when I was swapping out 32 floppies to install Windows 95, a vicious process that will make even the sanest person nasty with hallucinations, I had the chance to go to COMDEX a couple of times. The first year I went, it seemed like a lot of people interested in hacking things together. The second year, it was all corporate headhunters, looking to seize the IT revolution occurring inside their businesses by placing golden handcuffs on the best and the brightest in the industry. And of the companies presenting, well, they mostly got acquired by large companies with big names and their products diluted. A complete turnoff, this led me down the path of open source and security.
After COMDEX, I went to DefCon and Black Hat for a number of years. I used to love watching the random weirdness that these otherwise completely reclusive people would throw together. There were capture the flag events (that is, finding the flag on someone else's box), people went out into the desert to shoot guns and of course, dumpster diving competitions. There still are all of these things actually. And DefCon itself has managed to very much stay true to that form. But the companies that used to have booths at Black Hat have now mostly been acquired by companies like IBM and HP. These corporate denizens only want to complete a portfolio or gain access to "synergistic" products. Mergers put great little companies with people that really care about their products as small parts of Symantec. And the top talent at those organizations usually leave once they realize they're not in the least bit impactful and they move on to other companies. They're replaced by people who've achieved the title of Vice President at a competitor, whether that person deserves it or not. In some cases they thrive, but in far more cases, the products flounder, end up getting renamed, repositioned and either sold off to another company for the brand recognition or simply fade into the distance.
In each of these there has been a moment. A moment where I said, you know, something substantial has changed here. There are a few things happening that make me leery about the Mac/iOS IT space, and a few things to look for.
But here's the thing about all of this. It doesn't have to be bad. If we all keep our eyes wide open about what's going on around us the continued influx of massive amounts of money isn't going to be a bad thing. Basically, our opportunities will explode over the next few years. If we learn our lessons from the dot com era, from COMDEX, from the rise of info sec, then we'll stay off the coke, not buy really fast cars and remain engaged. I hope not to look at this as I've looked at other revolutions in the past. While he wasn't much of a computer geek, Hunter S. Thompson put it into words best:
And that, I think, was the handle—that sense of inevitable victory over the forces of Old and Evil. Not in any mean or military sense; we didn't need that. Our energy would simply prevail. There was no point in fighting—on our side or theirs. We had all the momentum; we were riding the crest of a high and beautiful wave.…
So now, less than five years later, you can go up on a steep hill in Las Vegas and look West, and with the right kind of eyes you can almost see the high-water mark—that place where the wave finally broke and rolled back.
Hacking, phreaking, computing and gaming. There are a lot of movies that really hit on some of these topics. Everyone is going to have their favorites, but I wanted to share mine in case you had Presidents Day off and needed some nerdy fun to get you through the forced vacation!
1. Office Space is the story of Peter Gibbons, a computer programmer who spends all day doing mindless tasks. Thanks to a hypnotic suggestion, Peter decides not to go to work at the same time his company starts laying people off. When layoffs affect his two best friends, they conspire to plant a virus that will embezzle money from the company into their account. The movie sports the scene where they take the fax out and smash it with baseball bats, the traffic scene on the way to work, the scene where he gets asked to work on Saturday, the scene where he pictures his boss and his new girlfriend (Jennifer Aniston) and of course the stapler. It is a classic and would be very easy to end up watching again tonight, as I write this…
2. Sneakers is probably one of the best hacking/phreaking movies of all time. Sure, it's a little dated, but they all are. It was pretty good for the day though, and no completely off-the-wall ideas about what is and is not possible. The guy from 30something is awesome (aka "Dick") and Martin Brice (Robert Redford) does a great job. River Phoenix is awesome and Dan Aykroyd is just like every conspiracy theorist ever. "It's Not About Who's Got the Most Bullets, It's About Who's Got the Information". Great lines, great writing, great cast and still holds up as a pretty good movie after all these years (20, since it was released in 1992).
3. War Games is about Ferris Bueller (or a nerdy whizz kid of a Ferris Bueller) who connects into a top secret military mainframe and ends up with complete control over the United State's nuclear arsenal. He then has to find the physical mainframe and disable it. What's so awesome is that it's InfoSec 101: use a password, put multiple layers of security in place and don't hook ICBMs up to unsecured systems. Really makes the Wozniak quote "never trust a computer you can't throw out of a window" make sense. I've been waiting for years to hear "shall we play a game?" Just like when I consider having an argument with my wife, "the only winning move is not to play."
4. Tron is a movie about Kevin Flynn, a video game designer that gets converted into a digital person by an evil software pirate named Master Control. Disney somehow manages to take Jeff Bridges and turn him into a 3D version of himself. Complete with geometrical landscapes that comprise cyberspace, games and there's even a girl (the one place where Tron isn't very lifelike).
5. Hackers is the story of a young boy gets arrested by the Secret Service for writing a computer virus. He's banned from using a computer until he turns 18. As a teenager, he moves to the big city to discover an awesome 2600-style underground of computer hackers. This one is complete with a teenage Angelina Jolie, skateboards, trench coats and modems. While it's not completely realistic, it's not utterly fantastical either (other than the hax0r kid getting the hot girl part). Imagine my disappointment when I got my first job with computers and Jolie wasn't waiting for me…
6. Weird Science is a typical 80s flick about two unpopular teenage boys who "create" a woman via their computer. Their living and breathing creation is a gorgeous woman, Lisa (the name of the predecessor to the Macintosh, whose purpose is to boost their confidence level by putting them into situations which require Gary and Wyatt to act like men. On their road to becoming accepted, they encounter many hilarious obstacles, which gives the movie an overall sense of silliness.
7. Antitrust is a fictional account of computer programming extraordinaire Milo Hoffman. When Milo graduates from Stanford, he is recruited by Gary Winston, a character loosely based on Bill Gates. Winston is the CEO of a software company called NURV, on the brink of completing a global communications system called Synapse. Tragedy soon after strikes when Teddy Chin is murdered by a pair of Milo's co-workers who made it look like a hate crime. Milo's girlfriend Alice Poulson is turns out to be helping Winston and there are even bad guys working for the company inside the Justice Department. Basically, the message of the movie is that if you like computers, you should trusting no one and that nothing is as it seems. Luckily, in the real world, secrets can't be kept for long (the more money you have the harder it seems to actually be to keep secrets). Which is why things like this don't actually happen. But hey, at least we geeks get to feel important for a little while and this movie was actually well made. Having said that, Ryan Philippe is mediocre. Which was actually good enough in this one to be acceptable.
8. The Matrix is a fantastical look at futuristic hacker/programmer Thomas Anderson, living an ordinary life in 1999. Until Morpheus leads him into the real world, which is actually 200 years later and taken over by evil robots machines. The computers have created a fake 20th-century life called the Matrix to keep the human slaves asleep. The robots get power from the humans. Anderson is constantly chased by Agents (the opposite of that shirt that reads "I could replace you with a very tiny shell script"). At one point, the agents start replicating (I've accidentally filled a drive up by looping through cp before too). Anderson gets a cool name "Neo" and gets to be played by Keanu Reeves. All's well (albeit varying degrees of well) until he becomes one with the matrix after about 7 or 8 hours of watching the movie. Actually, movies. It's a trilogy. But Trinity (Reeves' love interest) does use Nmap to run sshnuke against SSHv1 CRC32. Not a bad exploit for a lady wearing all leather…
9. The Net is the story of Angela Bennett, a computer expert whose interconnectedness comes back to haunt her. Back when Sandra Bullock was young and beautiful, she played an analyst who was never far from a computer. A friend like many of my own, whom she's only spoken to over the net, Dale Hessman, sent her a program with a weird glitch needing debugging. She finds an easter egg on the disk which turns her life into a nightmare. Her records are erased from existence and she is given a new identity, complete with a police record. The best line is "computers are your life aren't they?" Mostly because I find it easy to identify with such a line…
Oh, and she uses a Mac!
10. The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo is the most recent movie on this list. And there are more than one. I won't say to see one over the others, but do check out the hacker girl. The latest installment has the most awesome song from Trent Reznor in the soundtrack, which I could totally listen to while writing scripties (and have).
11. Takedown is probably the movie that cost the least on the list to make. It's not a great movie, but worthy of cult status to many. But here's the thing: hacking stuff is pretty boring to watch. Unless of course, it's the 2 days a year you leave your basement to go sit in Las Vegas and hack stuff with real humans around you…
12. The Pirates of Silicon Valley is a documentary about the tycoons that took control of the personal computer market. It starts with their time in college and then covers the actions that built up global empires now known as Apple and Microsoft Inc. My favorite part of this is the way that they made Steve Ballmer out to be a complete idiot. The parts about Bill Gates, Steve Jobs, Wozniak and Paul Allen were pretty well known to me, even before I saw the movie. With Noah Wyle I kept thinking that at some point he was going to throw on his scrubs and start giving someone an ER-style heart surgery. Anthony Michael Hall plays an uninspired Bill Gates. The best part of his part is when he does Saturday Night Fever on roller skates and then falls down. When he became the wealthiest man in the world I wonder if he got skate-dance lessons.
13. Swordfish was just a bad movie. But every computer nerd is going to watch it and hopefully turn it into a drinking game of some sort. Let me get this straight: a guy is supposed to hack into some of the most complex systems in the world and was supposed to do so while having relations with a lady and having a gun pointed at his head. Oh, did I mention, he's dead if he isn't done in 60 seconds? There are some really good uses of real computer stuff on some of the screens at time. But, Travolta should still give up his SAG card.
14. Johnny Mnemonic is the story of a data courier, again Keanu Reeves, who accepts a payload to big to keep in his head for long, that he then must deliver before it kills him. Classic Reeves, a cheesy flick. Has Dolph Lundgren, so must be at least funny-bad. Ice-T and Henry Rollins make appearances too (the 1990s, baby).
15. Live Free or Die Hard is the latest (4th) installment of the Die Hard saga. In this one though, the Mac Guy helps Bruce Willis hack into stuff and blow stuff up. This gets to be on the list because Bruce Willis says: "Command Center, it's a basement." I thought maybe he was talking about my place…
16. Minority Report is on the list because the tech that guy has was awesome. Not as good as the tech that Iron Man has, but a bit more realistic in some places. I actually think that a few products were developed after engineers watched this movie personally, and I'd love to see the rest made possible. Might have been higher except the cast.
17. D.A.R.Y.L. – After watching D.A.R.Y.L. I think I spent years thinking I was some sort of robot. Probably explains plenty. When I finally got around to reading Isaac Asimov's Robot Series I guess I didn't think I might be an android any longer. "It's only human to make mistakes, but Daryl never does." In this movie, a kid realizes he's actually an artificial intelligence. He then gets chased down by the government, looking to reclaim their intellectual property. Classic ET-style the government are the bad guys kinda' moments ensue.
18. Untraceable is a move from 2008 where Diane Lane plays a fed trying to track down a serial killer who posts live video of killing victims on the Internet. It's borderline B-movie, but it's not too badly done. Any plot gaps or technical mistakes I let slide due to the fact that the movie is set in Portland and the fact that I've always enjoyed Diane Lane.
19. Tron: Legacy is the second installment of Tron, which comes almost 30 years later, his son joins him in a movie that is more like the Big Lebowski turns digital samurai than the original… I'm kinda' suck of the rich brat concept. But at least he breaks into a data center and blows stuff up before getting sucked into the Matrix…
20. Eagle Eye is the story of Jerry and Rachel, two strangers thrown together by a phone call from a lady they have never met. She makes them and others perform a series of increasingly dangerous situations, using everyday technology to track and control their moves. Turns out she's a computer. Shia LaBeouf is the star of this. How he got to be the star of this, Transformers and the replacement for the Indiana Jones movies is beyond me. He's not a terrible actor, but he's not worthy of such reverence from the nerd/action movie elite… This is not as awesome a nerd movie as it is a symbol of the future of nerdy movies. I guess this one is more about that thing people call Mobility than computing, but close enough…
21. Lawnmower Man should have just been one movie. The only one with Stephen King, this was the first VR movie I remember seeing. Pierce Brosnan is the not-really-bad guy, but the creator of the bad guy. This is like a digital Frankenstein flick.
22. Disclosure is another movie from the 1990s (1994) that shows Michael Douglas getting seduced by a woman. But this time, he ends up stopping before he closes the deal. So instead of boiling the family pet, he just gets sued for sexual harrassment. Lots of computers and screen shots. And Demi Moore in a 90s power suit. Awesome stuff!
23. Virtuosity is about a virtual reality serial killer who's actually more of a composite of serial killers. Weak plot, but Russell Crowe wasn't a big star yet. It's like of like Demolition Man, but with the VR spin on it. Russell Crowe is totally psycho. And he wears a couple of awesome suits in the movie (I'm pretty sure one of them was in Cool World as well). 50 terabytes was a lot back then!
24. eXistenZ is another artificial reality movie, but Jennifer Jason Leigh is a video game designer. I thought that the BioPort concept was too much, especially for the time. The theme was already a bit done by then, but it was at least a weird new twist…
25. The Computer Wore Tennis Shoes had Kurt Russell. It was from the 60s. But the time spent on explaining all the computing was awesome! The best part about this movie is that glimpse you get of what computers were like before the advent of the personal computer. Thank you to the Altair, Apple and other machines that helped to get us into a new world order!
Finally, while this clip isn't a movie, if you were curious what hacking stuff really looks like most of the time:
Honorable mention:
Very much excluded from this list:
I almost called this article "Aliens Can Listen To Calls on Your iPhone" or "How To Hack Into Every iPhone Ever (Even When They're Powered Off)". But then I thought that maybe it would be a bit too much. I've been a little melodramatic at times, but that's when I was younger and needed the rupees. But TechTarget isn't young (although I don't know if they need the rupees). I'd like to point out two recent articles of theirs:
I remember reading an article awhile back claiming that the first virus for the iPhone had hit. This was a pretty big site (not TechTarget btw), but they had jumped on Apple and jumped quick, for a lack of good security on the iOS platform. Why? Because Apple's huge, popular and a frickin' easy target. But every security researcher knows that if they can hack an iPad or an iPhone that they're going to be famous. Still, only one has managed to do anything remotely close to cool and you had to download his app, which got him banned, for the "exploit" to work (the "exploit" was actually javascript taxies). Security researchers do most everything they do for fame. Therefore, if there were going to be serious flaws with iOS, they'd have come up by now.
Let's look at these headlines and vs the content of the articles. The first, Apple iOS Security Attacks A Matter Of When, Not If, IT Pros Say. The title isn't actually that bad, (although I don't know that the IT Pros quoted are worthy of punditry). It's the headers within the article that set me off a little. "A false sense of iOS security" was the first: Here they said that iOS users are going to run something if it comes out because there haven't been any vulnerabilities to iOS. Counter argument would be that since a vulnerability *will* (or would) be on CNN, MSNBC, NPR, every web site, every magazine and possibly a PSA on flights, I think they'll figure it out pretty quick… The next header, "Responding to iOS security attacks" goes on to explain that (to summarize) iOS virus protection blows. OK, we should develop more FUD-based apps to check for viruses of data that those apps would actually have no access to due to sandbox controls.
The next header, "Entry points for iOS security attacks" tells us that someone will exploit HTML5 or post an app with a Trojan or Logic Bomb on the App Store in order to destroy your iPhone as if it were a planet slated for demolition. Each app can only communicate with resources outside of that app using an API Apple allows, an API that doesn't cause combustion of the phone. If the app goes through the app store then that has to be a public, not private API. It is possible that someone could run a fuzzer against every possible variable exposed by every possible method and come up with a way to do something interesting, like cause the phone to reboot. But that kind of thing is going to be true of every platform and isn't worthy of the pretense that it's security consulting. I can dig on the possibility of that kind of vulnerability, but the author then indicates that Apple's security is 7th worse in the IT industry with a 12% growth in vulnerabilities. Thus an insinuation that people are actually exploiting holes in iOS rather than Google monitoring iPhone user data a bit more than they should…
The second headline is much better though: How an iOS virus can infect the enterprise and what to do about it. Reading it, my first impression was that there was an iOS virus; you know, one written for iOS. But no, they're talking about a virus that someone sends through your corporate Exchange server that is then copied to your Windows XP computer through the magical XP Virus Stream (like Photo Stream but more specific features for XP) and executes the virus that wipes your computer. I like it. I can dig that virus, but regrettably that virus doesn't exist. And apparently no good anti-virus exists, according to the article. Why not? Because Apple has overly secured the OS and anti-virus has to be invoked manually.
Over-security is what makes iOS so great for phones. I'm one of those people that likes to hack stuff. And iOS isn't for hacking around in unless you have jailbroken the device. That's why my phone always works and I'm able to actually get stuff done on a consistent basis. There are certainly things Apple could do better. But iOS security is a hard one to point the finger at. I would like to see security researchers more warmly welcomed and for the Apple community to see those researchers as people who are building a stronger product rather than the enemy. I would like to see some technical features added or centralized control over features added.
It isn't just Apple. It's any company big enough to care about. The tech sites are mostly what I look at, and every time there's something they think they can hop on with Google or any of the other big names in the tech industry they hop right on that to drive readers, whether well founded or not. Not all tech sites/magazines mind you, just some. And when the company is famous enough (Google, Apple, Microsoft) for mainstream media to care about, all the better…
At the end of the day though, the way to get action is to file a feature request with vendors, not to make up crazy headlines aimed at selling FUD as a means of getting someone to go to your website…
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September 25, 2012
Jerry Kill
COACH KILL: We still have a lot of work to do to be a good football team, but we're pleased where we're at, and now we've gotta take the next step up and continue to move forward. So it's a big step going to Iowa City, going on the road it's always tough. And that's where our preparation will start as we speak with our kids today. So with that, take any questions.
Q. What do you think the team's identity is now? You've had four games, and September, you're trying to figure out. Is it a defensive‑minded team?
COACH KILL: I think it's a team ‑‑ I wouldn't say defensive‑minded or offensive‑minded. I think it's a team. I think we've played well as a team.
I think we held on to the ball. I think we snapped it 76, 77 times on Saturday. That's a good thing. That we limit a team that's getting 90 to 100 snaps. So I think it's been a good team effort. It's been a workman's effort. It's gone to business each week. That's what I hope to see today, bring your lunch pail and go to work every single day. That's who we're going to have to be. Again I've preached all along we have no room for error. But I felt Saturday, I won't deny that in the locker room that's more what I'm used to seeing, more physical football. I thought we played more physical than we have since we have been here as a coaching staff. No doubt about that, and I want to see more of that.
Q. The turnovers you guys are creating, is that a product of just being faster on the defense or guys in the right spots more?
COACH KILL: I always say that good players make better coaches. And I think we have some players that are playing aggressively and making some plays.
You know, I talked about our young safeties have made some big plays, good push up front. It's just been a good team effort. And we've had some guys step up and make plays. One of the biggest plays is when they made the onside kick and Derrick Wells recovers the onside kick with all those people running at him. We've just had some players like that that have made plays and stepped up at critical times.
Q. Could you talk a little bit about the injury situation and also Coach Ferentz in terms of how you know him and the respect you have for him?
COACH KILL: As far as injury status, there's really not. MarQueis, we met with the training staff today and he's working to get better, but I don't anticipate him playing. Tommy Olson got banged up and he's a big question mark for this week. And Shabazz is still, we're hoping we can get him back off the off week. And I don't know. He's jogging. But those are the three that come to my mind. Lamonte has been cleared to practice. Joe Bjorklund's been cleared to practice. So those things. Andre, I think, gets to practice Wednesday or Thursday, so that's kind of where we're at there.
As far as my respect for Coach, you know, I think when I was at Southern Illinois I sent some coaches there, and you know, because throughout the country when you talk about people that run a great practice, he's always been known for running a tremendous practice. And you know, when our guys came back, people said it's what you hear. It's unbelievable. The organization, the fundamentals, the technique that's coached at their school. So that respect started a long time ago and has continued, and he's won a lot of football games.
And everybody goes, what's Iowa look like? They look just like Iowa always looks like. Big, strong, physical, come downhill, hit you in the mouth. Play good defense. Keeps the ball in front of them. They mix it up on you, and they are who they are. They're very good, and we go to Iowa City to play on their turf. So we have our work cut out for us, but we're looking forward to the challenge.
Q. What changes in the Big 10 and do you buy into the theory that the Big 10 is down this year?
COACH KILL: I can't buy into anything. I got a friend that coaches Louisiana Monroe. They lost to Auburn. They beat Arkansas. Is that because they're from this conference? I mean there's good football everywhere, in my opinion. And I know that what I've tried to do is concentrate on us and seeing us try to get better to get us ready for the Big 10. And the Big 10 is the Big 10. You look at our schedule and you look at Michigan State and Michigan, Iowa, and Nebraska. Those teams are still good football teams. And we're building bricks to get to where they're at.
So for us, as I said all along is that, you know, we go to Iowa City, we play Iowa, we're not going to be able to miss two field goals. We're not going to be able to have a touchdown pass called back or we're not going to win. We have no room for error. Our kids understand that. That's the approach we've taken all year, and we've been able to get away with a few things, but as the year goes, you can't let that happen.
Now, with that being said, we've cut down on mental errors on defense and we're not near as many as we made a year ago. Offensively, we've cut down, but we're still making more than we'd like to. And we gotta get better on coverage teams.
Our kickoff coverage was awesome on Saturday. I think we held them to 16, 17‑yard line. That's good stuff. Now we gotta get kickoff return straightened out. We got two good kickoff returns, and we're starting at 17. That isn't good. We got a lot of work to get to that point.
I can't answer today because we haven't been to practice. To this point our players have come to work every single day. They've come to work every single day and done what we've asked them to do. If they continue it do that, we have a chance to be in some football game and have a chance to win. If they don't, the results aren't near as good. You don't get as lucky.
Q. Winning the turnover battle is such a critical part of the game.
COACH KILL: It's critical. I think if you took a study, and I did this four, fiveyears ago, I haven't done it in the last 45years. If you take the study of people that won the Super Bowl, it's the team that turned the ball over less. You look at college football, the teams that win most times are the ones that have the plus columns in the turnovers. If they don't turn it over and they get them. I don't think there's any question that turnovers are a big key. We got four turnovers on Saturday and we had zero with a young quarterback. So you do that, you got a chance to win.
Q. When you look at your team, you're 4‑0, the fan base is very excited about what's going on. Where are you in your progression of building this program? Do you feel you're ahead of where you thought you might be at this point?
COACH KILL: Well, you know, I learned a lot about this about seven years ago. You take one day at a time, and I think that's an old Willie Nelson song. And I don't have a crystal ball. I can't predict the future. I'll tell you if Sid fired me today, which is possible, if I was fired today, I can tell you that the program is in better shape and so forth. And that's no disrespect to anybody. I'm just talking about where we're at. I think we've moved it forward for the period of time we've been here, but with that being said we're nowhere close to where we need to be. Nowhere close.
But we are making improvements. I see the improvements on the inside more than I even do the outside. I look at the strength factor and I think we're getting quicker. I think our weight room has improved, our work ethic down there. We've certainly improved in the classroom. I think we're learning how to act and do some things, so I mean those things, those are the things that you win. That's why you win. It's the little things.
And so we've improved on that area, and when you do all those things and you work hard, you seem to get luckier or you make a play. When you don't work as hard, you're not quite as lucky and the ball doesn't fall your way, and right now the ball's fallen our way a little bit and that's part of building a program.
I guess to make a long story short where we're at, you know, I think very similar to where we were at Southern Illinois. I think we were 1‑10 the first year, and we weren't very good, and next year we got better and we won four games that year. And I don't do so much with wins and losses, but I think we're certainly better than we were a year ago. We'll find out how much better over the next eight weeks and how much they're going to improve. If we stay the same, results won't be very good. We've gotta continue to make progress.
And with young people from 17 to 22years old you never know where that mind is. Plus, injuries have a lot to do with that. I'm a little nervous right now. We're playing hard, but we're beat up. We're in there with a young quarterback and we moved Zach Mottla to center and now Tommy Olson is injured. There's continuity involved in all that. So that makes me a little bit nervous as we go into Big 10 play.
Q. Could you do anything different in practice this week to prepare for the competitiveness or intensity of the conference play?
COACH KILL: No. We haven't done anything different for the last 30years of coaching. I really hadn't changed a practice much since I coached at Webb City High School, believe it or not. I think there's a couple that come watch us practice and say, well, coach, there's one thing about you you're consistent. I won't say what they consistently told me I was, but they said I was consistent. Brandon Jacobs told me I was consistent this week, and I can't tell you what he meant by that either.
Q. Can you talk about the progression of the wide receivers?
COACH KILL: Well, I think I like ‑‑ we've done some good things. You know, I felt we dropped a couple, two or three balls that we shouldn't have dropped on Saturday that were critical, and I think we gotta get better blocking. I think we gotta become more physical. You become more physical at receiver, you get bigger plays and we had some runs in there that we could have busted out, and instead of being 10, 15‑yard runs could be 40‑yard runs. So I challenged our receivers a little bit. I said we're going to block better than we've been blocking. So that'll be a focus.
And then we've gotta make sure we catch ‑‑ the third down and five, six, seven, ball may be a little bit off the spot. You gotta be able to catch that ball. That's what you play receiver for. So we've gotta improve. We've gotta continue. Have we moved forward with that a little bit, yeah. But we gotta get much better, and they were notified of that on Sunday.
Q. Do you think you could get this kind of production from Kirkwood as long as he was healthy?
COACH KILL: Well, you know, I guess I'd be lying ‑‑ I didn't really know. We certainly need to know that. But I think again, you'd have to talk ‑‑ the off season has improved a lot of people's confidence. I mean he feels like he's stronger, he's healthier. He's worked hard. I think Coach Klein will tell you he's put in all kinds of extra time of stretching and doing all the little things it takes to stay healthy. So I give him all the credit. And I think his mindset is good and he's playing with some confidence.
The thing that Donnell did well on Saturday, talk about running the ball, he had, I believe, seven or eight cuts in the pass protection. He did great job of pass protecting, and there's guys that struggle with that. So he had a really, really good football game on Saturday, overall as a running back. But I just think he's gained some confidence in himself, and he stayed healthy.
And when you get to feeling ‑‑ it's like anybody in here or any coach, when you feel good about yourself and you feel like you're doing some good things, you get better and you build some confidence, and before long you think you can do a lot of things that people didn't think you could do. So I think he falls in that category. I think as he plays better and he sees the production and gets the compliments when he comes in here on Sunday, and you put the film on and you go, boy, that's good, Donnell. That's good when he's heard "that's not very good, Donnell." I think he's gained some confidence, and we all get better when you have a better result, so to speak.
Q. Do you have to rely less on the rivalry aspect of an Iowa game this year because it seems like more of an even matchup on the field?
COACH KILL: I think we talk from the day we come into two‑a‑day camp we talk about the rival games, every one of them. We go back through history. We talk about, you know, I think that's why our program is getting better because of all the people that have played in it that have come back and talked to our team. So I don't think we've let up on any of that. That's part of college football.
And I know they haven't. And so I mean I think that's rival games are great. It's important in recruiting. It's important in the history of football. And so you know, we don't approach anything differently, but we certainly talk about we're going to play a huge game. It's important to the state and so forth, and they do the same thing. And that's why they call it a rivalry. So I mean we're not going to sit here and say that it's not because it is. I mean it's darn important to our fans. It's darn important to our players. And you know, it's the next game on our schedule.
And we go to Iowa City. We played at home the last two games. So I don't think our approach ‑‑ I think we've done a good job of educating the new players in our program of how important it is. But our lettermen and stuff, they've made it very clear how important it is. Believe me. From the day I've walked in this door, our lettermen and people that have played through our history have visited with our kids about how important it is. So they'll certainly ‑‑ that focus has been set way back during two‑a‑day camp.
Q. Were you familiar at all with the rivalry before you came here, and what have you learned about that particular aspect of this rivalry during your time at Minnesota?
COACH KILL: I think that anybody that loves college football, you know, studies the history of football. And you hear about all the things. Was I totally focused on it, no, because I wasn't here. But knowing about it, yes, and the history.
And then again, I think as young people in the game, and certainly where we're at at Minnesota, we have to go back to our history, which is very rich here at the University of Minnesota, and we have to learn from our history to build our program and move it forward.
So it's important, and it's important to our fans. It's been important for a long time. It's important for our state as well as it is for Iowa. And so I think that it helps us understand who we are and where we need to go.
Q. Did you have any of those trophy‑type games at Southern Illinois?
COACH KILL: No. We had some huge rivalries, but we didn't have ‑‑ and not many people do. But we didn't ‑‑ Western Illinois was a big rivalry. But it's different. This is BCS. It's different.
Q. A lot has been made about how well Derrick Wells has played safety. How about the other safeties?
COACH KILL: They played well. Cedric Thompson has played well and made a tremendous play in the very first play of the game. And Brock Vereen has played outstanding. I mean you're taking ‑‑ you know, you're taking two corners and moved them to safety and they both put on ‑‑ I don't know how much, you'd have to ask Brock. But they've both put on weight. They've got bigger and stronger. They're smart. They run fast. They make plays. They make you look good. So that's been ‑‑ you know, sometimes you make good moves in coaching. Sometimes you don't. Those were good moves moving them to safety and how we recruited. I mean we got lucky, I guess, but it's proved out to be pretty good because they're doing well, and plus we got two young safeties in there that haven't seen a lot of time. They're playing a ton on special teams, but they're pretty good, too. Our future ‑‑ that's the good thing about our program right now. We only have about maybe ten seniors that are playing. We're very young. And so I think our future is good, if we can continue to keep the core of what we're trying to teach intact.
Q. Brock was a guy that started periodically for you last year, wasn't in the starting lineup at the beginning of the year. I think he moves in after Zach going to center. How do you think he's responded?
COACH KILL: I think he's played well. He's done some good things. He really has. You know, I think that I was pleased with what he's done so far and very important to what we're doing. You know, we're very young, and that whole thing across the board, we're young, young, young. And he's stepped up and done a nice job for us.
Q. How happy are you with the officials replacements?
COACH KILL: You know, I can't ‑‑ I didn't get to see it, but I heard, because Coach Poore, Mike McCarthy used to live in his basement when he was coaching at Kansas so there was a relationship. And I was told by our staff this morning that he said at the very beginning he would have no comment on the officials. So I really can't have any comment. That's what I'm told in the Big 10. So I guess I'll have the same answer he does.
Q. The use of Mike Henry going to much more of a power running game, is that specific to Syracuse or is that just getting ready for the more physical nature of Big 10 games?
COACH KILL: I think we've used different combinations of personnel groupings. We felt with what we wanted to do again Syracuse to give us an advantage that Michael being in the game gave us some matchups that we needed and utilized Kirkland maybe a little bit more. And he played very well, by the way. He played great. Yes, Mike Henry had a great game. And so that was a huge plus for us, you know. And I think that's some of the flexibility we have in our offense of where we can spread you out, but we can also ‑‑ we're hoping we can come downhill. We were able to do that against Syracuse, and we still have to prove that as we can go through our schedule if we can do some of those things. But if we can, it certainly will help us from an offensive standpoint.
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