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In preparation for natural gas extraction and its potential impacts and opportunities, a session on methane migration was hosted by the Wayne County Oil and Gas Task Force on October 18 in Honesdale.
During his presentation, licensed professional geologist Brian Oram announced that a private well owner and watershed survey would be conducted to obtain information on regional concerns related to development of the Marcellus Shale.
Oram is the owner of BF Environmental Consultants, Inc. of Dallas, PA and former director of the Center for Environmental Quality at Wilkes University, where he oversaw production of a free publication on private well water testing (www.bfenvironmental.com/pdfs/Waterbooklet070610.pdf [2]).
Oram opened his presentation with a plea to move beyond the division created by supporters and opponents of gas drilling and to focus on "understanding the risks" and testing private wells now. "It's the match of the century," Oram said. "Which side are we on? That's the mindset that's causing us problems."
The primary risk Oram points to is the fact that nearly half of the private wells tested in Pennsylvania don't meet the drinking water standards established by the EPA. Typical problems include corrosion, copper, lead, iron, manganese and methane, according to Oram.
"For 23 years, I've been encouraging private owners to test their water," he said. "Maybe five percent do. It took an industry to come to town to get people to think about the quality of their own drinking water and to get it tested."
Oram also discussed the Citizen Groundwater Database established at Wilkes University
(www.wilkes.edu/pages/4197.asp [3]).
The regional database provides a central location to store baseline pre-drilling and/or post-drilling water quality data in order to document quality by geological formation, identify existing regional issues or concerns and provide an unbiased community resource as well as a mechanism to track temporal,
spatial and other geospatial variations in water quality.
Data from 320 private wells in Luzerne County, secured with a full chain of custody and third party testing, is already stored. "Forty-nine percent of the wells tested in Luzerne County violated the drinking water standard for total coliform bacteria," he said. "Twenty-five percent had elevated lead; 10% of the population is drinking water contaminated with e coli. Some private wells contain pthalates (plasticizers), which can cause gastrointestinal problems and are suspected endocrine disruptors and carcinogens."
Oram is a passionate advocate for the establishment of well construction standards, and an active critic of "what PA has allowed to happen to the private well program" by not implementing such standards. Pennsylvania is one of two states without construction standards, according to Oram. The other is Alaska.
Wells with problems such as bacterial or viral contamination are conduits for contamination of aquifers, Oram added. "We need to fix those. These are the vulnerable points in our communities." Water can also move along casings and contaminate the groundwater aquifer, he said.
Oram urged audience members to get baseline testing done now. "Spend what you can afford," he said. "There's a list of recommended DEP parameters which runs about $400." If doing baseline testing, he recommends adding tests for methane, ethane and propane.
BF Environmental's Private Well Owner Survey seeks information on regional concerns related to Marcellus Shale and other non-point sources of pollution. The survey also aims to gauge support for a construction standard for new private wells, and to find out if citizens would test their water once a year if it only cost about $50.
The company is also absorbing the costs for free radon testing for 200 private wells to explore "how a migration event could occur if it may be related to a Marcellus Shale activity." The web-based survey (www.surveymonkey.com/s/NMG6RQ3can [4]) can be filled out online or mailed in. The company also offers baseline testing related to Marcellus Shale development and has recommended testing packages that are region specific.
Oram urged local leadership to use the results of such testing to inform decision-making, support solutions that fix problematic private wells and develop a community support program where citizens can call and get answers.
The event also featured Burt Waite, senior geologist and program director for Moody and Associates, Inc. who spoke on "Understanding Stray Gas in Pennsylvania." Wayne County commissioners Brian Smith and Wendell Kay offered concluding remarks.
"Understand the risks," said Smith. "Make good decisions based on what the risks really are and do that by talking to the people who have the skill sets that can help address those risks and solve the problems. That's what we're doing by having these forums."
Kay added, "The goal of this organization is to educate as many of us as possible to all the aspects. This commission is looking at a whole variety of issues, both positive and negative, that will come about as part of this economic opportunity that we all hope we will enjoy."
For more information visit www.bfen [5] vironmental.com, www.water-research.net [6], www.wilkes.edu/water [7] or www.epa.gov/safewater [8].


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Home List of Titles Decreased material-activation of the complement system using low-energy plasma polymerized poly(vinyl pyrrolidone) coatings
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- Title
- Decreased material-activation of the complement system using low-energy plasma polymerized poly(vinyl pyrrolidone) coatings
- Author(s)
- Andersen, Thomas E.; Palarasah, Yaseelan; Skjodt, Mikkel-Ole; Ogaki, Ryosuke; Benter, Maike; Alei, Mojagan; Kolmos, Hans J.; Koch, Claus; Kingshott, Peter
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- In the current study we investigate the activation of blood complement on medical device silicone rubber and present a plasma polymerized vinyl pyrrolidone (ppVP) coating which strongly decreases surface-activation of the blood complement system. We show that uncoated silicone and polystyrene are both potent activators of the complement system, measured both as activated, deposited C3b and quantifying fluid-phase release of the cleavage fragment C3c. The ppVP coated silicone exhibits approximately 90% reduced complement activation compared to untreated silicone. Quartz crystal microbalance with dissipation (QCM-D) measurements show relatively strong adsorption of blood proteins including native C3 to the ppVP surface, indicating that reduction of complement activation on ppVP is neither a result of low protein adsorption nor lower direct C3-binding, and is therefore possibly a consequence of differences in the adsorbed protein layer composition. The alternative and classical complement pathways are barely detectable on ppVP while the lectin pathway through MBL/ficolin-2 deposition remains active on ppVP suggesting this pathway is responsible for the remaining subtle activation on the ppVP coated surface. The ppVP surface is furthermore characterized physically and chemically using scanning electron microscopy (SEM), x-ray photoelectron spectroscopy (XPS) and Fourier transform infrared (FTIR), which indicates preservation of chemical functionality by the applied plasma process. Overall, the ppVP coating shows a potential for increasing complement compatibility of blood-contacting devices.
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- Biomaterials, Vol. 32, no. 20 (Jul 2011), pp. 4481-4488
- Publication year
- 2011
- FOR Code(s)
- 0903 Biomedical Engineering; 0904 Chemical Engineering; 0912 Materials Engineering
- Keyword(s)
- Complement activation; Plasma polymerization; Protein adsorption; Silicone; Vinyl pyrrolidone
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- 0142-9612
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The acting state auditor says the land management infrastructure of the Office of Hawaiian Affairs is inadequate, according to a report released Wednesday.
Click here to read the full report.
Acting State Auditor Jan Yamane says OHA is unable to support its growing portfolio as well as future land involvements. She says OHA's Board of Trustees cannot ensure that its acquisitions are based on a strong financial foundation without the policies, procedures and staff to guide and support the increased real estate activity.
One example the auditor used was the unbalanced OHA real estate portfolio. Yamane says revenues generated from commercial properties were unable to offset expenses from legacy and programmatic land holdings.
Yamane also says OHA trustees disregarded a consultant's proposal in 2008 to expand its Land and Property Management division as well as proposals for a real estate business plan and investment policy.
OHA's board chair responded to the audit saying the organization appreciated the recommendations and intends to further develop land policies to integrate cultural and commercial values that supports its people.
However, the auditor said that OHA's decision to wait the Kaka'ako Makai land settlement was approved by the state before approving additional positions to manage OHA's land holdings misses the broader point that OHA's lack of a policy framework and other infrastructure is contrary to fulfillment of the board's role as fiduciary and policymaker.
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Jon Heyman of SI.com reports the Phillies have signed pitcher Cole Hamels to a three-year, $20.5 million contract. Hamels has avoided arbitration.
Hamels will get $4.35 million in 2009, $6.65 million in 2010 and $9.5 million in 2011. It's the largest deal for a pitcher in his first deal of arbitration.
As it stands, that's a steal for Hamels, and provides him with the security he wants until he turns 28. It takes out three of his four arbitration years (Hamels is a Super-Two and can hit arbitration once more in 2012), meaning the Phils could be potentially saving a couple million with this deal. Of course, down the road it could mean a huge deal for the ace left-hander, but for now, it's a very solid deal for both sides.
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Eaton is making more money than Colbert. Whatta steal.
best move amaro has done to date
Ata boy!
Amazing deal for the Phils. I didn't see this coming. Maybe if they can pull of another steal they might have what it takes to keep Howard after next year. But I doubt it.
Can anyone here honestly say "boy this isn't a good deal by Jnr and co…"?
Ryan, lookie at what Cole did. Come on, join in on the fun. This is great, i'm really shocked, i was seeing a 100 million dollar deal, i can't believe we nabbed Cole for less then that stinker Eaton. Good Day, Eh!
howard and madson are gone, i wouldnt even hold my breath waiting for those guys to come back. howard isnt even repped by boras and hes impossible to deal with. the hamels deal is great. basically, with one year left in that deal youll look to lock him up for 3-4 more years, i move arb year, at least two FA years. Theyll have cleared the money to get that deal done by that time with howard being gone and some of the jenkins eaton type junk deals being long gone from the books.
Awesome!!!!! Man I can't wait for the 09 season to start!!!!
One more year would've made me slightly happier, but still a good move.
Geoff is at again with his "..are gone" rants (chuckles). The reality is we can look forward to another great year with Howard, Madson and co. Next year may be a different story but time has a way in resolving those contract issues.
great deal for the phils and cole. Cole is being a team player with the contract he just signed. He could of raped the phils.
Like NJ said: I don't think anyone can deny this as being a stellar deal. Maybe Werth or Victorino are next? (Since we know Howard is a long- shot…)
Just remember it wasn't too long ago Cole was angry at his contract renewell, the kids come a long way.
I think it's a bad move. I would rather have let them keep paying him arbitration money over the next four years that he's eligible and lock Eaton up long-term. We only have one more year of Eaton, for God's sakes!
Okay, on a serious note, I don't think this deal could have gotten any better really. Sure, it would have been nice to have the security to lock him up for say 6 years, but what would happen if he got hurt along the way, or he turned into the second coming of Kevin Millwood? We would be stuck with guaranteed money and money for someone on the 60 day DL or in the bullpen. I don't think Cole will ever see the bullpen, but the injury thing is always possible.
With this contract, we don't tie up money long term, and once this contract is over, he still has one more arbitration year left. We then try to resign him to another 3, 4, or 5 year deal depending on his health, the market, etc. If it looks like he's not going to resign with us, we use him as trade bait and try to stock up on younger players. Either way, we're in a win/win situation I think. Overall, nothing really to dislike on this move.
Hamels is awesome. Maybe he saw that Fan Friday story and was so moved he decided to settle for the contract.
Hopefully Cole stays healthy. Hard to argue against this move though. Peace of mind for Hamels.
Are Victorino and Werth next? Werth had never stayed healthy before '08 (then again neither had Hamels).
I think they do something similar with Werth and Vic…3 years for Werth somewhere in the 15mm range, but I'd go 4 or 5 for Victorino. He may get somewhere near 6-8 mm per year.
I agree…theyll both get 3-4 year deals. victorinos will be cheaper than werths because of werths power, but im ok with those deals if they get them. thatd be GREAT. theyll probably go just a one year deal with blanton to see if hes worth resigning after the season. this used to be the type of guy, blanton, that will get 11-12mm a year on the open market but i think it wont be that way next season. they could resign blanton later in the year cheaply perhaps. the one player, position player on another team that id really want on our team, whod be a PERFECT philly guy is Kevin Youkilis. Unfortunately the red sox made sure he wont be going anywhere for a while.
In lieu of a formal commentary, this is the perfect deal.
Hamels gets three guaranteed big paydays. He wanted big money. He got it.
The Phillies get to save money in arbitration. Honestly, aside from career-altering injury (which, of course, could happen), Hamels is one of the best left-handers in recent memory. He'd be cashing in by 2010.
It jumps Hamels over to 2012, when Howard will be completely off the books (they're NOT giving him a deal) and Ibanez is off the books. It also allows the Phils to be frugal with Rollins, who might be on his downturn when the Phils negotiate in 2012 (they'll allow him the option).
It also hands Cole a peace of mind. He has his money. He can pitch. He knows he's worth big money, and won't have to worry about another deal for a few years. He got what he wanted, and it gives him more incentive to think about staying in Philadelphia.
Win. Win. Win. Win.
This is the best move Amaro has done yet. It shows good faith too and I really think with all of that money freed up with Howard and Ibanez gone by then that will allow them to sign Hamels to an extension of 3 or so years fairly easily.
I haven't read the comments yet, but I think this is a great deal. When the contract ends he'll still have one more year under Phillies control. If he stays healthy and pitches the way we expect him to then in 2012 you give him the big contract. We're getting a steal on his 1st 3 arb years.
Why does everyone think this is a steal? Its basically about the same money he would have gotten through arbitration. He had no leverage here and did not give up his FA years. I'm not against the move but don't think it is any different than had he gone to arb every year except now the money is guarunteed.
And why are people telling howard and madson to take note? They are completely different situations. They would be giving up their free agent years where they can make much more money where as Cole is only giving up 3 of his 4 arbitration years where the team has all the leverage.
ray, Hamels would have gotten more in arbitration, I'm sure. This year he may have only gotten 4 or 5 million, but if he has another season like last year, next year he would have been closer to 8 or 10. Then maybe 12 the year after. I think that over the next three years, he would have gotten something more than the 20 he signed for.
I'm with Tim, though. I think it's unlikely that Howard gets a long term deal. No way the Phils give him 20 million a year unless he can cut down on his strikeouts and improve his average. They'll likely trade him in his last arbitration year and get younger. By then we may have a better defensive option at 1st, or they may convert one of the now lower level prospects to 1st…who knows.
All I can say is YAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHOoooooooooooooooooooooooo
ooooooooooooooooo!!!! And that's not a plug for the defunct search engine. This is just great.
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Perfect Deal.
This maybe the best news of the offseason. Not only do we have our ace secure for 3 more years but he and the front office have shown a willingness to work a fair deal for all. Hopefully this will be a sign of good things when his next extension needs to be I'm liking how Arbitration is turning out. Hopefully we'll get news of Victorino signing for a couple years soon too. Thank you to the front office and to Cole for this bit of great news!
Good for Hamels, great for the Phils!
Think about it, what did Carlos Silva do before he signed?
What did Adam Eaton accomplish before he signed? More that Cole Hamels? Did or has (more past tense) either of these 2 pitchers ever shown the promise of what Cole has displayed?
On to another matter though, is there a possibility that the Phils can win this division without Ryan Howard? I see a few references to NOT giving Ryan a long term deal.
No way, the big man has to sign. He may not be the spark plug of the offense but he is the anchor.
The Phils do not repeat without Ryan Howard.
No one is saying howard wont be back next year, he has what two more years of arb left right. and in two years who knows what may be out there. can 40 hr 140 rbi and 200 strike outs and 250 avg and average defensive fisrt baseman be replaced, I think so, Saying that howard has turned down a few long term offers, but it is better to spread the money around if he wants Manny money no one is worth that. Cole's deal is a great deal, if not simply for good faith. In two years he keeps up the great pitching they can go longer and more money, and you will know better what you need in that situation. It helps not to have to worry about arb for three years also, great deal,
Wasnt it just last year Cole was uspet how didnt get the big bucks? He must of learned something from it, because, if this went to arbitration, I think Cole would of got so much more for 09.
"It's the largest deal for a pitcher in his first deal of arbitration." nuff said.
I'd imagine it has some decent bonuses, including for NLCS and WS MVP in there that will get him paid much more. He and Utley are the most important pieces of the team.
This is a great deal. It cements Coles relationship to the Phils. From his comments, it sounds like he wants to stay in Philly for his entire career. This deal creates a lot of goodwill, which was needed after the Cole was upset last year when the Phils paid him $500K when he was hoping for $700K. Contract negotiations are the most contentious times with any employer, so to be able to avoid it for 3 years with Cole is fantastic. And the Phils still will have a year of arbitration eligibility after the contract expires. Both sides get what they wanted out of the deal…Reagrding the other arb-cases, management usually works out contracts with everybody. Before Rhyno (the "h" is NOT a typo, as in the big fella is akin to a rhinoceros –a compliment, by the way) last year, the Phils last went to the arbitrator with Travis Lee in 2001. Now that Rhyno inflicted the first arb defeat on the Phils, he'll probably be there every year, until he goes elsewhere in FA, and we'll see Mad Dog there also this year. Other than these two, nobody else should make it to the arbitrator.
If Cole stays healthy, and continues on this path, he will make up the money later. This is an absolute great day and an awesome signing. Makes up for anything else. NOW they need to lock down Vic and yes, Werth (I still say we cannot go wrong with Jayson).
I'd put locking up Vic over Werth. We haven't seen Werth start a full season yet. Let this year happen, THEN lock him up.
But Werth is very close to free agency… HE should be the priority now.
Great deal! Way below market value.
Very good deal… we buy out his 3 of his 4 remaining arbitration years, likely getting a discount. If he performs, we can always rework the deal in two years and add a few years but it sends a message that we're committed to this team (happy players willing to go the extra mile). If he gets injured, we're probably overpaying him in years 2-3 but the reality is that we wouldn't be offloading a player of his caliber anyway… I mean, he would still be on our roster making reasonable money even if he was battling through injuries. I still think that our number one priority is Vic… he's our CF for the next 3-5 years. On the contrary, I don't think that Werth will cost as much as Vic. Vic plays a premier defensive position. I am also willing to let Werth walk because of what we have in waiting (Taylor, Brown, Mayberry).


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"The Rumors of the Euro's Demise Are Greatly Exaggerated"
Op-Ed, The New Republic
December 13, 2011
Author: Pierpaolo Barbieri, Associate, Applied History Project
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Another month, another EU Summit. And once again, markets are judging the compromise as, at best, incompleteat worst, disastrously insufficient. On top of everything else, the new agreement has managed to formally isolate Britain from the other 26 EU member states. (British euroskeptics are applauding their country's newfound estrangement, but more considered commentators realize the situation is fraught.) So is Europe ultimately doomed to all that jazz about euro breakup and financial apocalypse?
Not quite. What we are seeing in Europe is the messy product that results when the demands of financial markets collide with those of politics. Markets tend to reward under-promising and over-delivering. Consider for instance Apple's time-honored strategy of under-estimating future performance, providing investors consistently low targets for everything from sales to cost marginsonly to see itself rewarded when humble estimates are met with blockbuster performance. The laws of electoral politics could hardly be more different: Politicians generally benefit from over-promising and under-delivering. (Consider a typically grandiose speech from any French politician and you'll realize the political cost of optimism is low.) The public rarely rewards politicians peddling unadulterated gloom at election time, even when circumstances are indeed dire....
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Ohio Northern University business professor co-authors paper in 'Journal of Corporate Finance'
Dong Hyun Kim, assistant professor of finance in the Ohio Northern University's Dicke College of Business Administration, has co-authored an article that has been published in "Journal of Corporate Finance," considered one of the top journals in the finance field.
The article, titled "The Effect of Interest Rate Volatility and Equity Volatility and Equity Volatility on Corporate Bond Yield Spreads: A Comparison of Noncallables and Callables," was co-written by Kim and Dr. Duane Stock, professor of finance at the University of Oklahoma.
The duo's research examines the impact of interest rate volatility and equity volatility on yield spreads for noncallable and then callable bonds. Given that the total firm volatility also includes the volatility of a firm's bonds, interest rate volatility should affect default risk. The greater the interest rate vol
atility, the more volatile the price of a bond. As the bond price becomes more volatile, the volatility of firm asset market value increases, thereby leading to an increase in default spread. The research finds that interest rate volatility is positively related to yield spreads on noncallable bonds.
Kim said, "We find the relationship between interest rate volatility and yield spreads is more strongly positive for junk bonds than for investment grade bonds. Investment grade bonds are unlikely to default, as pointed out by Campbell and Taksler (2003), and, as a consequence, the positive effect of interest rate volatility on the default spread should be more significant for junk bonds. In addition, we found that the average yield spread on callable bonds is greater than that on noncallable bonds, indicating that the embedded options in callable bonds are priced."
The research also investigates whether the effect of interest rate volatility on yield spreads is greater or smaller for callable bonds than for noncallable bonds. The duo found that the effect of interest rate volatility on yield spreads is smaller for callable bonds than for noncallable bonds. Finally, the results for the impact of equity volatility upon callable bond spreads support the theory of Acharya and Carpenter (2002) more than that of King (2002).
"Journal of Corporate Finance" is a leading corporate finance journal that publishes both theoretical and empirical papers. The journal receives a large number of high-quality submissions, and its rejection rate is now more than 95 percent.


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It's release time again for OpenBSD! The upcoming 3.8 will include some wonderful features for network gurus (trunking, tracking wireless roaming users, interface groups, a new ipsec configuration tool, and failover of ipsec links), a great rework of
malloc() that will provide further security protections by default, and the first version of bioctl--a universal RAID management interface.
With so many goodies to taste, Federico Biancuzzi contacted a large group of developers and assembled this long, long interview.
OpenBSD 3.8 is the first release that supports network interface aggregation, using the virtual
trunk(4) interface. How does it work?
Reyk Floeter: With
trunk(4), you can combine one or more ports as into one virtual network interface. A port could be any physical Ethernet or wireless interface, and it's even possible to add other trunks as ports. The trunk driver will send outgoing traffic with a specific algorithm over the attached ports, which depends on the actual trunk protocol. The first release in OpenBSD 3.8 supports a simple round-robin protocol; outgoing packets are distributed over the ports in a circular way. Furthermore, incoming packets from any attached port are forwarded into the receive queue of the virtual trunk interface.
trunk(4) is supported by most of the actual intelligent network switches and some other operating systems, but everyone uses a different name; i.e., HP calls a trunk a Trunk and Cisco calls it Ether Channel, while Linux is using bonding as its name.
trunk(4) provides several possible benefits. The first one is a slightly improved performance, because the traffic could be distributed over several physical network interfaces. You could get more than 100Mbit/s with a fast Ethernet trunk, even more than 1G/s with a gigabit trunk. The most interesting feature of trunk is failover on layer 2. The trunk will continue to work if you remove the network cable of an attached port, as long as there're other running ports attached to the trunk. The interface link states are used to detect inactive ports and to skip them in the round-robin scheduling.
Example of a trunk using two
sk(4) gigabit adapters:
# ifconfig sk0 up
# ifconfig sk1 up
# ifconfig trunk0 create trunkport sk0 trunkport sk1
# ifconfig trunk0 192.168.1.200 netmask 255.255.255.0 up
What improvements and new features do you plan to develop with it?
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Reyk Floeter: I already improved some minor things like interface flags and ifconfig behaviour. Now it's possible to add VLANs to the trunk with a full-size MTU, if all the attached ports are supporting oversized Ethernet frames (802.1q defines some extra bytes prepended to the Ethernet header for VLAN ID and priority). With the current trunk driver in OpenBSD 3.8, the MTU of a VLAN is limited to 1,496 bytes.
An interesting improvement of
trunk(4) in OpenBSD-current is a full support for multicast. With multicast support you'll be able to use things like IPv6, hostapd, or even
carp(4). Using the CARP- protocol over trunk is a very interesting feature to extend the failover capabilities of OpenBSD. For example, a redundant firewall setup using
carp + pfsync(4) will support layer 2 redundancy with trunk as well; that's a way to keep your system "always on."
Work for IEEE 802.3ad LACP is in progress because it's important for interoperability with some network gear. It will be an optional trunk protocol in addition to the default round-robin scheduler. While starting the implementation of LACP, I noticed that I don't like it very much because it's a typical overengineered IEEE approach ... but it will be there, and I think it will be the most simplified but fully functional implementation.
Marc Espie recently had an interesting idea for using trunk to realize roaming between wireless and wired networks. This sounds weird, but the idea is simple--many people are using their wireless notebooks to do common work like hacking, browsing, and any kind of communications. But sometimes it is necessary to make some bulk transfers, like large file downloads or even system updates. I'm currently extending
trunk(4) with an "active failover" mode, using multiple ports with a hierarchic priority; i.e., my ThinkPad's
em(4) Gigabit Ethernet interface will be used as the master port with the highest priority, and the
ath(4) wireless interface will be the failover interface in a virtual trunk. Whenever I unplug the Ethernet cable, the trunk will exclusively switch to the wireless interface and vice versa without resetting the running network connections. From the network side of view, this will be the same as a wireless station roaming between different APs in one collision domain.
How is your battle to get free access to specifications and redistributable firmware for WiFi chipsets going? Does this release include any new drivers or firmware?
Reyk Floeter: OpenBSD 3.8 will not add support for any new wireless network drivers. Work has been concentrated on improving the existing wireless drivers and our interpretation of the net80211 layer. Some commands have been added to ifconfig, and some cleanup has been done. It's funny that we removed more lines from net80211 than we added to during the last release cycle indeed.
Nevertheless, the battle for new wireless drivers is not over. Work for some new drivers and new chipset revisions is in progress. We got some amazing support from some vendors during the last month, and we'll be able to support their a/b/g chipsets very soon. But I have to note that we didn't get any documentation or hardware from wireless chipset vendors in the US, yet.
You have implemented the Inter-Access Point Protocol (IAPP). Now we can use
hostapd to handle communication between different 802.11 wireless access points running in Host AP mode. This means that we could create a network of APs and track roaming users. How does it work concretely?
Reyk Floeter: I started the implementation of
hostapd(8) some months ago to add this IAPP protocol. It's still a very basic implementation and does not support the full protocol yet. Currently, an access point using hostapd sends an IAPP notification to an internal multicast or broadcast group every time a new station has been successfully associated. Other hostapds listening to this multicast or broadcast group will be able to remove any allocated resources for this station, which will improve their availability. Additionally, it's possible to do central logging of any station movements in the wireless network in real time, using a hostapd listening to the IAPP messages.
Does it offer any new opportunity for WiFi attackers?
Reyk Floeter: No, it will not make it worse than IEEE 802.11 already is. But
hostapd(8) provides some great features to improve wireless network security. After the c2k5 hackathon, I added support for "Event Rules." They provide a powerful mechanism to trigger certain actions when receiving specified IEEE 802.11 frames. Human-readable event rules in
hostapd.conf(5), similar to the packet filter rules in
pf.conf(5), will be helpful to implement proactive wireless network monitoring, also known as WIDS/WIPS (wireless intrusion detection/prevention system). With
hostapd(8) I keep in track of what's going on in my wireless networks using a central logging server listening to the multicast group. In some setups, where nobody else is allowed to run an accesspoint, I even use
hostapd to send deauthentication frames to stations associated to rogue accesspoints and to detect and log the rogue access points.
Reyk talked about network interface aggregation using the virtual
trunk(4) interface. I think there is a conceptually similar feature that permits the creation of interface groups via
ifconfig. What cool things can we do with it?
Henning Brauer: Well, while trunk groups interfaces to aggregate bandwidth, interface groups provide an administrative grouping. Interfaces can join and leave named groups any time, via
# ifconfig sk0 group somegroup # ifconfig sk0 -group somegroup
Interfaces can be in more than one group, and of course a group can contain more than one interface. Now, pf can filter based on the group names. You could, for example, have your external interface on a typical firewall join a group
ext, and have pf filter on the group ext instead of the interface. That way, your ruleset is hardware independent--the group assignment goes to the hostname.if files, which are machine dependent anyway. If you do the same for your internal interface it makes even more sense; if you add a second internal one, say, a wireless card, you just make it join the group--no need to modify the ruleset.
We do maintain some groups by default. Cloneable interfaces--or, rather, the cloned ones--are part of a group named by the driver. For example, all loopback interfaces are a member of the
lo group, all tun interfaces are part of the
tun group, and so on. And there is a group called
egress that follows the IPv4 and IPv6 default routes--it contains all interfaces that default routes point to, which in the typical case is your "external" interface. But it is also very handy for notebooks with mixed wireless/wired usage.
ifstated daemon runs commands in response to network state changes. For example, it can ensure that CARP interfaces stay in sync. If I remember correctly, this tool has been part of the source tree for a couple of releases, but it was not linked to the build process. Why? Did you need any particular feature that is only available since 3.8?
Marco Pfatschbacher: No, we didn't add any new
ifstated features in 3.8. The reason it wasn't included till 3.8 was some discussion about the config file syntax and the actual practical use of it. The initial version was only for the purpose to trigger commands in response to CARP state changes. Later a complete state engine was added, and the ability to run external test commands. The idea was that a host having more than one CARP interface can monitor its surrounding network and give up its master state in case of an error. You can find details on Ryan's web site.
Since support for CARP to monitor its physical interfaces link state was added, there was a simpler and much nicer solution to this problem.
However, we still found it's a quite useful program and so we kept it. Just to give you some examples:
Currently I'm extending
ifstated to react on address changes on interfaces. This is especially useful for the new in-kernel-pppoe device, where you can trigger some commands after you received a new IP address due to a disconnect to your ISP.
The upcoming 3.8 will include
sasyncd, an IPSec SA synchronization daemon for failover gateways. How does it interact with PF, CARP, and isakmpd to provide failover capabilities?
Håkan Olsson:
sasyncd currently relies on a specified CARP interface for master and backup state; i.e., when the interface changes state, so does
sasyncd process synchronizes IPSec SA data to other
sasyncd peers (SA creation, deletion, etc.). Then, in the kernel,
pfsync(4) has been extended to also send replay-counter updates for these SAs to the other peers. Without this, the remote VPN peer would not accept any IPsec packets from the "new host" in case of a failover.
In 3.8,
isakmpd(8) needs to be configured to only respond to negotiations in a failover scenario, i.e., it should not initiate them. This requirement should go away soon.
The new tool called
ipsecctl sounds like an
isakmpd replacement with an easier configuration. What type of features does it provide? How does it interact with
Hans-Joerg Hoexer:
ipsecctl(8) is an IPsec management tool for both static and automatic keying and acts as a front end to
isamkpd(8). It is still in development, but 3.8 ships a version already usable for simple setups.
Up to now, we had the
ipsecadm(8) utility for static keying. All parameters are passed as command-line options. Thus one had to write a shell script to set up
ipsec(4). See /usr/share/ipsec/rc.vpn. For
isakmpd(8), we have two configuration files,
isakmpd.conf(5) and
isakmpd.policy(5). Even for simple setups, those get quickly complex.
To simplify this, we came up with
ipsecctl(8). It is intended to provide a uniform way of configuring
ipsec(4) and to completely obsolete
ipsecadm(8) and
We decided to use a language derived from
pf.conf(5) (see
ipsec.conf(5)): Rules define which packets will go through
ipsec(4), which security services will be applied, and how keys are established. Care is taken that only a minimal set of parameters needs to be specified, and reasonable default values are used otherwise.
For example:
esp from 192.168.3.14 to 192.168.3.12 spi 0xdeadbeef:0xbeefdead \
authkey file "auth14:auth12" enckey file "enc14:enc12"
This rule creates an IPsec tunnel between the hosts 192.168.3.4 and 192.168.3.12 using ESP with static keys read from some files. No authentication and encryption algorithms are specified; thus
ipsecctl(8) will use HMAC-SHA2-256 and AES countermode as strong default algorithms.
For automatic keying,
ipsecctl(8) generates proper configurations and feeds them to
isakmpd(8) using its FIFO interface. Thus it is not necessary anymore to use
isakmpd.conf(5). For example, to set up a VPN between the networks 10.1.1.0/24 and 10.1.2.0/24, one can use this rule:
ike esp from 10.1.1.0/24 to 10.1.2.0/24 peer 192.168.3.2
ipsecctl(8) will choose good default values for authentication and encryption (3DES-SHA1 for phase 1 and AES-128 and HMAC-SHA2-256 for phase 2), SA lifetimes, and so on.
Current development focuses mainly on improving interaction with
I think watchdogd is another good tool for a server, but I'm wondering--are watchdog timers part of common motherboards?
Alexander Yurchenko: Most chipset vendors include a watchdog timer into their integrated circuits, although not every motherboard manufacturer actually uses it. For example, a popular Intel 6300ESB chipset has a watchdog timer, and OpenBSD 3.8 includes a driver for it--
ichwdt(4)--but you should refer to your motherboard manual to see if you can benefit from it.
One tool to manage them all. That should be
bioctl, a RAID management interface. This is the first version of the tool, so, what type of features does it provide already?
Marco Peereboom: It provides the bare necessities to do RAID management without rebooting. As a matter of fact, Theo wrote a very informative email to misc@ in which he explains the functionality.
The idea is to use the BIOS of the RAID card to create and delete RAID volumes and set some values like rebuild rate, alarm enable/disable, etc. Then use
bioctl(8) to monitor the RAID HBA while running inside the OS. When a RAID volume fails, we can replace the bad disk with a new one or rely on the RAID card to start rebuilding on a hot spare. After a failed disk is replaced,
bioctl(8) provides the mechanics to make the unused disk into a hot spare. This and a few more options (e.g., enable/disable alarm etc.) and commands (e.g., blink disk, create hot spare, etc.) essentially provides a full-fledged RAID management solution. Vendor solutions have a lot more options, but after evaluating those and really thinking about this, we came to the conclusion that those solutions are too complex and riddled with useless functionality. Don't get me wrong; we have plenty of work ahead of us. However, from a "What do we really use?" perspective, I think we are pretty darn close.
My experience has shown the following usage pattern:
When upgrading becomes a necessity, people usually do this:
Most likely failure scenario:
bioctl(8) provides all necessary functionality to perform these steps.
Most of the monitoring magic is handled by the RAID firmware. So what we really had to do is come up with a "common language" that should work on all RAID controllers. The API we came up with is simple and should pretty much translate into just about any RAID card I have played with. Undoubtedly we'll run into some issues, but we'll deal with those when they appear. What makes this an interesting exercise is that the more RAID cards we support, the easier this'll become.
David Gwynne: This is minimal compared to the management tools provided by vendors, which provide things like the ability to create and destroy RAID sets all the way up to flashing the firmware on your controller. Since all this functionality is present in the controller's BIOS when you boot the machine, we considered most of this to be just fluff when you're actually in the operating system and running a production server. If you're going to modify the RAID sets and change those parameters, your machine is going to be out of service in a maintenance window, and rebooting isn't a problem. The real problem when you're running a machine is how to tell when your RAID sets are degraded and how to fix them. So keeping that in mind, we made a conscious decision to support the bare minimum that will be common across all controllers.
Is there any vendor that chose to contribute with hardware or specifications?
Marco Peereboom: LSI has been very nice in providing hardware, certain pieces of documentation, and engineering help. In the end, to make all this happen, there was quite a bit of reverse engineering done as well.
OpenBSD has not received any documentation or help from other vendors. This is really sad if you think about it. It is apparent that a lot of OpenBSD users want RAID and RAID management; not many days go by without someone on the lists asking about what products to buy and how to manage them. The answers have been pretty boring since everyone is pointed to a single vendor. The vendors that have not cooperated with OpenBSD are clearly losing business.
I honestly do not understand why vendors are so secretive about all this. All these products are essentially the same. Here is how a common command looks like:
If you look at the code involved in getting this done all the way from userland into the RAID firmware, you'll realize that it is really trivial. Someone explain to me why setting a handful of values in a structure is considered IP.
David Gwynne: Personally I would appreciate documentation from a vendor more than hardware. Our community seems to be enthusiastic enough about what we're doing that they'll chip in for hardware when it is needed.
What is in the pipeline for future releases?
David Gwynne: At the moment, I am going over the ami driver and trying to clean it up and optimize it a bit. There are changes coming in the bio and sensor frameworks that will make things better; however, to most people these changes are mostly boring and transparent.
Marco Peereboom: On my own list I got adding
mpt(4) to
bio(4) and streamlining
ami(4) support. In the not too distant future, SAS (Serial Attached SCSI) products will start to arrive in the field. I want to add support for those products as well.
In other words, I am not going to be bored. As a matter of fact, there is so much work in this area that we really could use some help. If there are any folks out there with the skills and time to work on this, please let me know.
You provide a couple of drivers to monitor hard disks status via SCSI Enclosure Services command set. A lot of people use SATA instead, because of its good performance and lower price. Does SATA offer similar features too?
Marco Peereboom: Well, SES and SAF-TE do not really monitor disk status. The only disk-related thing they monitor is "insertion" and "removal." SES and SAF-TE are used to provide the missing link in SCSI hot plug. Upon insertion or removal of a disk they will set or clear a bit, respectively, to indicate what the current slot status is. A RAID or SCSI controller will retrieve the slot status page and discover that something has been inserted or removed. Whenever something is inserted, it runs the so-called spin-up code to make the drive accessible. If something is removed, the RAID firmware will look to see if the removed disk was part of some RAID set and act accordingly.
All that said, SES and SAF-TE are more useful than just that. The other major component is monitoring environmentals. They measure and report temperatures, fan speeds, power supply status, etc. This data is conveniently available in
sysctl(8) and can therefore be monitored with
In the near future, SAS and SATA2 drives will be used in mixed configurations since SAS can handle SATA2 devices transparently. The net is that at some point one can have a SAS transport from the RAID card to an external enclosure while the disks in that enclosure are SATA2. In this scenario, if there is a SES device on that enclosure, it will be available. So technically it isn't a SATA2 device; however, it is available and provides the same functionality. One word of caution though: SATA2 is cheap for a reason, so keep that in mind when making a purchase decision.
David Gwynne: I am aware that there is such a thing as a SATA SAF-TE device, but I don't have one and I haven't looked into them. I would be extremely surprised if they worked, since our enclosure drivers attach to
scsibus and all our SATA drivers are supported by the pciide driver (which don't attach a
scsibus). Unless the firmware in SATA variants of ami controllers emulate a SCSI bus over SATA for the enclosure, then our drivers cannot attach.
Does RAIDframe work with
bioctl? Or maybe do you plan to replace RAIDframe?
David Gwynne: The software RAID framework is configured and managed by raidctl, which is completely separate from bioctl and its support for hardware RAID controllers. That said, it is possible that the hooks that
bioctl uses could be implemented in RAIDframe to allow
bioctl to monitor it as well. I don't see the benefit in doing so, though.
There is also a general consensus that RAIDframe is Not Good(tm) and needs to be either rewritten or hacked to bits into something simpler and smaller. I'd predict that it is more likely that
ccd(4) will be extended to support RAID 5 as well as RAID 0 and 1 before RAIDframe has any work done on it. If that happens, then RAIDframe could just go away and no one would miss it.
This is all just talk at the moment, and as such totally unreliable as an indicator of future work. This isn't a priority for anyone I've spoken to, so don't be surprised if it doesn't happen in the short term or at all.
wd(4) disks have the security feature frozen before being attached to prevent malicious users setting a password that would prevent the contents of the drive from being accessed." Does this mean that we cannot set a password anymore with
Jonathan Gray: Modern ATA disks have what is known as the security feature set. This allows passwords to be set on drives which prevent the contents from being accessed without the right password.
The problem with this was brought to our attention by the c't magazine article entitled "How ATA security functions jeopardize your data," which outlines how this can be abused.
In practice, the security feature set turns out to be a bad idea because it is nearly always on by default. If someone has the equivalent of root access for just a moment, they can set a password that will prevent the data on the drives from being usable. You have to either erase the drive or be prepared to pay a large amount of money to a data recovery company that has broken the system to get a usable drive again.
There is a workaround the standard allows us, which is turning off the ability to set passwords until the next boot cycle. Ideally BIOS implementations would deal with this and disable the security feature set by default, but most currently do not. So we take matters into our own hands and disable the security feature set on all ATA drives in the kernel before the rest of the system can use them.
So yes, no more password setting with
atactl, but this turns out to be no great loss.
The man page of the new
aps driver for the built-in accelerometer found in some IBM ThinkPad laptops states, "As IBM provides no documentation, it is not known what all the available sensors are used for." I thought IBM was an open source-friendly vendor, especially since they adopted Linux. How did you develop the driver?
Jonathan Gray: IBM only seems to be involved in open source to the extent that it suits them. This for the most part seems to mean on the server side of things. IBM employee Mark Smith and his friend Anurag Sharma reverse-engineered the Windows driver to figure out how parts of it are supposed to work; the driver is based on information in the document Mark has on his site. It kind of highlights how bad things are when an IBM employee has to reverse-engineer an IBM product to figure out how it works.
What is possibly more worrying are the standards bodies who either don't let people access standards at all (i.e., SD, need to be a member corporation and have signed an NDA) or hold them ransom (i.e., T13/ATA, PCMCIA/PC Card).
Is the ThinkPad Active Protection System effective? Did you make any test?
Jonathan Gray: The driver that will ship with 3.8 is largely a fancy toy. At one point I had it acting as an additional mouse, moving the cursor when you tilt the laptop; while this was a nice way of testing things, it is impractical to use, so the code was not committed. Other people have written userspace programs that do things like show the laptop orientation or lock the laptop if it is moved, and the
sensorsd(8) daemon can react to changed sensor values with whatever command the user likes.
I have code that can be used by any driver to park the heads of all ATA disks attached to the system, and relevant changes in
aps(4) to use this. This is the real reason for the sensor being present in the hardware: to park disk heads in the event of a fall. These changes will likely make their way into our next release.
I'm not in any great hurry to try drop-testing my recently purchased ThinkPad from any great height, as they aren't the cheapest things to replace ...
A new tool called
stat has been included. It displays file status obtained from
stat(2) or
lstat(2). What can you do with it?
Otto Moerbeek:
stat(1) is a tool to display the raw information on a file: its modification date, link count, owner, and more such things. Of course, there's this other well-known command,
ls(1), that offers basically the same information. But
ls(1) is mostly intended for human consumption, while
stat(1) is nicer for scripting: it is capable of producing all available information in one call using output format, which is directly digestible by shell scripts. And if you, like me, are working on userland tools, you sometimes need the raw information to check if a command like
tar(1) is doing the right thing.
stat(1) comes from the NetBSD project. We did some rewriting to make it use safe string operations like
strlcpy and
snprintf. We do not want unsafe string operations in the base source tree.
What is the purpose of
Federico G. Schwindt: Back in 2002,
xautolock was removed from the base X system due to license issues. The author didn't want to change it, so we've been forced to take that direction. Shortly after, were added back to the ports tree but I missed its functionality from the base set. At the same time, I wanted to do some X programming, so
xidle(1) was born.
Basically, it locks your X session when you're away. It also allows you to lock it by moving the mouse to a predefined corner. In reality it can run any program, but
xlock(1) is the default, hence the term locking. And of course, it has a BSD license.
It seems you fixed several bugs in
pax. This is an ancient tool, but you still find something to fix inside it. Were these pathname races and potential buffer handling problems a heritage of Berkeley's codebase?
Otto Moerbeek: Partly. Some of the fixes were done to fix bugs that were not in the original but introduced later. The pathname race fixes were to get remove the unsafe
chmod() constructs and replace them by the safer
close() sequence. The first is a variation on the more well-known traditional symlink race, which happens between the test for existence and actual creation of a file.
Looking at the release page, I read, "
libc(3) source code has been converted to ANSI C." What type of nonstandard code was cleaned? And by the way, what is the origin of OpenBSD's libc?
Otto Moerbeek: There are three C standards: the original from Kernighan and Ritchie from 1978 (K&R), the ANSI C standard from 1989, and C99, the most recent. A large part of the OpenBSD source tree were originally written in K&R C, but a lot of files have been converted to ANSI C in the recent years. The C library (libc) was done for this release.
An important feature ANSI C adds are prototypes. Prototypes are vital to catch "misunderstandings" between the caller of a function and the implementation. While this problem was partly solved by introducing prototypes in the header files, the actual implementation of libc was mostly written without them. The C library mostly originates from the BSD4.4 Lite distribution, which was developed before ANSI C compilers were generally available.
Converting code to ANSI C is not only important to catch errors in argument handling. Having our code in a uniform format and style also helps in auditing; every program uses libc, and making it as bug-free as possible is very important. Auditing should not be hindered by having it in a nonstandard form, which might hurt the developer's eyes ;-)
What is the status of wide-character and locale support?
Marc Espie: Half the work is done. We stopped quite a bit before 3.8, in order to allow for reasonably comprehensive testing.
Right now:
wfprintf do not exist. We do not have collate functions or monetary support yet. The aim is first to have full wide-char and ctype support, then to add the rest.
I should add that implementing locale support looks a lot like a Chinese puzzle: you've got all these pieces that have to fit, and you have to find a correct building order, figuring out what you can have without destabilizing the whole. In the case at hand, this involved making sure that GNU-configure would not think we have full locale support yet, and also making some VERY intrusive changes to the libc (much to Theo's worries). But ... it works.
The utility
gzsig lets you create and verify cryptographic signatures built into gzip file headers. I'm wondering if you plan to use it in the future to provide binary patches, or sign packages and release sets.
Marc Espie: No, I don't. Frankly, the concept of
gzsig is something I stumbled upon a few years ago, and there was the beginning of a
gzsig implementation in the old package tools. But it's gone from the new tools.
gzsig has one major limitation: you have to download the whole archive in order to verify the signature. You can't do anything with a partial package, can't start scripts. So, the solution pkg_add is heading towards is signing the packing list, and making sure there's enough info in it so that you can check things one component at a time. Basically, you don't need a full sig for everything. If the packing list is signed, and it contains crypto hashes for all files, then it will work. And you have just-in-time signing, which is a very important feature.
Parts of it are working, parts are not finished, and I'm waiting to see what crypto hash we're going to use, since md5 and sha1 are basically out now.
It's just one feature among a lot of things happening in
pkg_add. In 3.8, you'll notice the tools have become MORE sturdy. We've weeded out a lot of fringe cases, and the tools behave correctly in a lot more cases. And there's a new update option. In 3.8, it only helps you figure out what packages to replace. In -current, it's fully enabled, and it works.
We've got more checks. The packages have gone through extensive automatic consistency checks. And there's more planned. The quality is going up. Crypto signatures is just one component. The framework is designed to incorporate it when it's ready. But it won't be
You worked on signal delivery, and improved signal handlers' reliability. What type of problems did you fix?
Otto Moerbeek: These fixes were typical teamwork. We had a known problem on sparc64 that sometimes
cron(8) would not run after booting the machine. This has annoyed me for a long while, so at some point I decided to hunt the problem down. I changed rc to ktrace cron, and began a rebooting session to catch the error. After I had a ktrace of a failing cron startup, I saw that the problem occurs if a signal was delivered to a child process before the child returned from
fork(). That enabled me to write a regress test that demonstrated the bug (called earlysig) without requiring a reboot, which put Mark Kettenis on track to actually analyze and fix the problem.
The macppc and i386 problems had to do with signal handlers using floating point. Matthieu Herrb had been debugging a problem with the X server on i386 without much progress, and at one point the hypothesis was that if floating-point computations were done inside a signal handler, the main program's floating-point registers could get trashed. Again I was able to write a regress test (fpsig) to show the problem, and further testing showed that it also occurred on macppc. Michael Shalayeff and Dale Rahn made the actual fixes for these bugs.
I read that
realpath(3) is now thread-safe. Does this release include any improvements for SMP systems?
Niklas Hallqvist: There is often confusion between threading issues and MP issues. These are actually orthogonal, at least in userland. No matter how many (or few) actual executing units that are available, if the execution model contains threads (lightweight execution contexts), the code executed need to be "thread safe" in order to be correct. This is true even for uniprocessor systems. On the other hand, if you have an execution model that does not contain threads but rather just processes (i.e., execution contexts that do not share main memory resources), you don't need to have thread-safe code in order to execute your processes on many processors.
In OpenBSD, so far, this orthogonality is even clearer, since we don't map threaded processes onto several processors. The scheduling entity is the process, not the thread. This may seem suboptimal, and it is, but it is the conservative approach. You don't need to make code thread-safe in order to take advantage of multiprocessing. Thus, performance comes at a low cost. I am not saying we are not going to provide thread libraries that will take advantage of SMP; I'm just saying that was not the primary target. My impression is that people have been happy that as few things broke as it did when we implemented SMP. We are not here to provide users with the fanciest performance figures on earth, we are here because we personally want better performance without risking functionality.
As to the improvement part, yes, there have been bug fixes done, making SMP machines even more stable, but no new functionality has been added, as far as I can recall.
Quoting from the talk that Ted Unangst will give at EuroBSDCon: "The existing userland pthreads library in use by OpenBSD is hampered by poor performance, inability to utilize multiple CPUs, and unnecessary complexity. A replacement library, rthreads, utilizes a modified
rfork() system call to create kernel threads. It is both simpler and more scalable than the library it replaces." Could you share some details about it?
Ted Unangst: First, rthreads is not included in 3.8; it's not clear when it will be incorporated into OpenBSD. rthreads started as an experiment to see how much effort would be involved in developing support for kernel-aware threads. It turns out that if you don't overcomplicate things, it's remarkably simple. Initially it seemed that we should support the M:N (or scheduler activation) model, because it was the "right way" to do things. After some more consideration, it became clear that you can get 95 percent of the way there with 1:1 threads, at about 20 percent of the complexity. Although rthreads is not finished, it currently provides a substantial portion of the pthreads API.
Could you talk about the new
malloc(3) implementation and how it improves security?
Theo de Raadt: Traditionally, Unix
malloc(3) has always just "extended the
brk", which means extending the traditional Unix process data segment to allocate more memory.
malloc(3) would simply extend the data segment, and then calve off little pieces to requesting callers as needed. It also remembered which pieces were which, so that
free(3) could do its job.
The way this was always done in Unix has had a number of consequences, some of which we wanted to get rid of. In particular,
malloc and
free have not been able to provide strong protection against overflows or other corruption.
malloc implementation is a lot more resistant (than Linux) to "heap overflows in the
malloc arena", but we wanted to improve things even more.
Starting a few months ago, the following changes were made:
mmap(2) system call return random memory addresses. As well, the kernel ensures that two objects are not mapped next to each other; in effect, this creates unallocated memory, which we call a "guard page."
malloc(3) to use
mmap(2) instead of extending the data segment via
free(3) to return memory to the kernel, unallocating them out of the process.
malloc(3) maintains. But their allocation is now somewhat randomized as well.
malloc options as described in the manual page. These are very powerful for debugging buggy applications.
Other results:
To some of you, this will sound like what the Electric Fence toolkit used to be for. But these features are enabled by default. Electric Fence was also very slow. It took nearly three years to write these OpenBSD changes, since performance was a serious consideration. (Early versions caused a nearly 50 percent slowdown).
Our changes have tremendous benefits, but until some bugs in external packages are found and fixed, there are some risks as well. Some software making incorrect assumptions will be running into these new security technologies.
We expect that our
malloc will find more bugs in software, and this might hurt our user community in the short term. We know that what this new
malloc is doing is perfectly legal but that realistically some open source software is of such low quality that it is just not ready for these things to happen.
We ask our users to help us uncover and fix more of these bugs in applications. Some will even be exploitable. Instead of saying that OpenBSD is busted in this regard, please realize that the software which is crashing is showing how shoddily it was written. Then help us fix it. For everyone ... not just OpenBSD users.
Do you plan to make other modifications to memory management functions?
Thierry Deval:
malloc has been changed to use the
munmap pair of memory-mapping functions, but the page's accounting is still done by keeping a private list of page mappings. And page guarding is still done the old way, by mapping an extra page that gets
mprotect(2)ed to forbid any access. We think that page guarding can simply be ensured by modifying
mmap(2) so that it always returns nonadjacent memory regions, thus removing that responsibility from
malloc(3). Moreover, the page mapping list keeping is an expensive operation, and we should look at some way to improve it.
Federico Biancuzzi is a freelance interviewer. His interviews appeared on publications such as ONLamp.com, LinuxDevCenter.com, SecurityFocus.com, NewsForge.com, Linux.com, TheRegister.co.uk, ArsTechnica.com, the Polish print magazine BSD Magazine, and the Italian print magazine Linux&C.
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Nutrition Facts
Serving Size 1
Calories 376
Total Fat 25.5 g
Saturated Fat 7 g
Sodium 857 mg
Total Carbohydrate 2.5 g
Dietary Fiber 0.5 g
Protein 34.5 g
Ingredients and Preparation
Ingredients Measures
Olive oil 2 teaspoons
Boneless pork loin chops 2 (6-ounce)
Pesto sauce 2 tablespoons
Reduced-sodium chicken stock (plus more as needed) ½ cup
- Preheat oven to 425˚F.
- Heat oil over medium-high heat in an oven safe skillet. Add pork and sear for 2-3 minutes on both sides, until browned. Top with pesto sauce and pour broth around.
- Bake for 15-20 minutes, or until a meat thermometer inserted into the thickest part of the pork registers 165˚F. While in the oven, add additional broth if necessary. Let rest for 5 minutes before serving.


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amy sedaris
amy sedaris is coming to haverford.
can we figure out how to make this woman an honorary friend or something? she's rude and she's crude but she's also awesome and apparently bakes great cupcakes. she's coming to school the friday of the week we get back – january 23rd. next week, guys.
she kind of makes sense with nao. i'm thinking of nao's character "rosa" that she performed on the joan rivers show in 1992:
also maybe nao's "hero" performance fits in here somewhere? :
they both have this special affect thing going on. amy goes on david letterman all the time and she's not totally serious with it but i always wonder if she is herself or not. i think that's nao's gig too in some ways. i guess there's a little sasha fierce in all of us. anyway, have a look:
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Dordt College News
Pfeifle To Attend Dordt College
February 17, 2014
(Monday, February 17; Sioux Center, Iowa) Nathan Pfeifle, a senior at Southwest Christian High School (Minnesota), has announced his intention to attend Dordt College and join the Defender basketball program.
Pfeifle is averaging 19 points, eight rebounds, three steals, three blocks and four assists per game for the Eagles this season. Pfeifle scored 12 points per game while averaging five rebounds, three steals, two blocks and four assists per game in 2013 and earned honorable mention all-conference honors. He's been a part of one state championship team and one state runner-up team. Pfeifle is listed as a 6-0 guard.
"Nate has followed up a state championship run at Southwest Christian last year with an outstanding senior season. He is a very good shooter and has worked to expand his game by becoming more versatile this year. Nate is able to stretch defenses with his perimeter presence and we looking forward to him joining our program," said Dordt College coach Ross Douma.
Nathan is the son of Randy and Lisa Pfeifle of Edgerton, Minnesota. He plans to study Elementary Education at Dordt College.
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The first SL game will be aired on MSG today @ 3pm
It's rerun will be at 6:30pm
You can also catch in on knicks in 60 at 11pm tonight.
(It starts today at 3:00 P.M. on M.S.G.!)
New York Knicks
Seasons - 2006 | 2005 |
2006 VSL Schedule
Day Date Time Game Score Box Score Recap TV Coverage
Fri 7/7/06 12:00 PM New York Knicks
Cleveland Cavaliers
Box Score Recap N/A
Sat 7/8/06 8:00 PM New York Knicks
Phoenix Suns
Box Score Recap N/A
Mon 7/10/06 8:00 PM Sacramento Kings
New York Knicks
Box Score Recap N/A
Tue 7/11/06 6:00 PM Detroit Pistons
New York Knicks
Box Score Recap N/A
Thu 7/13/06 1:00 PM Washington Wizards
New York Knicks
Box Score Recap N/A
2006 VSL Season Totals
2006 VSL Roster
Num Player Pos Height Weight Birthdate College / Year Years Pro
04 Nate Robinson G 5-9 180 5/31/84 Washington 1
07 Channing Frye F/C 6-11 245 5/17/83 Arizona 1
08 Ime Udoka G/F 6-6 215 8/9/77 Portland State 2
09 Brian Greene F 6-7 225 8/30/81 Colorado State R
14 Walker Russell, Jr. G 6-0 170 10/6/82 Jacksonville State R
20 Olu Famutimi G 6-4 207 2/21/84 Arkansas R
21 Kenny Adeleke F 6-8 250 2/10/83 Hartford R
25 Mardy Collins G 6-6 220 8/4/84 Temple R
32 Renaldo Balkman F 6-8 208 7/14/84 South Carolina R
42 David Lee F 6-9 235 4/29/83 Florida 1
50 Franko Kastropil C 7-0 265 5/8/84 Croatia R
55 Paul Miller C 6-10 250 11/12/82 Wichita State R
Head Coach: Isiah Thomas, Indiana
Assistant Coaches: Mark Aguirre, DePaul, Phil Ford, North Carolina, George Glymph, Benedict, Dave Hanners, North Carolina, Herb Williams, Ohio State
Athletic Trainer:
About the New York Knicks
Last Year
The Knicks finished 2005-06 going 23-59, the first time they won less than 30 games since 1999 when the finished with 27 wins. Veteran guard Stephon Marbury, who missed 22 games on the season, led the team in scoring at 16.3 points a night. Eddy Curry shot 56.3 percent from the field, second in the NBA. He helped out with 13.6 points and 6.0 rebounds. The Knicks acquired three-time NBA All-Star Steve Francis at the trade deadline. As a Knick, he averaged 10.8 points and 3.5 assists in 24 games.
Summer League Prospectus
Isiah Thomas takes over the reigns for the Knicks, replacing Larry Brown, and selected Ronaldo Balkman and Mardy Collins in the first round of the NBA Draft. Balkman led South Carolina in rebounding (6.3 rpg), while averaging 9.6 points and 1.3 blocked shots, helping the Game****s to back-to-back NIT titles. His season total of 65 steals ranks as the fifth-best single season mark in school history. Collins, an All-Atlantic performer, averaged 16.8 ppg and 2.8 spg for Temple. They will join Knicks veterans Nate Robinson (9.3 ppg in 72 games), David Lee (5.1 ppg and 4.5 rpg in 67 games) and Channing Frye (12.3 ppg and 5.8 rpg in 65 games).
The first SL game will be aired on MSG today @ 3pm
It's rerun will be at 6:30pm
You can also catch in on knicks in 60 at 11pm tonight.
Where there is hope, there can be faith
Where there is faith, miracles can occur
95-71 against the Cleveland Cavaliers. Nothing to get excited about.. but I mean it has to make you feel a little good, ey?
#15...So good it had to be retired twice
A win is a win! I don't care how its done or when! The Knicks will win all these summer games!Originally Posted by NYKnicks15
Here's a look at the stats from our 6 players that we should care about.
Nate Robinson: 23 pts. 4 rebs. 3 asts. 1 stl. 5-11 shooting.
David Lee: 20 pts. 8 rebs. 1 ast. 1 stl. 7-8 shooting.
Channing Frye: 19 pts. 5 rebs. 2 stl. 1 blk. 8-17 shooting.
Ime Udoka: 6 pts. 5 rebs. 3 ast. 2 stls. 2-6 shooting.
Renaldo Balkman: 6 pts. 4 rebs. 1 ast. 1 stl. 1 blk. 2-3 shooting.
Mardy Collins: 4 pts. 2 rebs. 1 ast. 2-4 shooting.
#15...So good it had to be retired twice
Our rooks looked pretty good. Our Sophomores looked incredible! Let's hope all these guys stay healthy and play well for the length of the season.
Did you guys see Frye? He's bulked up quite a bit! I cant wait to see him push around some vets in the paint and shut up everyone who labeled him soft.
What I liked most about yesterday's win was that the team was able to click defensively after starting out a bit rusty. And I'd rather take a win any day over a loss even if it's playing in my backyard, jejejeje
Draftexpress.com has some nice analysis of each summer league game... check out the link:
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Nate seems much more confident and apparently has worked alot on his PG skills.
Channing seems recuperated from his knee injury and looks much stronger, so I'm hoping his post game starts to develop and his defense comes along.
Balkman seems like he'll earn serious minutes at the 3spot. I think only Nate is the other Knick who can match this guy's high voltage.
But the one Knick I'm more hyped over is David Lee... the kid has improved his shot dramatically, and his instinct for getting boards and loose balls is amazing. He shoots high percentage shots and knocks down his free throws. I'm certain he will eventually be regarded as the steal of last year's draft and dare I say will achieve superstar status.
IMO, we should forget about trading for a PF (unless its Wilcox and we ship Francis) and David Lee should be our starting PF although it looks like Isiah will give him more minutes at SF. I would start Frye at C, with Lee at PF and Balkman at the 3, with Francis and Marbs in the backcourt. Have Curry off the bench 1st when substituting upfront and Crawford 1st up in the back. Nate and Q should round out the 9man rotation.
In terms of other teams:
Next season's rookie of the year battle will be historic (whoever said this past draft didn't have superstars?)... Brandon Roy and Randy Foye will be All Stars in the not so distant future, and Adam Morrison will leave many jaws wide open!!!
Martell Webster will also be a star... that kid looks incredible running through screens and knocking down shots. Glen Rice, your game has been missed until now!!!
Bargnani can shoot big time a la Nowitzki... without a doubt he'll be a starter and opposing forwards will have a hard time defending this kid.
Now whythe hell isn't John Lucas on an NBA team? because he's short? shiiiit... apparently, this kid has learned a ton with his dad in those Houston clinics with the vets who are trying to regain some game (penny for example)... the Rockets need to look no further for their PG...
Holy crap, why the **** did Steve Novak have to wait till the second round to be picked? because he supposedly one-dimensional? This guy will eventually lead the NBA in 3point shooting and it'll be very soon. The Rockets will make life hard for the Mavs and Spurs next year.
LaMarcus Aldridge will one day be known as the bust of this draft... and Renaldo the steal, jejejeje
My homeboys Jose Juan Barea and Guillermo Diaz will be nice commodities =)
Reece Gaines... can you say Todd Fuller?
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Ok Ok OK...the young Knicks showed hustle and development...just as we would want...I agree with the assessments that IT is going to have to sit some Vets to let the young kids play....
BUT...putting Balkman in the starting lineup...are you kidding?????
Come November Balkman will be lucky to see the court...I love the hustle and attitude...but please, let's not be crazy, he has a long way to go to be a real player.
Great work sophomore class...just play and keep quiet about last year...
Hey don't look now...The Knicks are tied for 1st place!!!!!!!!
I'm lovin the sophmores right now...they are our future...the untouchables (hopefully)
I've been saying all along that the Class of '05 should remain intact. I hope Isiah feels the same way!
I am unable to get MCG, so I can't see the summer league games, so I will have to rely on you guys. If the reports I am getting are true, I am very excited. I am especially happy that Frye is fully recovered. I am not surprised to hear Lee is playing well and Nate, also playing well is no surprise. Balkman's high-voltage motor is good news. I wonder, though how does Collins look? Some say he looks good, but I need more.
When you win 23 games in a season, you should be ready to storm the court after a summer league win. Hell, I'd be happy with a forfeit!
well we totally sucked against the Suns haha. Lost by 19 (70-89) and Frye and Robinson played like trash.
Robinson: 2-10 shooting. 5 pts. 2 rebs. 3 ast. 1 stl.
Frye: 2-8 shooting. 6 pts. 2 rebs. 1 ast.
Collins: 2-4 shooting. 4 pts. 1 blk.
lee and balkman played good though..
Balkman: 3-4 shooting. 8 pts. 4 rebs. 1 ast. 1 blk. 2 stls.
Lee: 10-13 shooting. 21 pts. 13 rebs. 1 ast. 1 stl.
#15...So good it had to be retired twice
We're going to have our bad games...especially with Amare on the floor. I still have faith in my young gunz
It's not a sprint, it's a marathon. You want these guys to prove how they can respond to adversity. Bring on Game 3!!
All summer league games are being aired by MSG Network.
vegassummerleague.com has all the details plus draftexpress.com has some interesting analyses.
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Okay so this is the first one i'll post. I did it in color but idk if i'll keep posting them in color. maybe some color some not. *shurg*
I'll Admit now that its Mostly Inspired by The dark Legacy comics, and being they are more or less chibi-ized the art will look a lot like Linry's stuff. but i'll post the few two frame Comics i have done to see what people think. needless to say i don't expect much. Enjoy none the less


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Dordt College News
Dordt College faculty teach and learn abroad
June 21, 2013
This summer six Dordt College faculty members are traveling internationally on various teaching assignments and other projects.
"Any time a faculty member has an opportunity to engage in cross-cultural and global experiences, they are changed personally and professionally. And that change is passed along to the students they teach," said Curtis Taylor, director of international students and off-campus programs.
Taylor explained that teaching in a foreign country allows faculty to examine their subject matter in new ways and to explore ideas in a global context. Because faculty members interact with and learn from people in other cultures, their own skills and knowledge are enhanced. "Everyone in the Dordt community benefits," said Taylor.
Agriculture Professor Ron Vos, who has been embarking on international teaching and research excursions for 20 years, agrees: "Doing international work is important. It allows one to experience other cultures thus giving insight to one's own culture. It also allows us to see that the kingdom of God is much bigger than our own country."
Vos will travel to Northrise University in Ndola, Zambia. His primary work is community development, teaching an agricultural foundations seminar, developing agriculture curriculum, and building the relationship between Dordt and Northrise.
Dordt College President Erik Hoekstra will spend a week in the Netherlands and one in South Korea where he will attend conferences and give speeches, including the keynote speech at the 6th International Christian University Academic Conference in Kyeongju, South Korea.
English Professor Bill Elgersma spent two weeks of May in South Korea where he interviewed professors and students and observed classes at three universities that send exchange students to Dordt. The experience helped him get a better sense of the students' education and why they are interested in an American English education.
Theology Professor Jay Shim also will travel to South Korea. He is researching and writing a book and developing a Christian teaching curriculum. He is also representing the Christian Reformed Churches of North America at a conference and will lead a Bible school program at a Christian school.
Dean for Research and Scholarship John Kok will be in Cuba teaching Christian philosophy to leaders of the CRC and to a group of Evangelical University of the Americas (UNELA) Salvation Army students.
Director of Library Services Sheryl Taylor will travel to Costa Rica where she will serve as a consultant on library matters at the Evangelical University of the Americas (UNELA).
Education Professor Kathleen VanTol spent two weeks of May in Nicaragua visiting schools, consulting on student concerns, and leading workshops on how to include students with special needs into the classroom. She also worked with churches addressing how to include those with special needs.
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The Board of Water Supply says repairs on a 24-inch water main break that closed Waialae Beach Park in Kahala since Thursday morning has been completed.
Water service was restored at around 2:30 p.m.
As of 2:45 p.m. Friday, crews were working to repair the road. A contraflow was in effect while the roadwork was being done.
Repairs to the road was expected to go into Friday evening.
The Board of Water Supply says it is trying to balance affordable rates with the need to replace the aging infrastructure. It says pipeline condition is difficult to assess because the pipes are buried underground and breaks and leaks are not always due to age.
In January 2012, the BWS implemented a new 5-year rate schedule that called for a 9.65 percent rate increase per year over the five year period. The BWS raised rates to fund the maintenance and replacement of Oahu's aging water infrastructure to meet its operational requirements and to ensure system reliability. The funding will facilitate proactive pipeline replacement to minimize water main breaks and will also be used to renew the BWS's pumps, reservoirs, and treatment plants.
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