{"id":62,"date":"2007-11-06T10:42:05","date_gmt":"2007-11-06T14:42:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ale.org\/new\/?p=62"},"modified":"2007-11-06T13:04:49","modified_gmt":"2007-11-06T17:04:49","slug":"ale-central-mtg-for-thurs-nov-8-2007","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ale.org\/?p=62","title":{"rendered":"ALE Central Mtg. for Thurs., Nov. 8, 2007"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><br \/>\nOur feature presentation for the<br \/>\nThursday, November 8, 2007<br \/>\nALE Central Meeting will be<br \/>\n<font size=\"+1\"><br \/>\nExtreme Practical Data Recovery<br \/>\n<\/font><br \/>\npresented by Michael Warfield<br \/>\n<\/strong><br \/>\nSynopsis:<br \/>\n&#8212; It&#8217;s happened to so many of us.  What we dread has come to happen.  A<br \/>\ndrive has gone bad and precious data is now beyond our reach.  A<br \/>\ncontroller reports drive errors and commands are failing, or worse.<br \/>\nThen we are reminded of all those resolves to do backups.  All too late.<br \/>\nBut all is not lost. Even with a failed drive, often the vast majority<br \/>\nof the data can be recovered.  But drive recovery specialists are<br \/>\nexpensive and it&#8217;s easy to make a mistake that looses even more data.<br \/>\nThis talk will look at some data recovery technique to maximize your<br \/>\nchance of recovering the most data from a failing or failed drive and<br \/>\nknowing when you&#8217;ve gotten all you can, while minimizing the chances of<br \/>\nmaking things worse or wasting time, money, and effort on a failed<br \/>\ncause.<\/p>\n<p>Bio:<br \/>\n&#8212; Michael Warfield is a Senior Researcher and Analyst for the X-Force<br \/>\nManaged Security Services of IBM Internet Security Systems.<br \/>\n&#8212; With computer security experience dating back to the early 1970s and<br \/>\nUnix experience dating back to the early 1980s, Mike is responsible for<br \/>\ndoing research into security vulnerabilities and intrusion protection<br \/>\ntechniques for IBM-ISS X-Force.<br \/>\n&#8212; Prior to joining ISS, now IBM-ISS, Mike has held positions such as, a<br \/>\nUnix systems engineer, Unix consultant, security consultant and network<br \/>\nadministrator on the Internet.  He is one of the resident Unix gurus at<br \/>\nthe Atlanta UNIX Users Group and is one of the founding members of the<br \/>\nAtlanta Linux Enthusiasts.  He is also an active member of the Samba<br \/>\ndevelopment team and is a contributor to the Linux Kernel and numerous<br \/>\nOpen Source Software projects.  Mike has published articles on both<br \/>\nSamba and on Security and is a respected cryptographer in the Open<br \/>\nSource community.<br \/>\n(-:    ed note: Michael&#8217;s career info is a five time winner of<br \/>\n         ALE&#8217;s  &#8220;Most Intimidating Member Bio&#8221; award.    :-)<br \/>\n============================<br \/>\nMeeting time frame is 7:30pm to ~9:30pm<br \/>\nDirections to Emory Law School can be found<br \/>\n<strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ale.org\/new\/directions-to-ale-central\/\">HERE<\/a><\/strong> (or via the side bar link).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A<br \/>\ncontroller reports drive errors and commands are failing, or worse.<br \/>\nThen we are reminded of all those resolves to do backups.  All too late.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-62","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ale-central","category-announcements"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ale.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ale.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ale.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ale.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ale.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=62"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ale.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ale.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=62"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ale.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=62"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ale.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=62"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}