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pl/lolcode
The news (via Joshua Drake’s blog): video / audio / slides available for two more talks on the postgresql conference site. Now for the funny part (this is from the slides of the “Babel of Procedural Languages” by David Fetter): HAI CAN HAS DATABUKKIT? I HAS A RESULT I HAS A RECORD GIMMEH RESULT OUTTA…
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New packetlife contest
The January contest for PacketLife is up. As usual, I have absolutely no idea on how to approach it :-), but I’m very curious about the solution.
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Congestion Control in Computer Networks
Here is a short presentation I’ve done about congestion control in computer networks. Some thoughts: Things usually are simpler than they look. For example the TCP congestion control algorithm. Still, they can be very powerful (this is similar with DES for example – which I’ve had to reimplement for “educational purposes”, and found that, at…
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RIP Thiemo Seufer
The news of Thiemo Seufer’s dead fills me with great sadness. We crossed paths a couple of times on the QEMU mailing list. He will be missed.
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Enumerating objects / methods in Javascript
I was reading the following post on the Metasploit blog: Fuzzing Flash For Fun (ASNative), which described how to use an undocumented feature of ActionScript to get the list of all functions and then fuzz them. I thought: surely, there is a simpler, documented way to do that. Now, the following code was written in…
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Be honest about your reasons!
Update: Kurt said it much better in the comments. You should read it instead of my ramblings :-). I also remembered the French version of this saying: Qui s’excuse, s’accuse. Unfortunately meta-justifications and white lies seem to be a deeply embedded part of humans (so much so that we invent names like “politeness” for them…
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Style is important
Because you are not writing programs for the compiler, you are writing it for the human who is coming after you (and he might be a psychopath who knows where you live :-)). Here is a nice related post from the creator of VirtualDub: Undoing indentation hell.
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000webhost.com trying to install malware
I needed a quick, free webhost. Incidentally (it is funny how things come together sometimes) I remembered Andreas Gohr mentioning 000webhost.com, so I decided to give it a try. Now, I knew that nothing is free, so I expected to need to insert some banner ads in the pages, however it seems that this hosting…
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25C3 videos posted
Via splitbrain.org and security4all: the 25C3 videos have been posted. Enjoy everybody 🙂
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Javascript regex quirk
When I’ve written the SMOG analyzer javascript I found a quirk of javascript and this recent post inspired me to share it: The javascript regex specification doesn’t have the s modifier. This is necessary when you want to match multiple lines with a construct like .*. The suggested workaround I found was to specify the…