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If you dot’ succeed at first…
try harder. I was trying to get Ubuntu (6.10) to hibernate, without much success (remember, I’m a Linux newbie). One of the side effects of the experiment was that Ubuntu did not recognize my swap partition any more (probably because during the hibernation-attempt it was overwritten with some random data from memory). If you find…
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Things I read / listen to
After getting mentioned on a great security/forensics blog, I thought I list of the feeds I watch. This is not a comprehensive list (I have at least twice as much in my Google Reader), but these are the ones with which I try to keep up: 2600.com – Off the hook radio show. While sometimes…
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You can make a difference!
Just a quick post: if you find something on the global ‘net that you don’t like, blog about it! It is amazing how quickly (a) you find out that you were wrong at the thing you criticized should be actually so or (b) get a response from the person that they are actually working on…
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Cutting off user-mode
With every release Microsoft tries to separate user-mode and kernel mode more and more. Some say that this is a temporary solution, however it is still important. These hacks were probably done in the name of efficiency back in the days, but this is largely irrelevant today with as much computing power as we have…
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Hack the Gibson – Episode #67
This will be a short post, because the podcast (sorry, the netcast) was very on the spot. Also this was the first time I’ve heard that Steve included an errata. Things are definitely improving. I hope that I made a small contribution to this. One fun fact: the GRC.com website is running on Windows with…
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Stopping waves
I came across a very nice article over at the SploitCast forums about stopping waves by being calm and not by trying to create a counter wave. My interpretation of it: loose the hype! You won’t create any long-lasting effect with it. If you truly are out to improve security, be calm and explain over…
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Fixing Open Source
Before you all jump over me: I won’t be talking here about a silver bullet which would take the open source movement in the right direction, ensure its competitiveness or something like that. What I’ll talk about is the joy that you can have by fixing open source scripting libraries. To be specific: in one…
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What am I reading?
I’ve read two and a half 🙂 really interesting posts today (warning, they are pretty long) about computer languages: Bambi Meets Godzilla a little anti-anti-hype The departure of the hyper-enthusiasts And I thought I share some of my opinions about languages. I’m polyglot myself and have some experience with many types on languages. GWBasic /…
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Windows PIO mode fallback problem
Windows (starting from Win2k I think) has an interesting feature: after a certain number of failures on a given IDE channel, it reverts that channel from DMA to PIO mode. This is perfectly reasonable for hard disks (although a user warning would still be useful), but for CD-ROMs this is deadly because a bad CD…
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Are our leaders becoming dumber?
Usually I stay away from politics, but I’ll make an exception from time to time. After listening to a speech of former US president Bill Clinton I have to wonder how people could choose a man who can’t put talk for 10 minutes in front of a crowd without making some pronunciation or grammatical error…