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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…
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Don’t reinvent the wheel
From the department of don’t make your own program unless you know what your are doing come the following two: The Websense security blog RSS feed keeps marking the first post as new. While it is a very interesting post (about analyzing shellcodes form browser based exploits), I don’t want to read it five times.…
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Microsoft, pantents and rant
One of the blogs I monitor Security Garden. It is a nice blog, which although it doesn’t contain any original content, is a nice gathering place of interesting and useful pieces of information from around the Internet. However I must take issue with two recent posts. What irks me is that these people who steal…
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To pack or not to pack?
After listening to an other great CyberSpeak podcast, I decided to line up the pros and cons of executable packing for programmers. First of all, what is executable packing? In short it is similar to self-extracting archives, where as a result of the process an executable is generated which contains some unpacking code and the…
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Hack The Gibson – Episode #66
Read the reason for these posts. Read Steve Gibson’s response. This again will be a short one. Steve talks about Vista which I have no immediate experience with (I’ve seen it on some decent machines and all that I can say is that it’s reeeeeeeeeeeeally slow. really, really, really slow. Event without the Aero interface).…