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pointers-uk – fail
Via the network security blog I found the article How to Rebuild your Computer and Reinstall Windows Without Headache, and the timing couldn’t have been better, since in the near future I will need to do so (although an XP machine, not Vista). The advices are given are good. Three tools which I like that…
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Mixed links
On the Extra Pepperoni blog I’ve read about Google’s 404 Service. Apparently they have a service whereby they can suggest links to people who arrived to a non-existing page on your site. Interesting… From ICANN comes an updated version of the Whois Inaccuracy Reporting System (or WDPRS – Whois Data Problem Reporting System). You can…
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Negative zero – what is it?
Computers have two ways of representing numbers: One is called sign and magnitude – usually you have one bit specifying the sign (again, most of time you have 0 for positive and 1 for negative) and the rest of the bits specify the absolute value (“magnitude”) of the number. The other is ordering the numbers…
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How to be the coolest DBA out there…
By managing your PostgreSQL install with your iPhone! 😀
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Mixed links
From taint.org: AWS running Mathematica. Mathematica was one of those programs which I dabbled with in university and found it incredibly cool, especially given my limited mathematical knowledge… Several sites have referenced the post on SecTheory about the influence of web pages on power consumption (for example the Frequency X Blog). However I’m still not…
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I consider myself spanked 🙂
I was walking along, minding my own business and ranting about Microsoft (or more precisely an MVP – I know, I know, technically they are not part of MS), and them bammmm! The logic police got me! I was shown the error of my ways 🙂 However, being the lighthearted chap that I am, I’m…
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Everything old is new again – SMOG
Warning! The site which the script uses to provide the service contains a malicious iframe. While most probably the site itself is not malicious, I don’t recommend using the script below until the issues have been cleared up. If you included it in your site, please disable it until the problems have been cleared up.…
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If you have problems using SVN with Eclipse…
make sure that you’ve installed the JavaHL Adapter. Otherwise you will get messages saying: Unable to load default SVN Client JavaHL seems to be the actual bingding to the Subversion, so it is really a mystery to me why it isn’t marked as a dependency for subeclipse… Related blogposts which pointed me in the right…
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Curious Eclipse (Java?) bug…
It seems that watchpoints are not triggered if the field is changed using reflection. A simple test program to demonstrate this: import java.lang.reflect.*; public class ReflectMe { public static int foo = 1; //*1 public void test() throws Exception { foo = 2; //*2 Class c = Class.forName(“ReflectMe”); Field f = c.getField(“foo”); f.setInt(this, 10); //*3…
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Please welcome a new blogger…
Tim Starling from Wikipedia. In his first blog post he talks about the challenges involved in running a website securely where users can upload arbitrary content. It is very cool and very frightening the same time (because it makes you wonder: how many of the web applications out there are verified to this degree). One…