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All the perl documentation
A quick note: When I talked earlier about turning off warnings in Perl, I referenced the perldiag page. If you wish to see a list of all the perl… documentation available, you can look at the language reference at perldoc.perl.org (there is also a 5.8.8 version if you haven’t upgraded yet, although the differences should…
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Visualization techniques for networking data
This is the HTML version of a paper I’ve written for school. Sorry for the poor formatting, but it was generated (semi-)automatically with Google Docs from an ODT document. You can download a nicer, PDF version of it here. Introduction Humans have a natural ability to correlate patterns from multiple sources to become aware of…
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Who are behind the RaceToZero contest?
The RaceToZero has captured the publics imagination (or shall I say the medias) as the latest member of the AntiVirus is dead movement. As I tried to explain in my previous post, the results of the game are rather predictable (no detection after 5 minutes) unless the organizers are really mean (giving the contestants a…
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Having fun
Via the Hacker Webzine blog (yes, I’m challenging all the security gods by linking to the blog which social engineered people in giving their passwords just for fun – so take care): The Interesting Hacks To Fascinate People: The MIT Gallery of Hacks Also on that page I found the engineers drinking song: Lyrics can…
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My Perl blog – how to turn off warnings
There seems to be a meme going around which encourages blogging about Perl. So here is my contribution: When you write scripts, it is really, really recommended to use the strict and warning pragmas (eventually diagnostics): use strict; use warnings; use diagnostics; #mainly for debugging, to better understand the messages I can’t tell you how…