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Distributed version control systems – why?
Some time ago I finally had time to read the Subversion book and felt that all my questions were answered. I tried SVN many years back and failed miserably, but now I’m confident in my ability to use, install and maintain SVN. However there seems to be a new buzz about distributed versioning systems (like…
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A small warning about ptkdb
ptkdb is a GUI debugger (as opposed to the default console-based one) for Perl using the Tk toolkit for its windows. As far as I know it is one of the most advanced ones, discounting debuggers built into IDEs. An other advantage of it is its availability for many platforms (including Windows), including sources like…
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To moderate or not to moderate
Recently I watched a WordCamp Dallas presentation entitled 45 Ways to Power Up Your Blog. One of the thing I liked was the remark that you don’t need to be focused sharply on one domain to have a successful blog. While my blog is first and foremost for venting and my no means do I…
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Circumventing the need for transactions in MySQL
While reading the excellent series on "Web 2.0" and databases on the O’Reilly radar blog it occurred to me that there is a nice trick with MySQL for making it semi-transactional (as a side-note: these days I have work with MySQL less and less and am fully enjoying the goodness that is PostgreSQL and pgAdmin).…
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How efficient are non-standard configurations in combating the malware problem?
Very. Thank you for reading this article, hope to see you soon. Just kidding :-), you won’t get off this easy. You’ll have to read my ramblings about the topic. It isn’t a new idea to model the malware problem using methods borrowed from the field of the biology, more specifically the study of diseases…
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“Remote” turn-off switch
And now for something completely different: a hardware hack. Warning! Don’t attempt this at home unless you have at least some experience with electricity! Also, applying this hack directly on consumer electronics will most probably void the warranty! The problem: having a 2.1 (yes, I know, lame, real people use at least 5.1 :-)) speaker…
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Consider the source before ranting
or else you could look foolish. Full disclosure: I work in the AV industry, however this post (and all of my posts, unless stated otherwise) do not necessarily reflect the opinion of my current or past employers. They are my own personal opinions / views of things. Getting back to the topic: some time ago…
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Enabling Bluetooth on Ubuntu
is as simple as 1, 2, 3 (although it ought to be as simple as 0 – it should work out of the box – more on this later). So I was trying to copy some photos from a phone to an Ubuntu machine which, although it had recognized the phone, kept coming up with…
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A new competition
Via terminal23.net: the Python challenge (this does not have any deadlines, nor does it carry prizes, so you can relax).
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Hostile JS Debug
I was looking through a presentation delivered by a McAfee employee during an Indian security conference (Club Hack 2007) and there it was: a reference to a little project of mine dedicated to ease the debugging of obfuscated javascript. Neat. (Or, I could use the the word of the year and say: w00t 🙂