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Starting to program
Today I was asked if somebody who is getting into programming should start out with Perl? First of all I would like to say that I feel honored that somebody would consider taking my advice. Second of all, I don’t really feel that I can give an objective answer, since I’ve been doing it so…
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End even more links
The Vista team replies to the to the DRM criticism – sort of. While the some of the concerns are directly answered (ie. the whole video output is not degraded, only the video playback window is), others are not or only dubiously treated. I won’t run Vista for quite some time, this is sure. Komodo…
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PHP coders of the world – secure your code!
Being a seasoned coder myself (I’ve been doing PHP coding on and off for 6 years now) I think I can speak with some authority about this subject. I came to believe that PHP is pretty much a Perl copy-cat where they eliminated the features which they considered too hard for the beginner. While catering…
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Even more links
I’m trying to eliminate all my backlog because it is possible that I will have limited connectivity for some time. So here goes an other batch: After using Google and Excite as redirector, it is the turn of Lycos: here is link which will take you to Google http://r.lycos.com/r/sagel_mail_scratch_tl/http://google.com (based on a spam I got).…
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Mixed links and commentary
A very nice T-Shirt. I especially like the Comments (0) part 😉 There has been some controversy over a recently released service which claims to tell you if your credicard number of social-security number has been compromised. While I understand (and agree with) all the arguments brought against it, I would like to point out…
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Winners of the 7th malware analisys quiz
The 7th malware analisys quiz has announced the winner and (surprisingly) they picked my description :D. You can read my submission (warning, PDF). I would also encourage you to read the other three submissions which made to the top, since they all contain useful information (like a pointer to the software made by Winalysis) if…
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Linux tips
I am and will be very short of time for a couple of weeks, so most probably these will be the last posts for the month. If you’ve read and followed my advice on re-creating the swap partition after failed hibernation, there is one caveat I discovered: after recreating, the swap partition is not automatically…
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Don’t claim that you have a revolutionary technology…
Unless you have done your research. I was listening to the latest CyberSpeak podcast yesterday (a very nice podcast by the way) and I heard the guy (Chad McMillan) who was being interviewed talking about a revolutionary new technology for identifying packed executables by signature which he will be presenting at BlackHat. I wonder how…
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Perl, Windows and File Locking
For some Perl scripts you want to make sure that only one instance of it is running at the same time. So you use lockfiles, in a way like this: open(LockFile, “>$lock_file”) or die(“Failed to lock file $lock_file, error: $^E”); flock(LockFile, LOCK_EX) or die(“Failed to lock file $lock_file”); The idea being that the OS guarantees…
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Excite-d about spam
Not really. Yahoo does a pretty good job of filtering out spam. From time to time however I check my spam box to see if some newsletter or password notification got lost there (these are the two types of e-mails I found that are most often erroneously tagged as spam by Yahoo). And yesterday I…