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Two more things…
before I get to bed: Burrrn works great if you want to write FLAC files to an audio CD MediaCoder tries to connect to Sourceforge at every startup (presumably to check for updates). However it didn’t ask me once if I wanted to do that :(.
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Open source debugging
While trying to re-encode some podcasts (to have smaller file size), I learned the following lessons: MediaCoder looked very, very professional and I wanted to try it out for a long time. However, it freaked out over my MP3 file and crashed the included MPlayer. No problem I thought, I downloaded the latest Windows build…
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What I learned about Perl today
When you start using a new programming language for quite some time you will regularly find new things in it. Some will make you think I wish I knew this yesterday and some will seem interesting. So here is something I learned about Perl today: If your recursion level exceeds 100 (meaning that you call…
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Two spaces
Not being a native English speaker myself there are many parts of the culture I don’t know about. Like the fact that at some time putting two spaces after sentences was usual. From what I gather however this isn’t the case any more since people have failed to show the (supposed) advantage in accessibility. Here…
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Even more links
Have you’ve had enough yet? 😀 Recently I found out about Soushin, an free solution which tries to help you secure your PHP installation (similarly to mod_security – meaning that it doesn’t require you to modify the source code of your applications). It seems that a new feature which is currently in beta test is…
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Hack the Gibson – Episode #72
Read the reason for these posts. Read Steve Gibson’s response. The first thing I want to mention is that the constant marketing push for SpinRite makes me curious. I have no way to try it (because Steve doesn’t make a demo version publicly available), but after reading a book Kurt (a very well known company…
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Perl contest
I’m not a Perl guru (although I consider myself a medium level wizard :)), and this last contest shows it. My entry for it was 4.6258 times longer than the shortest one submitted. :(. Some tips (maybe you can do better than me): Wrapping your head around Roman Numerals is hard. I suggest that in…
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And even more links
Check out the 2006 Vaporware awards We have also two contests: One that has ended, and the winner actually produced a 210 bytes executable file which downloads and executes a file from an encrypted (XOR-ed) URL. See also the previous entries at the SecuriTeam blog (look for Tiny PE). And if you are into such…
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Don’t be stupid
Or alternatively: how to collect malware samples from the file sharing networks: Be sure that you know what you are doing! These are real, dangerous files (mostly Adware and Spyware). Get yourself a decent, open source, spyware, adware free multi network client (if you are on Windows) Search for anything. Be sure to select Any…
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Funny quote
The internet: Where men are men, women are men, and teenage girls are undercover FBI agents. Found it over at tssci security