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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
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More links
Zone-H got defaced!. Read the article for an in-depth analysis. America is in debt bigtime Pamela-Systems – is it just me or does this name remind others too of the other Pamela (the NSFW one)?