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Linux command line options
Being a Linux newbie, I’m always looking for tips and tricks related to this new OS I’m learning. Here is an article from IBM, via Slashdot: Learn 10 good UNIX usage habits
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Education
I knew that that in Romanian schools you couldn’t get decent education, but it seems more and more that that this is a general truth, independent of your country: Web Development at WTFU An interview with Al Shugart
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Undisclosed Microsoft bug
Over at the eEye research site you can read a worrying and little confusing advisory (how can something be a local privilege escalation and a remote code execution attack at the same time?). I’m eagerly awaiting more details about this. In the mean time, don’t forget to subscribe to their Zero-Day tracker. Update: I don’t…
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The night of the ad eaters
I’m getting old. I know this because last night we attended The Night of the Ad Eaters and after sleeping for 8 ours I still can barely keep my eyes open :). My impressions: Coca Cola is better than Pepsi (I can’t understand how Pepsi can put that much money in their ads and still…
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What virtualization can and cannot do in an anti-malware context
Over at the anti-virus rant blog (which is a nice blog because it includes the word rant in the title :)) Kurt Wismer states that virtualization is overhyped as a security technology. While I agree, I want to point out that following some simple rules, it can be a very powerful security which can easily…
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Random stuff
For fun: The Opinionated Beer page: if operating systems were beers. An interesting idea: a search engine with an unusual way to present the results. While the interface is appealing, on the long run it seems an overkill. Also the fact that the first results are advertisements with only very subtle indication of this fact…
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“not a valid win32 application”
An interesting difference between the loader of Win9x and WinNT line (tested with Win98 and Win2K SP4): if SizeOfImage is bigger than the sum of the header sizes and section sizes, Win98 will happily load it, while Win2K will complain that it’s not a valid Win32 application. The tricky part about this is that you…
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On Delphi
Being a long time Delphi programmer, I really enjoyed this blog posting about learning Delphi. My favorite quote: The Delphi compiler itself is lightning fast. Sometimes I compile twice because I’m not sure I actually hit the compile key. It is so true. The first thing I do when I install Delphi is to check…
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FiT Search Engine
I started playing with the Google Custom Search Engine and I created a search engine for one of my favorite podcasting / blogging group: FiT. Try it out below: Google Custom Search Or consume it in a custom format: Link to the Google page Add it to your google page: Hope I didn’t leave out…
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The 14th post
Because 13 is not a nice number :), and because the submission deadline for the two contests has passed, I thought I share with you my solutions (they are not guaranteed to be complete over correct for that matter): The Hitch-Hacker’s Guide to the Galaxy How did Zay Zeutrino gather the desired data to switch…