The Underhanded C Contest 2006
The Underhanded C Contest 2006 has started. We hereby announce our second annual contest to write innocent-looking C code implementing malicious behavior. In many ways this is the exact opposite of the...
View ArticleLook ma, I found a kernel bug!
Oh great. I have experienced random hangups of my Laptop recently, and I had absolutely no clue what caused them, even after a reboot and looking into the logfiles. Today, after another hangup/crash I...
View ArticleStuff V
I have started looking into SELinux on Debian recently. SELinux provides mandatory access control for Linux, which gives you great control over which process may do what with which files, other...
View ArticleGoogle Earth for Linux - Beta
OK, so Goole has finally released a first version of Google Earth for Linux (beta, of course).Well, maybe this time they really mean it when they say "beta"... Here's some quick observations:Of course,...
View ArticleTrac - web-based project management with wiki + bug-tracker + svn code browser
I've started looking at Trac recently, a nice web-based project management tool written in Python.It integrates with existing Subversion repositories; for example, you can browse the code in your...
View ArticleDebian unstable X11-related bug and workaround -- Unrecognized option:...
FYI, if you're not using xdm/kdm/gdm but are instead starting the X11 server manually with startx (which is what I usually do) you might have experienced brokenness in Debian unstable recently: Fatal...
View ArticleWorst Ad Placement Award 2009...
...goes to: Seagate and/or heise.de (translation here).
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