Archive for November, 2009

mjg59: ACPI general purpose events

Tuesday, November 10th, 2009

article by Matthew Garrett that actually explains how ACPI works

Understanding the TLS Renegotiation Attack – Educated Guesswork

Tuesday, November 10th, 2009

explains Marsh Ray’s attack in details, pls patch to fix the TLS protocol

Carolyn Blogs » Blog Archive » Why Learning from PowerPoint Lectures is Frustrating

Tuesday, November 10th, 2009

good wrote-up about usefulness of power point (which I hate with a passion)

STONITH Deathmatch Explained (and Some Hints for Resource Agent Authors and Systems Engineers)

Tuesday, November 10th, 2009

page explains classic “deadlock” case for HA cluster.

Snow Leopard cannot be installed on Macintosh HD the disk ‘cannot be used to start up your computer’ | MacFixIt – CNET Reviews

Monday, November 9th, 2009

look here if your brand new and shiny snow leopard cd refuses to update your mac … stupid apple, this “fix” is on the news web site

Re: [Xen-devel] Red Hat dropped XEN – Xen Source [post about XEN versioning in RHEL 5]

Monday, November 9th, 2009

note from redhat engineer explaining what version of xen is used in RHEL 5.x (this is not that simple, hence this post)

[RUS] warhistory: Florian Geyer

Friday, November 6th, 2009

post in russian livejournal community about history of some 3rd reich songs and marches

[RUS] Применение нейросетей в распознавании изображений / Искусственный интеллект / Хабрахабр

Friday, November 6th, 2009

Different approaches in using neuron networks for OCR (optical character recognition) — an article in Russain

[OOM Killer Saga] Re: [PATCH] oom_pardon, aka don’t kill my xlock [LWN.net]

Wednesday, November 4th, 2009

whenever your are in discussion about OOM, make sure you mention this :-)

Electric Alchemy: Cracking Passwords in the Cloud: Breaking PGP on EC2 with EDPR

Wednesday, November 4th, 2009

article tells you that using elcomsoft tools, you can brute-force PGP pass-phrase in ~120 days for ~$9K on 10 EC2 instances.