Archive for the 'Computers' Category

Perl 5 to Perl 6 Regular Expression Converter [online tool]

Wednesday, April 6th, 2011

It is not always works, but at least give you an idea. Perl6 regex syntax is really different from normal perl and it is not [yet] well documented. Or you can prefix each regex in perl6 with :p5 to make it perl5-compatible

A Tale of Four Kernels

Tuesday, April 5th, 2011

Quote from the article: “Therefore,
the most we can read from the overall balance of marks is
that open source development approaches do not produce
software of markedly higher quality than proprietary software
development.”

A subjective code quality …

A message from Comodo Hacker – Pastebin.com

Monday, April 4th, 2011

[also see LWN's write-up https://lwn.net/Articles/435214/ .] Curios message [allegedly] from a person who hacked into Comodo CA. Makes you wonder … Basically the whole SSL trust is just a piece of crap and cannot be trusted at all — major CA …

How not to post a security article | John Graham-Cumming

Thursday, March 31st, 2011

an excellent follow up on a hoax story about Samsung installing keyloggers on its laptops.

Configuring IPv6 on Redhat (CentOS) Linux — The IPv6 Experts .net

Wednesday, March 30th, 2011

standard redhat-way (i.e. network-scripts) to configure IPv6 networking on RHEL/CentOS systems

[note about ipv6 stateful firewall in linux] ] ‘Re: ip6tables icmp conntracking on 2.6.18 vs 2.6.24′ – MARC

Wednesday, March 30th, 2011

explanation on why `-m state –state ‘ does not work for IPv6 in older kernels

XenDomUSupport – Xen Wiki

Saturday, March 26th, 2011

Guest Operating system support chat for XEN

PacketShader – GPU-accelerated Software Router

Friday, March 25th, 2011

Also see http://shader.kaist.edu/packetshader/io_engine/index.html and http://www.ndsl.kaist.edu/~kyoungsoo/papers/2010-lanman-100Gbps.pdf

Using latest x86 hardware and GPU to build a 100GB pc router / possible theoretically, but as of now, is not co…

Diving into the Linux Networking Stack, Part I | Beyond Syntax | Michael J. Schultz

Friday, March 18th, 2011

Overview of how network driver work in linux kernel

Sender Score Reputation, Senderscore – SenderScore.org

Thursday, March 10th, 2011

sendnder-score IP lookup tool