Archive for the 'Computers' Category

IMMUNITY : Knowing You’re Secure

Monday, October 11th, 2010

Immunity Debugger, vulns, sploits, and other good stuff

Comparing BenchmarkSQL Performance on Red Hat® Enterprise Linux 5 to Windows Server Enterprise

Wednesday, September 22nd, 2010

“This paper compares the performance of an Online Transaction Processing (OLTP) based

Introduction to ClamAV’s Low Level Virtual Machine (LLVM)

Tuesday, September 7th, 2010

[some notes on] How to use clamav built-in JIT byte-code interpreter to create new viri signature definitions.

Help! Linux ate my RAM!

Tuesday, August 31st, 2010

this is funny (web page that shows to folks that are new to linux where [i.e. disk cache] the ram goes )

[PDF] "1000 000 000 files: Scalability limits in Linux file systems" linuxcon2010, Ric Wheeler / Redhat

Wednesday, August 25th, 2010

PDF slides that show what happens if you create a file system with one billion (10**9 ) files

Schneier on Security: A Revised Taxonomy of Social Networking Data

Tuesday, August 10th, 2010

social network user data categorization by Bruce Schneier (useful)

OCRFeeder – GNOME Live!

Monday, August 9th, 2010

software for automatic layout analysis and optical text recognition (GTK-based, possibly cross-platform)

So You’d Like to Send Some Email

Sunday, August 1st, 2010

post by Jeff Atwood about troubles involved in setting up your own mail server (i.e. in case you actually care that mail you send will actually reach the recipient). While I don’t agree with the post, post and comments (especially comments) do contai…

PostgreSQL versus Oracle!

Thursday, July 29th, 2010

Full Text Search benchmark, Oracle vs Postgres, on 2x Quad core Xeon, 8G RAM, 2 SSDs x RAID 1. Pg is being slightly faster when query contains several words, once word count increases, oracle leaps ahead (suggesting a more mature FTS implementation)

Jesper-Brouer_Large-iptables-rulesets.pdf (application/pdf Object)

Friday, July 16th, 2010

Netfilter: Making large iptables rulesets scale