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 study for linux, windows, solaris and freebsd operating systems kernels
Posted in comparison, freebsd, kernel, Linux, programming, quality, research, software-engineering, windows | Comments Off | permalink
April 4th, 2011
"Financial crooks brought down the world's economy — but the feds are doing more to protect them than to prosecute them"
About feds "enforcement" efforts for economic crimes. An excellent article (needs aprox. 30 mins to read)
Posted in article, banking, capitalism, corruption, economics, finance, government, law, politics, usa | Comments Off | permalink
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 have thousands of reseller accounts protected only by username/password combination and *ANY* such account could be used to sign *ANY* certificate, i.e. amazom.com, yourbank.com, etc.
Posted in browser, hacking, infosec, internet, Security, ssl | Comments Off | permalink
April 4th, 2011
Photos of do-it-yourself submarines that people build in Columbia to transport cocaine. Pretty amazing technology :-)
/ from russian segment of LiveJournal /
Posted in columbia, DIY, livejournal, submarine, technology | Comments Off | permalink
April 4th, 2011
Photos of do-it-yourself submarines that people build in Columbia to transport cocaine. Pretty amazing technology :-)
/ from russian segment of LiveJournal /
Posted in columbia, DIY, livejournal, submarine, technology | Comments Off | permalink
April 4th, 2011
"greater security doesn’t come from fighting more wars; it comes from fighting fewer of them or none at all."
An excellent article about problems current American war strategy. Read it, if you indeed "support the troops".
Posted in essay, military, strategy, war | Comments Off | permalink
March 31st, 2011
an excellent follow up on a hoax story about Samsung installing keyloggers on its laptops.
Posted in article, false, infosec, media, research, Security | Comments Off | permalink
March 30th, 2011
standard redhat-way (i.e. network-scripts) to configure IPv6 networking on RHEL/CentOS systems
Posted in centos, ipv6, Linux, network, rhel, sysadmin | Comments Off | permalink
March 30th, 2011
also see http://www.amazon.com/Test-Driven-JavaScript-Development-Developers-Library/dp/0321683919/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1301526589&sr=8-1 / good reviews/
Posted in book, books, development, download, framework, javascript, qa, reference, testing | Comments Off | permalink
March 30th, 2011
advertised service level for TWC, SoCal
Posted in cable, isp, network, service, socal, twc | Comments Off | permalink
