OTN Discussion Forums : SQL*Plus 10.2.0.1.0 does not work on ... | times(NULL) = loop

http://forums.oracle.com/forums/thread.jspa?messageID=1108985 It appears to be an interesting bug in some versions of Oracle 10g, on Linux 2.6.x oracle process goes in loop doing times() system call if machine uptime < 199 days. Nice!!! / Oracle refs are bug 4612267 and 5867987 ) . The solution is to reboot.

Bug 638477 – Strange sound on mp3 flash website

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=638477 Fedora glibc guys broke a flash player for Linus , with, (tada!) a “optimization” of memcpy().

research!rsc: Lessons from the Debian/OpenSSL Fiasco

http://research.swtch.com/2008/05/lessons-from-debianopenssl-fiasco.html good explanation of debian openssl bug. worth reading if programming is what u do for a living