Automated HTTPS Cookie Hijacking | fscked.org

http://fscked.org/blog/fully-automated-active-https-cookie-hijacking a note from security ppl that session/login cookies that normally delivered via https have to be explisidly marked as “secure” so they only delivered via https. Otherwise bad ppl can hijack them.

The Old New Thing : Tales from the interview: Can you rotate this two-dimensional array?

http://blogs.msdn.com/oldnewthing/archive/2008/09/02/8918130.aspx for(i=0;i<N;i++) for(j=0;j<M;j++) b[j][N-i]=a[i][j];

Memory Translation and Segmentation : Gustavo Duarte

http://duartes.org/gustavo/blog/post/memory-translation-and-segmentation very goom sum-up about memory mechanism in modern x86 machines. For more elabored and detailed info

CPU Rings, Privilege, and Protection : Gustavo Duarte

http://duartes.org/gustavo/blog/post/cpu-rings-privilege-and-protection An exellent introduction article about x86 cpus protection mechanism. (run instruction in “rings”) good read.

VoIP - SIP and RTP stacks, softphones, user agents, STUN - a comparison

http://www.pernau.at/kd/voip/bookmarks-sip-stacks.html comparation of SIP client libraries – not much of a comparation but a list of available SIP stacks with short notes

BLOB, iBatis & PostgreSql 8.1 - dBforums [large objects vs bytea]

http://www.dbforums.com/showthread.php?t=1620377 sane notes about storing binary data in Postgres. Basically bytea is ASCII representaion of bynary data wich requires decoding / escaping (read: slow) and large objects a kind of ok, but not trigger-based replication compartable

[russian] Как гарантировать наличие атрибута (циклическая зависимость) / Проектирование БД : Форум на SQL.RU | about cyclic references / database design

http://sql.ru/forum/actualthread.aspx?tid=584799 good discussion about cyclic references. Basically the main point is that if you have a question “how do I implement cyclic fererence?” – then there is something wrong, 99% that it is so because ur understaning of problem domain is wrong.

SQLite ODBC Driver

http://www.ch-werner.de/sqliteodbc/ ODBC wrapper for sqlite libs, coss platform: binaries are available for win32, os x, linux

Daring Fireball: Ronco Spray-On Usability

http://daringfireball.net/2004/04/spray_on_usability good essay about software usability in regards to open source software. Much of what he says is true.

Benchmarking boot latency on x86

http://linuxdevices.com/articles/AT7995848646.html article explains a few things and post sample code that shows how to instrument x86 boot process