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- 2008 Pwnie Award nominees announced
- Well, after getting 134 nominations, and spending countless hours pulling out nominees, the judges for the 2008 Pwnie Awards have announced the final nominees to be voted on. From the site: The final list of nominees for the nine Pwnie Award categories is ...
- Tags: Nominee, Vulnerability, XSS, Attack, Flaw, Dan, XSS Flaw, Lifelock, Security, Nathan McFeters
- Blog posts 2008-07-21
- Is Java Windows for Unix?
- Is Java Windows for Unix?Amen brother!Java completely violates the Coupling/Cohesion rule of software quality. A "module" in Java consists of 5/6+ files containing interfaces, beans, functions, etc. This makes for low cohesion (BAD!). All of these files also need to be connected to each other plus those "frameworks". This introduces...
- Tags: Programming languages, window, Unix, Java, Ada
- Discussion threads 2008-04-07
- Developers remain in dark about Leopard GM bug fixes
- Apple says it's ready to release Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard to customers on Friday, Oct. 26. But developers won't see the Golden Master final candidate before the rest of us and some complain that they have no idea whether their problem bugs will be fixed in the release candidate....
- Tags: Developer, Apple Inc., David Morgenstern
- Blog posts 2007-10-22
- Solaris vs AIX: It's the technology
- From a technical perspective, of course, the right way to compare AIX to Solaris is to look at the technology. That might seem like it should be a lot of work but a long article by IBM's Shiv Dutta: AIX 5L Version 5.3: What's in it for you? on...
- Tags: Disk, IBM AIX, IBM AIX 5L, Option, Sun Solaris, Dutta, Logical Volume, Operating Systems, UNIX, Software, Paul Murphy
- Blog posts 2007-10-18
- Vista's ASLR not so random, but does it matter?
- Symantec is using the spotlight of the Black Hat DC 2007 conference to pick apart the security technologies built into Windows Vista.On the heels of its exposé of weaknesses in the UAC user account control mechanism, Symantec rolled out a Vista security portal with three new research papers discussing legacy...
- Tags: Pen testing, Black Hat Federal, Data theft, Black Hat, Viruses and Worms, Spyware and Adware, Exploit code, Spam and Phishing, Responsible disclosure, Rootkits, Vulnerability research, Microsoft, Windows Vista, Hackers
- Blog posts 2007-02-28
- GadgetX Software (zip)
- Visual DialogScript Extention to Host ActiveX controls in the VDS dialog using a built-in client container. This DLL extends the VDS language with many new abilities. Below lists some of these abilities. Load any Windows 32bit DLL. Call any function from a 32bit DLL. Access the IDispatch interface with simple...
- Tags: Microsoft Access, Bitmap, Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Office, Databases, Operating Systems, Software, Office Suites, Enterprise Software, Data Management
- Software downloads 2006-12-29
- Die, C, die! 5 reasons to UN-learn C.
- Die, C, die! 5 reasons to UN-learn C.C died, lives C++ !I think people should stop waste time learning C, indeed there is only historical reasons for learning it, buddies can go straight to C++ and discover the beauty of OO programming... :-)I'm sending this to my professorsIf C gives...
- Tags: Programming languages, C/C++, C, C++
- Discussion threads 2006-11-28
- When scripts become programs
- When scripts become programsScripts ARE programsI do not see that there is any difference, in essence, between a script and an interpreted language. About the only difference I can see is that a script is a program "fragment", what in the old days we called a subroutine. On this basis...
- Tags: Development tools, Scripting languages, Programming languages, programming, scripting language, programmer
- Discussion threads 2006-07-21
- Images: Windows Vista - Here's the new stuff
- Images: Windows Vista - Here's the new stuffImage 43Previous image gives the machine a rating of 1 and now Windows is apparently using up ~800 MB of memory. I'm under the impression that there is only one user logged in and a few system processes are running in the background....
- Tags: Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Microsoft Windows Vista, Microsoft Windows
- Discussion threads 2006-03-16
- Apple plugs 'critical' holes in OS X
- Apple plugs 'critical' holes in OS XIncorrectThis is not correct. I do not know who is making up these stories, but ZDNet should take this story off from its website. There is absolutely no truth to this. Even if there are some tweaks that Apple is making,...
- Tags: Operating systems, Desktops, Apple Mac OS X, Apple Macintosh, Apple Mac OS, Mac OS X Server, v10.3.9, Apple Inc., Unix
- Discussion threads 2005-09-23
- DPusLight (exe)
- DPus is a free GDI and memory leak detection software. Its purpose is to inspect process behavior by spying finely choosen API calls that the process make. Having this calls instrumented, DPusDLeak module can show you every resource that a process get. And more than that, you can discover all...
- Tags: Resource Allocation, Allocation, DPus
- Software downloads 2005-08-26
- SCO, BayStar resume squabbling
- SCO, BayStar resume squabblingSCO = M$hill joke.And the GPL was just declared legal in Germany..BayStar, Give It Up !!! . . . You've been had . . .Take what you got - and be happy. You are unlikely to get anything else from those sniveling SCO crooks.YOU'VE BEEN...
- Tags: OPEN SOURCE, Microsoft Corp., BayStar, SCO Group Inc.
- Discussion threads 2004-07-23
- The Repeat Offender Problem: A Mechanism for Supporting Dynamic-Sized, Lock-Free Data Structures
- A lock-free data structure is dynamic-sized if it can grow and shrink over time. Modern programming environments typically provide support for dynamically allocating and freeing memory (for example, the malloc and free library calls). A data structure is lock-free if it guarantees that after a finite number of steps of...
- Tags: Data Structure, Development Tools, Software Development, Software/Web Development
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- Using the C/C++ Garbage Collection Library, libgc
- Garbage collection deals with the automatic management of dynamic memory. One can dynamically allocate and deallocate memory by using the C++ operators new and delete as well as by using the libc functions malloc and free. This paper discusses some of the runtime errors related to memory management and how...
- Tags: Garbage Collection, Library, C/C++, Programming Languages, Software Development, Software/Web Development
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