Hello all, in the finest programming tradition, I take it that every time one took a programming course or decided to have a quick look into a programming language, writing a “Hello World” program was one of the first things done. However, even in such a small program, do you really know what it does… Continue reading Hello world demystified
CPython threading vs multiprocessing – the 5 minute introduction
MJC brought to my attention the following piece of code which attempts to provide some empirical data comparing the use of threads vs processes in CPython. This code, which I understand that it is stored for historical purposes, has some bugs, which I have pointed out in the comment section, but this is not the… Continue reading CPython threading vs multiprocessing – the 5 minute introduction
Some random thoughts on Greek startups
[The article below is somewhat of a rant, read it at your own peril and yes I know this is not the proper way to resume blogging after months and months of inactivity] So it seems that the Greek IT market lately has seen an influx of “startups”. Their implied cause appears to be quite… Continue reading Some random thoughts on Greek startups
FWD: Certi fied Lies: Detecting and Defeating Government Interception Attacks Against SSL
RUN, do not walk but RUN to http://paranoia.dubfire.net/2010/03/new-paper.html and download “Certified Lies: Detecting and Defeating Government Interception Attacks Against SSL” I will do some further research and keep you updated!
One liner hexdumper in Ruby :-)
File.open(ARGV[0] || “a.out”,”rb”).each_byte { |byte| printf “\\x%02x”, byte }
The trouble with OSSIM
If you fiddle with MSSP, then you will most likely have heard of OSSIM. While the software itself appears quite powerful, it lacks in the MOST critical aspect of all: there is little if any documentation. Most of it is outdated and sources of information include a forum and a blog/tweeter feed. Come on OSSIM… Continue reading The trouble with OSSIM
puts “Hello world!”
This is my new blog. Hopefully stuff will get added here 🙂
