63,000 bugs in the code, 63,000 bugs,
ya get 1 whacked with a service pack,
now there’s 63,005 bugs in the code!!
;)
Archive for April, 2005
27
Apr
Fortune of the day
27
Apr
Gmail downtime
Ahh, that beta buzzword eventually pays off, so it seems. From the Gmail site:
Server Error
Gmail is temporarily unavailable. Cross your fingers and try again in a few minutes. We’re sorry for the inconvenience.
13
Apr
Inner city life
I just finished a phone conversation with my friend… And what a convesation that was. He updated me a bit on the happennings downtown, what the kids today are doing in clubs and cafes.
First story was about two girls who were at a very crowded concert and were kind of lazy to go through the entire crowd to reach the toilets, so the two of them just stripped the panties beneath their skirts and pis^H^H^Hurinated on the floor in the middle of the crowd…
Second story was about a guy who became so lost because of drugs (and boredom), that once when he was in that one cafe I go to from time to time he took off his sneakers and put his feet on the middle of the bar table… Later that evening, he went to the 1×1m storage room in that same cafe and tried to masturbate, but then my friend saw him and laughed her ass off (?!) and he was like: “Ok, ok, I’ll stop…”!
Third story was about a guy who’s mom found out that he was into sniffing speed and other drugs. She, ofcourse, panicked and busted her ass off to make him stop doing that, in which she partly succeeded, but the interesting part was his friends’ comments, which were something like: “Ok, dude, lay low for a bit, wait for your mother to cool off and back off and then you can take some drugs again and when she sends you to do a drug test, we’ll switch the urine samples with some guy who’s clean…”
Wait a minute there. Where are these young people headed?
It seems like there are only two extremes: people who have too much, or too little, free time. Those with too much do the shit like this above, or, if they don’t have the money for the let’s-party-all-day-and-night lifestyle, they bore their asses of on the sofas all day long. Those with too little free time on their hands get together with other people rarely, usually have couple of close friends with whom they see each other with and in general live the work-eat-sleep life…
Is that the only way?
06
Apr
Julius
I just stumbled upon a Wikipedia article on Daniel J. Bernstein. Rings a bell? How about qmail? djbdns? No? Go and read the article and visit the links specified in it!
In a nutshell, DJB is a professor, mathematician, cryptologist and a programmer who’s accent is on efficient and, above all, secure code. He is known for criticizing archaic software behemots, such as Sendmail and BIND.
I find his stance on disclosure interesting:
Immediate full disclosure, with a working exploit punishes the programmer for his bad code. He panics; he has to rush to fix the problem; he loses users.
You’re whining that punishment is painful. You’re ignoring the effect that punishment has on future behavior. It encourages programmers to invest the time and effort necessary to eliminate security problems.
So radical it hurts. But, does it help?
PS: Julius? That’s what the “J” stands for.
My PentiumII sidekick-machine, avatar, was supposed to receive a CPU upgrade today with a Celeron 633 MHz CPU, but alas, PCB revision which supports CPUs faster than 400 MHz must be at least v2.0 and my mobo is only v1.7. Crap.
avatar had a nice uptime of 88 days, but then the HDD failure happened and it’s offline since then. 300 MHz have really did a nice job running fluxbox over TightVNC and monitoring the network with Cacti, among other things, including doing the print serving job… I must get a new hard drive for it.
