You may have read about the recent security problems at Comodo (see also Comodo's own announcement about the incident ( Read more... )

I just read a humorous and thoughtful analysis of the data consistency issues around recording nontraditional marriages. It's also a great illustration of why all nontrivial systems end up enforcing some of their data integrity rules in the database and some in the application.

(via winden)

I wrote my first Greasemonkey script today. It enhances the no-Flash "fast" Dilbert pages to add navigation keys; 'n' for the next strip and 'p' for the previous one.
So now, I know, I don't like Javascript at all. So far I dislike it a little less than PHP though, because at least there are decent developer tools.
Anyway, here's the script ( Read more... )

From some hacker via stsquad's post:
orbital:~$ history | awk '{a[$2]++ } END{for(i in a){print a[i] " " i}}'|sort -rn|head 97 git 73 cd 71 ls 20 cat 18 file 15 man 14 sh 12 make 12 ../login-utils/islocal_test 11 su The observant among you will notice the absence of any editing command. No, it's not because I write all my code with cat, it's because ( Read more... )

Groklaw has just published an article about a 2005 patent application by SCO, dealing with methods for automating source code comparison. SCO sued IBM some years back for including some of SCO's code into Linux without permission. While the case is not over yet, it looks like the truth is that IBM actually didn't do so and in any case the code ( Read more... )

I've been anticipating this launch for ages: run your own web application on Google's infrastructure.

So the automated transfer vehicle has finally docked with the ISS. Matt will be pleased that everything worked first time.
(This was a follow-up to my previous post.)

They kept the wrong brain.

I just released findutils version 4.4.0 this morning. It's the culmination of just over two years work and is a significant change and improvement over the previous stable release.
However, the motivating factor for making the release is that it allows me to begin work on a new set of changes which would have destabilised the code base (in ( Read more... )

I'll be checking up on the launch of the ATV with interest, as one of my ex-colleagues worked on some of its software. I hope all goes well.