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A TCP/IP Software Appliance

In the very near future, every viable business class operating system will incorporate a TCP/IP Software Appliance. This is not a firewall. What we have today serving as firewalls may or may not server any purpose in the future, but one thing is for certain, we cannot solve our security problems via any hacks to our existing socket and IP libraries nor can security be improved by any future tweaks to SSL/TLS. I have been … A TCP/IP Software ApplianceRead more

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And Still We Learn Nothing

People get upset with me when I say the bulk of OpenSource code is written by 12 year old boys, even if they happen to be north of 40 they simply never progressed past the age of 12 where it counts. This morning I’m digging into some rsyslog code and found this in datetime.c /* the following table saves us from computing an additional date to get * the ordinal day of the year – … And Still We Learn NothingRead more