Happy retirement GSSP-C!
Tue 2009-11-03 19:19
Some time ago I wrote about the GSSP-C exam. Being a certification non-believer I thought it would be interesting to have a poke at a certification. The one in question being the, at the time, new GSSP-C (GIAC Secure Software Programmer in C.) It seemed at least relevant to my work (mostly C/C++ back then) and my industry (the dirty world of infosec.) In general I was impressed by the practical resources and also by the message the people behind the exam (SANS) were trying to get across. Afterall… many software security issues are caused by bad programming, the GSSP-C seemed a worthy attempt to address this.
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Backporting an Ubuntu/Debian Package - spatialite for Jaunty
Wed 2009-10-21 22:03
There are a lot more "Debian", aka Ubuntu, users around the place these days. In general it seems many newer users have been spoilt by Ubuntu's regular release schedule. Back in the old days we sometimes waited years between Debian releases, if there was something you needed that wasn't in your antique but "stable" Debian you'd have to use backports, if you were lucky enough to find what you wanted there, backport a package for yourself (thanks to the Debian package build tools being mostly friendly), or just compile from source.
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iDork
Sun 2008-08-17 23:01
Well, it's happened… I'm an iDork. Got myself an iPhone today.
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Open Tech 2008
Mon 2008-07-14 21:33
A couple of weekends back Kat and I went to the Open Tech 2008 one day conference in London. I had planned to write about some things I came across there in some depth, alas time is against me. It would be criminal for me to let it go completely unmentioned though.
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