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Read K&R, a large part of the book is given over to writing a simple allocator. There really isn't an awful lot to understand if you're treating the hardware as a black box.

Wouldn't they just pay some Chinese sweat shop a dollar a throw or something? If they're saving money on registration fees, I don't see how making it a little awkward will deter th…

Very good idea, I'd sooner give away a domain name to someone who was going to use it than let some blasted domain parking business get hold of it. On the other hand, I have no ide…

I have an eeepc, but you couldn't do any serious amount of work on it. I'm not so concerned about the horsepower (if your software is so bloated it doesn't run at speed on an eeepc…

Yep. Worse still, he's wrong even on that small point. I'm working on Delay Tolerant Networking for mobile phones, mostly for deployment in isolated communities in the developed wo…

Hey, I've got a crazy idea. Instead of a completely unsupported, fantasy standard "smart link" you could instead offer a link to a vcal file, or vcard file, or a location XML file.…

My bookshelf has been all fiction for about 6 years now. Technical books are more or less obsolete, the only ones I can remember buying in all that time is the Samba administrators…

Is this one of the ways you're looking to "monetise the internet", begging? Shameless. Even assuming this isn't pure scam, three words: Get a job. Flagged.

Ew! They use the timestamp parameter for that? That's both sick and wrong. Requiring people who access your webservice to have an accurate clock is the most braindead thing I've he…

Sorry, but you aren't thinking like a security professional here. Consider the case, e.g., where you create a domain, delete it and recreate it. An attacker monitoring the deletion…

Does it worry anyone else that there seems to be no protection provided against replaying any particular authenticated request? If I were using this service, I'd heavily recommend …

Hah, blast. Just when you think you have an interesting new idea... Certainly not using google gears would be a good idea, though.

For reasons relating to a bit of reverse engineering I was doing today (er, yesterday now... sleep schedule isn't going too well), I got thinking about how long it would take to cr…

Personally, I think Objective C is a horrid and butcherous hack that really ought to have died when C++ was standardised. Trying to make C in to some kind of bastard and retarded c…

Well, from a personal perspective, trade shows are a great place to meet people. If you go to niche trade shows year after year, you get to know the other people who go. I've made …

You can. XServe is essentially a vanity purchase, and no company in their right mind would buy them. They're about twice as expensive as the same box from Dell.

Generally, this sort of thing isn't worthwhile unless the liabilities you're exposed to by being broken are in excess of about $10M. Anything less than that, and it's a job for a b…

Oh, OK. The number I was looking for something close to had a couple more zeros on the end of it, I'm afraid. A decent code audit will take about a quarter of the time it took to w…

What sort of price are you looking to pay? I've written a lot of secure software in the past, and I may well be able to recommend a couple of firms who have done a similar job for …

Ha! A wonderful example of why we have laws regarding unfair contract terms. I can't believe they found a lawyer either ignorant or optimistic enough to put this in. The remedy is …

Being involved somewhat in DTN, I'm here to tell you that the RFC 5050 bundle protocol is a steaming pile of crap. It desperately needs updating to stop trading off minuscule numbe…

So, if you're not sure how you feel about unions what have you done as an individual to improve your pay and how has it worked out? If they're saying no to the union, I'm guessing …

Not this Britisher. The only way I can stand to drink tea is the Indian way, stewed and with half a ton of sugar in.

Does it annoy anyone else when people say operating system, when they mean user interface or window manager? You'd think after a year or so covering the industry, they'd get their …