User: bartc

Re:Nice, but still some flaws

On: Google's GTalk Supports XMPP

Apparently, there are some problems with certain servers (malformed XML), and there's no support for chat rooms yet.

That's no longer the case actually, Google has changed their server to be less strict about the well formedness of the XML stream.

Re:Handbook

On: Intro to Encryption

Also, he knows his stuff; he submitted one of the AES candidates, Blowfish.

I guess you meant to say twofish. </nitpicking

On the speed of disks

On: Reiser4 Filesystem Released

In light of the Reiser4 release, Tim Bray makes an interesting observation that, while the performance of CPUs has increased by a factor of 645 in the last 14 years, the speed of disk seeks has only increased by a factor of 3 to 4.

OpenOffice support from Sun

On: Why You Should Choose MS Office Over OO.org

Indeed. Here's the link: Sun OpenOffice.org Software Support.

Project Utopia

On: Rhythmbox Gets iPod Support

Robert Love frequently blogs about his progress on Project Utopia - which aims to bring all these udev, HAL, dbus and gnome-volume-manager components together in one integrated, device-plugin-happy whole.

See his various weblog entries on Project Utopia from januari for a sneak preview.

Lecture videos for one course

On: MIT Open Courseware with 500 Courses

For anyone interested in the MIT course 6.004 Computation Structures: the lectures are very similar to ArsDigita University's "How Computers Work".

ArsDigita University put all its lectures online in realvideo format. Here's mirror of the "How Computers Work" course.

Presentation slides

On: Analyzing Binaries For Security Problems

You can get the slides of his presentation here:

http://www.blackhat.com/presentations/bh-usa-03/bh -us-03-hoglund.pdf

Re:What have I got to look forward to?

On: Linus Says Pre-2.6 is Coming

Here's a nice overview by Guillaume Boissiere:

http://www.kernelnewbies.org/status/latest.html

And a document by Dave Jones:

http://www.codemonkey.org.uk/post-halloween-2.5.tx t

Alternative BitTorrent tracker

On: Mac OS X NWN Technology Demo Released

I've set up an alternative tracker. The torrent is at http://www.il.fontys.nl/~bart/NeverwinterNightsTec hDemo.dmg.bz2.torrent.

Re:More Free+Online Books

On: Review: The Linux Cookbook

There's a nice book about Zope, available in print and online.

Re:Mostly Nonsense

On: SSH Taking Stand On Vulnerability

The interkey timing applies ONLY AFTER the initial login. The cracker would have to have to somehow know you were exceuting something that involved entering a password, then capture the packets with your keystrokes.

http://www.openwall.com/advisories/OW-003-ssh-traf fic-analysis.txt

See the part about "Interactive session weaknesses".