MichaelCrawford

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by MichaelCrawford 11y ago
127.0.0.1 www.hosted-pixel.com You can edit /etc/hosts on your mobile device if you jailbreak it; on iOS there is iFile from Cydia or you can maintain it in your box then load it with scp. Some models of Android devices p
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by MichaelCrawford 11y ago
You might at first expect that its best to write articles on the general topic of books. While there is some benefit to that my experience is that its best to diversify your topics. The public's interest in the topic of the day varies
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Forum on Risks to the Public in Computers and Related Systems http://catless.ncl.ac.uk/Risks
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I learn from the kind if tutorials that are linked from HN, but if I google for a tutorial many have little useful information but lots of ads. My own tutorials often focus on underlying principles rather than srep-by-step solutions. If th
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by MichaelCrawford 11y ago
How to Promote Your Business on the Internet http://www.warplife.com/tips/webmaster/website-promotion.htm... White Hat Search Engine Optimization http://www.warplife.com/tips/webmaster/se
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by MichaelCrawford 11y ago
How about legislation that requires auto industry executives read the Forum on Risks to the Public in Computers and Related Systems? http://catless.ncl.ac.uk/Risks Risks will put the fear of G-d in you. Security experts suc
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by MichaelCrawford 11y ago
My ex is a Buddhist. Bonita and I often discussed this. When I am gone I won't be around to know whether anyone remembers me. But when the end is near and I look back on my life, I will feel it was well-lived if I created something t
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by MichaelCrawford 11y ago
Your experience and mine is why I write "Solving the Software Problem: a Taxonomy of Error": http://www.warplife.com/jonathan-swift/books/software-proble... While actual code serves as a good example the
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by MichaelCrawford 11y ago
I often ask other coders to contemplate "What software that we write today will still be in use 10,000 years from now?" That I am unable to answer that question is a primary reason I write English text rather than code the last te
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by MichaelCrawford 11y ago
I often avoid software upgrades not because I know something will break but because I speculate something will break and dont want to find out. Out of all the "features" that anger me the most are automatic, silent upgrades. One
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by MichaelCrawford 11y ago
I often use "Jonathan Swift" as a psuedonym, more recently I have adopted "Durante degli Alighieri".
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Many embedded systems are that way. While it is helpful that hardware memory management will protect against erroneous and malicious code, even better is for the code to be correct and ethical. This because the MMU hardware takes up power,
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I don't click them but many people do. This is easily demonstrated through A/B testing. Dave Johnson, President of Working Software told me the reason that so many advertisements say "BUY NOW! DON'T DELAY" is &quo
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by MichaelCrawford 11y ago
Yes.
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I started at WSI about seven months before System 7 was introduced. At the time the documented limit was 32 kB. Yes applications could call SetApplLimit but Desk Accessories could not, QuickLetter's stack was on top of the applicatio
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by MichaelCrawford 11y ago
A common problem in QuickLetter before I fixed it was that it had very large local (stack) variables - big arrays and structs. My first fix was to malloc() anything larger than a couple dozen bytes. MacCLint was a piece of work; I would be
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by MichaelCrawford 11y ago
It is common for executables to have these permissions: rwxr-xr-x maybe this is better: --x--x--x what that means is that you can run the program but you cannot read it as a regular file. To delete or create a file you must have write permi
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Classic Mac OS applications had 32 kb of stack. Desk Accessories had 8. Much of my effort to fixing Working Software's QuickLetter went towards reducing stack consumption. My predecessor had apparently not read the fine manual. We s
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by MichaelCrawford 11y ago
A simple easy way to keep a lid on privelige escalation is to remove all the files that you computer does not absolutely require to do its job. Especially the development tools: the Morris worm enabled portability by distributing itself in
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Because Linus Torvalds actually believes that userspace processes have "infinite stack". I swear I'm not making this up.
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My interview by Jonathan Goldstein for "Wiretap" was the second of my two CBC interviews, I also appeared in 2004. I was interviewed by Rick Sanchez for CNN in 2010 when Andrew Joseph Stack III burned down his own home then crashe
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I Was Interview by CBC Radio Today (2009)(warplife.com)
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Matt was a Cal State University Northridge student. CSUN's Psychology of Creativity class gave him the assignment of finding a creative person on the Internet then interviewing them. Mostly I discuss my writing, art and music.
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Richard Feynman's second wife divorced him for among other reasons he was "always doing his calculus".
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On Creativity, an Interview of Yours Truly by Matt Buice (2003)(warplife.com)
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If I permanently cache the image or block the server with my hosts file then the web analytics services will not track me. If I randomize the query parameters then they will not track anyone because they won't provide useful informatio
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I use LinkedIn to locate former coworkers but then I keep in touch with them through regular email. I dont see LinkedIn as being able to do much that personal websites would not do better. I use LinkedIn because many people, even coders do
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Most online child pornography is not hidden nor encrypted in any way. Just search Bing; you can get the keywords from wikipedia then follow bing's suggested queries. Microsoft claims that they remove child abuse links from their index
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A UC Santa Cruz student wrote her dissertation on the culture of elementary particle physicists by infiltrating the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center. She reported that the scientists at SLAC "wear t-shirts and blue jeans". I don
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Just last night it occurred to me to write browser add-ons that would scramble those query parameters, also send bogus user-agent headers but only for the web bugs. That is, the add-on would discover one-pixel transparent gifs, take note of

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