Anarchaia

Experimental, impressionistic sub-paragraph tumblin' (think obstsalat)

16apr2008

Screw Asylum, a blog about screws…

This New Vulnerability: Dowd’s Inhuman Flash Exploit, the future is wild: “Dowd’s exploit uses a NULL pointer write32 to knock the locks off the bytecode interpreter in Flash, so that his SWF file can run bytecode that will rewrite the system stack.”

sitting in the car by Gairi

Cause the moon is not only beautiful
It is so far away
The moon is not only ice cold
It is here to stay
— Cat Power, The Moon

Dan Bern: President, drawn video clip by Sex Mahoney.

Cairo Sound City, “This is not like London or New York, or even Tehran, another car-clogged Middle Eastern capital. It is literally like living day in and day out with a lawn mower running next to your head, according to scientists with the National Research Center.”

Half of it is innocent
the other half is wise
the whole damn thing makes no sense
I wish I could tell you a lie
hey, come here
let me whisper in your ear
— Cat Power, Hate

If We Had to Drop Java, Brian McCallister wonders. Well, I don’t use any Java apps and the companies I know do neither, so nothing would change for me…

IMG_0943 by taga ilog

Ganglia is a scalable distributed monitoring system for high-performance computing systems such as clusters and Grids. It is based on a hierarchical design targeted at federations of clusters. It leverages widely used technologies such as XML for data representation, XDR for compact, portable data transport, and RRDtool for data storage and visualization. Looks pretty cool, e.g. Wikipedia’s Ganglia setup.