Via IP, Christopher Johnson:
I find it savagely ironic that (1) people who claimed that Saddam Hussein was no threat to any other countries now think other countries should have a part in his trial, (2) people who want Iraqis to run their own affairs right now don't want them to run this trial and, (3) people actually think that the UN should try him for the crimes it consistently refused to do anything about.
Wow
There have been so many references to The Little Red Hen lately.
Also, Reynolds is right, this analysis of the significance of Saddam's capture is very much worth reading:
With the arrest of Saddam Hussein Iraq truly begins to move from the rule of warlord to the rule of law.
America has recast the strategic conflict in The War on Terror as Middle Eastern democrats versus dictators, be the autocrats Baath fascist or Islamo-fascist. Despite Osama bin Laden’s best agitprop efforts, the great struggle isn’t Islam versus the West, but authoritarian thugs versus freedom.
Well, I hacked together a blogroll using blo.gs, Natalie's time_since function (thanks Natalie!), my XML library, and my other library which shall remain nameless until such a time when it is released. And PHP, of course... since my site's still running that.
I modelled it off of Simon's, and it's down on the lower-right there. Unfortunately, it's only got blogs on it which are current on their pinging (plus, I still have to add some more). Once I finally write my own web site update checker I won't have to depend on other data sources for updates.
Unnecessary details: Updated once an hour via a cron job, XML is converted into my own format which shall remain nameless until such a time when it is released, and some of the data is munged along the way. In particular, the verbose date/time format is changed into Unix timestamps. Oh, and here's a link to the XML source from blo.gs.
Neat quote: "Luck happens when preparation meets opportunity."
Via Luke at del.icio.us, John Wilander's Master's Thesis on buffer overflows looks like a great read.
The first part explains the fundamentals in computer security and the process memory model in operating systems. Part two discusses two common types of intrusion techniques---buffer overflow and format string attacks---and explains how they work in detail. The last part analyses static and run-time defense strategies such as compiler patches and testing tools, how they work and their effectiveness against the presented intrusion techniques. The work builds on the Linux operating system and the programming language C, and contains several code examples.
Sunday, December 14, 2003
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