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Welcome to the world of Flent, a powerful network benchmarking tool. Flent allows you to effortlessly run network tests with multiple well-known benchmarking tools, generating reliable and repeatable results. What sets Flent apart is its user-friendly interactive GUI and impressive plotting capabilities, making it easy to explore and visualize your test data. With Flent, you […]
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In this web article, the author explores the evolution of checkboxes and radio buttons in different operating systems. They note that while the design of checkboxes has remained square throughout the years, radio buttons have traditionally been circular. The author highlights the introduction of rounded rectangles in Apple’s Mac OS 3 in 1986 but mentions […]
The author introduces the concept of connecting cryptography with mathematics and explains that this idea has not been explored extensively in the literature. They argue that cryptography is more than just a subject for mathematical formulation, but rather is identical to abstract mathematics itself. The author then discusses the theory of non-singular mappings in cryptography […]
Anki’s source code can be found on GitHub, along with instructions for building the platform in the docs/ folder. If you run into any issues during the build process, the expectation is that you should try to solve them on your own. If you’re not familiar with programming, it is recommended to use the packaged […]
SpatiaLite is a freely available library that enhances the functionality of SQLite, a lightweight and uncomplicated database engine. It adds spatial SQL capabilities to SQLite, allowing users to work with spatial data efficiently. Unlike traditional databases, SQLite stores the entire database in a single file, making it easily transferable across different platforms. SpatiaLite seamlessly integrates […]
The author shares their experience riding on a Class 800 train in the UK, which is a replacement for the older HST trains. They discuss the design of the disabled toilets on these modern trains, noting that the older models had confusing door controls that often led to people being unable to lock the door […]
In an effort to make sudo less vulnerable to ROWHAMMER attacks, changes have been made to use ROWHAMMER-resistant values for certain variables. This includes ALLOW, DENY, AUTH_SUCCESS, AUTH_FAILURE, AUTH_ERROR, and AUTH_NONINTERACTIVE. Additionally, the parser match functions now explicitly check for expected values instead of accepting anything that is not set to UNSPEC. The report on […]
Albert Einstein arrived in Pasadena, California in 1933 to take up his position as a visiting professor at CalTech. To fund his stay, Einstein was asked to make a speech promoting German-American relations. He agreed and made a public appearance at the Pasadena Auditorium, speaking about the effects of the Depression and the dangers of […]
In this web content, the author recounts their experience working on a development team that had organizational issues. They were tasked with developing a new product that had the potential for patentable ideas. However, when the patent attorney approached them for ideas, they realized that their team was only responsible for implementing features invented by […]
This whitepaper, released by ARTeam in 2007/8, breaks down SecuROM 7 and its layers of protection. The tutorial provides insight into how the technology was implemented, stitching two executables together, and how to dump and remove the DRM. The authors warn that the tools used in the tutorial are outdated and may be hard to […]