Memories

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I forgot – yesterdays travels around the roads of Norfolk and Cambridgeshire seemed to have a lot of IBM adverts, though I’m not sure why they’d be sponsoring red warning triangle signs, its not their normal big-blue image….there also seemed to be a running total of fatalities for each stretch of road, suggesting a game […]

Unwrapping the Chrysalis “We used the commercial tool IDA (the Interactive DisAssembler) [4] to reverse-engineer the binary. About 300KiB of the binary was 32-bit ARM code, 500KiB high-entropy data with some fairly regular structure visible, and the remainder was blank.”

Yesterday I took a wander around the Cambridge Science Park, just over the other side of the A14 – there aren’t many places in this country that could sustain such a development, its certainly some kind of hub of biotech and electronics research, like a little outpost of silicon valley, which is why its called […]

Branded “Marketers looked at these companies and said they were succeeding because their brands were strong. In reality, the brands were strong because the companies were succeeding.”

A useful register of where to find caches of expensive equipment, if only it were easy to hack…

Someone pointed out this site – I’m assuming, given the context of the link, that they are a legal company. However, I can’t see from their website what they do. I guess the problem here is relying too much on brand awareness and not enough on clear statements of who you are or what you […]

This, I’m sure, will be appreciated by Grandi, amongst others: “testiculate [tes-tik-u-layt] vb (intransitive) to wave your hands about in wild but vague manner because you suspect you are talking bollocks.” (from Morph)

When old code dies “Beneath the eight grave markers, and perhaps in a rumored unmarked grave nearby, lie reams of paper printouts of code for software that has left this mortal operating system.”

I, goth – by neilhudson

And theres some dodgy goffs taking over the world….gotta get me a copy of a non-specific ghost story…whens the album available lads? In a completely unrelated update on my washing machine palava, I went to the retail park tonight and spoke to two washing machine sales people who were both horrified that I wanted a […]