October 2010

help.ubuntu.com

Ubuntu community wiki page on the Xen type-1 hypervisor, covering package installation, host network configuration and creating guest virtual machines.

code.google.com

Project page for Multi-Mechanize, a Python framework that replays python-mechanize scripts across processes and threads to generate load against a site or web service.

seclists.org

Tavis Ormandy's Full Disclosure post on CVE-2010-3847: glibc's dynamic linker expands $ORIGIN in LD_AUDIT for setuid binaries, which a hardlink trick turns into local root.

catonmat.net

I decided to write an article about a thing that is second nature to embedded systems programmers - low level bit hacks. Bit hacks are ingenious little programming tricks that manipulate integers in a smart and efficient manner. Instead of performing some operation (such as counting the 1 bits in ...