Best Practices in Network Security Monitoring
This article details the best practices organisations can follow to strengthen their network monitoring procedures, and also talks about a few FOSS products that help achieve this. It is imperative for an IT…
Exploring Software: openSUSE Tumbleweed Rolling Distribution Goes Mainstream
Here is a record of my initial explorations and findings about the recently released openSUSE rolling distribution repository, Tumbleweed, as experienced on a netbook. I almost bought an Android phone. I hesitated, wondering…
Joy of Programming: Levels of Exception Safety
The concept of “exception safety” is important for programming in the presence of exceptions. In this article, we’ll look at different levels of exception safety, with the help of an example. Let’s first…
FreedomYUG: Do You Really Love Yourself?
…or do you use Windows 7 Starter Edition on a netbook? Do you genuinely love and respect yourself? Or did you just agree to buy a netbook with Windows 7 Starter Edition? On…
CodeSport (June 2011)
In this month’s column, we continue our discussion of binary instrumentation tools, and look at a few popular dynamic instrumentation frameworks. Last month, we had discussed various memory errors such as uninitialised memory…





