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Security
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flawfinder, a source code scanner Securing Microsoft Windows (for Home & Small Business Users) Filenames and Pathnames in Shell: How to do it correctly Presentation: Securing Open Source Software [Editable Slides]* Presentation: Open Source Software and Software Assurance (Security) [Editable Slides]* SCM Security Countering Trusting Trust through Diverse Double-Compiling (countering Trojan Horse attacks on Compilers) Java Security, a tutorial Easier Email Security is on the Way? Write It Secure: Format Strings and Locale Filtering "Techniques for Cyber Attack Attribution" by David A. Wheeler (Oct 2003) (discusses attacker traceback / source tracking on a TCP/IP-based Internet)
Software Innovations
Open Standards
flawfinder, a source code scanner Securing Microsoft Windows (for Home & Small Business Users) Filenames and Pathnames in Shell: How to do it correctly Presentation: Securing Open Source Software [Editable Slides]* Presentation: Open Source Software and Software Assurance (Security) [Editable Slides]* SCM Security Countering Trusting Trust through Diverse Double-Compiling (countering Trojan Horse attacks on Compilers) Java Security, a tutorial Easier Email Security is on the Way? Write It Secure: Format Strings and Locale Filtering "Techniques for Cyber Attack Attribution" by David A. Wheeler (Oct 2003) (discusses attacker traceback / source tracking on a TCP/IP-based Internet)Is OpenDocument an Open Standard? Yes! Presentation: Open Standards and Security [Editable Slides]* [OGG] [MP3] [FLAC] Open Standards, Open Source
Countering Spam
Countering Spam Using Email Passwords Comments on Email Authentication for Countering Spam Stop Spam! (Essay) Guarded Email Protocol
Chess
A Garden of Chess Openings Fischer Random Chess (Chess960) FEN2Wikipedia Famous chess games: The Game of the Century (PGN/Text), The Immortal Game (PGN/Text), The Evergreen Game (PGN/Text), Deep Blue - Kasparov, 1996, Game 1 (PGN/Text) ChessClub
Ada
Fischer Random Chess (Chess960) FEN2Wikipedia Famous chess games: The Game of the Century (PGN/Text), The Immortal Game (PGN/Text), The Evergreen Game (PGN/Text), Deep Blue - Kasparov, 1996, Game 1 (PGN/Text) ChessClubLovelace, Ada95 tutorial Steelman papers
Mathematical Recreations
Steelman papersThe Definitive Four Fours Answer Key Way Off Base, discussing weird bases When Adding and Multiplying are the Same
Formal Methods
Text Adventures / MUDs / Interactive Fiction (IF)
Accuse, text adventure puzzle-game Adventure/Colossal Cave Anchorhead Scepter of Goth (history)
Miscellaneous Essays
Intellectual Rights, not Intellectual Property Ask Not Who Holds the Copyright Man as the World-Builder How to Throw a Matrix Party Crystal City Name Changes Move Spaceship Earth! Reviews of Books, Movies, and Other Stuff CISCO VPN / Wireless incompatibility Liberty Bill 2 Treat Washington, DC as Part of Maryland for Congressional Elections Random Opinions Miscellaneous links
High School Advanced Math/Precalculus info (I teach) My web attic - where I put older things. Crystal City Name Changes Move Spaceship Earth! Reviews of Books, Movies, and Other Stuff CISCO VPN / Wireless incompatibility Liberty Bill 2 Treat Washington, DC as Part of Maryland for Congressional Elections Random Opinions Miscellaneous linksOpen Source Software / Free Software (OSS/FS or FLOSS)
Why OSS/FS? Look at the Numbers! (Paper) Why FLOSS? Look at the Numbers! (Presentation) FLOSS is commercial software How to Evaluate OSS/FS Programs Generally Recognized as Mature (GRAM) OSS/FS Programs Make Your Open Source Software GPL-Compatible. Or Else Releasing Free/Libre/Open Source Software (FLOSS) for Source Installation FLOSS License Slide High Assurance (for Security or Safety) and Free-Libre / Open Source Software (FLOSS)... with Lots on Formal Methods (aka high confidence or high integrity) OSS/FS References Comments on Open Source Software / Free Software (OSS/FS) Software Configuration Management (SCM) systems What Should Governments Examine in Acquiring COTS Open Source Software (OSS)? (presentation) Presentation: Open Source Software and the U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) [ODP] [PPT] Presentation: Open Source Software (for U.S. Acquisitions) (2007-03) [ODF]* [OGG] [MP3] [FLAC] OSS and the DoD (2008 webinar) / Questions and Answers, OSS and DoD Open Source Software (OSS) in U.S. Government Acquisitions (this is a gentle introduction to FLOSS) “Publicly Releasing Open Source Software Developed for the U.S. Government”, Journal of Software Technology, Feb 2011, Vol. 14, Number 1
Source Lines of Code (SLOC)
Why FLOSS? Look at the Numbers! (Presentation) FLOSS is commercial software How to Evaluate OSS/FS Programs Generally Recognized as Mature (GRAM) OSS/FS Programs Make Your Open Source Software GPL-Compatible. Or Else Releasing Free/Libre/Open Source Software (FLOSS) for Source Installation FLOSS License Slide High Assurance (for Security or Safety) and Free-Libre / Open Source Software (FLOSS)... with Lots on Formal Methods (aka high confidence or high integrity) OSS/FS References Comments on Open Source Software / Free Software (OSS/FS) Software Configuration Management (SCM) systems What Should Governments Examine in Acquiring COTS Open Source Software (OSS)? (presentation) Presentation: Open Source Software and the U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) [ODP] [PPT] Presentation: Open Source Software (for U.S. Acquisitions) (2007-03) [ODF]* [OGG] [MP3] [FLAC] OSS and the DoD (2008 webinar) / Questions and Answers, OSS and DoD Open Source Software (OSS) in U.S. Government Acquisitions (this is a gentle introduction to FLOSS) “Publicly Releasing Open Source Software Developed for the U.S. Government”, Journal of Software Technology, Feb 2011, Vol. 14, Number 1Counting SLOC papers, inc. "More than a Gigabuck: Estimating GNU/Linux’s size" SLOCCount, a program to measure SLOC Linux Kernel 2.6: It’s Worth More!
Other Documents
SLOCCount, a program to measure SLOC Linux Kernel 2.6: It’s Worth More!Geek Video Franchises George Mason University (GMU) Thesis/Dissertation Sample Document in OpenDocument format [PDF] Uri(7), documentation on URI/URLs for Linux
Miscellaneous Software
Totro, a random name generator (also: Totro.pl) Auto-DESTDIR (automates installation) User-union (Union filesystem for unprivileged users) Readable s-expressions and sweet-expressions for Lisp-like languages html2wikipedia quoter, translates HTML, SGML, and XML quotation marks Apple ][ stuff 6502 development approaches
Computer-related essays
Auto-DESTDIR (automates installation) User-union (Union filesystem for unprivileged users) Readable s-expressions and sweet-expressions for Lisp-like languages html2wikipedia quoter, translates HTML, SGML, and XML quotation marks Apple ][ stuff 6502 development approachesEliminate Software Patents Fixing Unix/Linux/POSIX Filenames (discusses newlines/tabs in file names, etc.) How to easily open files and URLs from the command line Python 3 in Python 2 Microsoft Outlook TNEF handling (aka Winmail.dat or "Part 1.2" problem of unopenable email attachments) Comments on Open Source Software / Free Software (OSS/FS) Software Configuration Management (SCM) systems Automating DESTDIR for packaging Easy and Cross-Platform GUI development FLOSS tools with Unix/Linux support SCM Security How to revive an old laptop Suggestions for Palm users My FOSDEM 2002 Travelogue My FISL 6.0 (2005) Travelogue My review of Debugging by David J. Agans Simple and Readable Text Markup Languages vs. Rich Web Text Editing Quotes in HTML Notes on Fedora Linux Virtualbox and Fedora Linux Configuring Apache for Client Certificates (such as DoD CAC cards) on Red Hat Linux/CentOS
Automating DESTDIR for packaging Easy and Cross-Platform GUI development FLOSS tools with Unix/Linux support SCM Security How to revive an old laptop Suggestions for Palm users My FOSDEM 2002 Travelogue My FISL 6.0 (2005) Travelogue My review of Debugging by David J. Agans Simple and Readable Text Markup Languages vs. Rich Web Text Editing Quotes in HTML Notes on Fedora Linux Virtualbox and Fedora Linux Configuring Apache for Client Certificates (such as DoD CAC cards) on Red Hat Linux/CentOSOld blog entries: 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011
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