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Using simple seccomp filters
Looks like finally configurable seccomp is going to make it to mainline.
seccomp  linux  security 
9 weeks ago by randombit
Cache Games - Bringing Access Based Cache Attacks on AES to Practice
New side channel attack on AES which can break OpenSSL and similar AES implementations in realtime by taking advantage of a weakness in the Linux completely fair scheduler.
crypto  aes  sidechannel  linux  eprint 
november 2010 by randombit
quodlibet - Project Hosting on Google Code
Are you sick of audio players that think they know how to organize your music for you? Do other media libraries choke and die after a mere 10,000 songs? Do you often find yourself thinking Boy, I wish I could grep my music? Or are you just looking for something that can tag your audio files?

Update: It took about 5 minutes of playing with it for me to be convinced this is the music player I've been looking for. The tagging support is spectacularly nice.
music  linux  audio  software 
june 2010 by randombit
FreeTDS.org
FreeTDS is a set of libraries for Unix and Linux that allows your programs to natively talk to Microsoft SQL Server and Sybase databases.
database  linux  mssql  library  broadway 
february 2010 by randombit
DiscSpan | Get DiscSpan at SourceForge.net
DiscSpan allows you to backup a directory of files to multiple DVDs on the Linux platform. If you had 20GB of photos, it would prompt you for 5 DVDs. It performs the backup at the file-level, meaning that a complete copy of each file is stored on a disc.
backup  dvd  linux  software 
december 2009 by randombit
LipiTk: Home
Lipi Toolkit (LipiTk) is an open source toolkit for online Handwriting Recognition (HWR), supported on Windows as well as Linux, created and maintained by HP Labs India.
library  linux  toolkit  recognition  gestures  mouse  input 
december 2008 by randombit
ring3k - A User Mode Kernel
ring3k is a user mode kernel capable of running Windows 2000 and XP compatible native applications on a Linux platform. It is a light-weight virtualization of Windows 2000 for the Linux x86 platform achieved by reimplementing kernel mode code as a ring 3 process in C++.
windows  virtualization  linux  vm  ring3k 
december 2008 by randombit
The Cell Messaging Layer
MPI between Cell SPUs and among clusters of Cells
cell  linux  multicore  parallel  ps3  mpi 
november 2008 by randombit
Ion
A tiling tabbed window manager designed with keyboard users in mind.
linux  x11  wm  windowmanager  hci 
july 2008 by randombit
Puppet
Puppet lets you centrally manage every important aspect of your system using a cross-platform specification language. Puppet's simple declarative specification language provides powerful classing abilities for drawing out the similarities between hosts wh
sysadmin  management  linux  puppet  automation  configuration  infrastructure  tool  unix 
may 2008 by randombit
Some more thoughts on the results of GPL enforcement
Looking at kernel patches from the various vendors, I'd say the code quality is _by far_ off any scale that would ever even remotely be considered to be suitable for upstream inclusion.
gpl  oss  linux  licensing 
may 2008 by randombit
The Stump Window Manager
Stumpwm is a tiling, keyboard driven X11 Window Manager written entirely in Common Lisp.
common-lisp  lisp  x11  wm  windowmanager  linux 
april 2008 by randombit
xspy
This program monitors the keyboard and echos each key pressed on the keyboard.
xspy takes advantage of an oversight in X Windows (R5 & R6) to find out about keypresses even in "secure mode". It works by polling the keyboard, by default every hundredth
linux  unix  security  x11 
april 2008 by randombit
etckeeper
etckeeper is a collection of tools to let /etc be stored in a git or mercurial repository. It hooks into apt (and other package managers) to automatically commit changes made to /etc during package upgrades.
backup  linux  management  git  mercurial  versioncontrol  configuration 
april 2008 by randombit
The Hoard Scalable Memory Allocator
The Hoard memory allocator is a fast, scalable, and memory-efficient memory allocator. Hoard is a drop-in replacement for malloc() that can dramatically improve application performance, especially for multithreaded programs running on multiprocessors.
algorithm  c  library  linux  optimization  performance  malloc 
march 2008 by randombit
Kosmos Distributed File System (KFS)
Applications that process large volumes of data (such as, search engines, grid computing applications, data mining applications, etc.) require a backend infrastructure for storing data.
architecture  c++  clustering  filesystem  distributed  google  linux  networking  performance  storage  systems  unix 
march 2008 by randombit
Plash
Plash is a system for sandboxing GNU/Linux programs. Plash's aim is to protect you from the programs you run by letting you run them with the minimum authority and privileges they need do do their job -- this is the Principle of Least Authority (POLA).
capabilities  pola  linux  security  sysadmin  sandbox 
november 2007 by randombit
Synopsis Home
Synopsis is a multi-language source code introspection tool that provides a variety of representations for the parsed code to enable further processing such as documentation extraction, reverse engineering, and source-to-source translation.
linux  python  c++  tool 
november 2007 by randombit
Unix crypt using SHA-256 and SHA-512
New password hashing proposal by RH/IBM/Sun/HP group
crypto  crypt  password  sha  linux 
october 2007 by randombit
Kernel Traffic #312 For 5 Jun
some book references here that i need to pull out and possibly add to my amazon wishlist
linux  kernel  book 
december 2005 by randombit
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