Archive for April, 2008

Distributed flood on the ubuntu planet?

Not really, but it seems that the following command has been contagious across many planets:

history|awk '{a[$2]++ } END{for(i in a){print a[i] " " i}}'|sort -rn|head

Will resist to the temptation of posting results too ;)

Slashdot: "HP Admits Selling Infected Flash-Floppy Drives"

Here is a news from slashdot about the problem of already infected at the selling USB Devices, in case you care about malware…

ktsolver version 0.03 released

ktsolver version 0.03 (alpha) was just released.
It is a Knight’s Tour problem solver, designed with the problem of efficiency in mind.

To get more information about ktsolver, please go to the project home page (at http://ktsolver.sourceforge.net/ , this page was just updated too).

sourceforge.net strange rules in robots.txt

After having a look (being quite curious) on the robots.txt file on sourceforge.net, I discovered some quite strange rules like:

Disallow: /forum

If you have forums on sf.net for a project and don’t understand why the same questions come again and again, here may be an indication… Maybe you’d find it a strong opinion but I think such behaviour is clearly a bad thing.

Else, sourceforge.net’s services are still useful if you want to host your free software/open source project and get relevant tools (cvs, subversion, etc…).

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