Writing progs to achieve questionable ends. Backtrack development was funded by Offensive Security. It is no longer being maintained. That is because the distro was rebuilt from Debian and was subsequently rebadged Kali Linux. Backtrack is still a useful distro. But if you want the latest and greatest, you got to use Kali Linux. Understanding this, I now know why I have mostly heard about Kali and was unaware about Backtrack. Nessus is a vulnerability scanner written by Renaud Deraison, founder of Tenabl.

I always include a picture on the top of each of my blog posts. However Blogger seems to not want to add the pictures when I upload them. Initially I had to always try inserting the pictures twice. Then it got so that I could hardly add any pictures. Epic fail anyone? I run Internet Explorer 7. Perhaps that it part of the problem. I bet there is no problem with the Chrome browser. I did find a work around. If I go into Compose mode, then adding pictures normally works the first time around.

I just heard about an old challenge from Donald Knuth. Figure out what your computer is doing during a one second interval. Here is a reference to the challenge. My first thought was how the heck am I going to get access to everything the computer is doing? Maybe I could hook into some low level access point.

Wait, how many dollars per year to get rid of them? I really need to be able to use javascript here. Gists, analytics, everything worth having uses javascript. Having one name for the blog and another for the domain is just. Hurray for social media! To welcome me to my new home! .

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I am a long time C programmer. The customer wants to go to the web. Time for me to learn Java. I did a bunch of analysis on my last project. The customer wanted more project management. So another guy on the team had to take over, My boss told me to work on a prototype for some data input screens from a legacy system. H2 is an in memory database. I went over to the JBoss Developer Materials. At work I am starting to spend half my time on a new project. It is an effort to create a web version of our s.

The wide world of govenment contracting. Specifically the practice of the government putting large companies under contract to do software development and maintenance. Customer site parking for contractors is limited. There are limited resouces for contractors there as well. Why go through all the hassle? This is a maintenance contract. We are to keep the lights on in the system.