08.31.06
Free Book on Security, Online!
PDFs of Ross Anderson’s Security Engineering, with foreword written by Bruce Schneier (my computer security idol), are now available for free. Found via Bruce’s blog, Schneier on Security.
The random ramblings of Micah Cowan. Programmer, musician, typesetting enthusiast, gamer…
It's wrong to judge a book by its cover. It's doubly wrong to judge an author by his jacket photo. If you were to do that with me, you would be forced to assume that I was some sort of rogue Muppet, eremite priest, or Russian dictator.
Patrick Rothfuss, author of Name of the Wind, http://www.patrickrothfuss.com/
PDFs of Ross Anderson’s Security Engineering, with foreword written by Bruce Schneier (my computer security idol), are now available for free. Found via Bruce’s blog, Schneier on Security.
Someone on IRC (#ubuntu-offtopic on irc.freenode.net) sent a link to the following delightful little 1988 IOCCC winner, written by Brian Westley:
#define _ F-->00||-F-OO--;
int F=00,OO=00;main(){F_OO();printf("%1.3f\n",4.*-F/OO/OO);}F_OO()
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The functionality of the above program is to print the value of the constant π (“pi”, ∼3.14). The beauty of it is: the larger you make the circle, the more accurate the value (but you’d need to adjust the precision of the printf() format string).