Programming Languages, Martials Arts and Computers. The Weblog of Chris Double.
Inferno OS provides a mechanism to connect to remote computers and execute commands similar to the way SSH works on Unix systems. The command to do this is cpu. This can be used to execute commands, start a remote shell, and share GUI applications. To use cpu you'll need to set up authentication and encryption. This provides the mechanism to... more →
Wasp Lisp is a small cross platform lisp by Scott Dunlop that I've written about before and MOSREF is the secure remote injection framework that is one of the applications written with it. I've been wanting to get Wasp running on Android and Gonk (the low level Android layer of Firefox OS) for debugging and small applications. One of the... more →
There's a discussion going on in the Rust mailing list about ranged integer types and whether they're useful for safety. Some of the points raised have been about the performance costs of dynamic bounds checks and the overhead of code for static bounds checks. I thought I'd write a post with my experiences with overfow checking in Gecko and with... more →
This morning when I checked my email I got a nice email from my server hosting provider titled "Root password reset". That's not usually a good sign when you haven't done any password resets recently. The email was a service request response from the provider asking for confirmation to reset the root account on my server. I responded that this... more →
A while back I realised I had a ton of email archived on Gmail which I would be sad to lose if I lost access to my Google account or couldn't access the internet for some reason. I also wanted a backup in case I decided to migrate away from Gmail to use another service. The approach I took was... more →