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Submission + - Call Functions with PowerPC ABI for 64-bit ELF

Submitted by IdaAshley on Tuesday March 06, 2007 @04:37PM

IdaAshley writes: This article discusses the PowerPC ABI for 64-bit ELF (UNIX-like) systems and how to write and call functions using it. This is helpful for writing 64-bit programs for the POWER5 and other PowerPC-based processors more effectively, whether you program in assembly language or not.

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by jamie on Tuesday March 06, 2007 @04:12PM

A Network Sniffer On Steroids 129

Posted by kdawson on Tuesday March 06, 2007 @03:40PM from the data-seepage dept.

QuantumCrypto writes "Errata has developed a new network sniffer, dubbed 'Ferret,' that looks for traffic using 25 protocols, including those for the popular instant message clients as well as DHCP, SNMP, DNS and HTTP. This means the sniffer will capture requests for network addresses, network management tools, Web sites queries, Web traffic and more. 'You don't realize how much you're making public, so I wrote a tool that tells you,' said Robert Graham, Errata's chief executive. Errata has released the source code to this version 1.0, 'feature-poor and buggy' tool on its site. Anyone with a wireless card will be able to run it, Graham said."

Submission + - New Java research obfuscator with examples

Submitted by on Sunday March 04, 2007 @05:36PM

An anonymous reader writes: JBCO is a new Java Obfuscator developed by a graduate student at McGill University. What's most interesting is the examples of decompiled source showing the results of these obfuscations. The results of the duplicate bytecode sequence reuse transformation is particularly interesting. The research paper is availablehere.

Submission + - Stallman to step down as Emacs maintainer

Submitted by

davids-world.com

on Sunday March 04, 2007 @05:00PM

davids-world.com writes: "Richard Stallman is planning to step down as head maintainer of the GNU Emacs project. In an e-mail to fellow Emacs developers, he today asked for candidates to succeed him. RMS wrote the first extensible Emacs text editor in 1975 at MIT's AI Lab. Seen by many as the founder and chief advocate of the free software movement, Stallman has also been actively involved in Emacs' development. GNU Emacs 22, due soon, will be the first major release of the editor since 2001."

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