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Submission + - Hitachi promises 4 TB harddrives by 2011

Submitted by

zhang1983

on Sunday October 14, 2007 @09:34PM

zhang1983 writes: "Hitachi says its researchers have successfully shrunken a key component in hard drives to a nanoscale that will pave the way for quadrupling today's storage limits to 4 terabytes for desktop computers and 1 terabyte on laptops in 2011. Link: http://money.cnn.com/2007/10/14/news/companies/hitachihardrive.ap/index.htm"

Submission + - Fuzzing toolkit for Web server testing (ddj.com)

Submitted by

prostoalex

on Saturday June 30, 2007 @02:42AM

prostoalex writes: "Dr. Dobb's Journal runs an article discussing the tools necessary for fuzzing (testing the system by generating random input in order to cause program failure or crash): "You are fuzzing a Web server's capability to handle malformed POST data and discover a potentially exploitable memory corruption condition when the 50th test case you sent that crashes the service. You restart the Web daemon and retransmit your last malicious payload, but nothing happens.Was the issue a fluke? Of course not: Computers are deterministic and have no notion of randomness. The issue must rely on some combination of inputs. Perhaps an earlier packet put the Web server in a state that later allowed the 50th test to trigger the memory corruption.We can't tell without further analysis and we can't narrow the possibilities down without the capability of replaying the entire test set in a methodical fashion.""

Comment A wise man once said... (Score 0) 228

by bakeacake on Saturday February 05, 2005 @04:14PM (#11584698) Attached to: Hondas in Space

god created shit....honda made it move

ripped from bash.org

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