KernelTrap - quote

Quote: The Real Bug

Jeremy — Tue, 30 Sep 2008 15:38:36 +0000

"The _real_ bug is clearly in the hardware design that allows you to brick those things without apparently even having a lock bit. I'm hoping Intel doesn't treat this as just a software bug. Some hw designer should be thinking hard about which orifice they put their head up in."

Quote: Careful Analysis

Jeremy — Fri, 12 Sep 2008 22:31:29 +0000

"Some secure protocols like SSH send encrypted keystrokes as they're typed. By doing timing analysis you can figure out which keys the user probably typed (keys that are physically close together on a keyboard can be typed faster). A careful analysis can reveal the length of passwords and probably some of [the] password itself."

Quote: Every Day, For Fun

Jeremy — Thu, 04 Sep 2008 15:39:32 +0000

"A weak coder becomes a strong coder by reading code and writing code - every day, for fun."

Quote: Serious Dragons There

Jeremy — Mon, 01 Sep 2008 14:39:37 +0000

"Be careful -- there are some serious dragons there in the presence of multiple threads."

Quote: Good Enough Is Never Good Enough

Jeremy — Mon, 25 Aug 2008 21:06:21 +0000

"'Good enough' is never good enough ;) What is the ideal implementation? Let's implement that."

Quote: Maybe I'm Overly Pessimistic

Jeremy — Fri, 22 Aug 2008 02:53:07 +0000

"The C standard will eventually support concurrency (they are working on it), and it will almost inevitably be a horrible pile of stinking sh*t, and we'll continue to use the gcc inline asms instead, but then the gcc people will ignore our complaints when they break the compiler, and say that we should use the stinking pile-of-sh*t ones that are built in.

Quote: Very Hacky Indeed

Jeremy — Tue, 19 Aug 2008 11:45:39 +0000

"The delta cache was really a huge hack that just turned out rather successful. It's been hacked on further since (to do some half-way reasonable replacement with _another_ hack by adding an LRU on top of it), but it really is very hacky indeed."

Quote: Linux Will Have Similar Problems

Jeremy — Mon, 18 Aug 2008 17:28:00 +0000

"If web browsers, office suites and mail clients on Windows have certain kinds of vulnerabilities, it is safe to assume that the same programs on Linux will have similar problems."

Quote: Benchmark Of The Filesystem

Jeremy — Fri, 15 Aug 2008 01:47:32 +0000

"Any benchmark is going to be a benchmark of the OS as much as it is going to be a benchmark of the filesystem. It's pretty hard to separate the two. ZFS is best tested on Open Solaris. UFS is best tested on FreeBSD, EXT3 is best tested on Linux, and HAMMER of course is best tested on DragonFly."

Quote: History Is A One Way Street

Jeremy — Wed, 13 Aug 2008 21:29:27 +0000

"History is a one way street, and you might as well have the fs known the way it is so that people remember 'reiser oh wasn't he the guy who..' - unless you are trying to market the fs I guess."