Category Archives: computers/programming

it’s all about the sed, baby

Posted on December 8, 2004 by bturnip

My Unix scripting/sed scripting is just like my grasp of human languages- when I stop using one, I forget everything at three times the speed it took me to learn it. Continue reading →

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Firefox tweak #1

Posted on November 30, 2004 by bturnip

More reasons to love Firefox Continue reading →

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Pufferüberlauf

Posted on October 28, 2004 by GregJ

Danny I and were emailing the other day a little about buffer overflows and how they work. In doing something totally unrelated I stumbled upon a Microsoft page in German which warned of a “Pufferüberlauf”. That was such a catchy … Continue reading →

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Pointers in Java

Posted on October 4, 2004 by tjm

In Chapter 3 of the Sams book came my first big surprise. Maybe that’s an overstatement, but I thought this was at least worth noting and opening up for discussion. All along every tutorial I’ve visited has lauded Java because … Continue reading →

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tom’s java applet

Posted on October 3, 2004 by bturnip

bturnip put’s turtle’s applets to rights Continue reading →

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java questions for Tom Oct 03

Posted on October 3, 2004 by bturnip

So, I am working on learning java and, at the same time, learn the ins and outs of a complicated IDE like Netbeans. Being an emacs person, I am unused to the level of complexity the new IDE presents. How, … Continue reading →

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java progress note oct 01

Posted on October 1, 2004 by admin

Following my suggestion, and Tom’s lead, I have installed the “Java 5” platform w/ the Netbeans 4.0 beta. My plan is to work through the first two chapters of our selected tutorial text this weekend.

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java and xml

Posted on September 23, 2004 by bturnip

SAX and DOM, the xml duo. Continue reading →

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Java – Blackjack Game

Posted on September 17, 2004 by tjm

Alright Mr. Bturnip, while you’re out galavanting around NW Arkansas, I’m spending my time working on a Java program and I’ve got a rough working version of a blackjack game. I started with some classes I found online for a … Continue reading →

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Buffer Overflows (sort of)

Posted on September 16, 2004 by GregJ

This goes back to a question Danny was asking me earlier today. I don’t think this is exactly a buffer overflow, but it’s an interesting way of abusing a TCP/IP stack to make the OS allow things it shouldn’t. Note … Continue reading →

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