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It's been announced that the Oxford English Dictionary (OED) is moving online, at the cost of the hundred-pound print versions being terminated, forever.http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/08/30/oxford-english-dictionary_1_n_698588.htmlMost interestingly, the price tag is set at around £250 a year per subscription. This means £2.5K per 10 years, which can be compared with the £1K print version

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An interesting article discusses a new book called “The Shallows”, whose thesis is that the Internet has altered our brain, in a bad way.http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2010/aug/20/internet-altering-your-mind?utm_source=twitterfeed&utm_medium=twitterThe author, Nicholas Carr has previously written an article on Atlantics accusing Google (and the Internet bandwagon) of making it stupid. The

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Found a great article discussing how cannot differ from can not or can't. I only recently had this mistake pointed out to me.The full article is here (also read the Further Discussion part):http://alexfiles.com/cannot.shtmlIn summary:cannot: not able to do something. E.g. I cannot swimcan not (or can't): able to to it, but choose not to. For example: I can not study

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For myself:1. tar zcf output Folder Archive the folder to .tar.gz2. ls -lt Listing, sort by modified time3. tar ztf file See tar file content4. find directory -name '*key' Finding all files ending with 'key'5. Ctrl+Z, fg, bg Suspend the process, bring the process to foreground, background respectively6. a2ps -o output ascii_fileConvert the Ascii file into ps, for better printing

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I was taught Thread & Concurrency five years ago and it was one of the most interesting and useful modules I have ever taken. But consider how much time has elapsed, one should be forgiven for forgetting some of the stuff he learned. In fact, it is always a good thing to forget something and then re-learn it again years later, so you could look at it from a different angles and probably gain

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What a coincidence! Just when the students are pulling their hairs trying to grasp the concept of interfaces in Java, I came across this well written, comprehensive article explaining type, data abstraction and polymorphism. These concepts are presented rather theoretically, but quite easy to understand as the authors relate them to features in programming languages.Highly recommended!The link is

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Besides many excellent technical papers presented at the P2P'09 conference in Seattle, I am particularly impressed with the 3 keynote speeches. Videos of these talks are now available on the Website (I was sitting at the back, therefore can't be found). Just like to blog a few lines here to remind me to not forget what were communicated:1. Ian Clark, creator of the Freenet Project, kicks off with

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Content Addressable Network is an unique structured P2P system. Its topology is a d-dimensional torus. This overlay offer constant states (number of neighbours per nodes) and short hop counts (in terms of routing path length). Some works cited CAN as using hyper-cube space as its topology, which is a mistake. It is clearly stated in the original CAN paper that the space wrapped around, meaning

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A Slashdot article shows links to an interesting article about the Hidden Cost of Privacy, which also caught Bruce Schieier's attention. As Bruce himself said, this article presents valid points, they are summarized as below:1. Too much paperworks in the "process" of protecting one's privacy could be so overwhelming that it has negative effects on increasing one's awareness of his own privacy.2.

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The following information is for the TreeSet class in Java.As the name suggests, this class implements a tree datastructure, achieving the complexity of O(logN) with respects to add(), remove() and contains() methods. Take the last method, contains(k), where k is the search key as an example. The implementation of TreeSet will make sure this method return True or False within O(logN). Now if k

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This note is for ones like me who moved from Redhat family to the Ubuntu community. It can be easily noted that the fonts used in Firefox and Thunderbird are very different.For Thunderbird, it can be changed in the Preferences/Fonts to match the default settings used in Fedora, for instance.For Firefox, the fix is not that simple. Thanks to helps from a friend, the gist of the problem lies in the

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It's more common to import pictures/diagrams into Latex.The Message Sequence Chart (msc) package in Latex is brilliant at drawing diagrams like protocols, UML message sequences. Unlike the algorithm package (alg2.sty), the MSC environment doesn't let you export its content to external files.The reason you may want to export these graphs is to include them into your Beamer slides, the environment

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Starting with an article from the Register, condemning Bittorrent of starting the war on other network-friendly applications such as VoIP and killing the Internet.The P2P community responded keenly to the news. Some ponder the ease of NAT travelling this "improvement" would bring. Others turn absolutely furious against the article making mountain out of molehill. Later on (not much later to be

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The 3.0 beta version of the most popular open source software, OpenOffice has been releasedrecently.  It remains the only document editor that I use to produce Word files.  The most significant added feature of this new release is the native support for Mac. Don't know how they did it, but it looks (and really is) just another cool Mac applications. It means no need to run X11 before using the

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It is the very fist time I read an article in Slashdot mentioning Vietnam. My beloved country drew attention from Firefox, as an user discovered Trojan in the Vietnamese language pack for the infamous browser. The reporter, named Hai Nam Nguyen posted the news which was quickly confirmed by Firefox. A high-school friend of my is called Hai Nam Nguyen as well. He came to the national University,

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Published in the Nature journal, the work from a group a researcher from Santa Fe Institute (SFI) reveals that for a complex network, there is an underlying hierarchical structure regarding the connectivity among nodes.  Graph cluster could be one form of hierarchical network, where small clusters make up a bigger ones that make up the network. The same can be said for modules in biochemical

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 I've happened to bump in to this number 43 a number of times recently. Wikipedia did not have much information about this mysterious number. After all, it's not mathematicians who bring all the good stories. Here are my 2 cents.Most nerds must be familiar with number 42, as the answer for everything. The number that takes an alleged super computers years to come up with. Well, 43=42+1, doesn't

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 Yes, just another story of Apple vs Microsoft. Blah, blah, blah ...Just to set the background, I was reading some stories with my newly acquired, blindly shining white Macbook, then I stumbled on the recent cover story on Business week, titled The Mac is in the Gray Flannel suit. It lays out an interesting and insightful discussion of the war between Mac and PC, from a business perspective. To

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 Kraken were recently believed to be twice as big as the infamous Storm worm. There are debates on its estimated size, but it should have the army of at least several hundreds of thousands of zombie to take up such big headlines.  I blogged about Storm worm being a hot research topic not very long time ago. It found the way to some of the most prestigious conferences, NDSI for example. As

Tien Tuan Anh Dinhhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03563259235038536712noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37066344.post-63270917212112102492008-05-05T09:29:00.001-07:002008-05-05T09:43:19.693-07:00

 Laugh of the day for me ! The creator of the Zeus malware added the End User License Agreement (EULA) to his intellectual property.  This is just a next, rational move for any emerging, profitable market of selling virus, malware online.  The basic restrictions are: no redistribution to any other business and no submission to anti-virus company. Catch 22 here. Why would a malware buyer turn

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 Just in case the name does not ring a bell to you, Donald is the author of the infamous books The Art of Programming Language.  And some may have known, he also invented the TeX language that powers our beloved, amazing LaTex. He was recently interviewed and the rather long script are published here. Credits to the Slashotter who found this.  Here are my personal best bits:1. He obviously has

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PDFExpress is the online PDF validator tool that check if your PDF file is correctly formatted so that it can be published by IEEE CS and viewed online by IEEExplorer.  The tale is that the error that I got back says "Acrobat version is less than 5.0". The innocent guess was something to do with the compatibility nonsense when I was generating the PDF file. I usually do these:latex file.texdvipdf

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The recent USENIX conference NDSI has been slashdotted a lot. One very interesting paper describe how people pollute Stormnet, one of the biggest botnet, and bring it down to knees. One thing I learn from this paper is that the current Storm botnet is organized in a structured P2P overlay. It implements one of the very simple yet effective overlay called Kademlia.  So once infected, the bot

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Sun Microsystem is currently removing the last hurdles in the run towards freeing its famous Java platform.The story reminds me of the days when I first used Linux. Discovering and experiencing with free, open source software is great. However, one thing that bugged me was that none of the Linux distributions has bundled Sun's Java Runtime Environment. Instead, there was a weird pre-installed

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Haven't got time to catch up with recent news, but so glad that I did eventually. In "recent" news, Google announced its new Google app engine.  It immediately sparked commotions not only in the Geek-world, but also in business world.  A great review of the new product can be found here. Long story short:1. Google gets so proud of its extremely scalable infrastructure that it now offers us to

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Well, another boring argument in favor of Wikipedia, you may guess. Right !Since Google's announcement of its Knowledge project called Knol (strangely being interpreted as an unit of knowledge), I've been observing discussion regarding the motivation behind this project and whether it's going to be a Wikipedia killer in the near future. Most argument is in favor of Wikipedia and how it'd never

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Really, it's not my defense for being to lazy to queue up for a Wii this Christmas. Apart from the freezing weather outside, there's another reason to keep my money until next year.An Isarel-based company revealed an exiciting new webcam - ZCAM which promises to transforms our gaming experience. Its beauty lies in the depth-detection which enables its to map our movement to the game environment

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Doesn't sound right, does it ?The University of Manitoba recently held a proper funeral for its beloved mainframe. As sad as how the people taking part were, this cracks me up.Now that is the right way to dispose your equipment: roses, hundreds of people and poem.I must say it now takes much less than 40 years to get really bonded with your PC.

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Bruce Schneier and Marcus Ranum posted their depressing conversation about our gloomy future in 10 years. Being both experts in security and software, they seem to share the same vision of the future. For the starter, Bruce pointed that in 10 year, if Moore's law still applies as it does today, our computing power would be about 100x. While technological capacity doubling every few years, the

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Having knowledge of computer security does not mean you can make secure programs. It's especially true for Java, as many have taken Java for granted, assuming the underlying JVM would be doing its magic all the time and keeping all these problems at bay. Secure programming is a very practical skills which are essentially defined by good practices. And as usual, you have to learn new skills in

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Couldn't possibly put into words how disappointed people are following the current blunder with the HMRC office. The media is doing every thing it could to blow the problem to a whole new scale, and literally tell the person who has these data how to "deal" with them. It seems England's failure to qualify Euro did not help divert the public's concern a single bit. I stumbled in an excellent

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Now i used to think that in Tor (The onion router) network, any server could act as either immediatary or exit nodes. But according to this exciting article, it's apparantly not the case. Even more interestingly, those exit nodes are being operated by the goverment (and hacker groups) to spy on un-encrypted traffic. Blame it on the design of Tor, on the user's negelence (or ignorance) if you're

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Object input/output streams, which are usually used with Java sockets have holes that leak memory. Basically, they maintain internal caches that store objects that were sent and received. As Java doesn't clear the caches automatically, they just keep growing and growing in size, until your application run out of memory. Calling reset() flushes the cache, but proves too slow to call every time an

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Hello world, again !I was reading through some papers about authenticated datastructure and found it very interesting. I wrote a small article about it here.Interestingly, the most studied authenticated datastructure is Skip list, which is the inspiration behind the early structured P2P overlay (named Chord). There seems to be a connection between this interesting idea and P2P. At the moment,

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While quantum-based cryptography is still at its very infancy, Kish and his team at the University of Szeged (Hungary) proposed a new device that is believed to enable an even stronger level of security. The basic principle of quantum cyrptography relies on quantum particles to avoid the information being eavesdrop. The idea sounds good, but the engineering process seems to be moving much

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Don't know why i've been blogging about Google too much lately, or why i am blogging at the middle of the day.Anyways, Google has bought another company. This time, it is the security company GreenBorder. This is strange, as comparing to its previous buys, most of them are entertainment and advertising companies.Does it realise some long-term security flaws in the systems needed to be repaired ?

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Google has responsed to the written letter from the EU commissioning group concerning its privacy policy. Google raised concerns over its habit of keeping user's data (search patterns, ...) for more than 2 years. The answer was good, as Google admitted that their policy was vague (from BBC):1. When we use third parties to assist us in processing your personal information, we require that they

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The rule that asks online companies like Google to delete user's data after a maximum of 2 years.According to BBC, a data protection group in EU has finally decided to voice their concerns over online users' privacy. Google appear as the first target, unsuprisingly. The gaint online search engine is believed to keep track of every single search queries via its services. Moreover, it technically

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It isn't too late for me to realize that success of one field of science may sometimes have detrimental effect on another.One can realize the conflict between security researchers and computer forensic researchers. One is devoted to make things completely secure from outsiders, while the other desires to peek into users' data as much as possible. I met one guy during a Trusted Computing (TC)

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Several weeks ago, in a P2P mailing-list, one proposed an improved version of HTTP protocol, with Bittorrent built in. Some others, however, argued that Bittorrent should not be used everywhere, and apparantly people should stop thinking of integrating Bittorrent to every protocol that they thought of. HTTP is light weight enough for Web/data transferring. Bittorrent was an excellent and

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Sipping through a cup of hot coffee (with much more sugar than neccessary) and reading through this article was a wonderful treat to start a week. It discussed how Skype-like phenonmenon has had a significant impacts on the global business model.Niklas Zennstrom and Janus Friis are the ones behind all these. Firstly, they wrote Kazaa, then sold them for big money, just to go and develop Skype

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Having a new laptop (even not the cool one) just feels so good. As always, i decided to install Fedora Core. To be trendy, i went for Fedora core 6 ("partly" because the Core 5 disks were no where to be found). I remember using Core 4 just less than one year ago, and that was great experience already, until people in Oxford showed me even greater version (Core 5, with TPM support) last summer,

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Well, as far as P2P file sharing is concern, anonymity is probably the most desirable feature. With all the current news headlines of individual sharers getting busted, more users become aware of this anonymity thing.While providing anonymity for P2P is still an active research field, several infrastructures that offer users' anonymity already existed. TOR is perhaps the most well-known system.

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These four all employ/rely on a set of rather static/well-known dedicated servers. However, only eDonkey and Free Haven get the privilege of being classified as peer-to-peer (P2P) systems. This story will tells you why !to be continued ....

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Yesterday, one guy in a P2P mailing list was kind enough to agree to send me an invitation to the Vennice project beta-release. Have been in their (TVP) waiting list for several weeks and patience has run out, as people keep releasing blogs about their expeirence with TVP.This morning, checking work email, got invitation from the kind fellow and started installing and playing around with it.

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It has been several weeks since Venice project announced their resitricted beta-release testing, and i still haven't got any invitation yet (should've begged somebody in some mailing-lists or forums).Feedbacks have been quite positive, some even released very tempting screenshot of the project. As much as its creators try to hide details, beta-testers could not help but sharing their experiences

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I can't believe i didn't know about the show called TheScene until 2007 (1-1-2007 to be precise). Quite good, and quite strange. I didn't regret spending hours downloading and watching 15 episodes, for the simple reason that it tell an "authentic" story about origin of pirated files. The file-sharing world all begins from a place named "The Scene".This *free-for-download* show answers questions

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Browsing through some Azureus wiki, i was intrigued with their idea of identifying bad torrent. Basically, torrent is the centralized component, control peers interactions in the Bittorrent network. A torrent manages one particular file, it contains information of seeds and leechers (peers) that are all interested / or possess the file.Successfull of a download depends on how many leechers and

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Been a long time from the last post, just hope i still remember how to write. Venice, the lovely city that i missed out the chance to visit this summer, is the chosen code-name of a big project that supposedly is the next big thing. The Venice project, being developed by two creators of Kazaa (the same guys who created Skype) promises the best mergence (if it's even a word) of the three hottest

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Google has become a great friend to every one, it's always there when people get so bored that they could not think of anything else to do. Googling sometime points me to unexpected, pleasantly interesting article. Can't remember what brought me to this one, but i remember bookmarking it right away.That article is from a creator of Limewire, with comments about Bittorrent. Limewire was the most

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One beautiful day late August 2006, Google and Ebay announced their millions dollar deal which promised to see the convergence of two biggest VoIP providers - Skype and Google Talk. For anyone who has been sleeping in the last year, Ebay had taken over Skype at the cost of 2.6 billions (to 4.1 billions). This Google - Ebay deal certainly had more effect on Skype than on Ebay itself.The promising

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It's all about PirateBay, the notrious Bittorrent tracker server originally based in Sweeden. Original design of Bittorrent protocol differentiate index web server with tracker, but in real life, most server incoperate those two, into big Bittorrent trackers server. Supernova.org was one of these first tracker, which then got shut down because of faciliating illegal trading of copyrighted

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A new laptop would normally come with a pre-installed version of Window XP, be it Home or Professional edition; unless you are buying a very old laptop. The manufacture (Dell for example) should have paid the license and that amount of money already included in your several hundred pounds payable to them.I had a pleasant surprise when reading this article, which telling story of a Sheffield man

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Haven't written any thing for the last 10 days, but this can not be passed. So, according to the BBC website, Channel 4 will be offering their shows for as cheap as 99p per episode. From being amazed turns disappointed is just a matter of seconds. * After 30 days service: have to admit that Channel 4 news with Johnny is the best show, even better than BBC News. Even if offered by this service,

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The news in 5th November told a story about how Spanish court ruled against the music industry, finding a man trading his music not guilty. According to that article, the man had downloaded music using a P2P application, then burnt to CDs and give them to his friends (via email or chatroom). The judge's argument for her decision is that any "practiced behavior" that does not aim to gain wealth

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In this blog, i'll do a review over the ongoing battle between the recording industry and "file-sharing", including both file-sharing clients/networks and file-sharers. File-sharing, since the birth of Napster has been great example of Peer-to-Peer (P2P) success. Clients such as LimeWire, Kazaa, Bittorrent and many other variations allow users to join the corresponding networks and freely share

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For those who haven't heard, Seagates plans to release new model of hard drive that support full-disk encryption. It would be called Momentus 5000 and should be available on the market next year (maybe at the same time as Window Vista ?)More details cand be found here, but its essential features are:1. The encryption/decryption process is done entirely at hardware level, by a built-in chip

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I remember telling people in my office about Skype's 3rd birthday, some time at the end of this August (2006). It has been 3 incredible years for Skype. According to this article, Skype is as just hot as Paris Hilton. The thing is, while she's getting older and more scandalous everyday, Skype's just getting better, with a brighter future ahead. It won't be too long before we see Skype overtakes

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Ok, so according to Microsoft, the "forever"-waiting Window Vista will be available for business customer on 16th of November (this month). Good news, isn't it ?For home user like us (even though i can't imagine myself using it in a near future), another 18,000 years. Well, i am NOT joking, check this out. Good at maths ? 20007 - 2006 is 18,001 years to be absolutely correct.

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Hello world :)

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