2003-10-16

How to install Oracle 9i on Linux

This article is totaly irrelevant, it just took me far too long to find it, I am not going to loose this link. (hopefully the next time I'll have to install oracle on linux, it will be version 10g, and hopefully, the install process will be bug free)

Does Java need Checked Exceptions? by Bruce Eckel

A (good) argument against Checked Exception.

Multiple Inheritance in Java

They said it was impossible... on purpose, but you can use multiple inheritance in java.

Half Bean

A nice way of dealing with immutable object

2003-09-17

roumanoff.com is patched with openssh3.7p1

[Full-Disclosure] new ssh exploit? It was difficult because the configure option
--with-ssl-dir
is not explicit: should point to you openSSL installation directory, in fact it should point to your openssl include files, while you configure by another mean (LD_LIBRARY_PATH) the location of the library. This means the configure script doesn't take into account the particular version of openSSL I want to use. and I have to launch configure with
LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/path/to/openssl/lib ./configure --with-ssl-dir=/path/to/openssl/include
make is alsmost no problem after you edit the Makefile to replace -L/path/to/openssl/include with -L/path/to/openssl/lib As far as I understand, the specified ssl-dir must contains both the include and lib dir at the same level.