Category Archives: NIST

Getting outside

Posted on November 20, 2012 by C.J. Adams-Collier

I’m trenching a ditch. I’m hoping to run a few 25-pair telco cables, some fiber, a few coax cables, 240v power, 120v power, natural gas and perhaps a few cat-6 cables through it. Assuming the authorities approve, of course. .

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Linus on Instantiation and Armadaification

Posted on August 9, 2012 by C.J. Adams-Collier

I feel a sense of pride when I think that I was involved in the development and maintenance of what was probably the first piece of software accepted into Debian which then had and still has direct up-stream support from … Continue reading →

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Free Geek

Posted on August 7, 2012 by C.J. Adams-Collier

http://www.freegeek.org/ Wow. Why didn’t I know you people existed before Jessica came and visited for the weekend? It sounds like SPC LaRue was right. $i *do* have a massive array of bots out there. For some value of $i. Hey, … Continue reading →

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The blog was down yesterday

Posted on July 26, 2012 by C.J. Adams-Collier

The brief outage was due to a scheduled move of the servers to a separate rack and subnet dedicated to our work with the Center for Information Assurance & Cybersecurity (ciac) at the University of Washington Bothell (uwb), and a11y.com … Continue reading →

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You might on occasion confuse us with professionals

Posted on July 23, 2012 by C.J. Adams-Collier

If we keep this up, you might.

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NIST::NVD::Store::SQLite3 1.00.00

Posted on July 18, 2012 by C.J. Adams-Collier

It’s been released. Use this with NIST::NVD 1.00.00 and you will be able to perform immediate look-ups of CVE and CWE data given a CPE URN. For instance: cjac@foxtrot:/usr/src/git/f5/NIST-NVD-Store-SQLite3$ perl Makefile.PL ; make ; make test ; cjac@foxtrot:/usr/src/git/f5/NIST-NVD-Store-SQLite3$ perl -MNIST::NVD::Query … Continue reading →

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NIST::NVD 1.00.00

Posted on July 12, 2012 by C.J. Adams-Collier

I’m leaving myself some room for bug fixes. It works for us in house. I would love to help others to give it a try. especially those who could benefit from making nearly immediately answered queries to the NIST’s NVD … Continue reading →

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Currency platform superior to US Federal Reserve Bank

Posted on July 3, 2012 by C.J. Adams-Collier

Should I recommend that Software in the Public Interest implement a monetary stack with the stated purpose of replacing the federal reserve system? We would have to publish the source code, of course, and the transaction db would need to … Continue reading →

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NIST::NVD CWE development – follow along

Posted on February 16, 2012 by C.J. Adams-Collier

I’m in the process of getting the tests passing for the 0.03 release of NIST::NVD::Store::SQLite3 wherein our hero imports the CWE data and cross-indexes it with CVEs and CPEs. Follow along and suggest some patches. I’m developing on Debian Wheezy, … Continue reading →

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NIST::NVD::Store::SQLite3

Posted on February 9, 2012 by C.J. Adams-Collier

I published an SQLite3 storage back-end to NIST::NVD on the CPAN. It’s pretty quick. About as fast as the DB_File one, but without the down side of being tied to DB_File. It shouldn’t be too difficult to re-factor this code … Continue reading →

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