Networks for fun and profit

DNS for Fun and Profit

The DNS is a well studied and well known application service protocol. Systems and appliances around the net have been using DNS for years and many security issues have been discussed. Recently, two things have again droven the attention to this old horse. First, after more than a decade of work, DNS Security extensions (DNSSEC) have finally reached a level of maturity that deployment is in the...

Biotechnology for Fun and Profit

Biotechnology will be defined here as the application of chemical processes that use either biological catalysts or biological raw materials and that occur in vats or tanks of man's design. We can illustrate each component of this definition with the example of home winemaking, in which the biological raw material is sugar and the biological catalyst is yeast. As the fermentation occurs, alcoho...

Analyzing Spammers’ Social Networks for Fun and Profit

QuickCheck Testing for Fun and Profit

One of the nice things about purely functional languages is that functions often satisfy simple properties, and enjoy simple algebraic relationships. Indeed, if the functions of an API satisfy elegant laws, that in itself is a sign of a good design— the laws not only indicate conceptual simplicity, but are useful in practice for simplifying programs that use the API, by equational reasoning or ...

Build Buddy for Fun and Profit

We present a build and packaging system called Build Buddy. The system is comprised of a set of tools for building and maintaining software packages on multiple operating systems and architectures.