Sleep in Hakin9 Magazine + Latest News
Raphael Mudge
Its been quiet on the list lately. I've been very busy which is why
I haven't filled your mailboxes lately. Here is some of the latest
in the Sleep world:
1. If you get a chance check out the 1/2009 issue of Hakin9
magazine. There is an article on using Sleep based agents for
network traffic generation. I wrote it, its good stuff. You can
learn how to simulate 100+ hosts talking to a server with just one
client and one server.
2. I'm planning an update to Sleep 2.1 within the next 2 months.
Mainly a bug fix release as the post 2.1 releases have been. In my
development I've noticed that Sleep hashes are not safe for reading
from multiple threads. If you have a miss the data structure is
modified which creates trouble. I'm investigating either making
reads acquire a lock internally (which will bottleneck a
multithreaded app that reads a lot) or hacking up arrays to act as a
set data structure with a O(1) thread-safe membership test. How do
I know this:
3. I've been processing lots of data from Wikipedia and Project
Gutenberg to build a statistical profile of the English language.
Fun stuff, all Sleep processed. I have a nifty new writing product
I'm planning to unveil to the world very soon.
4. I noticed the JRoller upgrade at jroller.com broke the Sleep
snippets articles. I'll try to get this fixed this week.
As usual, I'm around if anyone needs anything. Thanks for your
continued support of Sleep. It means a lot!
-- Raphael
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