I haven't worked on any big Linux project recently. However, I submitted some bugs and patches to spamassassin, and I've found a buffer overflow vulnerability in unalz when it extracts ALZ archives. I haven't seen many of those archives, but I like being thorough and check all programs in a category and not just the most popular ones. The unalz bug got average grades from the security reviewing office workers (none of whom could write a simple C program to save their lives).

In more exciting news, Drupal has started using an HTML filtering library based on my kses library.

I've mostly been busy with my day job. I really like it, as I get to code networking applications which I find much more exciting than web publishing systems and as the tasks are more challenging than in other companies.

That don't impress me much

As I'm now gainfully employed, you can't write to me at my @student.uu.se e-mail address anymore. You have to use the one at my person page here at Advogato.

"You keep hangin' 'round me / And I'm not so glad you found me / You're still doing things that I gave up years ago"
-- Lou Reed

The new Ladytron record was a disappointment! They have changed their style quite a bit and started playing overblown alternative rock with bad melodies and a slick production that may or may not have anything to do with having signed to a big record label recently. It's OK and everything but it's much worse than the other two albums.

The new alternative comic album by the Swede Mats Jonsson is also a departure - much darker, less humour, different subject matter, less stuff that I could relate to - but I quite liked it, especially the "being scared out in the woods" part.

Computer security for laymen

A race condition is what occurs when you leave the washing room, enter the pitch black corridor, and the monsters manage to catch you before you reach the light button (which of course destroys all monsters just milliseconds before turning on the light).