OddThinking

I propose that we produce a Mock-Phish web-site, which will have a goal of helping security professionals to train their co-workers, family and friends to avoid falling for phishing scams.

Once this site has been running for a while , is getting lots of hits, and has gained the trust of security professionals, Phase B comes into play.

This is the excerpt of a report that I submitted in November 1994 as part of a post-graduate university course on Advanced Algorithms and Data Structures.

It is an analysis of several algorithms used to compare strings.

This is far more academically geeky than most posts on this blog. It may not be of interest to the lay reader.

About an hour after I started the check-in process, a horrid thought occurred to me…

I remember the days of using a terminal over a modem on a DOS machine.

It wasn’t that long after these dark ages that I started to use a Rational 1000.

The Rational 1000 didn’t have a Save command. Well, it did, but it wasn’t called Save, and I didn’t really need it, and it didn’t really Save. Well I did need it once, but… well let me start at the beginning.

One of the more interesting concepts on a Rational 1000 was the way it pushed your code through stages on the way to compilation.

The Rational 1000 supplied a level of control over the clipboard, cursor position and windows layout that I still miss today.

The most astonishing part of the GUI greeted you before you had even logged on: the keyboard template attached to the keyboard.

Like an adept Tekken player, I could kick buggy code’s arse with kung fu debug combos that the code was never expecting.

Using a Rational 1000 was like immersive learning for Ada!

Julian tries not to get teary-eyed, as he gets nostalgic about a development environment?!