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ICFP
2008
ACM
16 years 6 months ago
NixOS: a purely functional Linux distribution
Existing package and system configuration management tools suffer from an imperative model, where system administration actions such as upgrading packages or changes to system con...
Andres Löh, Eelco Dolstra
CCS
2008
ACM
15 years 8 months ago
BootJacker: compromising computers using forced restarts
BootJacker is a proof-of-concept attack tool which demonstrates that authentication mechanisms employed by an operating system can be bypassed by obtaining physical access and sim...
Ellick Chan, Jeffrey C. Carlyle, Francis M. David,...
ESE
2008
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15 years 6 months ago
"Cloning considered harmful" considered harmful: patterns of cloning in software
Literature on the topic of code cloning often asserts that duplicating code within a software system is a bad practice, that it causes harm to the system's design and should b...
Cory Kapser, Michael W. Godfrey
SIGMOD
2008
ACM
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15 years 6 months ago
UQBE: uncertain query by example for web service mashup
The UQBE is a mashup tool for non-programmers that supports query-by-example (QBE) over a schema made up by the user without knowing the schema of the original sources. Based on a...
Jun'ichi Tatemura, Songting Chen, Fenglin Liao, Ol...
OSDI
2008
ACM
16 years 7 months ago
Finding and Reproducing Heisenbugs in Concurrent Programs
Concurrency is pervasive in large systems. Unexpected interference among threads often results in "Heisenbugs" that are extremely difficult to reproduce and eliminate. W...
Gérard Basler, Iulian Neamtiu, Madanlal Mus...