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BalaBit has always had strong connections with the academia: we give lectures at universities, accept interns for the summer, offer scholarships and consultation on diploma thesises. Also, we’re not afraid to hire talented students for part-time work: it’s good for them to get some real-world experience before graduation and it’s good for us to get [...]
[.] Tovább2.5 years of XCB
It was in November 2007 when the initial commit of X Control Box was pushed to our VC server — the idea was to create a framework based on the current Shell Control Box codebase that can act as a base for all our future appliance-like products. We took the chance to rewrite everything that [...]
[.] TovábbButterfly effect
A couple of weeks ago we put together a maintenance release for the old SCB 1.x line. It contained only tiny fixes and security updates for the 3rd party packages we use in it, but as every release, it had to go under a thorough release test. Everything went fine, everything seemed to work as [...]
[.] TovábbGraduation and the sales kick-off meeting
I haven’t had the time to brag about it last week, but on last Monday I managed to defend my thesis and graduate to finally become a certified software engineer. Having spent, well, quite a bit more time in the programme than originally planned and cca. 5 years working in IT, it was high time [...]
[.] TovábbVersionOne with Bugzilla quips
Bugzilla has a rarely used feature called quips. It just displays random quotes on the top of each page from a database to which clever new sentences can be added incredibly easily. Here at BalaBit we love this feature: it contains ~400 entries from the last 5-6 years and serves as a collective memory of [...]
[.] TovábbIntroducing pdbtool patternize
As Márton has already written about it, lots of guys here spent a good part of their summer creating a pattern database for some 200+ often-used applications. Just like every manual process, this was a tedious task which begged to be automated. Of course it cannot be fully automated as no algorithm can replace an [...]
[.] TovábbSanta’s testing SSB 1.1 this year
I guess we’ve been really good kids in 2009, as Santa joined us in release testing of the next syslog-ng Store Box release:
[.] TovábbWatch things grow
Ever since I was a little child, I’ve always loved watching progress. I could spend hours at the shore of lake Balaton watching the waterdrops on my flip-flops dry up in the sunshine, I loved the now-ridiculous loading times of the games on my C64 as that meant I could watch the bits slowly moving [...]
[.] TovábbWeird people have lived everywhere
Even tough I’ve been living in the historical Castle District of Budapest the last two years which is more famous for its tourist sights and being the birthplace or residence of numerous world-renowned artists, politicians and scientists rather than its high-tech-affectionate population, I can’t seem to be able to avoid the unmistakable signs of nerds [...]
[.] TovábbATMs do indeed run Windows…
Attila wrote the following a couple of weeks ago in his blog post “Luigi and Igor in the bank business“: Most ATMs run actually on Windows operational system, which, I think, is already very funny. Windows and the easily manageable systems are not visible to the users, and there are other OSs on the market [...]
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