Friday, June 10, 2011

Finally a nice program!

Java Decompiler

Having seen the mess that 'reverse compilers' or disassemblers typically provide, I am awestruck at the quality of this Java decompiler. Now I just need to avoid getting into trouble by peeking where I shouldn't.

If anyone cares to try it, the installation (or lack thereof, unpack and execute) was a breeze, and the product is beautiful.

Wednesday, June 01, 2011

Blast from the Past

Don't bother asking why, or how, but I was finally getting around to setting up shared key authentication for the accounts I use, and I launched a help location from Sun Project Workshop (itself running as an inferior process from XEmacs). Up pops Netscape 3.0 for Solaris.

It must be that nobody test for Netscape 3 compatibility anymore, since every external site I went to had multiple issues (Did php exist in 1996?) Javascript must have changed quite a bit since then, and SSL was pretty much not ready to be used (couldn't start encrypted connections). I didn't check if the version of netscape had valid 128 bit encryption, there was a painfully long period of 40 bit export restrictions.