Amazon, kris kaspersky and neuro-circuitry

After 3 months of waiting my Amazon order was delivered. I was really getting bored of email notices telling me to confirm yet another delay. But as most everything goes, if you stick with it, it's worth the wait.

So I was waiting for Kris Kaspersky's latest book, debugging uncovered. ISBN 1-931769-40-0. Very good book. I've only had it for 4 hours and I'm well into it. One interesting part discussed is the use of emulators in software hacking. Seems intuitive but I've never seen it in print. Of course VMware is the choice among several. Mainly because it's the only one that softice (>3.1) likes. I origially found it on google, but here is the reference config for VMware from the book: svga.maxFullscreenRefreshTick = "2" and vmouse.present = "FALSE". It's noted that this can also be found in the softice docs.

The other interesting thing noted is that Kris points out that win2k is much better than winxp for his sort of endeavors. I'll get back to that at some point. I know win2k pro had some specific hack-friendly components...I was not aware of those being left out of xp though.

In addition to the pre-published book ordered months ago I tacked on a companion dvd called "better living though circuitry". I got a similar one as a holiday gift a few years back and it seemed a logical choice to go with the book.