Inforensics

Heard an interesting lecture on information forensics (meaning, finding and interpreting digital crime evidence) by Scott Ksander of MSU. Pretty interesting, especially when he mentioned that one guy he knows of gets contracted out to companies at $600/hr. Maybe I should look into what it would take to get certified.

Insane memory usage

I can reliably duplicate a system freeze caused by Debugger, KBibletime or Phoenix. I don't know the true source of the problem, i'm afraid it's in the kernel. But I've managed to get 'top' running after it starts (it's not completely frozen) and found phoenix using 1498M of memory. Wow. If anyone has any ideas how I could find a kernel bug like this, let me know.