How glad I am! How glad I am! That I’m going to Leningrad!

September 17–19 I’ll be at the East-West Design & Test conference in St. Petersburg. This time I’m participating only as a speaker.

On September 20 I’ll spend the whole day taking a bus …

At work, the guys analyze rootkits and exploits. According to Microsoft, successfully.

MS10-061

Vulnerability in Print Spooler Service Could Allow Remote Code Execution (2347290) This security update resolves a publicly disclosed vulnerability in the Print Spooler service. The vulnerability could allow remote code execution if an attacker sends a specially …

Today there was a webinar (web + seminar) by Mentor Graphics on “Hardware Designs Reuse Using C++ and High Level Synthesis.” The lecture in bullet points:

• ANSI C++ synthesis into RTL is supported;

• a 10–20x increase in engineers’ productivity, as well as reduced verification time;

• synthesis quality equivalent to manual …