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I’m cited in an O’Reilly book

Brian Risk — Wed, 06 May 2009 04:58:34 +0000

My base conversion JavaScript utility is referenced in Chapter 4 of Web Security Testing Cookbook.

O’Reilly lets you preview the entire book, so here’s a screen capture of the page in question:

Netflix data sorted user list

Brian Risk — Wed, 03 Dec 2008 21:31:17 +0000

User IDs for the Netflix data go to 2649081 but there are not that many users — there are *only* 480189. If you would like a text file of the user IDs sorted from least to greatest, your search is over. Just click here.

Update: I added how many movies each user rated to the list. It is comma separated; the first item is the user ID.

Java OutOfMemoryError in eclipse

Brian Risk — Wed, 03 Dec 2008 20:31:53 +0000

Getting this and you want to use Eclipse?

java.lang.OutOfMemoryError: Java heap space

Find the Preferences menu item. For me, in OS X, this is under the “Eclipse” menu item. Click on the “Java” item in the box which comes up. Click on the “Installed JREs” sub-menu item. Select your JRE and click “Edit”. For “Default VM Arguments” put something like:

-Xms128M -Xmx700M

That should do the trick. Leigh, please don’t comment “I don’t get it.”

java.lang.OutOfMemoryError: Java heap space

Brian Risk — Fri, 15 Aug 2008 16:58:16 +0000

Getting that error? Try allocating more heap space when executing your Java application. Use this command from your command line:

java -Xmx512m YourApplication