But the Developers Did a Great Job Making it look like it. I want to start out by saying I haven’t found anything explicitly wrong or malicious about XSplit VCam, so don’t sue me. What I did find is a lot of strange “telemetry” data being constantly sent by an application which I saw as […]
I have recently been looking into the glibc resolver code.It started out like any other troubleshooting effort, just trying to get a good foothold and identify where things could go wrong and how to ensure they went right. Once I got in the code… it was a real “took the red pill” sort of moment. […]
Happy 2014 to everyone.
Before dipping my toe into Gimp, Photoshop or Illustrator, even before a program called PhotoMagic, I actually managed to use MS Paint for something other than pasting screen shots.Here are a couple of the pictures I drew in MS Paint. I know they aren’t the best, but that fact that I made them in Paint […]
We had a two year long project to decommission our Summa Four switches. It wasn’t supposed to be a two year long project, but the goal was to transition from traditional telephony backends to VoIP without needing to touch any of our existing applications. My team maintained EOS, the runtime system for the applications, so […]
Got my Digisparks in the mail on Saturday! Digisparks are tiny little Arduino compatible programmable microcontrollers that are even tinier than their tag line indicates (“the power of a square inch.”) They are actually about 0.75 inch x 0.625 inch if you ignore the USB connector, which you can conveniently cut off. I donated to […]
Hey, this looks new. First of all I’d like to say I’m sorry to anyone who was registered on the old blog. This evening when I was shifting gigapogo.com over to this new blog I didn’t realize disassociating the 1&1 blog from my domain would result in it’s destruction. I was planning on migrating the […]
CL4P-TP (“You can call me Claptrap”) from Gearbox software’s Borderlands franchise is one of those characters that you can love one minute and be unloading a mountain of clips into the next. Our intrepid little bit of Hyperion hardware actual took home the 2012 Character Of the Year at Spike TV’s VGAs. Destro2k has made […]
At work we had a competition for the “best” beard style after growing them out in November. Pulled out the nerd stops with this one and got second place.
I spent some time working backwards from the ASCII values of “Hello, world!”, creating a mathematic relationship between the characters and then obfuscating the pattern of those characters. Add a little bit of nasty looking Perl and you are left with a very ugly variation of the “Hello world” program: #!/usr/bin/perlmy ($a,$b,$c,$d,$x,$z) = qw(100 3 […]
