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. […]
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 […]
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 […]
Some shell scripting languages read scripts as they are interpreted. I wrote this script as an experiment in looping without a loop. This functioned on an older version of ksh on HP-UX, but I haven’t been able to find a newer version of a shell that this still works on.# This script returns 0 through […]
Wow… so far, off to a bad start.We’ll call this a place-holder for now… ELF, ld & shared object fun LD_LIBRARY_PATH Most developers have encountered LD_LIBRARY_PATH either in testing shared libraries used in their project or in development of their own code. It is used to instruct the runtime linker to search for libraries in […]
