Author: gpanther

  • Windows 7 OOP overdrive

    Credit goes to a good friend of mine for this (who doesn’t have a website or twitter account, so I can’t link to him :-p). Here is a (partial) list of DLL’s imported by the Windows 7 version of kernel32: API-MS-Win-Core-RtlSupport-L1-1-0.dll API-MS-Win-Core-ProcessThreads-L1-1-0.dll API-MS-Win-Core-Heap-L1-1-0.dll API-MS-Win-Core-Memory-L1-1-0.dll API-MS-Win-Core-Handle-L1-1-0.dll API-MS-Win-Core-Synch-L1-1-0.dll API-MS-Win-Core-File-L1-1-0.dll API-MS-Win-Core-IO-L1-1-0.dll API-MS-Win-Core-ThreadPool-L1-1-0.dll API-MS-Win-Core-LibraryLoader-L1-1-0.dll API-MS-Win-Core-NamedPipe-L1-1-0.dll API-MS-Win-Core-Misc-L1-1-0.dll API-MS-Win-Core-SysInfo-L1-1-0.dll API-MS-Win-Core-Localization-L1-1-0.dll API-MS-Win-Core-ProcessEnvironment-L1-1-0.dll…

  • FORA.tv

    I discovered FORA.tv just recently, but I’m already a huge fan. If you like TV channels like Discovery or National Geographic, you will certainly find something of interest here. What’s great: it’s free with very little and unobtrusive advertisement the programs are professionally recorded / postprocessed (no volume-to-low-to-hear problems here) link to individual parts of…

  • Creating a closed standard

    After reading on Graham Cluley’s blog that the IEEE came up with a new standard [PDF] for malware interchange, I had to check it out immediately. As always, being a cranky old man, I found several problems with the proposed standard: Even though the presentation has a section abou “Re-Inventing the Wheel”, it fails to…

  • wpdesigner.com review

    wpdesigner.com is an other blog / resource targeted at WordPress users. It has the usual categories, like webhosting, themes, tips, tutorials and so on. I especially liked the “How to Get Help for WordPress Problems” section, mainly because it starts with “Search Before You Ask” (but the other tips it gives are also good). The…

  • Those who know, do it

    There is an old joke, which I might have referenced in the past (my memory is almost non-existing :-P), which goes something like this: Those who know how to do X, do it. Those who don’t, teach it. Those who can’t even teach it, supervise it. I assume that journalists come in somewhere in the…

  • A couple of challenges

    The Google code-jam. Algorithmic, ACM-like programming challenge (don’t forget about UVa if you want to get some warmup). A “find the vulnerability” type contest from Immunity. A Javascript compression contest – this is not an “official” contest (in the sense that there are no prizes and no very strict rules), but more of a “one-upmanship”.…

  • delicious/cdman83

    PostgreSQL Experts Inc. – Presentations and Documents Posted: 14 Aug 2009 05:09 AM PDT Some very interesting presentations, related mostly to PostgreSQL, but there are more generic ones also. Common gotchas when writing your own p/invoke Posted: 14 Aug 2009 12:16 AM PDT Social Media Policy and Employee Guidance Posted: 12 Aug 2009 10:05 PM…

  • The Yellow Smiley Face

    The short film below is from the Portable Film Festival site. It is a very good one and worth watching, even if you don’t speak Romanian (it is subtitled in English). It is a piece of life captured in a masterful way (I’ve uploaded it to blip.tv because the Portable Film Festival site seems to…

  • Open letter to PhishTank

    Dear PhishTank! I’m writing this letter / blog post because I couldn’t find any contact addresses on your site or a user forum to voice my concern. The idea of crowd-sourcing the phish detection great because it lets a human make judgment about threats directed at humans (which is much easier than developing and maintaining…

  • Some fun timewasters 🙂

    Found this one via h-i-r.net: And the following one is from friends (these are in German, but many of them can be enjoyed even if you don’t know the language): Some of the highlights from both of the channels: