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EUSecWest 2010 is near

05/16/10 | by zveriu | Categories: In real life, On the web, Hardware, Software, Hack, Hack

EUSecWest 2010 is near

I invite you to take a look at EUSecWest 2010 agenda and register. Perhaps we could meet there, who knows…

"Programmers should be able to program!" program

04/16/10 | by zveriu | Categories: In real life, On the web, AskAmit

“Programmers should be able to program!” program

Well, sad and true in the same time… It is an entertaining reading and one full of insights…

Maybe it’s just one of those reasons why software is getting more crappy, unreliable, insecure, etc.

The non-programming programmers

Theoretically 1 USD = 1 EUR and 1 EUR = 2 USD is possible!

01/13/10 | by zveriu | Categories: In real life, On the web, AskAmit, Hack

UPDATE 20101012

By a very nice coincidence I have bumped into this interesting paper (dating around 15 Jul 2008) - “BREAKING THE BANK - VULNERABILITIES IN NUMERIC PROCESSING WITHIN FINANCIAL APPLICATIONS” - ENJOY the reading!

Given I currently work in a telecom billing software company - I just cannot find enough words and meanings to confirm with sorrow that pretty-fucking-many of my fellow programmers do not give a shi…ny glass for avoiding this kind of problems. Worst, they don’t even realize it :-S…

PS: …and YES, Bank Of Cyprus (along with its new migrated Java/JSF-based banking application - a special post on this to follow) allows/uses:

input like “1E+3″ which gets translated into “1000″
“round-to-nearest, ties away from zero” for 3rd decimal, i.e. “0,004″ gets translated to “0,00″ and “0,007″ gets translated to “0,01″

Happy hacking…

Money

When it comes to speaking about money, a lot of people get interested. And nowadays most money discussion evolve around or near-by the EUR-USD exchange rates.

Some people (including me sometime ) are unhappy to depend and always lose their honestly earned savings because of some avid and greedy circles of interest are playing with exchange rates and make them uncontrollable…

26C3 - "Look ma' , I am on TV"

01/03/10 | by zveriu | Categories: In real life, On the web, Software, Hack

26C3 - “Look ma’ , I am on TV”

26C3 is over… It was a fun experience however !

Some key points:

Lightning talks

Together with Pavol Luptak (from Nethemba team in Slovakia), had a lightning talk about the MFCUK

Online video / Downloadable video (our talk starts around 00:09:50)

Slides 26C3 Lightning Talk Day2 MFCUK Mifare Classic Toolkit

Open digital radio

Also, I have attended a very nice and neat workshop put up by Mathias Coinchon from OpenDigitalRadio.org

The workshop link is here.

Mathias also have kindly provided the GNU Radio Companion files used in “26C3 Radio Broadcasting Workshop”.

DYI Book scanner

Ever wondered how the thousand pages books are scanned and put online? I was wondering that too.

A nice lecture and slides are here:

How to build your own Book Scanner [in 4 min]

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About AskAmit

10/06/09 | by zveriu | Categories: In real life, Software, AskAmit

About AskAmit

At my previous work and here also, I and coworkers had an internal subject [AskAmit] for sharing shitty code (which we find around or even discover in inherited projects) among us.

This continued in the current company - like for example this one (not exact reproduction, but still) in Java (trully existing code at my present company ) – test if a boolean variable is true or false:

Code:

if (boolean_var.toString.length() == 4)
{
      // True, do the True actions
}
else If (boolean_var.toString.length() == 5)
{
      // False, do the False actions
}
else
{
      // Ummm, raise processor fault?
}

The [AskAmit] name was coming from Sun’s JMF (Java Media Foundation) incredible naive line at those times (2002) that made the framework buggy enough (though it was a good concept):

jmf-2_1_1e-scsl-src/src/share/com/sun/media/util/Registry.java
if (file.length() == 0) { // TODO: Ask AMITH if you need this

Seems like [AskAmit] kind-of groups grow everywhere, so it reached to a critical level called GovnoKod (ShittyCode) – highly recommended reading not to step on the shitty paths of programming

Excerpts: - Enjoy!

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Си / Говнокод #1829

Code:

#define TRUE FALSE //Happy debugging >:P

Классика жанра.

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Си / Говнокод #1317

Code:

if(true)
{
  //Code
}
else
{
  //Commented, not compiling. ^_^
};

Способ комментирования… O_o

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Си / Говнокод #405

Code:

++i--;

Операция “подергивание”

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Assembler / Говнокод #453

Code:

mov ebx, eax
mov eax, ebx

Такое борландовский кодогенератор иногда выдаёт

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Assembler / Говнокод #414

Code:

...
jmp 0x0437
jmp 0x0437
...

На всякий случай, наверное если первый не сработает

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