Category: Seriously

Day by day work stuff

Windows Sockets fun

Simple stress application brings down Windows Sockets subsystem within tens of seconds on Microsoft Windows XP Professional Service Pack 2… It appears to be a key point that SO_RCVBUF and SO_SNDBUF sockets options are increased from default value. The expected behavior, and it is the case with default socket buffer sizes, is running out of…

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Britain is becoming ‘Big Brother’ society

http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20061102/tc_afp/britainsecuritycctv_061102140345 Britain is becoming a “surveillance society”, where CCTV cameras, credit card analysis and travel movements are used to track people’s lives minute by minute. […] The nation has up to 4.2 million CCTV (closed-circuit television) cameras, or about one for every 14 people.

Serial numbers continued

Another keygen seeker posted an ad on a web board offering a couple hundred of bucks for a keygen, crack or solution of any kind to get our software working without official registration. The board is popular enough so the volunteers to look for a solution were not been waited for too long. Today’s featured…

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ATL Internals

It’s quite surprising to find quite useful classes deep inside ATL core. Today I stumbled upon CStackDumper class, which looks interesting. Basically it does nothing amazing and in fact duplicates my proprietary code I use for debugging but it’s surprising to see it there. Undocumented and even Google knows little about it.

Registration keys continued

Another interesting piracy case (conversation continued): IP: 194.150.135.xxx IP location: Russian Federation [RU] – Barnaul IP owner: Altai Telecommunication Company IP assigned to: Altai Telecommunication Company This guy has been using our hi-end software product with generated registration key for several months. But due to certain peculiarities of pirated software finally the registration was purchased.…

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