Fooling Around – Page 88 – // Oprogramowanie Roman Ryltsov

Serial numbers continued

Posted on April 27, 2006December 2, 2006 by Roman

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 “pioneer” is:

IP: 195.34.240.* (Resolved: *.DSL04.lipetsk.ru)
IP location: Russian Federation [RU] – Lipetsk
IP owner: Lipetsk regional NIC
IP assigned to: Lipetsk regional NIC

The software is not available in Russian language (nothing specific to Russian at all) so it could be assumed that the hacking activity could be distributed throughout the world. However the experience shows the assumptions is wrong. With few sales in Russia, this country is definitely leading in unathorized usage attempts.

ATL collection templates: Lock access by critical sections (announce)

Posted on April 22, 2006April 22, 2006 by Roman

ATL collections CAtlArray, CAtlList, CAtlMap are very useful but lack for thread safety features. They are thread unsafe by design and the caller is supposed to take care of access protection is case of multithreaded usage.

However the thread safety protection for the collections is rather typical and a good template can embed all the protection functionality.

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ATL sorting templates

Posted on April 16, 2006April 17, 2006 by Roman

Active Template Library (ATL) contains a lot of useful classes but not for sorting. There are collections classes, including CAtlArray but it does not have sorting capabilities.

I would like to share quite simple C++ templates that sort.

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Collection of freeware

Posted on April 16, 2006April 16, 2006 by Roman

To make a note of: a categorized collection of over 300 freeware utilities: http://www.econsultant.com/i-want-freeware-utilities/index.html

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ATL Internals

Posted on April 12, 2006December 2, 2006 by Roman

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

Posted on March 29, 2006December 2, 2006 by Roman

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. Thank you, dude. However it did not seem to be his decision to pay for software just because he was expected to, it more seemed that he liked it and wanted to finally have it working with no odds…

ISC West

Posted on March 28, 2006December 2, 2006 by Roman

Our software is going to be presented at ISC West 2006, this will be an excitingly great exposure of the product!