How to extinct humanity

Throwing everything on a big heap is good enough !

If you ever think you should implement apihooking for windows on your own, something along the following lines may happen to you:
At first you have to load your own dll into the target process, no big Deal in Windows XP nowadays, just allocate some memory, write your dlls name there and make a quick call to CreateRemoteThread and there you go.
Now you have your dll loaded and start patching code, you have a bit of trouble with your length disassembler maybe, maybe not. Well, your code is written and looks like it should work, but it does not of course.
Code is never written down and works instantly, at least not very often. So you fire up your favorite debugger and start to examine what happens with your api hooking.
At this point you should bring something very important into your mind: how are software breakpoints set most of the time ?
In case it does not pop to your mind instantly: your debugger writes at the position you want to have your breakpoint at a int3-instruction (0xCC in hexadecimal). This causes an debugging exception, which is caught by your debugger.
So, if you set a breakpoint on the api you want to hook, before your hook is actually implanted, you will (if you overwrite the beginning with a jump to your own code) find the saved instructions beginning with 0xCC and therefore totally messed up. So, bear that in mind: do NOT put a breakpoint on something that you are about to save somewhere

I finally got my cf-card formatted, which i wanted to use in a defect iPod i got from a friend.
The former iPod mini with 4 Gigabyte harddisk space now operates with 1 gb compact flash memory, but it finally works again and i even got rockbox installed on it.
Now even things like ogg vorbis and flac are no problem at all to playback.

I am currently listening to "Klaus Nomi - The Cold Song", encoded in flac of course, though i doubt a bit, that my earphones are of high enough quality to enjoy it to the fullest.


Therefore i thank one of my two best friends, Norbert, for formatting my card and helping me with installing rockbox.
I also thank him for the fun i had with his remote controlled miniature helicopter and congratulate him again on this fabulous present he got for his father, and for the accomplishment which justified that present, you rock! (pun intended).

Good Night !

Oh, and of course i thank Johannes for the donation of the defect device

One of the first things i will buy once i have an appropiate Amount of pocket money is a piece of software called IDA PRO as "IDA Pro Advanced Base NAMED License". That said, it currently costs 690 EUR. It supports more than 40 different processors for disassembly and should be in every reverse engineers software collection.
I wished microsoft would buy the vendor datarescue, so i could get it through msdnaa .

As you may know by now, there are some guys who want to fight stupidity on the internet with technology. Therefore they started a project called stupidfilter on http://stupidfilter.org .
They are gathering mostly youtube comments as a source of internetstupidity, which the put through some automated filtering and human moderation. Though the idea sounds a bit stupid in itself again, it's no absolutely uninteresting and i would really like to know what will come out of it in the end.

Talking about stupidity: if you want to become a moderator for them you have to take a test, which is so easy, that even i can pass it. Funny fact: you don't have to put in a name or email-address to continue, so they seem a bit mentally challenged themselve

I could be wrong here of course and it's all part of their evil plan.

Talking about evil plans, just one night before i read about their plan i thought about something like that as well but threw that idea quickly in the big garbage can in my mind.
Another stupid idea i came up with long long time ago is now being adapted by some japanese people...
http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,,2209957,00.html?gusrc=rss&feed=technology .
Obviously i am not the only one with such useless ideas, but other people are actually thinking that those are great ideas. Maybe i should sell my stupid thoughts somehow, there must be some way of gaining profit in this.
The idea of melody roads was abandoned by my friends and me pretty fast, as we came to think, that hearing the same song over and over might get annoying.



Back to stupidfilter:
The project is currently only for the english language, but i as a german citizen suffer much more from the stupidity of fellow german kids (computers are just to easy to operator nowadays, if we would abandon our mice and went back to keyboard-only control we could get rid of so much stupidity :> ).
So i will see how much i can follow my own little project, to get rid of a lot of stupidity i encounter daily in a onlinecommunity which i joined because of my brethren and some of my friends.
For now i created a 31 Mb big copy of the forum posts and created a simple search engine for fun.

Now i will have to think about how i can rate the posts by spelling and writing style.
After that being done i will be able to give ratings to users based on their posts, which will then allow me to filter out everyone who is below a certain rate.

Another funny idea would be to take my own points, use that as normal and rate everyones iq, assuming, that i myself had 100 iq points.
Absolutely unscientific and stupid, but people with ratings near to my own one would possibly worth taking a look at.

If you are interested to search forum posts for stupidity you should look there, as it currently is working:
http://www.uni-koblenz.de/~dduenker/cgi-bin/sucker.cgi
Who know though for how long.