Life is a Lab! To Learn, read. To understand, think. To know, write. To master, teach.
Relationships never die a natural death, instead, they are always murdered by: Attitude, Behavior, Ego, Hidden Benefits and Ignorance.
From my own experience, let me elaborate a little on each of the “murderers” below. Continue reading “Relationships Never Die a Natural death: the 4 top relationship killers”
After Wonder Woman’s first appearance in Batman vs Superman movie, Wonder Woman theme was first revealed in the last battle against Doomsday. That theme was so awesome that I loved it immediately.
Little did I know that the theme is not very original, in fact it sounds similar to other songs and in particular the one from Led Zeppelin’s Immigrant song.
In all cases, this video explains all of this better than me:
Watch the theme performed by the fabulous and most talented Tina Guo here:
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In this article, I share with you a simple C++ class that wraps the string tokenization function strtok(). The QuickTokenizer class makes it easy to tokenize and enumerate the tokens in a thread-safe manner.
//////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
class QuickTokenizer
{
private:
char *buf;
char *token;
char *ctx;
void FreeBuffers()
{
if (this->token != NULL)
{
free(this->token);
this->token = NULL;
}
if (this->buf != NULL)
{
free(this->buf);
this->buf = NULL;
}
}
public:
QuickTokenizer() : buf(NULL), token(NULL)
{
}
const char *Tokenize(
const char *str,
const char *tok)
{
this->buf = _strdup(str);
this->token = _strdup(tok);
return strtok_s(buf, token, &ctx);
}
const char *NextToken()
{
return strtok_s(NULL, token, &ctx);
}
~QuickTokenizer()
{
FreeBuffers();
}
};
In this article, I am sharing with you a small Python script that lets you detect if a file is an executable file and what platform the executable is targeting.
The following formats for 32 bits and 64bits processors are supported:
#---------------------------------------------------------------------
EXEFLAG_NONE = 0x0000
EXEFLAG_LINUX = 0x0001
EXEFLAG_WINDOWS = 0x0002
EXEFLAG_MACOS = 0x0004
EXEFLAG_MACOS_FAT = 0x0008
EXEFLAG_32BITS = 0x0010
EXEFLAG_64BITS = 0x0020
# Keep signatures sorted by size
_EXE_SIGNATURES = (
("\x4D\x5A", EXEFLAG_WINDOWS),
("\xCE\xFA\xED\xFE", EXEFLAG_MACOS | EXEFLAG_32BITS),
("\xCF\xFA\xED\xFE", EXEFLAG_MACOS | EXEFLAG_64BITS),
("\xBE\xBA\xFE\xCA", EXEFLAG_MACOS | EXEFLAG_32BITS | EXEFLAG_MACOS_FAT),
("\xBF\xBA\xFE\xCA", EXEFLAG_MACOS | EXEFLAG_64BITS | EXEFLAG_MACOS_FAT),
("\x7F\x45\x4C\x46\x01", EXEFLAG_LINUX | EXEFLAG_32BITS),
("\x7F\x45\x4C\x46\x02", EXEFLAG_LINUX | EXEFLAG_64BITS)
)
def get_exeflags(filepath):
try:
with open(filepath, "rb") as f:
buf = ""
buf_len = 0
for sig, flags in _EXE_SIGNATURES:
sig_len = len(sig)
if buf_len < sig_len:
buf += f.read(sig_len - buf_len)
buf_len = sig_len
if buf == sig:
return flags
except:
pass
return EXEFLAG_NONE
I watched the Dreamcatcher movie a while back. It is a nice movie involving young boys, now adults, who have been gifted psychic abilities by an alien. That alien, in the hiding, looks like a human being and waits for the right moment to defend the Earth from other hostile aliens.
In the movie we see a gun with a tracking device in it, I like the concept (not that this is something new). You would never suspect that your gun is traceable:
Speaking of dreamcatchers, I found this nice dreamcatcher on Amazon, check it out:
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A policeman stops a reckless and speeding young driver. The policeman tells the driver: “Do you know that you were driving beyond the speed limit?”
The young, with a smile on his face, replies: “No wonder, this is the first time I drive”
The wife to the husband: “I will go to my neighbor and grab some salt, keep an eye on the food while I am gone. I will be back soon, it will be just 5Â minutes at most”
The husband: “How should I keep an eye on the food? What should I do?”
The wife: “It is not much, really! Just stir the pot every half an hour”
Two friends were chatting.
The first one said: “My wife was reading the three musketeers and she gave birth to a triplet. Can you imagine that?!”
His friend replied back in amazement: “God forbids! I actually left my wife when she started reading Ali Baba and the 40 thieves”
Man: My wife is one of the few women who stick to their words
The other man: How come?
Man: We have been married since 50 years already and every time I ask her how old is she, she answers 30 years old.
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Hello,
Today I release the first Alpha version of Ganxo (pronounced as “Gun Show” or “Gan Chou”), an open source API hooking framework. In Catalan, Ganxo means “hook”, thus the framework’s name.
Writing an API hooking framework was always on my to do list. I started developing Ganxo back in April 2016 and after two weeks of development during my free time, I got busy with other things and abandoned my efforts.
My initial goals were to accomplish the following before going public with it:
This past weekend, I decided to release Ganxo even though I have not met all my goals. As of today, Ganxo works on MS Windows and supports x86 API hooking. The groundwork is laid down and it should be easy to add x64 bits hooking support on Windows or even just port it to other operating systems.
Feel free to clone the code from here and start using it today.
Stay tuned, I plan more features in the coming future!
Do you want to master Batch Files programming? Look no further, the Batchography is the right book for you.
Available in print or e-book editions from Amazon.
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I am no artist but this is my second painting.
I enjoyed painting this one on 06/10/2017 at Pinot’s Palette
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Ever since I watched “The Flash” series on Netflix, I fell in love with the Reverse-Flash character. Why not love the regular The Flash character you ask?
Well because, unlike The Flash who got his powers by accident, the Reverse-Flash used knowledge to acquire his powers and go back in time. Another simpler answer: I just love the yellow on red color! 🙂
I bought the Reverse-Flash T-shirt from Amazon. It looks good and has very good quality:
I also got the action figure:
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In this article, I share with you my notes from the “California Driver Handbook 2017“. Perhaps it will come in handy when you are preparing for the driving test in California:
Continue reading “Takeaways from the “California Driver Handbook 2017””
Recently, I had to update my popular utility that resets NTFS files permission to support Unicode paths. I had to investigate how to add Unicode support in Batch scripts. It seems that this was a topic I forgot to add into my comprehensive Batch files programming book.
This article is the result of my investigation, in which I am going to show you how to add Unicode support to your Batch file scripts in 3 easy steps.
One of my readers (thank you very much) left a comment saying that the people in this picture represent the faces of Indian freedom fighter and politicians:
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I found this picture on the internet and I really loved it and as usual, I would like to use it as a launching pad for today’s article.
I still remember my self when I was young, between the ages of 14 to 23, I used to envy people of my age or slightly older who seemed to have achieved the success that I want for myself.
If I saw another guy with a fancy car, I would immediately justify that by telling myself that he must have rich parents.
If I see a smart guy from a good university, I would say to myself that his parents could afford to educate him in such a prestigious university and then I would say to myself: only if I had the means, then I would have been more successful.
If I saw a guy with a hot looking girl, I would say to myself: “He must have money because that’s why the girl is hanging out with him. I don’t have a car or the money to take her out and give her a nice time”.
Back then, I could not afford to buy all the material possessions that I wanted. I remember when my peers used to have a Game Boy or a Sega Mega drive. They used to come to school and play with those game consoles and it made me feel sad and unhappy because I don’t have one myself. Often times, I would think about my parents with a bit of childish resentment. I had the sense of entitlement because I was immature.
Back then, I could not afford to take vacations or travel wherever I wanted. I was living in a continuous state of perceived lack, holding my happiness hostage to external situations. For a big part of my childhood and adulthood, It felt that my self worth really depends on how others perceive me, how much I have, what car I have, what cloth I wear, what kind of a girl friend I had. Continue reading “The Iceberg Illusion of Success”