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21 Jul 2008

Mon, 21 Jul 2008

Programs' disk cache

Space in the home directory is not be unlimited, yet with default settings some programs make very liberal use of my precious storage.

Below is a list of programs that reserve disk space for caching purposes. And how to disable the cache altogether or reduce its size. And where it can be found (all paths are relative to the home directory, ~).

posted at: 19:53 | path: /rant | permanent link

Hagengebirge in panorama view

Hugin is a nice frontend to create panorama view; it's based on Panarama tools. The series of 8 images was takes on July 13, 2008 inbetween Ostpreussenhütte and Hochkönig, looking north-west, and stitched together.

2226x256, 85 KB
1867x318, 87 KB

The huge image version is available as well: 22256x2592, 3.87 MB and 18672x3168, 3.95 MB.

posted at: 19:45 | path: /fun | permanent link

Obfuscation pointers

On obfuscating SQL queries,here is an example:

select"NVL2"(q'<'>',"UTL_RAW".cast_to_varchar2(to_char(stats_mode(column_value)+exp(sum(ln(rownum*tan((select"REGEXP_SUBSTR"(xmltype(oracle).extract('/ROWSET/ROW/_x0032_'),'[^>:D<^]+',9)from(select"MAX"(decode(rownum,316,"+"))ilu,max(decode(rownum,845,"+"))"INU"from(select/*--*/UNIQUE/*@*/KEYWORD"+"from"V$RESERVED_WORDS"))model/*..-*/partition/*----*/by('"DUAL"'world)dimension/*--*/by(7.67e183d"X")measures(ilu,inu,lpad(':*',999)oracle)(oracle[any]=to_char(dbms_xmlgen.getxml(concat(inu[cv()],'+1."2"')||ilu[cv(x)]||cv(world)))))+.27322671529864645387899781380413953366)))),rpad('FM',34,'X')))||Initcap(concat(regexp_substr(dburitype('/SYS/DBA_PROCEDURES/ROW[PROCEDURE_NAME=''GETKEY'']/OBJECT_NAME').getxml().getstringval(),'_O.*S......_',35),replace((select"STATS_MODE"(regexp_substr(table_name,'[COTTON+XE]{4,}'))from"DICT"),'X','S'))),count(*))from/**/table(sys.odcinumberlist(4*23))connect/**/by.1>1.connect/**/by.25>rownum/100.group/**/by()
/
There have been three Haskell obfuscation contests, here is an example:
module Main where{import List;import System;
 import Data.HashTable as H;(???????)=(concat
 );(??????)(???)(????)=((groupBy)(???)(????))
 ;(??????????????????????)(????)=((??????????
 )((tail).(???????))((????????????????????)((
 ??????)(?????????????????????)(????))));(??)
 =([' ']);(??????????????)=((hashString));(?)
 =((>>=));(???????????????????????)([((???)),
 (????)])=((?????????????)(???))?(\(?????)->(
 (????????????????)(==)(??????????????))?(\((
 ???))->((??????????????????)(???????????????
 )(???)(?????))>>((?????????????????)(???))?(
 \((?????))->((((???????????????????)((????))
 ((??????????????????????))((?????))))))));((
 ???????????????????????))(??)=(????????????)
 ("usage f dic out");(?????????????????????)(
 (???),(??????))((????),(????????????????????
 ))=((???)==(????));(?????????????????)(???)=
 (toList)(???);(????????????????????)(????)=(
 ((??????????)(((??????????)(snd)))((????))))
 ;(??????????????????)(???????????????)(???)(
 (?????))=(((mapM)(((???????????????)(???)))(
 (lines)(?????))));(???????????????????)(????
 )(???????????????????????)(?????)=(?????????
 )(????)((unlines)((???????????????????????)(
 ?????)));(????????????????)(???)((????))=(((
 new)(???)(????)));(main)=((???????????)?(((\
 (???)->((???????????????????????)(???))))));
 (???????????????)(???)(????)=((????????)(???
 )((sort)(????))((??)++(????)));(???????????)
 =(getArgs);(????????????)(???)=((((print))((
 ???))));(??????????)(???)(????)=(((map)(???)
 (????)));(????????)((???))(????)(?????)=((((
 H.insert))((???))(????)(?????)));(?????????)
 ((???))((????))=(((writeFile)(???)((????))))
 ;(?????????????)(???)=(((readFile)((???))))}
In Python you'd nest lambda expressions... below codes computes the primes < 1000:
print filter(None,map(lambda y:y*reduce(lambda x,y:x*y!=0,
map(lambda x,y=y:y%x,range(2,int(pow(y,0.5)+1))),1),range(2,1000)))
And some obfuscated Python treats, such as a Brainf*ck interpreter; and a commercial Python obfuscator!

posted at: 15:28 | path: /programming | permanent link

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