Hiermit verabschiede ich mich in zwei Wochen (hoffentlich sehr sonnigen) Urlaub. Diese Zeit wird auch größtenteils internetfrei sein, weswegen hier keine neuen Code Candies von mir gebloggt werden.

; AFTER DISASSEMBLY I have this impression:
;
; This is what Bill Gates said… when Win95 was going to be
; released:
;
; “Gates: OK, then we’re ready to press the CD’s and start
; shipping out this new load of shit, but of course nobody
; will notice… harr harr.
; Employee: Hey, Mr. Gates what about the Boot Sector?? We
; haven’t written the FAT32 support routines there yet…
; Gates: Ah, that’s right… anybody?? We have just 45 minutes…
; Employee #2: Well, I think I can hack some shit together…
; Gates: Fine, go for it… remember you have only 44 minutes…
; Employee #2: I think I can do it.
; Gates: Fine, then I’ll just go home… We’ve made it!!”
;
; FUNNY?
;
; There is some really strange code in this boot record….
;
; I bet Bill Gates hired some crazy mother f*cker to write
; this shit. It seems like he had really tried to make the
; code fit within one sector. But when it didn’t hid just
; decided to use three instead…
;
; This is a typical microsoft solution, they mix stupid 8086
; code… with cheap solutions and then suddenly they use
; 386 code…
;
; And then there is the new FAT32 data structures where they
; have moved the volume label, FileSystem ID and serial
; number down to make room for some extended FAT32 variables…
; it sucks. Why not rearange the whole structure… An OS
; would not try to interpret the shit anyway, because
; the Partitioni Table SYSID has changed with FAT32.
;
; As I said… crazy mother f*cker…
;
; Well, well… here’s some of the stuff… with a mix of mine
; and sourcer’s comments…

Source: Direct link to the source code
Software: win95 boot sector
Programming language: Assembly

/* HAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAACK!, do not translate the next
 * line!, Since this is the default string we might as well
 * use the gettext translation as we will likely have better
 * translations there. Yes ugly as f*ck, but oh well,
 * unfortunately two standard defaults are in circulation */

Source: Direct link to the source code
Software: GDM – GNOME DISPLAY MANAGER
Programming language: C

/* Yeah, yeah. Cheap hack, but it’s guarenteed to work! :)
 * The following just hacks the returned track name into
 * the variable
 */

Source: Direct link to the source code
Software: kover
Programming language: C++

// Let me explain a history about OrenetaDataInputStream.
// Once upon a time, there was a java programmer (aka Abel),
// who extended DataInputStream Class to support reading of
// complex data structures, as Inet4 and Inet6 address.
// He used the ‘read’ method of DataInput Stream, and told
// him to read ‘x’ bytes of data, as ‘x’ was the size of the
// data he wanted to read. But sometimes, extrange data
// appeared in the java application. He wondered from
// where it came, but he didn’t discovered until debugged
// the C server, captured the network packets and finally
// debugged the OrenetaDataInputStream Class. He spent
// many days and many hairs, but finally he knowed tha he
// must use the method ‘readFully’, that blocks until it read
// ‘x’ bytes. He congratulated himself and enjoyed it with
// cheers of red wine with his friends. (22-07-2003).

Source: Direct link to the source code
Software: Oreneta
Programming language: Java

// i know one can make it with fewer code but i don’t have
// the time to do it; just imagine i’m an old IBM programmer
// getting paid per ten lines of code ;)

Source: Direct link to the source code
Software: Predoc
Programming language: Java