Articles by Volodymyr Obrizan

News from Domestic Football

I open my RSS reader in the morning, and there’s this:

Football.ua readers consider Dynamo the most popular club in Ukraine

As it turned out, the rich history and long hegemony of Kyiv Dynamo in our football have still not been forgotten — it was the capital club that …

Hobbies

When I was a kid, I had several hobbies. My brother and I collected empty cigarette packs. But then we threw them out. Then we collected tin cans: from beer, vodka, and soft drinks. We gathered more than 160 of them (different ones). They gathered dust, ruined the interior, and …

Arrival and Leaving Again

Saint Petersburg is beautiful.

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I’d gladly tell you about what a wonderful time I had in Piter and Moscow. But right now I’m leaving for Yevpatoria. So you’ll have to wait until next week.

How Glad I Am

How glad I am! How glad I am! That I’m going to Leningrad!

September 17–19 I’ll be at the East-West Design & Test conference in St. Petersburg. This time I’m participating only as a speaker.

On September 20 I’ll spend the whole day taking a bus …

Help in Discovering an Exploit

At work, the guys analyze rootkits and exploits. According to Microsoft, successfully.

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Vulnerability in Print Spooler Service Could Allow Remote Code Execution (2347290) This security update resolves a publicly disclosed vulnerability in the Print Spooler service. The vulnerability could allow remote code execution if an attacker sends a specially …

Suddenly Roma Became a Teacher

And now it turns out that Roma Prikhodchenko has become a teacher. A fourth-year student will be teaching third-year students. Ololo.

I took one group from Lopukhin for the System Software course. I’m teaching my own program, which includes Unix-like systems, virtualization, and version control systems. All topics are …

On the Design of Online Magazines

People used to say that movies would kill theater. Then they said television would kill movies. Then they said the internet would kill television, movies, theater, books, magazines, radio. But for now, somehow, they all live together. The internet did not become a replacement for the things mentioned. It became …

Monument

Information is an invaluable resource for an animal, a bird, a fish, and all the more so for a human. As soon as the fish grasped the importance of information and knowledge, of accumulating and preserving them, it began its path of evolution.

Meanwhile, the fund has already raised UAH …

Error Messages in clang

One of the requirements for clang — the new C++ compiler — was to provide the user with detailed information about errors. Let’s look at a small example.

[]double UniversalGravitation(double G, double mass1, double mass2, double distance) {     double F = G * ((mass1 * mass2)/(distance * dsitance));     return F; }

There’s a typo …