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I hate internet fame but so many people have asked for this so I'll give in to popular demand I'm hackbunny and I'm a windows internals buff. I was a reactos developer in 2001-2010 but most of my knowledge comes from reverse engineering (which the reactos project actively discourages because it can be considered a violation of copyright) ask me anything, especially the juicy scandalous bits, about :
disclaimers: I apologize in advance because my posts will be pretty humor-free: english is not my native language and I'm terrible at humor in english. this makes me a bad YOSPOSter but I like the YOSPOS theme and typing in lowercase my posts are typed almost entirely from memory so they'll contain lots of mistakes I've been out of the windows development game for years, so my knowledge is stuck in the past. Windows 2000 is probably the version I know best, followed by XP and the old NTs. I know a little about the lower level parts of Vista, but anything after that will be just guesswork (although I can make good guesses) I try to avoid technical terms specific to Windows unless they're especially unique/stupid. I find it easier to explain things in more general terms, but I can go in detail, just ask hall of efforposts past: wherein an overview of windows debugging tools is presented wherein glimpses of the naked horror of win32k system calls are caught briefly wherein system calls are recursively called from kernel mode wherein a critical look is cast on asynchronous I/O wherein impressive acrobatics are performed by the windows 9x kernel, and an encore wherein win32 calling conventions are rationalized wherein users of msvcrt.dll are strongly cautioned wherein a secret POSIX compatibility feature is exposed wherein the definitive case for or against the feasibility of fork in win32 is presented wherein the architecture, and evolution thereof, of a commercial UNIX layer for windows is sketched
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all detail all the time.
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Nov 6, 2014 00:54
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Nov 6, 2014 01:11
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i dont have a question but i like your posts and will be looking at this thread!
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Nov 6, 2014 01:25
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You're posts is cool so I will ask a question; what is the difference between a .com and a .exe
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Nov 6, 2014 01:35
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whats your native language. mine is python.
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Nov 6, 2014 01:36
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mods please do NOT gas this thread
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Nov 6, 2014 01:51
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best thread
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Nov 6, 2014 02:04
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why is command prompt so, command prompty i guess ie any insight as to why being able to select lines instead of regions debuts 13 years after windows stops being based on dos as an ~*~experiement~*~ thread gonna be awesome no matter what though
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Nov 6, 2014 02:06
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how many sections can a PE executable have and still run? what about threads? i've had this idea for a crackme... wtb more hours in a day
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Nov 6, 2014 02:18
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what's the legacy-for-compat system that is least likely to be replaced in the near future? do you do come-to-a-company-and-entertain-them talks?
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Nov 6, 2014 02:21
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carry on then posted:why is command prompt so, command prompty i guess as someone who uses a unix terminal all the time and occasionally switches to powershell and goes "wtf why is this so goddamn broken", please answer this.
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Nov 6, 2014 02:21
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quote:I was a reactos developer in 2001-2010 how did it feel to waste a decade of your life? an accomplishment of shadowhawkian proportions
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Nov 6, 2014 04:25
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did reactos support copy paste in its command prompt
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Nov 6, 2014 04:26
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what are you doing now?
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Nov 6, 2014 04:38
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MALE SHOEGAZE posted:what are you doing now? 
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Nov 6, 2014 04:43
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Luigi Thirty posted:did reactos support copy paste in its command prompt lol
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Nov 6, 2014 04:50
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what the gently caress is this poo poo lmao
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Nov 6, 2014 04:59
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Jonny 290 posted:[A]sk me about OS/2 WARP
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Nov 6, 2014 05:07
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Jonny 290 posted:what the gently caress is this poo poo lmao
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Nov 6, 2014 05:21
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why aren't any of the good new modern UI bits MS uses in things like IE and office available to people to use in wpf or winforms. do ms keep rolling their own custom frameworks for every product still
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Nov 6, 2014 05:29
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hackbunny posted:ask me anything, especially the juicy scandalous bits, about : i don't know a dang thing about vb much less 5/6 but : gimme
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Nov 6, 2014 05:46
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yes, yes
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Nov 6, 2014 06:14
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why were certain portions of direct x working in win 9x but not in win NT 4? most notibly sound and direct input.
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Nov 6, 2014 06:17
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thanks for posting an OP I gess
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Nov 6, 2014 06:23
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I like yospos effortposts and I like this thread
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Nov 6, 2014 06:26
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bookmarking this to read all those posts in the op instead of working tomorrow
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Nov 6, 2014 06:29
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omg ground floor 
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Nov 6, 2014 06:48
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my stepdads beer posted:why aren't any of the good new modern UI bits MS uses in things like IE and office available to people to use in wpf or winforms. do ms keep rolling their own custom frameworks for every product still there's (finally) a WPF ribbon framework in .net 4.5. i tried it on windows 8 and iirc the way it blended into the window border/title bar was broken. it looks like it supports all of the office 2010/2013 features though
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Nov 6, 2014 06:58
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chmods please posted:there's (finally) a WPF ribbon framework in .net 4.5. i tried it on windows 8 and iirc the way it blended into the window border/title bar was broken. it looks like it supports all of the office 2010/2013 features though weren't there some pretty restrictive rules on using the ribbon, like you couldn't ever use the ribbon in an application which competed with any office app?
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Nov 6, 2014 07:06
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teh ribban
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Nov 6, 2014 07:07
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how the hell does IDispatch work? does it artisinally handcraft each call into an implementation? all i know is that there's voodoo with the typelib and the C++ vtable and afaik a giant black box in the middle ...odds that the office team rolled their own implementation?
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Nov 6, 2014 07:17
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carry on then posted:weren't there some pretty restrictive rules on using the ribbon, like you couldn't ever use the ribbon in an application which competed with any office app? afaik yes but i think that's only a license you have to sign for commercial distribution, if it's still enforced
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chmods please posted:how the hell does IDispatch work? does it artisinally handcraft each call into an implementation? all i know is that there's voodoo with the typelib and the C++ vtable and afaik a giant black box in the middle I have no idea how DispInvoke works, but you can take a look at libffi's source for something similar but without all the COM.
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chmods please posted:there's (finally) a WPF ribbon framework in .net 4.5. i tried it on windows 8 and iirc the way it blended into the window border/title bar was broken. it looks like it supports all of the office 2010/2013 features though every time i've been motivated to develop on windows i keep getting frustrated my apps look nothing like the other 'native' ones the MS makes without an autistic level of customisation and i give up. eh.
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Nov 6, 2014 09:04
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hackbunny posted:I'm a windows internals buff. why?
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Nov 6, 2014 09:14
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yo um this is really weird
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Nov 6, 2014 09:26
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gtround fl00r of an epic thread
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pre-emptive 5 because i know this is gonna be good
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