Pop quiz hotshot: You're on a bus with no Internet connection. You absolutely need to interface some new C++ code with a shoddy old C interface based on function pointers. The new C++ code makes heavy use of functors to carry state between call invocations. The C code must call these C++ functors by way of a function pointer, and only a function pointer. Your function pointer prototype cannot take any additional arguments for the class type. What do you do? What do you do...

This was an entertaining little one-off. Basically, it started with the l0pht announcing a sniffer detection utility on Friday, July 23, 1999. Coincidentally, I was bored late that night at the NCSA when I was reading their announcement, and decided I'd spend the night defeating their program. Normally I would have just went home, but when I realized that I could call my program The AntiAntiSniffer Sniffer, I couldn't resist. I worked through the night and the next day, and by Sunday, I had come up with something that in theory, defeated all of their methods of sniffer detection, 3 days before they actually released the detector.

This is another project inspired by the PosterChildren. I was listening to their song by the same name, and decided I felt like coding a visualization program for the Lorentz Strange Attractors. I also wanted to brush up on my NDE skillz, and so I implemented a vectorized 4th-order Runge-Kutta solver to plot the thing. This was actually a pretty ridiculous idea. I think I was on drugs or something.