Piotr Krzysztof Sobolewski

My name is Piotr Sobolewski. This is the website about me and things I've done. Attention: this is incomplete and imprefect english version of my website. For complete and perfect experience learn polish and take a look at the polish version of this site. Attention: this is the archive of anything I've ever done. You can find here things I've done when I was young, very young. Don't think I am so stupid now.

who am I, contact
my blog (in polish)
blog of voyages (in polish)
I am making a newsletter (second URL) on a free (like in free beer) entertainment in Warsaw, Poland. (in polish)
I make the database of polish milk bars (bary mleczne). (in polish)
I'm married
TV and press about me (in polish):
- Teleexpress shows wierszofon (watch it)
- w radio Bis talks about wierszofon
- Metropolu writes about wierszofon (pdf)
- Gazeta Wyborcza writes about wierszofon (fullres) (what is wierszofon?)
- notka o Wstepie Wolnym w magazynie Internet
- na TVP3 mowili w dzienniku o Wstepie Wolnym
- w gazecie Ozon napisali, jak ja z Ula zyjemy
- rowniez w TVP nas pokazali, jak zyjemy (niestety, tu jest tylko opis programu, samego programu nie mamy nagranego, bo nawet nam **** nie dali znac, kiedy bedzie emisja, ot, profesjonalizm) (kopia lokalna)
- Polish radio Bis told about us (full) (in polish)
what queries people ask to get to my site
I do devices:
- wierszofon – poetry device (in polish)
- clocks
- connector
I like games and puzzles
- 5-10-15 (in polish)
- Where is Tomasz Sekielski. (not funny outside of Poland)
Sometimes I do some programs.
Visual stuff:
- short fragment of Nad Niemnem turned into old movie
- handmade billboards
- Lorelei by Malczewski in HDR
- paintings in HDR
- sectioning movies
- I do games, toys and visualisations (in polish)
- this is howto postprocess photographed books in GIMP
- puppet show.based on traditional Polish joke on Pole, German and Russian
- plaster casts of hands, legs, faces and things
- the robak movie: flash, avi or sources
- I collect unknown paintings of great Polish painters:
  - zaginiony obraz Artura Grottgera pt. przekuwanie kos z powrotem (not funny outside of Poland)
  - zaginiony obraz Jana Matejki pt. Pippi Langstrumpf przeprasza polskie dzieci za potop szwedzki (not funny outside of Poland)
- my photos
- scanograms
- Films. I don't want to waste server diskspace, so my films are not available to download here. If you want to see them, just email me, and I will put you them on some ftp. But I warn you: that films are stupid.
  - wall hole (in polish)
  - one day of mr. bottle (in polish)
  - autumn of pafnucy (in polish)
  - pafnucy and the egg (in polish)
- I digitized some of my famous slideshow movies (in polish)
- I want to be a vj
- the globe of Poland
- collages: 1 2 3
- comics: (in polish) 1 2 3
- maze (in polish)
Sound stuff:
- I read and record Nowe Ateny (in polish)
- I collect sound quotations: (in polish)
- the sound of silence is a sound record (in polish)
- zwierciadło poczciwości i szlachetnego serca is a cd-mag with 12 hours of me speaking etc (in polish)
- my music in modules
- with some colleagues (mostly Klay) we do hearings about Kapitan Żenada (in polish)
- music in abc format:
  - European Union anthem: abc midi nuty
  - wlazł kotek na płotek (traditional polish song): abc midi scores
information security
- I'm interesting in compromising emanations
- 2003-2004 I've been an editor in chief of hakin9 magazine.
- publications:
  - Stack based buffer overflow, hakin9 magazine, issue 4/2004: in english, polish, french, spanish, german
  - Format string vulnerabilities, hakin9 magazine, issue 5/2004: in french, polish, german, spanish
  - Shellcodes in Python, hakin9 magazine, issue 5/2004: in polish (fragment), spanish, french, german.
- lectures, workshops etc:
  - I make workshops on IT security breaking techniques.
  - I coorganised IT underground conference, Warsaw 2004; I also had a lecture on format strings there.
  - I coorganised IT underground conference, Prague 2005. I had a lecure on man in the middle attack on e-bank account and format strings workshop there..
  - Twice I had a lecture on DDoS, but I don't like it.
  - At some conference I had a lecture on what is spam and how spammers use our machine to send spam. I dont like this lecture.
  - Twice I had a lecture on my little hobby: port scanning detection and hiding; here you can download recorded lecture, slides and some other materials; but this is old and poor version. (in polish)
- I'm interested in port scanning hiding and detection, soon I will finish the proof of concept tool using my own smart technique.
- I made simple tool (look_for_hidden_files) that checks if there are any hidden files on your disk (sort of anti rootkit tool).
- this tool (herodot) interprets the timeline of filesystem operations generated by mactime
- I debugged and ported to 2.6 patchfinder.
- I debugged and a little bit changed utmp editor and wtmp editor; lastlog editor had no bugs to fix, but needed a little comment
- there was some problem with THC's hydra, seems I fixed it.
- I like to download in bulk things that were not supposed to be downloaded.
Sometimes I write things, make texts, essays etc:
- how to read "kanta kweru" (in polish)
- once I wrote a brief history of toilets
- simple text game (in polish and almost croatian)
- when I was younger I was making zines (in polish and almost croatian)
- I like polish interpunction (in polish)
- when I studied I translated (from english to polish) a piece of New American Practical Navigator by Nathaniel Bowditch; download pdf, latex albo html (in polish)
- in my young years I was making e-zines:
  - Plastelinki (in polish)
  - Głos Śmietnika nr 3 (in polish)
  - Miewaliśmy Lepsze Dni, nr 2 (ja, Filip Stefaniak i Elmo) (in polish)
  - Miewaliśmy Lepsze Dni, nr 1 (ja, Filip Stefaniak i Elmo) (in polish)
  - Poczytaj Mi Sobol (wyciąg ze skanów) (in polish)
  - Głos Marynarza, Rybaka i Łowcy Absolutu, nr 4 – zin from the deep sea (in polish)
  - Głos Marynarza, Rybaka i Łowcy Absolutu, nr 3 – zin from the deep sea (in polish)
  - Głos Marynarza, Rybaka i Łowcy Absolutu, nr 2 – zin from the deep sea (in polish)
  - Głos Marynarza, Rybaka i Łowcy Absolutu, nr 1 – zin from the deep sea (in polish)
  - others, old and stupid
I do different things:
- connector between the jack audio and the roaster
- plate clock
- spoon clock
- skirts – alas, now I have only one picture...
I do different actions:
- I record movies from TV and talks from radio, this is the listing
- I try to reconst, how the old orthodox church from Saski square (Warsaw, Poland) would look like with contemporary background
- sometimes I go for excursions:
  - Madrid places of The Manuscript found in Saragossa (in polish)
  - bulls running in Gallicien
  - summer 2007, excursion to Kłodzko with our mums (in polish)
  - summer 2007, proof of concept excursion with a travel trailer (in polish)
  - spring 2007, excursion to Kruszyniany (in polish)
  - spring 2006, excursion to Andalucia (in polish)
  - 2006.09.13, excursion to Katowice (in polish)
  - 2006.07.31, excursion to Wyszkow (in polish)
  - map of places, where you can stop when you drive
- I look for interesting or rare music, or just interesting sets of songs,
- I do city minitourism – like walking Warsaw
  - once there was a mailing list on Warsaw walking (now the list is asleep): warszawski spacering (in polish)
  - city orienteering (in polish)
- I do city stickers with urls to description of the places I stick the stickers at (in polish)
- I am founding father and an active member of Smutek Podlasia internet comunity:
  - you can take a look at our wiki of Smutek Podlasia (mostly in polish); especially I advice you to take a look at:
    - twenty four (and still growing) implementations of pomidor game. For those of you who don't speak Polish: pomidor means tomato. The game of pomidor is quite simple: one person asks some questions and the other player always answers pomidor. You loose if you say something else or if you laugh. This is the game polish children play.
- The mind of Karola N. was snail mail mailing list, here you can see its archives (in polish)
- Pogromcy Dyliżansów, train bandits' site (in polish)
- polomony are polish pokemons (in polish)
- file cementary (in polish)
- sometimes I discuss on Usenet; here are some threads started by me which I found interesting:
stuff done by others:
- garbage letters
- drawings by Jacek Malczewski child
- fair use zone – stuff that only my friends can access (you must log in)
- pretty songs from the garbage
- thai cinema history posters,
- prodigies (psycho poster from the wall) (in polish)
- Patriotyczna Partia Narodowa Kryształ (psycho poster from the wall) (in polish),
- drunk young girls (in polish),
- spice girls, zin made by children (in polish)
- Biblia Tysiąclecia (Bible in Polish):
  - Bible in Polish as plain text unicode file (in polish)
  - Bible in Polish as XML (in polish)
- kettle operator manual – scan of the great handbook (in polish)
- short fragments of the music I like
- it's not easy to find in the Internet high quality scans of 1900-1939 Warsaw newspapers. So I went to the library and scaned some fragments of Nowy Kurier 2 Grosze magazine. Here they are: high quality scans in djvu and thumbnails in png.
  - Nowy Kurier 2 Grosze, nr 2/1911, page 3 (skan) (in polish)
  - Nowy Kurier 2 Grosze, nr 2/1911, page 3 (thumbnail) (in polish)
  - Nowy Kurier 2 Grosze, nr 4/1911, page 4 (skan) (in polish)
  - Nowy Kurier 2 Grosze, nr 4/1911, page 4 (thumbnail) (in polish)
  - Nowy Kurier 2 Grosze, nr 6/1911, page 3 (skan) (in polish)
  - Nowy Kurier 2 Grosze, nr 6/1911, page 3 (thumbnail) (in polish)
  - Nowy Kurier 2 Grosze, nr 11/1911, page 2 (skan) (in polish)
  - Nowy Kurier 2 Grosze, nr 11/1911, page 2 (thumbnail) (in polish)
  - Nowy Kurier 2 Grosze, nr 12/1911, page 1 (skan) (in polish)
  - Nowy Kurier 2 Grosze, nr 12/1911, page 1 (thumbnail) (in polish)
some photos of what's happened:
- old photos of the berlin squat Kleine Hamburger Strasse / Linien Strasse
- autumn 2005, my wedding
- autumn 2005, we visited Elmo^SmutekPodlasia
varia:
- access modifiers in Java (in polish)
- some of my documents (in polish)
- notatki do Rękopisu znalezionego w Saragossie (in polish)
- Spanish-Polish words collection, useful if you learn Spanish (in polish)
- number grinder
- palcem po mapie – shows random place at world's map
- my private (and a bit chaotic) notes on music (in polish)
- stuff:
  - projektor elew
  - russian tools
- the contents of my wardrobes (in polish)
- does it make sense to remove station's logo while compressing the movie?
- what bpp is the best for compressing the movies

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