Author Archives: Oliver

Don’t allow Iceland to win the ESC

Posted on 2010-02-20 by Oliver

Citizens of Europe, I implore you: don’t make Iceland win the European Song Contest 2010 if they make it to the finals. In the current economic situation, this would be the final deadly blow. So please, don’t force this onto … Continue reading →

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Not Valgrind, CDPATH

Posted on 2010-02-17 by Oliver

The problem I described just yesterday (here) seems not be to with Valgrind in particular. Today I was trying to build the file(1) utility and mysteriously failed with the same symptoms. So that made me curious. Apparently the cd command … Continue reading →

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Getting Valgrind to build on Debian 5.0.3

Posted on 2010-02-16 by Oliver

I’ve been trying this already several times over the last three months, but always failed to build the latest Valgrind from sources on my Debian box. At last I had success. The problem appears to be that for some unknown … Continue reading →

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Listing the CVS tags on a file

Posted on 2010-02-15 by Oliver

cvs status -v file |\ awk ‘/Existing Tags:/{c=1;next}c{print}’ |\ awk ‘{print $1}’ Gives a plain list of tags, nothing fancy, though …

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Demokratie endlich ad acta legen …

Posted on 2010-02-11 by Oliver

Wie die scheidende EU-Kommissarin Ferrero-Waldner jetzt auf eine Anfrage hin antwortete: ACTA should not contain measures restricting end-users’ access to the internet that would not be approparite (sic!), proportionate and necessary within a democratic society and without a prior, fair … Continue reading →

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The mysterious case of the swallowed script call

Posted on 2010-02-11 by Oliver

Just had this “mysterious” case of DDKBUILD not properly working. I could swear everything worked fine before, but the unconscious creation of a script named build.cmd would take precedence over the build utility from the DDK. Now batch and NT … Continue reading →

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Annoying use of GNU make

Posted on 2010-02-09 by Oliver

Whenever I download some source code and find that the respective maintainer/author has a Makefile or makefile inside the source tree but requires GNU make specifically I can get really annoyed really fast. Dear maintainer/author: there are literally dozens of … Continue reading →

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Moon or nukes? Nukes or moon?

Posted on 2010-02-03 by Oliver

… well, for the Nobel Peace Prize winner of 2009 it’s an easy answer: nukes; a modern and better arsenal of nuclear weapons. The ultimate goal: a world without nuclear weapons. How? To be honest I haven’t got a clue. … Continue reading →

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Hmm, being an …

Posted on 2010-02-02 by Oliver

Adonis I might also have no problem with those body scanners. But on second thought I probably still would. As BBC reports: Transport Secretary Lord Adonis said in the immediate future only a small proportion of airline passengers would be … Continue reading →

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lads

Posted on 2010-02-02 by Oliver

… and, I don’t mean the other word for “guys” or the Yule Lads, is a little program I wrote. It’s nothing special really, just a class that enumerates (or lists) alternate data streams on a given file or directory. … Continue reading →

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Praktisch

Posted on 2010-01-30 by Oliver

Nachdem ich auf der isländischen Seite von IKEA einiges gesucht aber leider nicht alle Details verstanden hatte, habe ich mich der Tatsache entsonnen, daß bei denen die Namen ja schwedisch und weltweit einheitlich sind. Das ist äußerst praktisch, denn nun … Continue reading →

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Matching pool tags in Windows drivers

Posted on 2010-01-27 by Oliver

This is a note to myself, mainly. If the PROTECTED_POOL flag is set on a pool tag, freeing it will require the use of the same tag as when allocating it. For all other purposes the tag will be ignored … Continue reading →

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China is right, it is censorship

Posted on 2010-01-27 by Oliver

If Germany or other EU countries try to block certain content due to “local laws” what’s the difference if China does it according to their “local laws”? And even the US, home of the free, is not exempt from censorship. … Continue reading →

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Updated looklink again …

Posted on 2010-01-27 by Oliver

The program looklink has received an update. This time I replaced the CSimpleBuf class by a simpler one that is owned by the CReparsePoint class for ease of use. This is also a preparation to make use of the class … Continue reading →

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ecryptfs and sshd …

Posted on 2010-01-25 by Oliver

I just made a discovery on the Ubuntu box I run. After being unable to log into it using SSH and my public key which it refused with a laconic Permission denied (publickey), I tried to dig deeper. So obviously … Continue reading →

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Bosbach, Bosbach, Bosbach …

Posted on 2010-01-24 by Oliver

In der ZDF-Sendung Markus Lanz vom 2010-01-13 mußte sich “der Rhetoriker” Wolfgang Bosbach anhören, daß Zweifel an der Praxistauglichkeit und Nützlichkeit der sogenannten Nacktscanner aufkamen. Daraufhin meinte er: … mit der … mit der Logik – wenn die Logik richtig … Continue reading →

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Cheater aus Überzeugung

Posted on 2010-01-22 by Oliver

Nico, ein bekannter Name in der Delphianerszene in Deutschland, hatte vor einigen Jahren ein Programm names AgeKey geschrieben (die alte Version findet sich hier). Dieses kleine Schmuckstück bot die Möglichkeit in der Age of Empires-Reihe (I und II) Cheats bequemer … Continue reading →

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Updated looklink

Posted on 2010-01-22 by Oliver

The program looklink has received a minor update. // Oliver

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Überraschende Post

Posted on 2010-01-19 by Oliver

Gestern bekam ich überraschend Post, oder besser gesagt Email, von “Kundensupport www.top-of-software.de” an eine von mir ansonsten kaum genutzte Emailadresse. Der Betreff besagte: Ihre Anmeldung auf www.top-of-software.de. In der Email wurde mir dann die mir zugewiesene Kundennummer verkündet (Auslassungen rot): … Continue reading →

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Just signed the petition myself

Posted on 2010-01-19 by Oliver

… please sign as well. The death penalty is government-sanctioned murder and this petition to Barack Obama, fellow Nobel Peace Prize winner (2009) with Amnesty International (1977), tries to save the life of one particular death-row inmate, but clearly mentions … Continue reading →

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