Author Archives: Oliver

Lazarus seems to become what Delphi used to be …

Posted on 2010-01-17 by Oliver

A few years back I turned away from Delphi. This was specifically because it is harder to express some things in Delphi than it is in other languages, but mostly due to how bloated, slow and unusable Delphi had become. … Continue reading →

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Lesson learned

Posted on 2010-01-13 by Oliver

Today I was trying to treat an SVN dump file with sed in order to modify a few of the Node-path values. After finding out that GNU sed has no problem with binary files, I went on to formulate the … Continue reading →

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svndumptool … propname for transform-prop

Posted on 2010-01-07 by Oliver

$ svndumptool.py transform-prop –help Usage: svndumptool.py transform-prop propname regex replace source dest I couldn’t find the possible properties detailed, so I used grep: Node-action Node-copyfrom-path Node-copyfrom-rev Node-kind Node-path … for the Node-kind and Node-action I found the following values: Node-action: … Continue reading →

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The Icelandic deposit insurance

Posted on 2010-01-06 by Oliver

Yesterday I wrote about the veto of the Icelandic president concerning the reimbursement of IceSave depositors. After the Icelandic (and global) banksters privatized the profits, the societies of countries like Iceland are left with the – now socialized – losses. … Continue reading →

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Plebiscite in Iceland

Posted on 2010-01-05 by Oliver

The decision of Icelandic president Ólafur Ragnar Grímsson to veto an updated resolution of the Alþingi to reimburse IceSave depositors has sparked a bit of a controversy here on Iceland. Strangely enough the majority of Icelanders I talked to would … Continue reading →

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Aufbau West

Posted on 2009-12-24 by Oliver

Hatte gestern eine wunderbare Geschäftsidee. Da man sich in den alten Bundesländern mittlerweile – zu Recht – darüber beschwert, daß die Straßen verkommen während sie in den neuen Bundesländern mit dem Soli bis ultimo verschönert werden (wir lassen Forst-Keune mal … Continue reading →

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Ой, какой был слон, какой был слон …

Posted on 2009-12-24 by Oliver

Jaja, die bösen Deutschen wieder. Der “Ausländer” mit dem Hocker … 😉 “Gut gut, ja ja […] Слон плохой! Справка хороший!” Kurze Erklärung für die deutschen Leser. Der Ausländer mit dem Hocker (инностранец с табуреткой) versucht in dieser Kurzserie einen … Continue reading →

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Indecisive climate summit …

Posted on 2009-12-19 by Oliver

Sorry fellows, you’re laughable. No actual steps have been formulated … BIG SUCCESS!!! Celebrate yourself, world elite!

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Beim Tippen des letzten Beitrags …

Posted on 2009-12-18 by Oliver

… fiel mir etwas auf. Auf der von mir derzeit benutzten US-englischen Tastatur – für das Programmieren ist sie einfach bequemer – gibt es keine Taste für “§”. Was sagt das über uns Deutsche aus? // Oliver Update: dänische Tastaturen … Continue reading →

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Am deutschen Wesen soll die Welt genesen

Posted on 2009-12-18 by Oliver

Wie Mathias schon vor einigen Tagen berichtete, hat ein Hamburger Geschäftsmann in Forst sein blaues Wunder erleben dürfen, da an der Scheibe oberhalb seiner blauen, rechteckigen, mit einem P markierten, jedoch etwas kleineren italienischen Parkscheibe ein Knöllchen angebracht war. Laut … Continue reading →

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Software auf der Straße

Posted on 2009-12-17 by Oliver

Letztens fuhr ich ganz gemütlich auf der A3 und sah plötzlich eine Windows-Fehlermeldung “Exception: failed to allocate memory […]” auf dem Navi (Becker Traffic Assist Highspeed 7934). Nach dem Anklicken des OK-Knopfes war der Fehler wieder weg. Später, immernoch auf … Continue reading →

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Dangerous ideas

Posted on 2009-12-15 by Oliver

The developing countries state that the developed countries have to cut back on carbon dioxide emissions, saying that the industrialized world is responsible for the current situation. In my opinion they’re right. However, the foundation of this statement is that … Continue reading →

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De-registered сніжок.net

Posted on 2009-12-06 by Oliver

As already pointed out last year, the treatment of IDNs in Internet Explorer and Firefox is flawed, so that I decided to cancel the domain сніжок.net. However, apparently a few other domains have a privileged stance with respect to the … Continue reading →

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DDKWizard 1.3.0a released

Posted on 2009-12-05 by Oliver

This is a maintenance release that just adds one change to the driver template (thanks Jan!) and several changes in the documentation. Nothing in the code has changed, it will identify as version 1.3.0. You can download it as usual … Continue reading →

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Wie wird man Volksvertreter

Posted on 2009-12-05 by Oliver

Wer nix wird, wird Wirt. Wer gar nix wird, wird Betriebswirt. Und wem dieses nicht gelungen, handelt mit Versicherungen. Ist die Bude trotzdem kalt, wirst du eben Rechtsanwalt. Kommst du damit keinen Meter, werde einfach Volkszertreter (Quelle: Benutzer “cassiel”, hier.)

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DDKWizard 1.3.0 released

Posted on 2009-11-29 by Oliver

Hereby I announce the release of version 1.3.0 of DDKWizard which introduces support for the Windows 7/2008 Server R2 WDKs and drops support for the Windows 2000 DDKs. You can download it as usual from here: – Direct download – … Continue reading →

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No reliable method, it seems

Posted on 2009-11-29 by Oliver

With DDKBUILD I do have to tackle NT scripting issues every now and then. Now, most people don’t even recognize that NT scripting is not the same as Batch scripting. But the functionality of NT scripting is very limiting as … Continue reading →

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DDKBUILD.CMD 7.4/r60 released

Posted on 2009-11-28 by Oliver

Update #2: the flaw did indeed exist. I fixed it, the new revision is 60! I updated the links, this file, the RSS feed. All the tests were successful, thus DDKBUILD.CMD version 7.4/r60 is now released. It improves the error … Continue reading →

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Not a solution

Posted on 2009-11-25 by Oliver

A “solution” for the missing classic start menu in Windows 7 has been proposed to me by a friend. The license does not prohibit to look into it (only changing it is forbidden), so I loaded it quickly into IDA. … Continue reading →

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DDKBUILD.CMD 7.4/r43 released

Posted on 2009-11-19 by Oliver

All the tests were successful, thus DDKBUILD.CMD version 7.4/r43 is now released. It adds support for the Windows 7 WDKs, with the variables W7BASE or WIN7BASE (for compatibility purposes with Hollistech’s DDKBUILD.BAT, like XPBASE). To list all the newly introduced … Continue reading →

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