Author Archives: Oliver

Ой, какой был слон, какой был слон …

Jaja, die bösen Deutschen wieder. Der “Ausländer” mit dem Hocker … 😉 “Gut gut, ja ja […] Слон плохой! Справка хороший!” :mrgreen: Kurze Erklärung für die

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Indecisive climate summit …

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 …

… 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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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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Werbung

Zwei Freunde von mir haben einen mittlerweile fast zweijährigen Sohn, Onni Máni, der schon seine eigene Webseite hat und überhaupt ein sehr fröhlicher Bursche ist (siehe Webseite). Die Mutter des Kleinen hat nun das Hobby, Sachen für ihren Kleinen zu … Continue reading

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Still on it

There was no release of DDKBUILD yet, but whoever is daring enough can try the one from trunk already.

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Guess not

Today I tried the Visual Studio 2010 Professional Beta 2. As already reported for the Beta 1 it prompted for a restart twice. Once after the Microsoft .NET Framework 4 Beta 2 component and once after the Microsoft Windows Installer … Continue reading

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Grotesque, but who: EFF or a former criminal?

The EFF blog contains a recent article about one German who is trying to sue the Wikipedia Foundation (in the US) in order to enforce that his last name be taken down from – or rather be abbreviated in – … Continue reading

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Ze läzy German in me

Hi, and upfront: I’m very sorry for the delays in DDKBUILD and DDKWizard development. If you are following the developments in the Windows kernel driver developer’s world, you will have noticed that neither of the tools have been updated to … Continue reading

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New find, worth a look

Just found this website: code.jellycan.com. Pretty nice code examples there and the licensing of the code is very reuse-friendly. Thanks!

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