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Island in die EU?!
Letzte Woche war bekanntlich die Abstimmung hier im Alþing (dem isländischen Parlament) über die Frage ob Island ein Beitrittsgesuch zur EU abgeben sollte.
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What is the attacker trying to tell me?
To me it looks a bit like the attacker has a few stereotypes to satisfy by his attack on my server (which is located in Germany, although I’m located in Iceland ).
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Dear technical writer (@Microsoft)
You write in the documentation of NtDeviceIoControlFile. Deprecated. Builds descriptors for the supplied buffer(s) and passes the untyped data to the device driver associated with the file handle. NtDeviceIoControlFile is superseded by DeviceIoControl. Could you please be a little more … Continue reading
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Forum am Freitag, Wort …
… zum Sonntag. Wann kommen die Sendungen zum humanistischen Montag, zum hinduistischen Dienstag, zum Jedi-Mittwoch und zum Agnostiker-Donnerstag?
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How to get the instance handle of a DLL?
How can you get the instance handle of a DLL, if the function that you write is linked into the DLL but you have no access to hInstance from the DllMain? GetModuleHandle only allows you to get the handle to … Continue reading
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GNU make for the win …
I’ve just replaced my little shell script that was helping me to update the hash files inside my postfix configuration. While before I had hardcoded the paths/names, they are now simply fetched by means of find. In addition to the … Continue reading
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Little changes with big effects …
I’m using screen more and more, but this night I ran into a problem I hadn’t anticipated. I was trying to establish SSH sessions inside “pre-created” windows (using a specific screen profile). Now I wanted to automatically call an initial … Continue reading
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It was about time, wasn’t it?
I stated previously that I’m opening up my Subversion repositories. Now you can also do checkouts instead of just looking at them. You’ll find a little note below the directory listing inside each repository available in this way (for now … Continue reading
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Visual Studio 2010 will be the new version 6?
Everyone loved Visual Studio 6 and many people continued using it despite the availability of VS 2002, 2003, 2005 and 2008. Now, I saw Microsoft promise on some website that version 2010 will be the new version 6. Somehow I … Continue reading
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Note to self
In order to avoid: Command line warning D9025 : overriding ‘/EHc-‘ with ‘/EHc’ with DDK/WDK projects in the sources file specify USE_NATIVE_EH=1 instead of USER_C_FLAGS=$(USER_C_FLAGS) /EHsc
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“Bad” Windows XP
So Microsoft offers a downgrade to the Windows 7 pre-predecessor Windows XP for everyone buying a computer until end of April 2011. Nice. Maybe the fellows at Redmond should take a minute or two and ask themselves why people are … Continue reading
Posted in EN, Software, Thoughts
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Ziviler Ungehorsam
Nun ist es passiert. Hier auf Island ist ein scheinbar braver Bürger in Álftanes mal ausgerastet. Das in 2003 erbaute Eigenheim legte er mit einem gemieteten Bagger in Schutt und Asche und begrub sein Auto gleich noch dazu im Vorgarten. … Continue reading
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Screen and byobu
So far when using screen I was always using very simple steps and using the simplest features. But given that PuTTY doesn’t feature tabs, it’s pretty cool what you can do with screen. You can either start one or multiple … Continue reading
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“CDU, det kenn ick doch …”
… werden sich bei der sog. Europawahl wohl so einige gedacht haben, als sie begannen den Wahlzettel von oben her durchzulesen. Und das wird auch der Grund sein, warum soviele schon da hängen blieben. Ich schlage vor die Aufstellung der … Continue reading
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Back
The comments are enabled again for most posts. Sorry that it took longer than anticipated. But now I’m up-to-date with WordPress 😉
Nested GNU make files …
Sometimes you want to build potential goals of nested make files, i.e. make files that reside in a different folder. The best method I’ve been able to come up with so far was this one: # Declare some (immediate) constants … Continue reading
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Slay ’em!
Today I found a highly useful tool called slay. It allows one to kick all processes of a particular user. So if I wanted to kick user joe I’d say: slay joe // Oliver
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Einseitig
Die GPL ist eine Lizenz für “Freie Software” und wird von vielen Leuten als unheimlich wichtig angesehen. Freiheit definiert sich dabei nicht unbedingt durch die Freiheiten des Benutzers eines Quelltextes. Vielmehr ist die wichtigste “Freiheit” der GPL, daß der Quelltext … Continue reading
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Du bist Terrorist
Du Bist Terrorist.de (Danke Chris!) // Oliver PS: Ein wenig gewagt ist es schon sowas mit einer .de-Domain zu registrieren. Die kann schnell mal weg sein, wenn die Seite dem BKA nicht gefällt.
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Annoyance in TortoiseCVS fixed
Quite a while ago I reported a bug in TortoiseCVS 1.10.x (the Unicode versions) which more or less affects everyone that is using an alternative file manager. I for one use SpeedCommander and can highly recommend it, although for non-German … Continue reading