Author Archives: Oliver

Reminder to self

… if someone approaches you and asks to advertise on any of your websites, they have more to gain than you. Ergo: any such arrangement is pointless.

Posted in /dev/null, EN, Thoughts | 3 Comments

Hoppala …

Auweia …, es scheint sich doch um eine internationale Kampagne zu handeln, wie TELEPOLIS berichtet. Jetzt bin ich mal gespannt wie die folgende Aussage: Allerdings gab es auch Kritiker, die die Kampagne als blasphemisch verdammten und Einspruch vor der Advertising … Continue reading

Posted in DE, Gedanken | Leave a comment

Warum ist es eigentlich so wichtig …

… wenn sich Männer Wahnvorstellungen, die mit imaginären Freunden (Jesus, Maria, heiliger Geist …) reden, sich gegenseitig in ihren Verein der Anbetung des imaginären Freundes aufnehmen oder daraus ausstoßen? Ich spiele auf die Rücknahme der Exkommunikation eines Holocaustleugners durch den … Continue reading

Posted in DE, Gedanken | Leave a comment

Tolle Tips vom Fernsehkoch

Seit einiger Zeit hört man von den Fernsehköchen immer, daß man (Gemüse-)Paprika doch bitte schälen soll. Schälen? Jupp, die Haut sei unverdaulich und müsse daher weg. Da fragt man sich wieso das bei den Fernsehköchen immer “Haute Cuisine” heißt (Scherz!) … Continue reading

Posted in /dev/null, DE, Ich, der Zyniker | Leave a comment

Curiosity and the need … (updated)

… for more information about reparse points, junction points, volume mount points, symbolic links on NTFS drive (“reparse points” is the generic term for all of them) led me to write a tool called looklink. I put it into the … Continue reading

Posted in EN, Programming, Software | 3 Comments

“Stolz und Vorurteil”

… war der Titel der Sendung vom 2009-01-29 (Maybrit Illner). Normalerweise gucke ich sowas nicht, aber der Titel hat mich verleitet. Es ging unter anderem um Patriotismus/Nationalstolz und Reue bzgl. der Verbrechen des Dritten Reiches. (Professor) Guido Knopp hat mal … Continue reading

Posted in DE, Gedanken | Leave a comment

Harmful “badware” …

Google had an issue today. I noticed it by chance when looking for the name of an author. Later, coming to the office, Friðrik told me we had a major problem in that Google flags out company website with “This … Continue reading

Posted in /dev/null, EN, IT Security, Software | Leave a comment

Unpleasant surprise

OpenOffice.org 3.0.1 was released recently. Now I do not normally rush to upgrades but instead have my own system of keeping a clean copy for the worst case scenario. It was time again to update my “clean” image of the … Continue reading

Posted in EN, Software | Leave a comment

Yippie! IDA 5.4 Pro released …

My personal highlight is still the Bochs debugger, but I am sure I’ll take the chance and also look into the newly acquired kernel debugging features. Check out the highlights over here. // Oliver

Posted in EN, Reversing, Software | Tagged | Leave a comment

“Terrorists” sending aid to UK

Following an article in the Daily Express that as much as one out of twelve pensioners may die as a result of the cold winter, Icelanders have sent woolen garments to the UK. An incredible gesture after last year’s use … Continue reading

Posted in EN, Island/Iceland/Ísland, Thoughts | Leave a comment

Gimme dope Obama …

Check it out here.

Posted in /dev/null, EN | 1 Comment

Auweia …

Gotteslästerliche Atheisten haben in Spanien, wo anders als in Deutschland die Trennung von Staat und Kirche in der Verfassung steht, Werbung geschaltet die behauptet, daß Gott vermutlich garnicht existiere. Das hat die katholische Kirche natürlich leicht aufgebracht Mehr davon! Überall. … Continue reading

Posted in DE, Gedanken | Leave a comment

IDA 5.4 Pro Beta released

Hex-Rays has released a beta of the upcoming version 5.4 of IDA. I was lucky enough to be allowed for the beta-test and the first new thing I noticed was that the command line field now had a button in … Continue reading

Posted in EN, Reversing, Software | Tagged | Leave a comment

We have done it all …

“Secure” deletion of some piece of data. Programs, whether commercial or free – such as Eraser – offer to overwrite the data several times according to “DoD standards” (referring to the US department of defense) and so on. A study … Continue reading

Posted in /dev/null, EN, IT Security, Software | 1 Comment

Useful script for MSVC users …

I wrote a little .cmd script (for the NT script interpreter, cmd.exe) that can be used to get the environment for the newest, or a specified installed version of Visual C++, similar to what the link from the start menu … Continue reading

Posted in /dev/null, EN, Programming | Leave a comment

Zlob author leaves new year’s wishes in variant

As you can read here, the author of Zlob has once again hidden a message inside a variant. This time it’s about best wishes for the new year to the MS virus response team and future plans, so to speak. … Continue reading

Posted in /dev/null, EN, IT Security, Software | Leave a comment

Arrived 1.1

I updated the program Arrived to version 1.1. There is one important change in this version that breaks compatibility, but I am convinced there are rather few users anyway 😉 The change is to use CreateProcess() instead of ShellExecute(). That’s … Continue reading

Posted in /dev/null, EN, Programming, Software | Leave a comment

Neues aus Stenkelfeld!

Gerade bemerkt, die sind wieder da und NDR2 hat ein paar alte Folgen als Podcasts verfügbar gemacht. // Oliver

Posted in /dev/null, DE | Leave a comment

The woes of debug builds

I like C++, and I use Visual Studio to make use of it most of the time, even though plenty of that code is later also used on other platforms. However, when you build in debug mode, sometimes the results … Continue reading

Posted in /dev/null, EN, Programming | Leave a comment

“Silvesterkonzert 2008”

In Germany New Year’s Eve is called Silvester, called after some saint. The Berlin philharmony gave its “Silvester” concert yesterday and it has been made available on the web as a video stream. Check it out here. I liked the … Continue reading

Posted in /dev/null | 2 Comments