Author Archives: Oliver

Wetter nicht gut genug? Einfach fünf Minuten warten!

In Deutschland haben wir für unbeständiges Wetter ja den Ausdruck “Aprilwetter”. Hier auf Island kann man alle Facetten des Aprilwetters im Laufe eines einzigen Tages “geniessen”. Draußen hagelt’s? Kein Problem – einfach fünf Minuten warten und es regnet stattdessen oder … Continue reading

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Sommerzeit, was ist das?

… ah stimmt, das ist die Zeit in der der Zeitzonenunterschied zwischen Island und Deutschland auf zwei Stunden anwächst. 🙄 Zum Glück gibt es sowas hier auf Island nicht. Aber wozu sollte man hier auf Island auch die Sommerzeit brauchen. … Continue reading

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A very nice text

Why I Hate Frameworks Danke Mathias! // Oliver

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Don’t like the weather? Wait five minutes …

In Germany we are calling changing weather “April weather”. Here in Iceland you get the whole spectrum of “April weather” compressed in one day. Hail outside? Nah, just wait five minutes and it’s either rain or sunshine instead (or snow). … Continue reading

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Новая версия “Windows” …

Auf gut Russisch schrieb jemand by StudiVZ: Для России выпущена новая версия “Windows”. При установке новых девайсов (мышей, модемов, сидюков) выдается сообщение: “Найдено новое устройство, за это надо выпить…” … was auf gut Deutsch folgendes heißt: Für Rußland ist eine … Continue reading

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Echt krank ;)

Heute bekam ich eine Mail in der mir jemand für das phonetisch-russische Tastaturlayout dankte, welches ich auf meiner Webseite bereitstelle. In der Mail war auch ein total kranker Link auf einen total kranken Blog 😉 … ich muß gestehen, daß … Continue reading

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PuTTY Key Generator

To create a public/private key pair for use in PuTTY (i.e. OpenSSH and so on) use the following method.

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DDKWizard and DDKBUILD.CMD updated

The fixes in DDKWizard are minor except for one. This one requires manual fixing in old existing projects that have been created using DDKWizard. The problem is described in section 5.1 “Important change in version 1.1.1b”. As for DDKBUILD there … Continue reading

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Eugene Kaspersky worried about increase of malware

Read the article by yourself on Heise: Kasperskys worry about malware and hit out at Microsoft. I would therefore like to see a kind of internet Interpol. Even the best security software will, on its own, soon no longer be … Continue reading

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Wie jetzt, Borland/Codegear?

Delphi 2007 for Win32 ist also erschienen. Soll ich jetzt also updaten weil das Produkt so cool und endlich wieder schnell ist, verliere dann nur leider die anderen BDS-Produkte, die ich im Moment inklusive habe? Irgendwie fehlt mir da die … Continue reading

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Yay, indeed a nation down the drain …

A two-part video at Youtube ([1], [2]) – and more can be found under the search term “Jesus Camp” – gives a frightening insight into the insanity of evangelicals or Christian fundamentalists as a whole. I wonder whether any one … Continue reading

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Is that an official statement, LS?

I wonder whether this is an official statement on behalf of Lavasoft. Alright, there have been other statements from the PR spokesperson which are not much better, but this one is really frightening (emphasis mine): That being said, we are … Continue reading

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Русский юмор :)

Осторожно 😉 http://karaul.ru/10.11.2006/3 Удалить? http://karaul.ru/15.09.2006/7 Правда жизни http://karaul.ru/12.09.2006/6 Ужосно! Майкрософт, конечно … http://karaul.ru/08.08.2006/14 Американский юмор? http://karaul.ru/01.08.2006/9 Хобби Путина? http://karaul.ru/18.07.2006/2 … не только французского фана 😉 http://karaul.ru/13.07.2006/3 Мечта! http://karaul.ru/12.07.2006/3 Ага http://karaul.ru/30.06.2006/3 Shit happens … http://karaul.ru/28.06.2006/9 Украинский SUV? http://karaul.ru/26.06.2006/10 А где Едгар? … Continue reading

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Three in a row … LS wins!

Just kidding. … but if you didn’t notice, that is the 3rd article in a row dealing with LS. Apparently “defiance” got a job at Lavasoft. Congratulations, “defiance”. However, “defiance”, I think your Swedish is fairly bad for a Swede … Continue reading

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They are begging for PR!

LS is begging for PR it seems. There you go … Strange though … who is that third face from the right half-hidden behind a glass? Looks like I know the person, but she looks completely different than on this … Continue reading

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Who would have thought it?

ME ME ME Until today in the afternoon there was a rating facility in the “Lavasoft Beta Community” which was even used by some users of the community. The latest rating for me I was aware of was 5 out … Continue reading

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Wenn man was sucht …

… geht man normalerweise Pfade die bereits einmal zum Erfolg führten. Meine Suche nach WiX-Material (klingt schlimmer als es ist :mrgreen:) führte mich auch prompt zu einem alten Bekannten. Danke Mathias! // Olli

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Too sad … cannot beta-test my “favorite” application

When trying to register for the public beta of Ad-Aware 2007 I was amazed the server actually told me … quote: Warning: mysql_connect() [function.mysql-connect]: Too many connections in /downloads/data/www/htdocs/lavasoft/public_html/support/securitycenter/config_beta_application.php on line 3 Warning: mysql_select_db() [function.mysql-select-db]: Access denied for user ‘www’@’localhost’ … Continue reading

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Updates in the IDA SDK 5.1 …

Since it is always exciting to find new features, I thought it would be good to put up a list of the changes introduced into the IDA SDK since version 5.0! This should allow all plugin writers to get a … Continue reading

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American spelling only, please!

Today I had a good laugh when I visited this page and the accompanying list of rules (or “commandments” :mrgreen:). Despite the bias in this so-called “encyclopedia” whose only purpose is to replace the oh-so-biased Wikipedia there are some really … Continue reading

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