Author Archives: Oliver

Death penalty took too long. Consequences? Yap!

Posted on 2006-12-17 by Oliver

The civilized world has shown its superiority again in the reactions after the execution of Angel Diaz by lethal injection in Florida took too long. Instead of finally removing the blemish from the US constitution by abolishing the death penalty … Continue reading →

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Early x-mas present: DDKWizard updated

Posted on 2006-12-16 by Oliver

As a kind of early x-mas present to the driver community, I have updated DDKWizard again. The new version is 1.0.3. Go and grab your copy at the DDKWizard website. What’s new? Three things have been changed or added: Creation … Continue reading →

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Einmal mehr schlug der dt. Rechtsstaat zu …

Posted on 2006-12-16 by Oliver

Nachdem schon Altbundeskanzler Kohl bewiesen hat, daß “die Großen” von der deutschen Justiz laufengelassen werden, gibt es nunmehr einen schönen und aktuellen Fall, der die Klassenjustiz in unserem sogenannten Rechtsstaat veranschaulicht. Da hätten wir im Abstand von weniger als einem … Continue reading →

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Fixed a minor glitch in ddkbuild.cmd

Posted on 2006-12-13 by Oliver

Today I fixed a glitch in OSR’s ddkbuild.cmd which would cause WDF builds to fail. Grab your fresh copy at the DDKWizard website or OSR. The version should be 7.0beta4a. If it is not, check back later since OSR should … Continue reading →

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Autorennspiele gehören verboten (Atmen auch)

Posted on 2006-12-08 by Oliver

Nachdem ja nun aufgrund anhaltender Amoklaufdrohungen Killerspiele verboten werden sollen, fordere ich im Zuge dieser Maßnahme auch gleich Autorennspiele zu zu verbieten. Bekanntlich gibt es pro Jahr weit mehr Tote durch Autounfälle als durch Amokläufe. Da einige der Involvierten – … Continue reading →

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Weihnachtszeit ist Pfefferkuchenzeit …

Posted on 2006-12-08 by Oliver

… und heute habe ich den Teig schonmal zum Backen vorbereitet. Sieht der nicht freundlich lecker aus? Und morgen wird er gebacken … dann guckt er aber nicht mehr so verschmitzt // Oliver

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Violating GPL to make the big money …

Posted on 2006-12-01 by Oliver

What would you think of a company that is presenting its new product which is somewhat innovative, but the product is based on OpenSource software and the company does not care about the OpenSource licenses of the used components? As … Continue reading →

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DDKWizard updated

Posted on 2006-11-26 by Oliver

There is a new version (1.0.2) of DDKWizard available. Go and grab your copy at the DDKWizard website. What’s new? Three things have been changed or added: Option to create PREfast configurations as well. The Windows 2003 and Longhorn/Vista DDK … Continue reading →

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Killerspiele gehören verboten …

Posted on 2006-11-21 by Oliver

Wie gut, daß es in Island keine bescheuerten Ordnungsfanatiker gibt, die meinen ein Amoklauf ala Erfurt oder gestern Emsdetten ließe sich durch ein Verbot von Killerspielen verhindern. Vielmehr sollten sich all jene die das fordern mal an die eigene Nase … Continue reading →

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Marketing for security companies now via Secunia!

Posted on 2006-11-19 by Oliver

<sarcasm> A great new opportunity for IT security companies which sell products to detect bugs in software automatically (static analysis) – report some vulnerabilities after running your program on a bunch of software applications and feature your own product in … Continue reading →

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Offener Brief an GMX – Betrifft: moderne Browser (nochmal)

Posted on 2006-11-16 by Oliver

Vielen Dank für die Textbausteine, die ich schonmal zugeschickt bekam und auch kommentierte (beachten Sie ruhig das Datum). Schön (oder besser gesagt peinlich), daß der Textbaustein noch nicht angepaßt wurde. Das zeigt doch deutlich wie wichtig Ihnen Topmail-Kunden sind: http://blog.assarbad.net/20060722/designfragen_gmx/ … Continue reading →

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Are you a developer reading my blog?

Posted on 2006-11-14 by Oliver

If you are a developer and have not yet heard of WinDirStat, please check it out first. Then if you like it and can imagine to write a plugin for it, give me some feedback at this blog article. Thanks. … Continue reading →

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Article: “How Two Hours Can Waste Two Weeks”

Posted on 2006-11-14 by Oliver

Over at Agile Advice, you can find a very nice blog article from the perspective of a development manager. I can tell that much: at my former company the PM (same person as DM in this case) did not take … Continue reading →

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DDKBUILD.CMD updated to version 7.0beta4

Posted on 2006-11-08 by Oliver

OSR is going to update the DDKBUILD.CMD script on their website next week. If you can’t wait, grab your copy at the DDKWizard website. A bug has been fixed which affected the build for WNET DDK with the two 64bit … Continue reading →

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Shit happens … US nuclear secrets found on USB thumb drives …

Posted on 2006-11-07 by Oliver

Read on http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/15566388/site/newsweek/ … // Oliver

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Storm in a teacup or big deal for Novell?

Posted on 2006-11-05 by Oliver

A friend of mine pointed me to the following message (“open letter”) of Novell: http://www.novell.com/linux/microsoft/openletter.html (the related press release is here). I wonder how this partnership will affect other distros, especially non-commercial. My friend says that it will have a … Continue reading →

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Redpill getting colorless?

Posted on 2006-11-05 by Oliver

Although I had posted this already at the malware research forum and received little feedback, I decided to prepare a brief research paper about this topic and post it here. The topic is that the Redpill approach by Joanna Rutkowska … Continue reading →

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Spammers screwing around with postmaster alias

Posted on 2006-11-01 by Oliver

As required by section 4.5.1 of RFC2821, the RFC detailing the SMTP (Simple Mail Transfer Protocol), the postmaster alias (e.g. postmaster@domain.tld) is required on any system running an SMTP service. So far so good. Having not gotten spam via my … Continue reading →

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Got ’em back, LS :-P …

Posted on 2006-11-01 by Oliver

Backup is always good to have … Yeah, found the stuff. Here is a screenshot of the article “Bragging Rights” referenced in this article from exactly 3 months back … Last but not least the two articles – referenced here … Continue reading →

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Lustiger Verschreiber bei Hetzner ;-)

Posted on 2006-10-31 by Oliver

Heute habe ich eine Email vom Hetzner-Support erhalten, in Deutsch und Englisch: Am Mittwoch dem 01.11.2006 steht Ihnen auf Grund des Feiertages (Allerheiligen) in Bayern kein Support zur Verfügung. Der Notfallsupport kann wie gewohnt in Anspruch genommen werden. Wednesday, 01.11.2006, … Continue reading →

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