Author Archives: Oliver

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

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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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ROFLMAO

Posted on 2006-10-30 by Oliver

Have a look at this link … // Oliver PS: Yes, Germans actually have (some sort of what you could eventually call) humor 😉

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Des Rätsels (Auf)Lösung

Posted on 2006-10-28 by Oliver

Nachdem einige gerätselt haben was ich denn wohl in Island so treiben könnte, kann ich es jetzt ja verraten. Ich habe bei “FRISK Software International” (oder “Friðrik Skúlason ehf.” wie die Firma hier offiziell heißt) als Engine-Entwickler angeheuert. Wie es … Continue reading →

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Lost in Iceland, too

Posted on 2006-10-28 by Oliver

Thanks to Mike I am now lost in Iceland, too. The weather has not been too nice in the last few days, but at least it has not been as cold as the name Iceland suggests either. After some problems … Continue reading →

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Cool: Lavasoft blog cleaned … (update #1)

Posted on 2006-10-27 by Oliver

Hi fellows, today I recognized that LS has removed all stuff from the Lavasoft blog. Interestingly all of my blog entries (e.g. this one) have been cleaned up including the one to which I am referring here. Surely just a … Continue reading →

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DDKWizard updated

Posted on 2006-10-22 by Oliver

Last night I worked on DDKWizard again and got it updated to support all current versions of Visual Studio .NET as well as the respective Visual C++ products and last but not least the Express version of Visual C++ 2005! … Continue reading →

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Die Bahn kommt … manchmal auch am falschen Gleis an

Posted on 2006-10-22 by Oliver

Bevor ich am letzten Montag meinen Flug nach Island antrat, mußte ich natürlich irgendwie nach Berlin/Schönefeld kommen. Da bot sich “Die Bahn” einfach an. Also schaute ich im Internet nach den aktuellen Fahrplänen und guckte mir eine Verbindung aus. Der … Continue reading →

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