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Category Archives: EN
VMware vSphere client 4.1 installation woes
Trying to install vSphere client 4.1 on my private machine failed (with error 4113) the first times. It turned out the problem was the “Microsoft Visual J# 2.0 Redistributable Package” was already on my system as part of Embarcadero RAD … Continue reading
Lovely, it is starting again
Reuters reports on the stopped grain exports from Russia: […] caused international grain prices to spike as markets placed bets that without shipments from one of the world’s leading exporters, global supplies would be restricted. In 2008 the price for … Continue reading
Posted in EN, Germans have no notion of sarcasm
Tagged china, famine, food crisis, hunger, iran, iraq, oil, rice, russia, saddam hussein, US dollar, usa, wheat
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LinkIconShim bequem verpackt
Hier ein vorübergehender Fix für das Problem mit LNK- und PIF-Dateien (CVE-2010-2568). Ich habe das Projekt LinkIconShim von Libor Morkovsky genommen und als MSIs verpackt um die Installation zu erleichtern. Erstmal muß man allerdings noch die korrekte MSI runterladen. Hier … Continue reading
Posted in DE, IT Security, Programming, Software
Tagged CVE-2010-2568, LinkIconShim, lnk, pif
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LinkIconShim conveniently packaged …
Here’s a preliminary fix for the problem with LNK and PIF files (CVE-2010-2568). I took the LinkIconShim from Libor Morkovsky and packaged it as an MSI for easier installation. For now you will still have to choose the right MSI, … Continue reading
Posted in EN, IT Security, Programming, Software
Tagged CVE-2010-2568, LinkIconShim, lnk, pif
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Fix for the LNK exploit
A clever fix has been made available against the exploit that has recently been found in the LNK icon handler.
Posted in EN, IT Security, Software
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Still a favorite …
After years of watching other movies my favorite dialog is still in From Dusk Till Dawn 3 – The Hangman’s Daughter when Mary Newlie suggests that Ambrose Bierce (author, among others, of The Devil’s Dictionary) might perhaps want to have … Continue reading
Posted in /dev/null, EN, Thoughts
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Collateral Murder indeed …
With emphasis on murder. This video is just sickening and very unsettling. Thanks to WikiLeaks for publishing it.
Posted in EN
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Note to self
When WriteProcessMemory fails and GetLastError returns ERROR_INVALID_ADDRESS, check the sizes of the buffer allocated against the size of the attempted write.
Posted in EN, Programming
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Redefining “Security Researcher”
A nice blog post about the Full Disclosure and friends. // Oliver
Posted in EN, IT Security, Software
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Keflavík airport closed
While I made it to Germany at Wednesday night (just hadn’t turned on my laptop yesterday), Keflavík airport has now been closed down due to the volcanic ash. // Oliver
Posted in EN, Island/Iceland/Ísland
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“Volcanic terrorism”
Apart from the cash/ash joke (btw, Icelandic really doesn’t have a letter C), I’ve heard the following two jokes as well around here: The volcanic terrorist ransom: “Leave x billion Euro in unmarked bills outside the Icelandic embassy in y … Continue reading
Webcams of Eyjafjallajökull
http://www.vodafone.is/eldgos http://eldgos.mila.is/eyjafjallajokull-fra-fimmvorduhalsi/ http://eldgos.mila.is/eyjafjallajokull-fra-thorolfsfelli/ http://eldgos.mila.is/eyjafjallajokull-fra-valahnjuk/ … and a few really beautiful shots of the volcano and or the plume: http://www.flickr.com/photos/skarpi/4528068150/ http://www.flickr.com/photos/hallgrg/4528014352/ http://www.flickr.com/photos/orvaratli/4528090113/ http://english.aljazeera.net/news/europe/2010/04/201041822341405635.html I guess I can forget my planned flight to the mainland, it’s already been delayed until tomorrow and … Continue reading
Posted in EN, Island/Iceland/Ísland
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The problem with the Icelandic alphabet
I hear there is a big donation of ash on the way over Europe, kindly donated by a little island state in the Northern Atlantic. So that’s what the Britons get now: “ash”. They had asked for “cash”. Too bad … Continue reading
Opera’s blog has selective bit rot …
In the comment section of this post in the Opera Desktop Team blog, critical comments seem to disappear mysteriously within 24 hours. 😕 I’ve been a Opera user for over a decade and paying when they still charged – and … Continue reading
“That’s all, just the planet” …
I don’t know whether it’s intentional, but this clip from Fox News is really just hilarious. I still can’t help myself thinking this might be some elaborate spoof like The Onion 😉 // Oliver
Posted in EN, Thoughts
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Überhacker
No comment. Oh, and apologies for linking to this kind of “news site” …
Posted in /dev/null, EN
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Argh … must suppress hateful thoughts …
Great, looking for flex any web search is now tainted and will actually return results for Adobe Flex. // Oliver
Posted in EN, Linux, Programming, Unix and unixoid
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Der Humpink
Wenn das mal nicht gleich den zweiten Oscar gibt 😉 NB: das Video ist Englisch!
Posted in /dev/null, DE, EN
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From Germany to Iceland with love: önnur skyrkaka
This is the kind of cheese cake as I know it, and skyr, formally a type of fresh cheese as well, works perfectly for this kind of cake. This is a bit different from the types that you can buy … Continue reading