Category Archives: EN

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Updated looklink

The program looklink has received a minor update. // Oliver

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Just signed the petition myself

… please sign as well. The death penalty is government-sanctioned murder and this petition to Barack Obama, fellow Nobel Peace Prize winner (2009) with Amnesty International (1977), tries to save the life of one particular death-row inmate, but clearly mentions … Continue reading

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Lazarus seems to become what Delphi used to be …

A few years back I turned away from Delphi. This was specifically because it is harder to express some things in Delphi than it is in other languages, but mostly due to how bloated, slow and unusable Delphi had become. … Continue reading

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Lesson learned

Today I was trying to treat an SVN dump file with sed in order to modify a few of the Node-path values. After finding out that GNU sed has no problem with binary files, I went on to formulate the … Continue reading

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svndumptool … propname for transform-prop

$ svndumptool.py transform-prop –help Usage: svndumptool.py transform-prop propname regex replace source dest I couldn’t find the possible properties detailed, so I used grep: Node-action Node-copyfrom-path Node-copyfrom-rev Node-kind Node-path … for the Node-kind and Node-action I found the following values: Node-action: … Continue reading

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The Icelandic deposit insurance

Yesterday I wrote about the veto of the Icelandic president concerning the reimbursement of IceSave depositors. After the Icelandic (and global) banksters privatized the profits, the societies of countries like Iceland are left with the – now socialized – losses. … Continue reading

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Plebiscite in Iceland

The decision of Icelandic president Ólafur Ragnar Grímsson to veto an updated resolution of the Alþingi to reimburse IceSave depositors has sparked a bit of a controversy here on Iceland. Strangely enough the majority of Icelanders I talked to would … Continue reading

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Dangerous ideas

The developing countries state that the developed countries have to cut back on carbon dioxide emissions, saying that the industrialized world is responsible for the current situation. In my opinion they’re right. However, the foundation of this statement is that … Continue reading

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De-registered сніжок.net

As already pointed out last year, the treatment of IDNs in Internet Explorer and Firefox is flawed, so that I decided to cancel the domain сніжок.net. However, apparently a few other domains have a privileged stance with respect to the … Continue reading

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DDKWizard 1.3.0 released

Hereby I announce the release of version 1.3.0 of DDKWizard which introduces support for the Windows 7/2008 Server R2 WDKs and drops support for the Windows 2000 DDKs. You can download it as usual from here: – Direct download – … Continue reading

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No reliable method, it seems

With DDKBUILD I do have to tackle NT scripting issues every now and then. Now, most people don’t even recognize that NT scripting is not the same as Batch scripting. But the functionality of NT scripting is very limiting as … Continue reading

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Not a solution

A “solution” for the missing classic start menu in Windows 7 has been proposed to me by a friend. The license does not prohibit to look into it (only changing it is forbidden), so I loaded it quickly into IDA. … Continue reading

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DDKBUILD.CMD 7.4/r43 released

All the tests were successful, thus DDKBUILD.CMD version 7.4/r43 is now released. It adds support for the Windows 7 WDKs, with the variables W7BASE or WIN7BASE (for compatibility purposes with Hollistech’s DDKBUILD.BAT, like XPBASE). To list all the newly introduced … Continue reading

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Still on it

There was no release of DDKBUILD yet, but whoever is daring enough can try the one from trunk already.

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Grotesque, but who: EFF or a former criminal?

The EFF blog contains a recent article about one German who is trying to sue the Wikipedia Foundation (in the US) in order to enforce that his last name be taken down from – or rather be abbreviated in – … Continue reading

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Ze läzy German in me

Hi, and upfront: I’m very sorry for the delays in DDKBUILD and DDKWizard development. If you are following the developments in the Windows kernel driver developer’s world, you will have noticed that neither of the tools have been updated to … Continue reading

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New find, worth a look

Just found this website: code.jellycan.com. Pretty nice code examples there and the licensing of the code is very reuse-friendly. Thanks!

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There’s truth in …

… this diagram.

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Scary

Columbia’s right-wing officials allow the US to have their army bases in the country by which surrounding countries (Venezuela, Brazil, Bolivia) feel threatened. And now that. Unlike Iran, several South-American countries do have the know-how for decades. For those who … Continue reading

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“Fun” news …

Finally John and Jane Doe, the average internet users, will get their security software from porn, gambling, banking and social networking sites if LS gets it its way. Frankly, I think this is a brilliant step in general, but it … Continue reading

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