Category Archives: EN

Anything that does not fit into other categories …

DDKWizard demo video

Posted on 2008-07-05 by Oliver

I’ve created and uploaded a little demo clip about how easy it is to create a project with DDKWizard. (Hint: you need Flash enabled.) If you want a higher quality and higher resolution, try this link! More instructional videos about … Continue reading →

Posted in DDKWizard/DDKBUILD, EN, Programming | 1 Comment

“Sausage yourself” …

Posted on 2008-07-04 by Oliver

or “Pulsaðu þig” … can you read in places where you can buy the (in)famous Icelandic hotdogs. Creative use of the language. While we’re at it. Pylsusinnep is called sinnep, i.e. mustard, but it just got some mustard flavour in … Continue reading →

Posted in EN, Island/Iceland/Ísland | 1 Comment

Coming home late …

Posted on 2008-07-01 by Oliver

This is, what happens if you get home late in Reykajvík during summer. You look at the night sky and think, let’s go down to the sea and take a few pictures. The pictures were taken between about 00:50 to … Continue reading →

Posted in DE, EN, Island/Iceland/Ísland | 8 Comments

Argh … mysqld giving me a hard time

Posted on 2008-06-30 by Oliver

First I killed one server (domU) by having log_bin turned on (and cluttering the disk drive with several GiB of logs), although I do not need replication. Then I ran out of memory with mysqld on the server on which … Continue reading →

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Getting rid of SSH brute forcers

Posted on 2008-06-29 by Oliver

I am usually using different methods in a combination. In the sshd_config I declare AllowGroups with the group ssh-users. This group does never contain root. Furthermore I set PasswordAuthentication no and generally authenticate only by key. Root login is of … Continue reading →

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Beware the msvcrt.dll

Posted on 2008-06-28 by Oliver

As noted previously, the msvcrt.dll got the state of a system library and is thus included in systems from XP up. On earlier systems you will have to have a particular service pack level or get the redistributable package with … Continue reading →

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Version numbers of DDKBUILD.CMD and DDKWizard

Posted on 2008-06-27 by Oliver

I have just finished moving all previous DDKBUILD.CMD and DDKWizard versions under version control – subversion, to be more precise. This means there will be a change of the way how the version number is represented. Currently we have the … Continue reading →

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Prick passing chain – unpleasant questions

Posted on 2008-06-26 by Oliver

… at work or elsewhere, how often have you met those guys who pretend they can do things they don’t even have a clue of? How often did such a person not only lie but hold you ransom by initiating … Continue reading →

Posted in EN, Thoughts | 5 Comments

I am told that size doesn’t matter (anymore)!

Posted on 2008-06-25 by Oliver

Chris Wimmer, a fellow programmer, told me in a chat today, that the size of applications doesn’t matter. But I’ll let you decide. However, the program which he wrote is worthwhile regardless of its size. Even more so the library … Continue reading →

Posted in IT Security, Programming, Software | 6 Comments

A quick reply

Posted on 2008-06-24 by Oliver

The assertion that I rushed to my decision as it was raised couldn’t be further from the truth. First of all it hasn’t been the first time for me to think about this step and secondly I had several sleepless … Continue reading →

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Giving up on the Delphi community

Posted on 2008-06-24 by Oliver

Hi, after some sleepless nights and thinking a lot about the pros and cons, I decided to leave the Delphi community. It isn’t clear to me, whether it is the Delphi community that changed so much, or whether it is … Continue reading →

Posted in EN, Programming, Thoughts | 12 Comments

Serious development over at ReactOS

Posted on 2008-06-24 by Oliver

Read this: http://www.reactos.org/pipermail/ros-dev/2008-June/010461.html and then this: http://www.reactos.org/pipermail/ros-dev/2008-June/010462.html Update: nope, you don’t get the impression that James is taken serious. http://www.reactos.org/pipermail/ros-dev/2008-June/010463.html … although he is serious about it. But it seems this time ReactOS has been hijacked for good. Take a … Continue reading →

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OpenBSD’s NTPD inside a Debian domU

Posted on 2008-06-23 by Oliver

To get the package openntpd installed was easy, but to get it to work, required some search. In order to have a domU use an independent clock, you have to set a kernel variable. In a running system you do … Continue reading →

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Fascinating problem with SCP

Posted on 2008-06-22 by Oliver

Today I had a fascinating issue with SCP (Secure Copy). I was a bit flabbergasted when several attempts to copy a 800 MiB file failed … after a while. You could see that the transfer rate was going up. Since … Continue reading →

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Let me know if anyone has problems accessing …

Posted on 2008-06-21 by Oliver

… this blog or any of the subdomains of assarbad.net, assarbad.info or assarbad.org. If this is the case, something went wrong with the migration to a different server. Otherwise you should perhaps not even have noticed. Except if you have … Continue reading →

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When is Opera 9.51 scheduled?

Posted on 2008-06-21 by Oliver

I’ve got one pretty interesting problem which is highly annoying in my opinion. As a fan of Opera, I have of course upgraded immediately to Opera 9.50 when it was released. Experience so far was always good. Not so this … Continue reading →

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Not a flop then, it seems

Posted on 2008-06-19 by Oliver

The Firefox 3 Download Day was apparently less a flop than it seemed at first glance (i.e. within the first two hours). They got more than 8 million downloads in 24h, but for some reason the start and end times … Continue reading →

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Yep, polar bears are definitely endangered now!

Posted on 2008-06-18 by Oliver

While the Icelandic police had my understanding with shooting the first polar bear in twenty years, after it had approached a settlement, this is definitely just stupid now. There is no excuse for the killing of the two polar bears … Continue reading →

Posted in EN, Island/Iceland/Ísland | 1 Comment

Firefox 3 Download Day 2008, a flop? (update)

Posted on 2008-06-17 by Oliver

The download day for the world record attempt in the number of downloads by the Firefox community seems to be(come) a flop. It’s now 45min after the whole thing started and apparently the servers can’t handle the number of requests. … Continue reading →

Posted in EN, Software | 5 Comments

SpeedCommander 12.20 released

Posted on 2008-06-16 by Oliver

If you’re juggling files beyond the desktop and still use Windows Explorer, check out SpeedCommander. The new version has gotten even better and unlike another popular “commander-like” file manager it has full Unicode support and even has a native x64 … Continue reading →

Posted in EN, Software | 5 Comments