Category Archives: EN

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DDKBUILD.CMD 7.2 released (updated)

Posted on 2008-04-20 by Oliver

Hereby I announce the release of DDKBUILD.CMD 7.2. This release fixes one issue with errors not being properly extracted from the respective file. Consequently Visual Studio would not show the errors and you wouldn’t be able to double-click the item … Continue reading →

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Is ignorance bliss?

Posted on 2008-04-19 by Oliver

Wow, look at that Quality Central article. Now look at the reply. Now look closer at the affected version and the date when it was reported. It’s unbelievable, but now – after working a while with Borland C++ Builder 6 … Continue reading →

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Overall a rotten website, but there are some gems on it …

Posted on 2008-04-16 by Oliver

Like this, for example. Description of the neighbor: Total, absolute jerk. Irresponsible. Lets his velociraptors roam freely around the neighbourhood. They ate two of my children, but thank goodness I have more or there’d be no one to put to … Continue reading →

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Busy just like me :)

Posted on 2008-04-08 by Oliver

… the guys from OSR have put up the fixed DDKBUILD versions now. Consequently I have mirrored the DDKBUILD.BAT version 6.12 on the DDKWizard website. // Oliver

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Why is it, we developers tend to …

Posted on 2008-04-06 by Oliver

… waste system resources all the time? Did you notice that, although computers are nominally a few hundred times faster than 15 years ago, software still tends to run sluggish and is overloaded with features? How comes we’re so careless … Continue reading →

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How Swedes dry their laundry

Posted on 2008-04-05 by Oliver

At the end of March, and it seems this is not a April fool’s joke, a Swedish newspaper reported on their website about the fastest residential internet connection in the world. However, the 75-year old woman didn’t appreciate the connection … Continue reading →

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DDKWizard manual revised

Posted on 2008-04-05 by Oliver

Although the manual is still perfectly valid for version 1.2.0a of DDKWizard and covers also older versions, I took the time to completely revise it. This means that it contains some updated information, some additional information and some corrections. If … Continue reading →

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Sounds like a fairly interesting idea …

Posted on 2008-04-05 by Oliver

Have a look at RunEl and don’t miss out when Chris presents the implementation of his newest idea. An UAC implementation which works on XP and Vista but is more user-friendly. // Oliver PS: I understand it’s still April, but … Continue reading →

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A real treasure

Posted on 2008-04-01 by Oliver

At South Park Studios all episodes of South Park seem to be available as live streams for free. Simply cool! Spread the word. // Oliver

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Truth dies first

Posted on 2008-03-22 by Oliver

An interesting article in English on a Chinese website shows how Western mainstream media bends truth. I have no doubt that Chinese government media does similar things, but we Westerners should be ashamed if the freedom of speech is (ab)used … Continue reading →

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DDKBUILD.CMD 7.1 released

Posted on 2008-03-21 by Oliver

One issue was reported by Vladimir Zinin in the article about DDKBUILD on OSR Online already back in October 2007. However, since I hadn’t actually built any x64 code with the newer 6001.* WDK, and since Vladimir had mentioned that … Continue reading →

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Wait a minute …

Posted on 2008-03-14 by Oliver

Jaap de Hoop Scheffer recently said that there can’t be a NATO where some members emphasize on the humanitarian aspects, while others emphasize on the combat aspect. This was mainly targetted at Germany’s role in Northern Afghanistan. Germany has sent … Continue reading →

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Faith Fighter

Posted on 2008-03-07 by Oliver

Faith Fighter is a new flash game, making the round. Give it a try. But beware, controlling your idol could either make it win or loose against the other idols 😉

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AOL’s mail servers, a pain in the b…

Posted on 2008-03-07 by Oliver

As some of you know I host the UltraVNC forum for almost four years now. Of course some users happen to have their email account at AOL. Now whenever my mail server, which doesn’t have a dynamic IP, has a … Continue reading →

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Oh noes

Posted on 2008-03-02 by Oliver

Chinese chefs have been sent to *drum roll* South England to learn the ways of Western cuisine in context of this year’s Olympic Games. 😯 No offense intended, but I didn’t find the English cuisine all too exciting when I … Continue reading →

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“Doomsday vault”

Posted on 2008-02-26 by Oliver

Now that the so-called “doomsday vault” has surfaced again in mainstream media and now that it’s finally “opened”, everyone – dictatorships and democracies alike – is invited to place the first bid…ehrm bomb. A colleague of mine, who hadn’t heard … Continue reading →

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Windows Vista SP1 (x64)

Posted on 2008-02-24 by Oliver

… so this weekend I took the time to reinstall my Vista (wanted to do that anyway after I hadn’t maintained my series of backups to revert to for that machine and I am switching from 32bit to 64bit ;)). … Continue reading →

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You must be kidding, George? Right?

Posted on 2008-02-20 by Oliver

So Fidel Castro, someone who is both, a living legend to some and a dictator to others, has resigned. Fine. Whatever people think about his person, listening to George W. Bush’s comment on Castro’s resignation gives the whole situation a … Continue reading →

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Argh …

Posted on 2008-02-10 by Oliver

… didn’t feel much of a seamless upgrade this time with the blog software. Well, it needs some fixing here and there, I guess. Especially the CSS is freaking me out. // Oliver

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What the heck is wrong with people?

Posted on 2008-02-06 by Oliver

Muslims ask for illustrations of Muhammad to be taken down from Wikipedia. Quote from the petition text follows: In Islam picture of Prophet Muhammad (PBUH) and other Humans are not allowed. But Wikipedia editors are showing illustrations with face illustrated … Continue reading →

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