Category Archives: EN

Anything that does not fit into other categories …

Situation room (CNN) covered by The Daily Show

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Can people change?

Lately there has been a huge discussion in Germany about privacy issues connected with those social network websites of the web 2.0. In Germany there is one called StudiVZ which is more or less modeled after FaceBook, as I am … Continue reading

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Iceland back into the war!

Enjoy. Jason Jones of “The Daily Show” attempts to bring Iceland back into the coalition of the willing and Icelands troop back into the war in Iraq … HILARIOUS! Jason Jones’ mission is to get Iceland back to the Coalition … Continue reading

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Interesting comments on the US presidency election

Follow this link! I don’t share all thoughts, but some are certainly interesting and seem to have a foundation. And since this is in English, I thought why not share it with the readers of my blog 😉 // Oliver

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“Sektenexperten” bezeichnen Cruise als Goebbels

Laut GMX haben “Sektenexperten” – gemeint der Sektenbeauftragte der evangelischen Kirche in Brandenburg, Thomas Gandow, und der (selbsternannte) Historiker Guido Knopp – Tom Cruise mit Joseph Goebbels, seines Zeichens Propagandaminister der Nazis in den tausend Jahren zwischen 1933 bis 1945 … Continue reading

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DDKBUILD 7.0 final released

I am pleased to announce the release of DDKBUILD.CMD 7.0 final. User input has helped a lot to define the feature set and refine the features once introduced. It has been almost two years since the first public beta, so … Continue reading

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From Corrine: “Lavasoft Turning to the Dark Side?” (update)

Corrine posted this today and points to this. For obvious reasons I cannot and will not comment on it. Update #1: Out of curiosity I searched for more related info. Guess what, something came up. As an exercise for my … Continue reading

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AQTime 5.4 introduces support for VS2008

On 2008-01-11 AutomatedQA sent out the notification about AQTime 5.4 being available. Today I had the chance to test my private license on my own machine and it appears that it integrates just as nicely into Visual Studio 2008 as … Continue reading

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Catholic church being ridiculous again

A colleague sent me this link today, after a short discussion during lunch. It shows again how ridiculous the self-proclaimed universal church is. Never mind the criticism of Harry Potter or having it called “satanism” or so. I just don’t … Continue reading

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WD MyBook World Edition

I had just bought the WD MyBook World Edition a while ago, since I needed some kind of storage solution that wouldn’t occupy yet another USB/firewire port and could be accessed from different machines at the same time. As such, … Continue reading

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IDA 4.9 Freeware

… and no more excuses from those pirating IDA. Datarescue made a freeware version 4.9 of IDA available for download. In the scope of IDA Palace, I have mirrored the files on two more servers. One of the servers is … Continue reading

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A useful note to self (and perhaps others)

If one gets the message that the number of connections to a W2K3 server has been exceeded when trying to connect via RDP, there are several options. The most elegant is IMO this one: %windir%\\system32\\mstsc.exe /v:machinename /f /console … which … Continue reading

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My custom keyboard layouts

Please check out the link named MSKLC in the navigation in the header, if you’re interested in some customized keyboard layouts to use out of the box. // Oliver

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DFHL 1.2a

I just built and released DFHL 1.2a. This version has some minor improvements over the 1.2 version. One is, that the version number shown by the program got finally fixed. Another one is, that it links to the version 6 … Continue reading

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DDKWizard 1.2.0a – clarification

I just fixed a cosmetic glitch in DDKWizard. If you downloaded 1.2.0, there’s no need to download it again. No program logic has changed! // Oliver

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Why I can’t move on …

Some people have asked me why I can’t let it rest and have the whole story with my former employer forgotten and buried once and for all. Well, what would you do in case your employer (or former employer) isn’t … Continue reading

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“WIPO steals for their loved ones”

Read it here Commerce commerce commerce commerce commerce commerce commerce commerce commerce commerce commerce commerce commerce commerce commerce commerce commerce commerce commerce commerce commerce commerce commerce commerce commerce commerce commerce commerce commerce commerce commerce commerce commerce commerce commerce commerce commerce … Continue reading

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MD5 is dead

Scientists have shown that the attack method devised against MD5 in 2004 is usable and can even trick code-signing tools into “believing” that the binary is the same. We announce two different Win32 executable files with different functionality but identical … Continue reading

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Spiderman in Moscow

Look here!

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DDKWizard 1.2.0 released (new license)

I am pleased to announce that version 1.2.0 of DDKWizard has just been released. You can download it as usual from here: – Direct download – Project website So, what’s new in this version? Not much and more than ever, … Continue reading

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