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cvsnt [server aborted]: Couldn’t open default trigger library: No such file or directory
To my surprise I noticed CVSNT is now only available for money (and compared with my other development tools for a lot of money, so I’ll stick with Mercurial which comes with plenty of better features for which I would … Continue reading
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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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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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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Not Valgrind, CDPATH
The problem I described just yesterday (here) seems not be to with Valgrind in particular. Today I was trying to build the file(1) utility and mysteriously failed with the same symptoms. So that made me curious. Apparently the cd command … Continue reading
Posted in EN, Linux, Programming, Unix and unixoid
Tagged autoconf, automake, bash, debian, file, Linux, valgrind
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Getting Valgrind to build on Debian 5.0.3
I’ve been trying this already several times over the last three months, but always failed to build the latest Valgrind from sources on my Debian box. At last I had success. The problem appears to be that for some unknown … Continue reading
Posted in EN, Linux, Programming, Unix and unixoid
Tagged autoconf, automake, Linux, valgrind
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Listing the CVS tags on a file
cvs status -v file |\ awk ‘/Existing Tags:/{c=1;next}c{print}’ |\ awk ‘{print $1}’ Gives a plain list of tags, nothing fancy, though …
Posted in EN, Programming, VCS
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The mysterious case of the swallowed script call
Just had this “mysterious” case of DDKBUILD not properly working. I could swear everything worked fine before, but the unconscious creation of a script named build.cmd would take precedence over the build utility from the DDK. Now batch and NT … Continue reading
Posted in DDKWizard/DDKBUILD, EN, Programming
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Annoying use of GNU make
Whenever I download some source code and find that the respective maintainer/author has a Makefile or makefile inside the source tree but requires GNU make specifically I can get really annoyed really fast. Dear maintainer/author: there are literally dozens of … Continue reading
lads
… and, I don’t mean the other word for “guys” or the Yule Lads, is a little program I wrote. It’s nothing special really, just a class that enumerates (or lists) alternate data streams on a given file or directory. … Continue reading
Posted in DDKWizard/DDKBUILD, EN, Programming, Software
Tagged ads, alternate data stream, public domain
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Matching pool tags in Windows drivers
This is a note to myself, mainly. If the PROTECTED_POOL flag is set on a pool tag, freeing it will require the use of the same tag as when allocating it. For all other purposes the tag will be ignored … Continue reading
China is right, it is censorship
If Germany or other EU countries try to block certain content due to “local laws” what’s the difference if China does it according to their “local laws”? And even the US, home of the free, is not exempt from censorship. … Continue reading
Posted in EN, IT Security, Programming, Software, Thoughts
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Cheater aus Überzeugung
Nico, ein bekannter Name in der Delphianerszene in Deutschland, hatte vor einigen Jahren ein Programm names AgeKey geschrieben (die alte Version findet sich hier). Dieses kleine Schmuckstück bot die Möglichkeit in der Age of Empires-Reihe (I und II) Cheats bequemer … Continue reading
Posted in /dev/null, DE, Delphi, Programming
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Updated looklink
The program looklink has received a minor update. // Oliver
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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
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
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