Category Archives: Programming

Posts about programming topics

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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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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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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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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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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Endlich mal wieder was aus meiner Branche auf deutsch

… und die F-PROT 4 Engine holt auf und auf. Ein Glück auch, daß wir es noch geschafft haben ein Produkt zu veröffentlichen, welches statt 4.3er-Serie, die 4.4er-Serie unserer Engine benutzt. Enthalten u.a. eine neue Heuristikengine mit dem (durchaus ernstzunehmenden) … Continue reading

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Yay, Visual Studio 2008 released.

… I should definitely create a category “tools of my trade”

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Good job, Chris!

This is the first release of the new JEDI Windows API (JWA) and JEDI Windows Security Code Library (JWSCL). JWA is known as the JEDI Windows API header conversions. JWA can be compiled into one jwaWindows unit. There is no … Continue reading

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Bash’s your friend

Oh, and a hint for everyone who is still greping through the bash history to find the command he used … well, way back. Try Ctrl+R 😉 Yeah, hit Ctrl+R when on the console and enter the first few characters … Continue reading

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Bash bash bash

Yes, indeed bash has become my favorite shell. Not only is it so versatile, but some of those advanced features make it best-suited for almost any task you’ll ever face on a console. And if it is not enough for … Continue reading

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Let me get this straight: DDKWizard uses DDKBUILD (and hence uses DDK/WDK build.exe)

Today, searching for references to DDKWizard, I found that several people have posted misleading information in response to others recommending DDKWizard. For the most part they are recommending to use the DDK/WDK build environment. Bravo. That’s just what DDKWizard does, … Continue reading

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Congratulations, Remko!

Remko, fellow developer and friend through the common ties to an OSS project, has opened his own website and blog. Take a look. I find the articles up to now most enjoyable. Especially the programming-related stuff 😉 // Oliver

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Let’s pimp ‘newvserver’

newvserver is a truly convenient script to create a new vserver and have it largely preconfigured. Too sad it lacks the necessary flexibility … you think? Think twice. Bash gives newvserver the flexibility that you need! Alright, so you figured … Continue reading

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For archival purposes

To be able to install Visual Studio 2003 without prerequisites, start the setup.exe from the setup subfolder with the following parameter: /NO_BSLN_CHECK A complete command line would look like this: N:\setup\setup.exe /NO_BSLN_CHECK // Oliver

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The day we put Windows under GPL

A few weeks ago some people were trying to convince me (but they didn’t manage to) that any program that loads a library (i.e. binary) which is under GPL has to be under GPL automatically as well. Now, this viral … Continue reading

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DDKBUILD.BAT updated

OSR just updated their DDKBUILD.BAT to version 6.11! If you use this version, I recommend to update. As usual either at OSR Online or at the DDKWizard homepage. // Oliver

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comdef.h in the WNET DDK is flawed

#if defined(_COM_SMARTPTR) #if !defined(_COM_SMARTPTR_TYPEDEF) #if defined(_COM_SMARTPTR_LEVEL2) The error was: comdef.h(266) : error C2004: expected ‘defined(id)’ comdef.h(266) : error C1012: unmatched parenthesis : missing ‘)’ // Oliver

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Getting the SIDT base address with Delphi

function GetSIDTBaseAddress: DWORD; assembler; asm sub esp, 8 // create stack frame sidt qword ptr [esp] mov eax, dword ptr [esp+2] // write into EAX for return value add esp, 8 // clean up stack end; … or if the … Continue reading

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