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Dear technical writer (@Microsoft)
You write in the documentation of NtDeviceIoControlFile. Deprecated. Builds descriptors for the supplied buffer(s) and passes the untyped data to the device driver associated with the file handle. NtDeviceIoControlFile is superseded by DeviceIoControl. Could you please be a little more … Continue reading
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Little changes with big effects …
I’m using screen more and more, but this night I ran into a problem I hadn’t anticipated. I was trying to establish SSH sessions inside “pre-created” windows (using a specific screen profile). Now I wanted to automatically call an initial … Continue reading
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“Bad” Windows XP
So Microsoft offers a downgrade to the Windows 7 pre-predecessor Windows XP for everyone buying a computer until end of April 2011. Nice. Maybe the fellows at Redmond should take a minute or two and ask themselves why people are … Continue reading
Posted in EN, Software, Thoughts
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Screen and byobu
So far when using screen I was always using very simple steps and using the simplest features. But given that PuTTY doesn’t feature tabs, it’s pretty cool what you can do with screen. You can either start one or multiple … Continue reading
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Nested GNU make files …
Sometimes you want to build potential goals of nested make files, i.e. make files that reside in a different folder. The best method I’ve been able to come up with so far was this one: # Declare some (immediate) constants … Continue reading
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Slay ’em!
Today I found a highly useful tool called slay. It allows one to kick all processes of a particular user. So if I wanted to kick user joe I’d say: slay joe // Oliver
Posted in EN, Linux
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Einseitig
Die GPL ist eine Lizenz für “Freie Software” und wird von vielen Leuten als unheimlich wichtig angesehen. Freiheit definiert sich dabei nicht unbedingt durch die Freiheiten des Benutzers eines Quelltextes. Vielmehr ist die wichtigste “Freiheit” der GPL, daß der Quelltext … Continue reading
Posted in DE, Programming, Software
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Annoyance in TortoiseCVS fixed
Quite a while ago I reported a bug in TortoiseCVS 1.10.x (the Unicode versions) which more or less affects everyone that is using an alternative file manager. I for one use SpeedCommander and can highly recommend it, although for non-German … Continue reading
Maybe helpful for others …
Check out this comment to an old post about the WD MyBook World Edition. Maybe it helps you as well. // Oliver
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Yoggie for the win …
Yoggie Open Firewall Pico is a pretty cool invention. As a geek I was basically forced to get myself one of those miniature Linux firewalls. Now, no one will deny that Yoggie exists for security reasons and although the separation … Continue reading
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Package management
http://www.cromwell-intl.com/unix/package-management.html
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Draken…peng!
Da ich ehemals DSA (Das Schwarze Auge) gespielt habe, fand ich es natürlich interessant, daß es nach der Nordlandtrilogie – die ich übrigens nie selber gespielt habe, aber aufgrund eines sehr guten Freundes dennoch kenne – wieder ein Spiel gibt, … Continue reading
Posted in DE, Software
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Ubuntu giving me a headache
If we consider the scenario where you want to grant only remote access to an account (e.g. user) and know you will only do this via SSH and using key-based authentication, it makes sense to lock the user account for … Continue reading
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Conficker tools
A team of two German researchers has devised a method to detect Conficker (in its known variants) through the RSA keys which originally have been used by the Conficker authors against anyone attempting to fool Conficker into updating from an … Continue reading
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Oh my, back to the roots … (update)
We just upgraded to CodeGear RAD Studio 2009 in the company – I gave up after BDS 2006 and its overpriced upgrade paths and after noticing the direction the Delphi community was headed – and what does it require? JSharp … Continue reading
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Curiosity and the need … (updated)
… for more information about reparse points, junction points, volume mount points, symbolic links on NTFS drive (“reparse points” is the generic term for all of them) led me to write a tool called looklink. I put it into the … Continue reading
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Harmful “badware” …
Google had an issue today. I noticed it by chance when looking for the name of an author. Later, coming to the office, Friðrik told me we had a major problem in that Google flags out company website with “This … Continue reading
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Unpleasant surprise
OpenOffice.org 3.0.1 was released recently. Now I do not normally rush to upgrades but instead have my own system of keeping a clean copy for the worst case scenario. It was time again to update my “clean” image of the … Continue reading
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Yippie! IDA 5.4 Pro released …
My personal highlight is still the Bochs debugger, but I am sure I’ll take the chance and also look into the newly acquired kernel debugging features. Check out the highlights over here. // Oliver
IDA 5.4 Pro Beta released
Hex-Rays has released a beta of the upcoming version 5.4 of IDA. I was lucky enough to be allowed for the beta-test and the first new thing I noticed was that the command line field now had a button in … Continue reading