Category Archives: Software

Argh …

… 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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Interesting MSDN Magazine article

Folow link!

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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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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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Yummy

I’ve upgraded to IDA Pro Advanced 5.2 recently and I really really like it. Good job as always, Ilfak! // Oliver

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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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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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WinDirStat detected as a trojan

Read here …

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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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Gutsy Gibbon again

A very good walkthrough to get parts of the Pavilion dv6xxx series running with Gutsy Gibbon or Feisty Fawn

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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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Ubuntu Gutsy Gibbon

After purchasing a new notebook, a friend convinced me to test Ubuntu on it. Since I am a Debian fan and Ubuntu is based on Debian, he didn’t have a hard time convincing me. So after figuring out the correct … 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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