Category Archives: Software

“The system cannot execute the specified program.”

Posted on 2010-11-02 by Oliver

There is a pretty interesting article over at winprogger.com about the problems connected with IMAGE_DLLCHARACTERISTICS_FORCE_INTEGRITY (set through /integritycheck ever since VS2005) and ERROR_INVALID_IMAGE_HASH (aka Win32 error code 577). Now, I’ve been fighting with this problem for two full days and … Continue reading →

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Painful lessons I had to learn again and again

Posted on 2010-11-02 by Oliver

Since this is something I’ve stumbled over several times now and since it is discussed in Microsoft’s documentation only as if there is only the option to import it into your store, i.e. within your user account. Now, I was … Continue reading →

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Fighting with Windows 7 SDK

Posted on 2010-11-01 by Oliver

I’ve been fighting with the Windows 7 SDK which kept complaining that I have no Visual Studio 2005 or 2008 installed. Well, I don’t have 2008 installed, but I do have 2005. Problem, however, was that most posts on the … Continue reading →

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What also disappeared

Posted on 2010-10-31 by Oliver

Back to the topic of the Windows 7 task bar, I noticed that MS decided to strip yet another useful function: the system menu. On older Windows versions right-clicking the task bar button for a running program would show the … Continue reading →

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Aua aua aua …

Posted on 2010-10-22 by Oliver

Habe bei meiner Mutter einen Funkwerk Eumex 401 installiert. Natürlich auch die Software draufgeworfen. Schlimm schlimm. Bisher hatte ich über die Funkwerk-Produkte nur Gutes gehört, aber nun hatte ich mit deren Software zu tun. Die Erfahrung war niederschmetternd. Erstens waren … Continue reading →

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Revived Quick Launch keeps disappearing

Posted on 2010-10-14 by Oliver

So, after solving part of the mystery surrounding the Quick Launch in Windows 7 to restore at least some of the functionality that MS decided to strip, the Quick Launch keeps disappearing. Reboot once and everything appears to be fine. … Continue reading →

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Check it out: Visual Studio 2010 Help Downloader

Posted on 2010-10-13 by Oliver

Mathias pointed me to the Visual Studio 2010 Help Downloader. Will give this a try soon. I hate when I have to be online to access the docs. But the VS 2005 docs are obviously not up-to-date for Windows 7, … Continue reading →

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The so-called superfluous “Quick Launch” and Windows 7

Posted on 2010-10-10 by Oliver

I was and still am really unhappy that Microsoft decided to take away our choice of using the classic start menu and task bar with the introduction of Windows 7. Not only was it faster to use, it also never … Continue reading →

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Kleines Cheat-Skript für “Drakensang – am Fluß der Zeit”

Posted on 2010-10-05 by Oliver

Wie man schon von mir weiß, bin ich ein Cheater. Ich lege mehr wert auf die Geschichte welche mir ein Computerspiel erzählt, als darauf langwierig die gleiche Stelle wieder und wieder zu versuchen bis es gelingt. Hier ist ein kleines … Continue reading →

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SQLite index optimization

Posted on 2010-09-18 by Oliver

Learned one fascinating fact tonight: when creating indices for a table in SQLite the order in which the columns are indexed seems to have a huge impact on performance. On the table in question, which has 20.2 million rows, one … Continue reading →

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cvsnt [server aborted]: Couldn’t open default trigger library: No such file or directory

Posted on 2010-08-18 by Oliver

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 →

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VMware vSphere client 4.1 installation woes

Posted on 2010-08-08 by Oliver

Trying to install vSphere client 4.1 on my private machine failed (with error 4113) the first times. It turned out the problem was the “Microsoft Visual J# 2.0 Redistributable Package” was already on my system as part of Embarcadero RAD … Continue reading →

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LinkIconShim bequem verpackt

Posted on 2010-07-28 by Oliver

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 →

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LinkIconShim conveniently packaged …

Posted on 2010-07-28 by Oliver

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 →

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Fix for the LNK exploit

Posted on 2010-07-20 by Oliver

A clever fix has been made available against the exploit that has recently been found in the LNK icon handler.

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Redefining “Security Researcher”

Posted on 2010-04-26 by Oliver

A nice blog post about the Full Disclosure and friends. // Oliver

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Opera’s blog has selective bit rot …

Posted on 2010-03-25 by Oliver

In the comment section of this post in the Opera Desktop Team blog, critical comments seem to disappear mysteriously within 24 hours. 😕 I’ve been a Opera user for over a decade and paying when they still charged – and … Continue reading →

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Argh … must suppress hateful thoughts …

Posted on 2010-03-15 by Oliver

Great, looking for flex any web search is now tainted and will actually return results for Adobe Flex. // Oliver

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ecryptfs and sshd, again

Posted on 2010-02-25 by Oliver

In January I described an issue with ecryptfs and sshd. Now I wanted to get X11 forwarding to work with it, but the problem essentially remains the same. All I got this time was: /usr/bin/X11/xauth: timeout in locking authority file … Continue reading →

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Second impression …

Posted on 2010-02-23 by Oliver

After Remko encouraged me to to continue trying – pointing out how much he liked the various features in RAD Studio 2010 – I did continue. The Setup.exe in the folder D:\BDS2010\Install did the job of installing. Frankly speaking, the … Continue reading →

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