Category Archives: Software

They say the first impression is important

Posted on 2010-02-23 by Oliver

Here’s mine. I downloaded the “RAD Studio 2010 Architect – 30 day trial” (well, they don’t offer the Professional version because then people would notice the limitations and perhaps not buy it – this way they buy it, Embarcadero gets … Continue reading →

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Not Valgrind, CDPATH

Posted on 2010-02-17 by Oliver

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 →

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Getting Valgrind to build on Debian 5.0.3

Posted on 2010-02-16 by Oliver

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 →

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Annoying use of GNU make

Posted on 2010-02-09 by Oliver

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 →

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lads

Posted on 2010-02-02 by Oliver

… 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 →

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Matching pool tags in Windows drivers

Posted on 2010-01-27 by Oliver

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 →

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China is right, it is censorship

Posted on 2010-01-27 by Oliver

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 →

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ecryptfs and sshd …

Posted on 2010-01-25 by Oliver

I just made a discovery on the Ubuntu box I run. After being unable to log into it using SSH and my public key which it refused with a laconic Permission denied (publickey), I tried to dig deeper. So obviously … Continue reading →

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Lazarus seems to become what Delphi used to be …

Posted on 2010-01-17 by Oliver

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 →

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Lesson learned

Posted on 2010-01-13 by Oliver

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 →

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svndumptool … propname for transform-prop

Posted on 2010-01-07 by Oliver

$ 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 →

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Software auf der Straße

Posted on 2009-12-17 by Oliver

Letztens fuhr ich ganz gemütlich auf der A3 und sah plötzlich eine Windows-Fehlermeldung “Exception: failed to allocate memory […]” auf dem Navi (Becker Traffic Assist Highspeed 7934). Nach dem Anklicken des OK-Knopfes war der Fehler wieder weg. Später, immernoch auf … Continue reading →

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DDKWizard 1.3.0 released

Posted on 2009-11-29 by Oliver

Hereby I announce the release of version 1.3.0 of DDKWizard which introduces support for the Windows 7/2008 Server R2 WDKs and drops support for the Windows 2000 DDKs. You can download it as usual from here: – Direct download – … Continue reading →

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No reliable method, it seems

Posted on 2009-11-29 by Oliver

With DDKBUILD I do have to tackle NT scripting issues every now and then. Now, most people don’t even recognize that NT scripting is not the same as Batch scripting. But the functionality of NT scripting is very limiting as … Continue reading →

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Not a solution

Posted on 2009-11-25 by Oliver

A “solution” for the missing classic start menu in Windows 7 has been proposed to me by a friend. The license does not prohibit to look into it (only changing it is forbidden), so I loaded it quickly into IDA. … Continue reading →

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DDKBUILD.CMD 7.4/r43 released

Posted on 2009-11-19 by Oliver

All the tests were successful, thus DDKBUILD.CMD version 7.4/r43 is now released. It adds support for the Windows 7 WDKs, with the variables W7BASE or WIN7BASE (for compatibility purposes with Hollistech’s DDKBUILD.BAT, like XPBASE). To list all the newly introduced … Continue reading →

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New find, worth a look

Posted on 2009-11-08 by Oliver

Just found this website: code.jellycan.com. Pretty nice code examples there and the licensing of the code is very reuse-friendly. Thanks!

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“Fun” news …

Posted on 2009-10-14 by Oliver

Finally John and Jane Doe, the average internet users, will get their security software from porn, gambling, banking and social networking sites if LS gets it its way. Frankly, I think this is a brilliant step in general, but it … Continue reading →

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Oh damn … debug symbols as MSI (upd)

Posted on 2009-08-07 by Oliver

Yesterday I still defended them, now I have to criticize the guys in Redmond again. Since Windows 7 the debug symbols are only delivered as MSI, no more as an EXE file that can be extracted to anywhere and then … Continue reading →

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I’m always wondering how upset the Microsoft folks must get

Posted on 2009-08-06 by Oliver

Most blue screens nowadays are caused by third-party drivers and a big share of these by security products that use improper hooking of system calls, such as Kaspersky did. I’m not exactly a Microsoft fanboy, but people should really get … Continue reading →

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