Windows 2003 SP1 DDK with a little annoyance …

Posted on 2006-07-08 by Oliver

This has been posted by me a while ago on NTDEV. I have slightly modified it for the blog.

If you tell BUILD from the WNET DDK to use the W2K settings to build a native application this fails with the reason that _NtProcessStartupForGS@4 could not be resolved. It does not matter whether you try to set UMENTRYABS in the SOURCES file, the problem persists. After some investigation I found that the file i386mk.inc enforces buffer overflow checking by linking against bufferoverflow.lib! Continue reading →

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The more esoteric way to tunnel a VNC connection using PuTTY …

Posted on 2006-07-08 by Oliver

A few days ago I had a problem. Someone wanted to demonstrate something to me on his desktop concerning UltraVNC. However, since I was imprisoned behind an external firewall this required the usual tunneling. So I configured an SSH tunnel via my server and established the connection. Everything worked perfectly well.

However, a while after that scenario, the same person (“Borg Number One”) offered me a demonstration about arcane VMWare configuration switches on my own machine. Something I could hardly resists, as curious as I am 😉 Continue reading →

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Hello blogosphere …

Posted on 2006-07-07 by Oliver

Hello world. Finally I got my very own blog. Despite some brief experience with blogging while I was a Lavasoft employee, I have not much experience as a blogger. But I have a lot to say, stay tuned … 😛

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Hallo Blogosphäre

Posted on 2006-07-07 by Oliver

Hallihallohallöle. Endlich habe ich meinen ganz eigenen Blog. Zwar hatte ich auch als Mitarbeiter von Lavasoft ein paar Ausflüge in die Blogosphäre gemacht, aber lange nicht so intensiv, wie dies ab jetzt passieren wird. Macht euch auf was gefaßt 😛

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