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Zlob author leaves new year’s wishes in variant
As you can read here, the author of Zlob has once again hidden a message inside a variant. This time it’s about best wishes for the new year to the MS virus response team and future plans, so to speak. … Continue reading
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Arrived 1.1
I updated the program Arrived to version 1.1. There is one important change in this version that breaks compatibility, but I am convinced there are rather few users anyway 😉 The change is to use CreateProcess() instead of ShellExecute(). That’s … Continue reading
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The woes of debug builds
I like C++, and I use Visual Studio to make use of it most of the time, even though plenty of that code is later also used on other platforms. However, when you build in debug mode, sometimes the results … Continue reading
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All the best to everyone in 2009
Happy new year! Ein frohes neues Jahr! С новым годом! Gleðilegt nýtt ár! // Oliver
My Subversion repositories …
Just wanted to let everyone know that I am opening up a few of my Subversion repositories. Others will remain completely private and even others will eventually follow in future. Check it out on vcs.assarbad.net. // Oliver
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Schünemann will Internetzugänge effektiv abschaffen
Wie Heise berichtet, will der niedersächsische Innenminister (natürlich CDU) im Kampf gegen Kinderpornographie im Internet die Kunden von Internetzugängen zwingen eine Filtersoftware zu installieren. Und einige meinen nur der verehrte Dr. Schäuble säße allein in der Fraktion der Verfassungsgegner. Obwohl … Continue reading
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“Derrick” died on Saturday …
Horst Tappert, German actor best known for his role as inspector Derrick, died last Saturday. This surely must be terrible news for the Derrick-loving Icelanders – which, according to my experience includes everyone who was alive at the time it … Continue reading
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Wow, GCC is pretty patronizing …
Trying to compile the following code in GCC yields an error: #define __dbgprintf /##/ The error reads error: pasting “/” and “/” does not give a valid preprocessing token. As far as C99 is concerned, this should be perfectly valid … Continue reading
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Arrived
… is the name of a small Win32 command line tool I wrote. It executes a command whenever a volume (e.g. USB memory stick, portable hard drive) gets connected to or disconnected from the machine. The particular use-case for which … Continue reading
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Silly little C++ wrapper class
Did you ever have the same problem: if you want to compiler a Win32 program with UNICODE/_UNICODE defined, for some reason the argv vector does not contain a single proper argument?! This happens in particular in DDK/WDK projects. I was … Continue reading
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“Define change!”
… that’s what people should have told Obama when he was preaching “change” to them. Now that names of his future staff transpire to the public, things do not look so revolutionary anymore. I’ll stay a skeptic for now. // … Continue reading
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Apology to the Icelandic people
Last week I felt happy to have found some Sauerkraut in an Icelandic shop – unwittingly I took two bags at once. I could not have possibly known that this would be the complete supply of Sauerkraut for Iceland for … Continue reading
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Reminder to self
Howto: “Replacing the trunk of a Subversion repository with a feature branch” # From the working copy of my branch: $ svn del file:///repos/trunk -m “Temporarily deleted trunk.” $ svn mv file:///repos/branches/my_branch file:///repos/trunk \ -m “Moved /branches/my_branch to /trunk” $ … Continue reading
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Why is it, everyone is interested in the US elections?
… I mean at the end of the day only US citizens will have had the chance to vote, right? Is it perhaps because the world has learnt the painful way how far an American President can go?! Let’s see … Continue reading
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Icelandic “terrorists” revisited …
Thorkell Thorkelsson, an Icelandic photographer, shows the faces of a few dozen Icelandic “terrorists” and their weapons in a gallery on his website. Go and have a look! 😉 // Oliver
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“Yes we can” …
Can you? There is one candidate in the race for the next US presidency who advertises with the slogan: “Change” and “Yes we can” – Barack Obama. For me there is one reason why I think it might be interesting … Continue reading
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DDKBUILD.CMD 7.3/r27 released
Hereby I announce the release of DDKBUILD.CMD 7.3/r27. The version numbers are according to what I posted earlier here. This release contains really minor improvements only, but fixes also one bug that was reported over at OSR. This was caused … Continue reading
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