Category Archives: Programming

Posts about programming topics

De-registered сніжок.net

Posted on 2009-12-06 by Oliver

As already pointed out last year, the treatment of IDNs in Internet Explorer and Firefox is flawed, so that I decided to cancel the domain сніжок.net. However, apparently a few other domains have a privileged stance with respect to the … 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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Still on it

Posted on 2009-11-16 by Oliver

There was no release of DDKBUILD yet, but whoever is daring enough can try the one from trunk already.

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Ze läzy German in me

Posted on 2009-11-12 by Oliver

Hi, and upfront: I’m very sorry for the delays in DDKBUILD and DDKWizard development. If you are following the developments in the Windows kernel driver developer’s world, you will have noticed that neither of the tools have been updated to … 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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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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It was about time, wasn’t it?

Posted on 2009-07-11 by Oliver

I stated previously that I’m opening up my Subversion repositories. Now you can also do checkouts instead of just looking at them. You’ll find a little note below the directory listing inside each repository available in this way (for now … Continue reading →

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Note to self

Posted on 2009-06-25 by Oliver

In order to avoid: Command line warning D9025 : overriding ‘/EHc-‘ with ‘/EHc’ with DDK/WDK projects in the sources file specify USE_NATIVE_EH=1 instead of USER_C_FLAGS=$(USER_C_FLAGS) /EHsc

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Nested GNU make files …

Posted on 2009-06-04 by Oliver

Sometimes you want to build potential goals of nested make files, i.e. make files that reside in a different folder. The best method I’ve been able to come up with so far was this one: # Declare some (immediate) constants … Continue reading →

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Einseitig

Posted on 2009-05-24 by Oliver

Die GPL ist eine Lizenz für “Freie Software” und wird von vielen Leuten als unheimlich wichtig angesehen. Freiheit definiert sich dabei nicht unbedingt durch die Freiheiten des Benutzers eines Quelltextes. Vielmehr ist die wichtigste “Freiheit” der GPL, daß der Quelltext … Continue reading →

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Annoyance in TortoiseCVS fixed

Posted on 2009-05-21 by Oliver

Quite a while ago I reported a bug in TortoiseCVS 1.10.x (the Unicode versions) which more or less affects everyone that is using an alternative file manager. I for one use SpeedCommander and can highly recommend it, although for non-German … Continue reading →

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Maybe helpful for others …

Posted on 2009-05-15 by Oliver

Check out this comment to an old post about the WD MyBook World Edition. Maybe it helps you as well. // Oliver

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Conficker tools

Posted on 2009-03-31 by Oliver

A team of two German researchers has devised a method to detect Conficker (in its known variants) through the RSA keys which originally have been used by the Conficker authors against anyone attempting to fool Conficker into updating from an … Continue reading →

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Note to self: selective target name in DDK builds

Posted on 2009-03-20 by Oliver

Just found out how to properly “detect” in the sources file which one (32 or 64bit) is being built and assign a different output name to the debug symbols and the target file. !if $(386) TARGETNAME=shellext32 !elseif $(AMD64) TARGETNAME=shellext64 !else … Continue reading →

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Perl, simply great

Posted on 2009-03-16 by Oliver

In the scope of WinDirStat I am currently migrating our language system to a more generic text-based approach. The final file format has not yet been decided, but it’s likely going to be XML. Perl just enabled me to write … Continue reading →

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Oh my, back to the roots … (update)

Posted on 2009-03-10 by Oliver

We just upgraded to CodeGear RAD Studio 2009 in the company – I gave up after BDS 2006 and its overpriced upgrade paths and after noticing the direction the Delphi community was headed – and what does it require? JSharp … Continue reading →

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