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Interesting problem when building GMP during GCC build …

Posted on 2009-02-24 by Oliver

… I needed to unset CDPATH in order to get it to build, because otherwise it tries to cd into tests inside one of the folders from CDPATH (in my case the setting was /mnt) instead into ./tests from inside … Continue reading →

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Curiosity and the need … (updated)

Posted on 2009-02-03 by Oliver

… for more information about reparse points, junction points, volume mount points, symbolic links on NTFS drive (“reparse points” is the generic term for all of them) led me to write a tool called looklink. I put it into the … Continue reading →

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Useful script for MSVC users …

Posted on 2009-01-16 by Oliver

I wrote a little .cmd script (for the NT script interpreter, cmd.exe) that can be used to get the environment for the newest, or a specified installed version of Visual C++, similar to what the link from the start menu … Continue reading →

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Arrived 1.1

Posted on 2009-01-08 by Oliver

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

Posted on 2009-01-02 by Oliver

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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Posted on 2009-01-01 by Oliver

Simple and small XML parser …

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My Subversion repositories …

Posted on 2008-12-26 by Oliver

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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Schßnemann will Internetzugänge effektiv abschaffen

Posted on 2008-12-16 by Oliver

Wie Heise berichtet, will der niedersächsische Innenminister (natĂźrlich 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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Wow, GCC is pretty patronizing …

Posted on 2008-12-15 by Oliver

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

Posted on 2008-12-11 by Oliver

… 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

Posted on 2008-12-10 by Oliver

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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Übercool!

Posted on 2008-11-26 by Oliver

Check this out: predef.sourceforge.net.

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Reminder to self

Posted on 2008-11-12 by Oliver

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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DDKBUILD.CMD 7.3/r27 released

Posted on 2008-10-28 by Oliver

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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Affordable code-signing certificates, no chance!

Posted on 2008-09-07 by Oliver

GlobalSign == relatively cheap code-signing certificates. Cool, I thought. Bullcrap! After attempting to apply for a code-signing certificate for use with Authenticode in kernel mode drivers and other Windows binaries and then calling them on the phone I learnt that … Continue reading →

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Subversion over SSH using specific identity

Posted on 2008-09-01 by Oliver

Everyone knows how to allow one particular system account to be shared among multiple SVN users and who doesn’t can have a look here. However, I had a somewhat inverted situation yesterday, and although the solution turned out to be … Continue reading →

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Preparing for release of DDKBUILD 7.3

Posted on 2008-08-25 by Oliver

Please note that this is not yet the actual release. I want to use this post to announce that the DDKBUILD.CMD script from trunk is available now for direct download at any time. Please note that the version in trunk … Continue reading →

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CreateRemoteThread, Vista and separate sessions

Posted on 2008-07-23 by Oliver

Recently I’ve hit a wall during development. I had written a nice workaround for a problem, based on code injection. In fact the code wasn’t injected by loading a DLL but instead by loading relocatable (32bit) code of less than … Continue reading →

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CSimpleBuf, a C++ utility class under BSD license

Posted on 2008-07-21 by Oliver

Today I am happy to announce the release of a C++ buffer class that is of special use for interfacing with Windows system functions. The class is a template class and thus only one header file is needed. The template … Continue reading →

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DDKWizard demo video

Posted on 2008-07-05 by Oliver

I’ve created and uploaded a little demo clip about how easy it is to create a project with DDKWizard. (Hint: you need Flash enabled.) If you want a higher quality and higher resolution, try this link! More instructional videos about … Continue reading →

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