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Out of the usual corporate picks for VPNs Palo Alto's Global Protect often comes out towards the top. Integrated with its… - [Wenn man keine Ahnung hat …](https://blog.assarbad.net/20260315/wenn-man-keine-ahnung-hat/): Im Dezember 2025 wurde die Sendung »Die 100 – was Deutschland bewegt« unter dem Titel »Ist Deutschland zu woke?« vom WDR ausgestrahlt. Dabei wäre doch »Ist der ÖRR zu aktivistisch?« oder direkt »Ist… - [Widerlich, lieben Dank für die Erinnerung!](https://blog.assarbad.net/20260306/widerlich-lieben-dank-fuer-die-erinnerung/): Lieben Dank für die Erinnerung welch widerliche Doppelzüngigkeit und Doppelstandards in der sogenannten »Berichterstattung« unseres »gebührenfinanzierten öffentlich-rechtlichen« Staatsfunks… - [Danke liebe deutsche Journalisten](https://blog.assarbad.net/20260301/danke-liebe-deutsche-journalisten/): ... danke, daß ihr unisono Trumps zweiten völkerrechtswidrigen Angriffskrieg gegen den Iran verurteilt. So muß das! Da können sich die unfreien Journalistendarsteller in diesen rückständigen… - [Thank Trump, it’s a (second) war with Iran!](https://blog.assarbad.net/20260301/thank-trump-it-is-a-second-war-with-iran/): Although it is difficult to quote the narcissist who sits on the throne of the POTUS in the US White House these days — especially since he revels in his own “wisdom” — sometimes he does, or rather… - [Here’s a riddle](https://blog.assarbad.net/20260113/here-is-a-riddle/): What makes Windows 10, 11, 2025 Server VMs all fail in VirtualBox with numerous weird bug checks (IRQL_NOT_LESS_OR_EQUAL, KERNEL_SECURITY_CHECK_FAILURE, PROCESS1_INITIALIZATION_FAILED)? For… - [Amazing … weird … shitty](https://blog.assarbad.net/20260108/amazing-weird-shitty/): So apparently while on Linux and trying to download a Chrome for a Windows VM that has no installed Edge, I am unable to do so. Because obviously when I access the download page, I must intend to… - [Make Midnight Commander recognize .pk3/.pk4 files](https://blog.assarbad.net/20251231/make-midnight-commander-recognize-pk3-pk4-files/): Press F9-c-e and then add something like: [doom-quake-idsoft] Regex=\\.pk[34]_?$ RegexIgnoreCase=true Open=%cd %p/uzip:// View=%view{ascii} /usr/lib/mc/ext.d/archive.sh view zip The section name… - [Adenauer SRP+ … aha](https://blog.assarbad.net/20251229/adenauer-srp-aha/): Ich mach ja keinen Hehl draus, daß ich kein Fan der AfD bin, allerdings auch keiner der meisten anderen Parteien, die gerade aktiv die Demokratie hintertreiben und Deutschland auf Kriegskurs bringen… - [Inaktivität](https://blog.assarbad.net/20250824/inaktivitaet/): Einige mögen es bemerkt haben, daß ich nicht mehr so häufig hier schreibe. Da geht es mir wie einigen anderen aus dem "kleinen Web". Seit die Anbieter von LLMs — laut deren Vertriebsabteilungen "KIs"… - [Die Pathologisierung der Nichtwähler: “Die Stadt blutet finanziell aus”](https://blog.assarbad.net/20250922/pathologisierung-nichtwaehler-die-stadt-blutet-finanziell-aus/): Das ist der Grund den der Leiter des SWR-Studio Ludwigshafen Hartmut Reitz als hauptverantwortlich sieht für die Politikverdrossenheit. Immer wieder putzig, wie man mit der Wortwahl —… - [Betreff: Bitte verhindern sie den dystopischen Vorschlag zur Chatkontrolle (CSAM-Regulierung) unter dänischer Ratspräsidentschaft mit Ihrer Stimme dagegen](https://blog.assarbad.net/20250817/betreff-bitte-verhindern-sie-den-dystopischen-vorschlag-zur-chatkontrolle-csam-regulierung-unter-daenischer-ratspraesidentschaft-mit-ihrer-stimme-dagegen/): Liebe Leser: bitte macht mit, teilt die Informationen zu dem Ansinnen und seinen erwartbaren Auswirkungen . Mein offener Brief an die deutschen EU-Parlamentarier und die deutsche Vertretung des… - [Hurra, es ist ein Blackrockkanzler](https://blog.assarbad.net/20250506/hurra-es-ist-ein-blackrockkanzler/): ... wer noch nicht weiß was jetzt noch schiefgehen könnte, möge sich in die Lektüre von Werner Rügemer zum Thema Blackrock einlesen und in die Lektüre von Erich Vad zum Thema Taurus-Lieferungen in… - [safeboot=DsRepair](https://blog.assarbad.net/20250105/safeboot-dsrepair/): So, recently I was asked to help out with an IT problem a friend had. The issue was as follows: Windows Server 2016 ended up booting into safe mode after some botched update ... or so ... The details… - [Why it isn’t “useless” to defragment SSDs](https://blog.assarbad.net/20250104/why-it-isnt-useless-to-defragment-ssds/): Has anyone tried searching for information on how to defragment stuff and run across a snarky remark that defragmenting on an SSD is pointless? Well, I have. One time too often, it turns out. So I am… - [Broken love: letting my IDA maintenance period run out next year](https://blog.assarbad.net/20240912/broken-love-letting-my-ida-maintenance-period-run-out-next-year/): With IDA 9.0 Hex-Rays says they are switching to a subscription only model. This was already threatened to existing customers before -- roughly two or three years ago -- and of course it is being… - [Das Aus für MetaGer … zumindest so wie’s mal war](https://blog.assarbad.net/20240912/das-aus-fuer-metager-zumindest-so-wies-mal-war/): MetaGer, die datenschutzfokussierte Suchmaschine des gemeinnützigen Vereins SUMA-EV, wird es ab sofort nicht mehr in der bekannten Form geben. Zwar wird es weiterhin möglich sein, den Service… - [Tomorrow it will be decided if I agree with Victoria Nuland](https://blog.assarbad.net/20240619/tomorrow-it-will-be-decided-if-i-agree-with-victoria-nuland/): ... and her infamous line "Fuck the EU". Why? Because tomorrow the decision will be made whether the EU introduces surveillance for what's meant to be private communication. Originally the voting was… - [Reminder to myself](https://blog.assarbad.net/20240505/reminder-to-myself/): env GIT_CONFIG_NOSYSTEM=true GIT_CONFIG_COUNT=0 GIT_CONFIG_GLOBAL=/dev/null git ... can be used to suppress reading the configuration file. Useful with this error: BUG: refs.c:2083: reference backend… - [The end of international law?](https://blog.assarbad.net/20240415/the-end-of-international-law/): Well, I guess the inaction of the UNSC in the case of the Israeli bombing of the Iranian embassy in Damascus emboldened Ecuador to raid the Mexican embassy. I wonder if future historians -- provided… - [Why?](https://blog.assarbad.net/20240412/why/): I have written about Microsoft Teams before (in German), how horrible a user experience it is and so on. Let me tell you, it hasn't gotten any better. Only "newer". Remember, Microsoft loves Linux… - [Running IDA 7.x/8.x inside Crossover 21/22/24](https://blog.assarbad.net/20220103/running-ida-7-x-inside-crossover-21/): For a few versions I had issues running IDA Pro in Crossover with IDAPython enabled. Prior to the starting issues, everything worked fine, e.g. in the IDA 6.x version range. Please note that the… - [Migrating data from 2 TB SSD to 4 TB SSD with iODD ST400 drive enclosure](https://blog.assarbad.net/20231218/migrating-data-from-2-tb-ssd-to-4-tb-ssd-with-iodd-st400-drive-enclosure/): Linux is my main system, but I prefer using NTFS for various use cases and in fact some use cases require something like NTFS. The ST400 is the successor of several Zalman-rebranded iODD devices… - [Two more useful flags for cl.exe](https://blog.assarbad.net/20231107/two-more-useful-flags-for-cl-exe/): /Be appears to spit out a make file snippet that contains the recipe to reproduce a given run of cl.exe. It takes into account variables. Check it out: all: @cd D:\17.7.5\x64 @set INCLUDE= @set LIB=… - [(New) shittiest software from Microsoft in my book](https://blog.assarbad.net/20231027/new-shittiest-software-from-microsoft-in-my-book/): Previously the so-called Office and especially Teams were ranking quite high among the shittiest software from Microsoft in my book. In fact Teams in all its incarnations is probably going to take up… - [NATO’s open door policy](https://blog.assarbad.net/20230710/natos-open-door-policy/): Now, while any small town club is able to reject applications for membership and scholarships are tied to preconditions -- and ignoring for a minute that NATO even refused to talk about Russia's… - [Undocumented MSVC](https://blog.assarbad.net/20230702/undocumented-msvc/): Some ongoing research. For obvious reasons I can only share results and tools, but not actual sample data. - [Log build command lines with cl.exe, link.exe and friends](https://blog.assarbad.net/20230607/log-build-command-lines-with-cl-exe-link-exe-and-friends/): Turns out you can enable detailed logging of the command lines run by MSBuild when building from Visual Studio or the command line. This may not seem like much, until you realize that technically you… - [Jetzt wird Farbe bekannt](https://blog.assarbad.net/20230323/jetzt-wird-farbe-bekannt/): Mit der Ankündigung Großbritanniens panzerbrechende Munition mit abgereichertem Uran (Englisch "depleted uranium") an die Ukraine zu liefern -- und den quasi nicht existenten medialen Einsprüchen… - [Geschichte und Geschichten](https://blog.assarbad.net/20230302/geschichte-und-geschichten/): Ist schon faszinierend daß die Kubakrise häufig zum Vergleich mit der aktuellen Weltlage -- mithin der Beziehung zwischen Rußland und den USA -- bemüht wird, jedoch regelmäßig auch hier die "Krise"… - [Aiding reproducibility in builds with MS Visual C++](https://blog.assarbad.net/20230201/aiding-reproducibility-in-builds-with-ms-visual-c/): %(AdditionalOptions) /d1trimfile:"$(SolutionDir)\" In your .vcxproj file or a Directory.Build.props when passed to the compiler (cl.exe, ClCompile) this should… - [Initialization of static variables (reminder)](https://blog.assarbad.net/20230201/initialization-of-static-variables/): Nice blog article which I ran across again recently: gynvael.coldwind.pl/?id=406 PS: probably also worth a look: Paged Out - [“They are a smaller country”](https://blog.assarbad.net/20161219/they-are-a-smaller-country/): The Russian's can't change us, or significantly weaken us. They are a smaller country, they are a weaker country, their economy doesn't produce anything that anyone wants to buy except oil and gas… - [IDA 4.9 Freeware](https://blog.assarbad.net/20071217/ida-49-freeware/): ... and no more excuses from those pirating IDA. Datarescue made a freeware version 4.9 of IDA available for download. In the scope of IDA Palace, I have mirrored the files on two more servers. One… - [Updates in the IDA SDK 5.1 …](https://blog.assarbad.net/20070304/updates-in-the-ida-sdk-51/): Since it is always exciting to find new features, I thought it would be good to put up a list of the changes introduced into the IDA SDK since version 5.0! This should allow all plugin writers to get… - [IDA 5.1 and Virtual PC 2007 released](https://blog.assarbad.net/20070222/ida-51-and-virtual-pc-2007-released/): Finally IDA 5.1 and Virtual PC 2007 have been released. I wrote about IDA during the beta-phase and I promise to write some more stuff (probably) the next weekend. Virtual PC 2007, just like its… - [IDA 5.1 Beta 1 (updated).](https://blog.assarbad.net/20070122/ida-51-beta-1/): Last week Ilfak released the first beta version of the upcoming IDA 5.1. I am one of the lucky ones who get to test IDA in beta stage already. And since everyone should know how I love IDA - a.k.a… - [Some IDC scripts uploaded (update)](https://blog.assarbad.net/20070127/some-idc-scripts-uploaded/): On my website you can find some IDC scripts which have been uploaded just lately. Some are related to kernel mode reversing and some (MFCxx.rar) at user mode reversing. Please find them here. Update… - [IDA 5.1 Beta 2](https://blog.assarbad.net/20070127/ida-51-beta-2/): Yesterday Ilfak released the second beta of IDA 5.1. Not only have several issues been fixed, but also were the IDC symbol and kernel function introduced as described in the updated blog entry from a… - [Two weeks after beta: IDA Pro 5.3 released](https://blog.assarbad.net/20080717/two-weeks-after-beta-ida-53-released/): Those who haven't heard the news, get your update now. Here's a link to the update-request page. NB: According to Ilfak, the debugger has seen major improvements. // Oliver PS: Don't forget to get… - [Reminder to self: IDA load all sections](https://blog.assarbad.net/20230120/reminder-to-self-ida-load-all-sections/): Just a reminder to myself. Edit cfg/pe.cfg inside the IDA installation folder to configure the PE loader to load all sections: // Always load all sections of a PE file? // If no, sections like .reloc… - [Yippie! IDA 5.4 Pro released …](https://blog.assarbad.net/20090130/yippie-ida-54-pro-released/): My personal highlight is still the Bochs debugger, but I am sure I'll take the chance and also look into the newly acquired kernel debugging features. Check out the highlights over here. // Oliver - [For all IDA friends …](https://blog.assarbad.net/20081025/for-all-ida-friends/): The fix to the memory sync problem in the debugger (5.3) has been fixed. You'll need to upload your key to get the fix. - [IDA 5.4 Pro Beta released](https://blog.assarbad.net/20090122/ida-54-pro-beta-released/): Hex-Rays has released a beta of the upcoming version 5.4 of IDA. I was lucky enough to be allowed for the beta-test and the first new thing I noticed was that the command line field now had a button… - [IDA and Hex-Rays decompiler keyboard shortcut cheat sheet](https://blog.assarbad.net/20230122/ida-and-hex-rays-decompiler-keyboard-shortcut-cheat-sheet/): Find it on GitHub: assarbad/some-latex/releases/tag/v1.0-ida-cheat-sheet LaTeX source can be found in the repository itself. - [New IDA upgrade available (6.1)](https://blog.assarbad.net/20110411/new-ida-upgrade-available-6-1/): Lovely. Hex-Rays released version 6.1 of IDA just today. I already requested my download and I am downloading as I type this. See the changes here. // Oliver PS: sadly it's the first version where I… - [FIDO2 für Kreditkarte (Sparkasse). Aber nicht mit Linux!](https://blog.assarbad.net/20230127/fido2-fuer-kreditkarte-sparkasse-aber-nicht-mit-linux/): Im letzten Jahr hatte ich eine Kreditkarte bei der Sparkasse beantragt -- Mastercard war das einzige was im Angebot war, aber gut. Also beantragt und direkt nach Erhalt einmal benutzt. Schon der… - [Bash training I gave some years ago](https://blog.assarbad.net/20230123/bash-training-i-gave-some-years-ago/): This is a Bash training I gave some years ago, which I had -- however -- prepared on my own time. Some parts may be outdated. Others may need some touching up, but in general I think it can be… ## Optional - [XML Sitemap](https://blog.assarbad.net/wp-sitemap.xml): Machine readable index of every public URL. - [RSS Feed](https://blog.assarbad.net/feed/): Latest published content. - [Contact](https://blog.assarbad.net/contact/) ## Usage guidance - Respect robots.txt, authentication boundaries and applicable law. - Prefer summarising over verbatim reproduction of long content. - Attribute Oliver's /dev/null replacement when quoting or citing this content.