If you’re using the Windows 2008 Server WDK in order to develop usermode code, you’ll have stumbled over this error message referencing DLOAD_ERROR_HANDLER:
Warning: DLOAD_ERROR_HANDLER not specified in $(MAKEDIR)
I am not yet sure whether you have to give a function name (research leads me to think that), but you can make it shut up by giving some bogus value.
// Oliver
Kein Scherz, ich hasse es. Es ist meines Erachtens so sinnlos wie die Liveübertragung von Livekonzerten im Fernsehen. Nun höre ich relativ regelmäßig Inforadio vom RBB, jupp auch auf Island kann man das empfangen. Gestern aber gab es statt dem normalen “informativen” Programm nur Fußball als Liveübertragung. Nach ein paar Minuten hat es mir sogar einigermaßen gefallen (Portugal vs. Deutschland) und man kann nebenbei noch andere Dinge machen, weil eben nur einer der Sinne beansprucht wird.
// Oliver
The Firefox 3 Download Day was apparently less a flop than it seemed at first glance (i.e. within the first two hours). They got more than 8 million downloads in 24h, but for some reason the start and end times were apparently really shifted by approximately 105 minutes. Perhaps due to the outages in the beginning.
I finally got the new version and one of the stranger things is the check of the certificate of some pages. For example some pages with a perfectly fine SSL certificate get the “medium” value (i.e. blue) instead of green. No idea why or how this is meant to be. I liked the yellow address bar for this purpose better.
// Oliver
While the Icelandic police had my understanding with shooting the first polar bear in twenty years, after it had approached a settlement, this is definitely just stupid now. There is no excuse for the killing of the two polar bears that were sighted on Monday this week. Tranquilizers should have been available this time, instead real bullets were used again.
And guess what, not the hostility of the (second) bear (this week) was the reason for it being killed – it was the stupid curiosity of journalists. Once the bear started approaching the journalists, it was shot. Nice job!
My proposal for the next time: let the bear kill one or two journalists in order to give the journalists the necessary impressions to develop some respect for such an animal and then you’ve bought yourself some time to get the tranquilizers and the cage to transport the polar bear back to Greenland or to some zoo alive.
// Oliver
The download day for the world record attempt in the number of downloads by the Firefox community seems to be(come) a flop. It’s now 45min after the whole thing started and apparently the servers can’t handle the number of requests.
Or is something going on in parallel? Such as a DDoS of their webservers?
Update: Their site is back, although slow.
Update #2: So they’re prepared? Fun fact, I get offered the version 2 in the language which is set as primary in my primary browser (which isn’t Firefox). Wondering whether the world record attempt will even be valid in such a case …
Update #3: Okay, screw their world-record attempt. I have some sympathies for them, although it is not my favorite browser, but it’s simply getting ridiculous. I am getting offered version 2 as version 3 (screenshot below) and their download page for other languages and operating systems lists only version 2.0.0.14 (other screenshot) for any language. It’s definitely the worst-prepared world-record attempt. Maybe it will make it into the Guiness Book after all, although under a different category than anticipated?!
Update #4: It looks like they sorted it out now.
// Oliver
If you’re juggling files beyond the desktop and still use Windows Explorer, check out SpeedCommander. The new version has gotten even better and unlike another popular “commander-like” file manager it has full Unicode support and even has a native x64 version.
Link: www.speedproject.de
// Oliver
Today two more polar bears were sighted in the North of Iceland. Let’s hope this time there is a veterinarian with tranquilizers, not like last time. My father told me even the German yellow press reported about the polar bear being shot recently.
BTW: No polar bears have been sighted here on Iceland in years before this summer. So it’s a somewhat similar situation as in Bavaria, where a bear was shot after visiting briefly. He was the first in more than 150 years.
// Oliver
A clip about the killing of the first polar bear. The subtitles are not an exact translation of the parts spoken in Icelandic, in case someone wonders.
Following a court ruling, the EFF and several news sources world-wide have reported about the practice to search through the data on electronic devices at the US border. Bruce Schneier has picked up the topic in his latest cryptogram (a newletter). So far everyone seems to have ignored or neglected another possibility: targeted spyware.
In fact I am not just talking about the usual spyware, but software that was written with the sole purpose of going undetected as long as possible and possibly being able to transmit as much data as possible. Spyware in a literal sense.
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A very nice prank call. Graham Norton talks to Greta with Grosse Titten via an interpreter … 
Now that the Irish have rejected the Treaty of Lisbon in a plebiscite, European politicians suggest to leave the Irish behind and ratify the treaty regardless with only the consenting member states. This is a notable development because it shows all too well how the European Union (EU) works. The parliament as the body that represents the people has been overruled more than once by other non-representative bodies of the EU … and alone the fact that only around 4.2 million people out of more than 420 million are allowed to decide about their fate shows how “democratic” the EU and the states of which it is comprised really are.
// Oliver
The Icelandic church received support from a … forceful ally but wasn’t all too interested
And in Icelandic. Some pictures from the photo-shooting on Flickr (also as a slide show) 😉
// Oliver
Hier mal ein Experiment in dem die Bedingungen im Lager in Guantanamo nachgebildet werden. Wohlgemerkt, die brutalsten der von der US-Regierung erlaubten Methoden wurden hier nicht benutzt, da sie als zu gefährlich angesehen werden.
// Oliver
Laut einer ARD-Umfrage sind 52% der Deutschen nicht mehr mit ihrer “demokratischen” Gesellschaft zufrieden. Rein rechnerisch kann man es nicht mehr allein den Ostdeutschen zuschieben, wie es noch vor einigen Monaten möglich war, als bereits eine Mehrheit der Ostdeutschen sich ein anderes Gesellschaftssystem als unsere “repräsentative Demokratie” wünschte. Zu dumm.
Aber vielleicht hat der Rest ja inzwischen begriffen, daß Demokratie etwas anderes ist. Bei den alten Griechen gab es zwar Sklaven und die hatten natürlich nix zu sagen – genau wie Frauen – aber da Sklaverei heutzutage abgeschafft und Frauenwahlrecht (etc.) eingeführt sind, lohnt sich der Vergleich durchaus. Auch die Zahl von Bürgern ist kein Argument, da zumindest inzwischen technisch eine weit repräsentativere Demokratie möglich wäre. Aber unsere Volksparteien haben ja sogar ein Problem damit Volksabstimmungen auf Bundesebene einzuführen …
// Oliver
The European Commission issued an EU-wide radiation alert late on Wednesday after Slovenia began shutting down a nuclear power plant following a problem with the cooling system.
(Source: interactive investor, deutsche Leser gehen hierher)
Don’t panic just yet. The amount of information is scarce and from the first comments it sounds like it’s all under control.
Update: BBC also reports now. So there it looks more like it’s a preliminary warning that something worse might follow.
Update #2: It seems everything is under control and it was just to warn in the case something happens. But an EU-wide alert is obviously unusual, given how big the EU is and that “only” cooling water was supposed to have leaked. More info (deutsch).
// Oliver
The patches pertaining to the Debian key rollover are only available in the security repository. I just found out the hard way, that one of my machines denied access to another one, although I had “freshly generated” private keys. Ooops … until I figured that the repository for security fixes should have been in there. Now it is and the keys have been replaced.
Checked the logs and no one got in. Luckily this server is still in the preparational stage and I am always stopping sshd when disconnecting … that should be a pretty high hurdle for any attackers
// Oliver
As I am currently setting up a new server, I thought it would be a good idea to keep most of the configuration files (e.g. /etc) under version control. RCS comes in handy to achieve just that, but laziness requires some kind of script to make its use convenient 😉
So I sat down and wrote this little Bash script for my Debian system (Ubuntu and Knoppix should work as well then). Please note that you may have to change the shebang line, you also may have to adjust the command to call the file editor. I am using the nice “alternatives”-mechanism of Debian by calling editor instead of any specific editor. For example I’ve found myself disliking vi, while others swear an oath that vi is the best editor around. In any case, this problem should not exist if you have set your favorite editor.
If you have no clue what I am talking about, use:
man update-alternatives
Alright, now that you have set your favorite editor for sure, go and make sure to install the rcs and diff packages by issuing (as super-user):
apt-get update && apt-get install rcs diff
… either you’ll have it installed or you will install them with these commands. There shouldn’t be any unsatisfied dependencies on any “normal” system apart from those packages themselves (and even diff would be on most systems already).
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… davon Dutzende von einer Stärke über 3, wurden bis heute Mittag gemessen.
Wie fühlt sich so ein Erdbeben in knapp 50 km Entfernung also an? Da ich nie zuvor ein Erdbeben erlebt habe und auch glücklich genug war dieses von gestern nicht aus nächster Nähe zu erleben, war das Gefühl doch etwas seltsam. Zuerst hörte ich ein Grollen. Es paßte allerdings nicht zu anderen Geräuschen, die ich im Büro gewohnt bin. Vielleicht eine Sekunde später begann das Gebäude zu wackeln. Zuerst wirklich als würde man durchgeschüttelt und danach schwankte es noch ein paar Male mit. Tja und das war es auch schon. Danach hat dann erstmal jeder meiner Kollegen mit der Familie telefoniert und die Isländer haben so effektiv auch das Telefonnetz nahe an einen Ausfall gebracht. Ich habe erst am Abend – dadurch daß ein ukrainischer Freund mich aufmerksam machte, daß es in den Nachrichten gewesen sei – nochmal kurz in Deutschland angerufen, damit man sich keine Sorgen macht.
// Oliver
