In a surprising move DDKWizard got updated once more …

Posted on 2006-12-25 by Oliver

Gleðileg jól!
(Frohe Weihnachten! – Merry Christmas!) to everyone.

I updated DDKWizard once more to version 1.1.0. And as expected this is the best DDKWizard ever 😉 … I call it the jól-edition :mrgreen: … grab it here!

What is new? Well, this time I’ll let you read the manual again :mrgreen:. A whole new chapter has been added to the manual so you are asked to read through this first. The version number did make such a jump because of the overall improvement and added features. The best of those new features is the configuration file which allows you to customize the default settings in the DDKWizard project creation dialog. Another smaller feature is the new project type Win32CUI (Win32 console applications built with the DDK) and many smaller enhancements and one fix for backwards-compatibility.
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Violating GPL to make the big money #2 …

Posted on 2006-12-21 by Oliver

Unbelievable. Even though the company is aware of their violation of the GPL, they don’t give a shit about it as it seems. They have been aware of it for at least one month now, yet their newest release which bears the version number 1.61 still contains the binary-identical file which is in violation of the GPL since version 1.55 (inclusive!).
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Keine Ahnung wie ich das hier ins WWW bekomme, aber Heise meint …

Posted on 2006-12-19 by Oliver

… Island sei vom Internet abgeschnitten. Also ich habe weder am Samstag noch am Sonntag noch gestern noch bisher heute Störungen bemerkt. Obwohl, doch. Es gab eine kurze Störung, die aber schnell behoben wurde – war wohl am Samstag. Heute lese ich dann, daß ein Atlantikkabel gebrochen sei. Ups. Ich war’s nicht :mrgreen:

// Oliver

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Earn a lot of money now! Your opportunity for x-mas!!!

Posted on 2006-12-18 by Oliver

Since I have no time to take the chance and make the big money I’d advise my readers to have a look into the following scam I got today. If you want to contact Mr. Atwood don’t hesitate to contact me for his contact details. BTW: his professional-looking email address has an Italian TLD.
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Death penalty took too long. Consequences? Yap!

Posted on 2006-12-17 by Oliver

The civilized world has shown its superiority again in the reactions after the execution of Angel Diaz by lethal injection in Florida took too long. Instead of finally removing the blemish from the US constitution by abolishing the death penalty forever more, people – and more amazingly human rights activists – request an investigation whether this particular type of execution is unconstitutional.

Oh how superior we Westerners are compared to those countries to which we bring freedom and democracy …

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Early x-mas present: DDKWizard updated

Posted on 2006-12-16 by Oliver

As a kind of early x-mas present to the driver community, I have updated DDKWizard again. The new version is 1.0.3. Go and grab your copy at the DDKWizard website.

What’s new?

Three things have been changed or added:

  • Creation of PREfast configurations is now also possible for the checked build only (default).
  • For the 64bit platforms you can choose which of the two platforms AMD and Intel you would like to include.
  • The DBG preprocessor symbol will be set to 0 or 1 according to the configuration setting (free or checked).

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Einmal mehr schlug der dt. Rechtsstaat zu …

Posted on 2006-12-16 by Oliver

Nachdem schon Altbundeskanzler Kohl bewiesen hat, daß “die Großen” von der deutschen Justiz laufengelassen werden, gibt es nunmehr einen schönen und aktuellen Fall, der die Klassenjustiz in unserem sogenannten Rechtsstaat veranschaulicht. Da hätten wir im Abstand von weniger als einem Monat Herrn Ackermann und Herrn Hoyzer. Während der eine nur mal eben ein paar Milliönchen veruntreut hat, machte der andere das mit einem Betrag um einige Größenordnungen kleiner. Folglich muß der eine zusammen mit Kumpanen nur den Zehnt an den Staat abführen, während der andere 2,5 Jahre ins Kittchen wandert. Ist also alles wie immer in Deutschland.
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Fixed a minor glitch in ddkbuild.cmd

Posted on 2006-12-13 by Oliver

Today I fixed a glitch in OSR’s ddkbuild.cmd which would cause WDF builds to fail. Grab your fresh copy at the DDKWizard website or OSR. The version should be 7.0beta4a. If it is not, check back later since OSR should upload it soon.

And don’t hesitate to contact me about the .cmd version. It was feedback of a user that revealed this problem!

// Oliver

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Autorennspiele gehören verboten (Atmen auch)

Posted on 2006-12-08 by Oliver

Nachdem ja nun aufgrund anhaltender Amoklaufdrohungen Killerspiele verboten werden sollen, fordere ich im Zuge dieser Maßnahme auch gleich Autorennspiele zu zu verbieten. Bekanntlich gibt es pro Jahr weit mehr Tote durch Autounfälle als durch Amokläufe. Da einige der Involvierten – und aufgrund des Zusammenhangs von Killerspielen und Amokläufen ließe sich das ja auch auf dieses Thema übertragen – Rennspiele am Computer spielten, gehören diese definitiv verboten. Continue reading →

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Weihnachtszeit ist Pfefferkuchenzeit …

Posted on 2006-12-08 by Oliver

… und heute habe ich den Teig schonmal zum Backen vorbereitet. Sieht der nicht freundlich lecker aus?

Freundlicher Pfefferkuchenteig

Und morgen wird er gebacken … dann guckt er aber nicht mehr so verschmitzt :mrgreen:

// Oliver

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Violating GPL to make the big money …

Posted on 2006-12-01 by Oliver

What would you think of a company that is presenting its new product which is somewhat innovative, but the product is based on OpenSource software and the company does not care about the OpenSource licenses of the used components?

As an OpenSource author I don’t like such companies. Lately I discovered this for one Asian-European company which has released a product this year. They were using OpenSource from a project in which I am involved and which is licensed under LGPL or MPL (to be chosen by the licensee). After notifying them that they were in violation of the license, they added the mandatory attribution in their help file and later seemingly removed(?) the respective units completely (the GUI part of the product is a Delphi program). Continue reading →

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DDKWizard updated

Posted on 2006-11-26 by Oliver

There is a new version (1.0.2) of DDKWizard available. Go and grab your copy at the DDKWizard website.

What’s new?

Three things have been changed or added:

  • Option to create PREfast configurations as well.
  • The Windows 2003 and Longhorn/Vista DDK are now preselected.
  • There is a new project type “Empty Driver”. This allows you to create a project without creation of all the source files that DDKWizard would normally create. Perfect to create an empty project for incorporation of existing source files.

Enjoy,

// Oliver

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Killerspiele gehören verboten …

Posted on 2006-11-21 by Oliver

Wie gut, daß es in Island keine bescheuerten Ordnungsfanatiker gibt, die meinen ein Amoklauf ala Erfurt oder gestern Emsdetten ließe sich durch ein Verbot von Killerspielen verhindern. Vielmehr sollten sich all jene die das fordern mal an die eigene Nase fassen und das bescheuerte Gesellschaftssystem in dem wir leben infrage stellen. Aber die Gesellschaftskritik ([1], [2], [3]), welche der Amokläufer von Emsdetten ja nicht nur aktionistisch sondern offenbar auch lange vorher (in Foren usw.) verbal vorbrachte, die wird gern überhört. Continue reading →

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Marketing for security companies now via Secunia!

Posted on 2006-11-19 by Oliver

<sarcasm>
A great new opportunity for IT security companies which sell products to detect bugs in software automatically (static analysis) – report some vulnerabilities after running your program on a bunch of software applications and feature your own product in the “Provided and/or discovered by” field without ever giving details of the error! The last one is important, never give details! That’s sleek, that’s modern that’s seemingly a new initiative by Secunia to support third party security companies. One of the first to take advantage of this new initiative is GLEG Ltd. from Russia.
</sarcasm>
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Offener Brief an GMX – Betrifft: moderne Browser (nochmal)

Posted on 2006-11-16 by Oliver

Vielen Dank für die Textbausteine, die ich schonmal zugeschickt bekam und auch kommentierte (beachten Sie ruhig das Datum). Schön (oder besser gesagt peinlich), daß der Textbaustein noch nicht angepaßt wurde. Das zeigt doch deutlich wie wichtig Ihnen Topmail-Kunden sind:

http://blog.assarbad.net/20060722/designfragen_gmx/

Wenn ich einen modernen Browser will, ist Internet Explorer 5.5 aus 2000 sicher die letzte Wahl. Netscape 7.2 hat auch schon mehr als 2 Jahre auf dem Buckel, während die Opera-Version welche ich angab keine 6 Monate alt ist. Continue reading →

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Are you a developer reading my blog?

Posted on 2006-11-14 by Oliver

If you are a developer and have not yet heard of WinDirStat, please check it out first. Then if you like it and can imagine to write a plugin for it, give me some feedback at this blog article. Thanks.

// Oliver

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Article: “How Two Hours Can Waste Two Weeks”

Posted on 2006-11-14 by Oliver

Over at Agile Advice, you can find a very nice blog article from the perspective of a development manager. I can tell that much: at my former company the PM (same person as DM in this case) did not take the pressure from us devs, at the current company it seems wo work well. Maybe because of that one major difference … that the CTO is member of the dev team? 😉

I was pointed to the article by a friend who is currently plagued by the flu. Get well soon! 🙂

// Oliver

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DDKBUILD.CMD updated to version 7.0beta4

Posted on 2006-11-08 by Oliver

OSR is going to update the DDKBUILD.CMD script on their website next week. If you can’t wait, grab your copy at the DDKWizard website.

A bug has been fixed which affected the build for WNET DDK with the two 64bit target processor platforms. Also a glitch on the help screen of the script has been fixed, which was somewhat related to the aforementioned bug.

// Oliver

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Shit happens … US nuclear secrets found on USB thumb drives …

Posted on 2006-11-07 by Oliver

Read on http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/15566388/site/newsweek/ …

// Oliver

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Storm in a teacup or big deal for Novell?

Posted on 2006-11-05 by Oliver

A friend of mine pointed me to the following message (“open letter”) of Novell:
http://www.novell.com/linux/microsoft/openletter.html (the related press release is here). I wonder how this partnership will affect other distros, especially non-commercial. My friend says that it will have a big influence on the other commercial distros and non-commercial ones will be ignored. I am not so sure. What do you think? Leave a comment …

// Oliver

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