Der gemeine Isländer …

Posted on 2007-01-27 by Oliver

… auch bekannt als Homo sapiens stinkfischessus, scheint allgemein – und, das überrascht, auch in den eigenen Reihen – als dumm angesehen zu werden. Während man sich bei kulturellen Eigenheiten wie dem Essen von Gammelrochen, Schafseiern und Grönlandhai (Hákarl), dem Tick per-capita die Besten in allem zu sein und ein scheußliches Gesöff namens Brennivin zu mögen noch auf die Sozialisation im Land und die kargen Verhältnisse in Ísland bis zur Mitte des vorigen Jahrhunderts stützen kann, zieht dieses Argument in Sachen Bildung nicht mehr. Denn da schneiden die Isländer nicht so schlecht ab. Bliebe also die Frage wie es kommt, daß dieses eigenwillige Völkchen in den Weiten des Atlantiks von anderen für dumm verkauft wird – und, viel schlimmer, sogar aus den eigenen Reihen?
Continue reading →

Posted in DE, Island/Iceland/Ísland | 2 Comments

IDA 5.1 Beta 2

Posted on 2007-01-27 by Oliver

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 few days ago.

// Oliver

Posted in EN, Programming, Reversing, Software | Tagged | Leave a comment

Some IDC scripts uploaded (update)

Posted on 2007-01-27 by Oliver

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: If you downloaded the scripts before, please download the new version and apply it. This should possibly catch some of those functions which have been imported several times and not optimized to one import by the linker.

// Oliver

Posted in EN, Programming, Reversing, Software | Tagged | Leave a comment

F-Prot updated to version 6.0.5.1

Posted on 2007-01-25 by Oliver

For those not having noticed it, F-Prot 6 for Windows was updated lately. There are several fixes included so it is highly recommended to update. Please be aware that after the installation you will be asked to restart. So consider this when scheduling the update.

Soon to be released is the corporate version as slipped already out on our FRISK forum. QA comes first, though.

Enjoy,

// Oliver

Posted in EN, FSI/F-Prot, Software | Leave a comment

IDA 5.1 Beta 1 (updated).

Posted on 2007-01-22 by Oliver

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. the best disassembler in the world – I want to present some of my personal highlights of this beta Continue reading →

Posted in EN, Reversing, Software | Tagged | Leave a comment

Da sieht man’s wieder …

Posted on 2007-01-05 by Oliver

Dieser vorauseilende Gehorsam ist ja mal wieder hanebüchen … und natürlich wiedermal die Kommentarfunktion deaktiviert *grummel*. :mrgreen:

Naja, wie dem auch sei, ich wollte Mathias ja eigentlich nur sagen, daß er sich als vorbildlicher Bürger auch einfach den Bundestrojaner installieren könnte, anstatt in seinem Beitrag scheinheilig seine Erotikbildersammlung auf Laufwerk P: zu verschweigen – so könnte sich das MfSdie GeStaPodie StaSider Verfassungsschutz nämlich selbst überzeugen und muß nicht auf die Worte jedes potentiellen Terroristen oder Amokläufersnormalen Bürgers vertrauen.
Continue reading →

Posted in /dev/null, DE, Gedanken | 1 Comment

Problems with DDKWizard? (2nd)

Posted on 2007-01-05 by Oliver

Some days ago I asked you whether there are some problems with DDKWizard. The reporter of the alleged bug at that time has never responded and may never respond. However, I heard from a friend, that the installation of some .NET 3.0 wizards screwed up all other wizards. So if the reporter of the “bug” has done the same, this could be an explanation.

But again, without more details I can hardly do anything. Or maybe it was a (bad) joke?

// Oliver

Posted in DDKWizard/DDKBUILD, EN, Programming, Software | Leave a comment

Attempted money laundry?

Posted on 2007-01-05 by Oliver

Looks like the terrorists have done it again … these must have been terrorists, right? … trying to find out how far you can stretch the truth and get through …

Meeeee-ouch :mrgreen:

Posted in /dev/null, EN | Leave a comment

How to contact AutomatedQA???? (update)

Posted on 2007-01-03 by Oliver

I am trying to contact them since I am interested in buying AQTime, but three trials to contact them failed seemingly. What does it take to get through to the info or sales alias of their domain??????????????

Any clues?

Update: As can be seen from the comments, contact was meanwhile established. Thanks to those at AutomatedQA helping to establish the connection. I also have a license meanwhile and will start blogging about my experiences soon.

// Oliver

Posted in EN, Software | 4 Comments

Update to ddkbuild.cmd

Posted on 2007-01-03 by Oliver

I updated ddkbuild.cmd once more so it has turned version 7.0beta5 now. There is a fix for the treatment of build output in Visual Studio 2005 as described in “Memo to self: VS_UNICODE_OUTPUT” as well as some enhancements for the PREfast output and so on. So grab your copy if you are a user of the .cmd version.

// Oliver

Posted in DDKWizard/DDKBUILD, EN, Programming | Leave a comment

Memo to self: VS_UNICODE_OUTPUT

Posted on 2007-01-03 by Oliver

Since I lost the link already more than once I’ll use my blog as memory-extension :mrgreen:

In the NTDEV mailing list, there was lately a thread discussing problems of using a wrapper such as DDKBUILD around the build utility and compiler of the DDK/WDK. The problem surfaced with the WDK (Vista/Longhorn DDK) and VS 2005.
Continue reading →

Posted in EN, Programming | Leave a comment

Angemessene GEZ-Gebühr für PCs: 2 €

Posted on 2007-01-02 by Oliver

Eine angemessene Gebühr für internetfähige PCs (mit Breitbandverfügbarkeit und -anschluß!) wäre rund 2 EUR. Ja richtig, da steht ZWEI. Wie komme ich auf diese irrsinnige Zahl? Nun, da die ARD – und normalerweise müßte man ja den ÖR-Sender mit der wenigsten Internetsendezeit nehmen – weniger als 3 Stunden an Livestreams bzw. ehemaligen Livestreams (sprich Archivmaterial) pro Tag bereitstellt, sollte der PC-Nutzer natürlich auch nur dafür bezahlen. Wir lassen mal außer Acht, daß die Bild- und Tonqualität bei den Streams bedeutend schlechter ist als auf einem normalen Fernsehgerät. Damit sind wir also bei 3h/24h = 1/8. Somit sollte ein Achtel des Preises für die TV-Gebühr angemessen sein. Das wären dann rund 2,10 €.

Die Diskrepanz zwischen Preis und Leistung fällt einem ja erst dann auf, wenn man eben kein Fernsehgerät sondern nur einen Internetanschluß hat, so wie ich hier in Island …

// Oliver

Posted in DE, Gedanken | Leave a comment

Seemingly the world has become “safer” last year

Posted on 2007-01-02 by Oliver

An article on the Strategic Security Blog discusses the ambitions of different countries concerning nuclear arms. While the US is constantly complaining about North Korea, Iran (where nothing is proven) and other countries, they remain silent when it is about Israel or (newly) India. The justification to not intervene in India lies in a new bilateral treaty between the USA and India and, according to General Pace, in the sovereignty of India. Now I wonder whether Iran or North Korea are actually still considered sovereign countries by the US government? Seemingly not, given that India may conduct its tests under the benevolent eyes of the USA. That is obviously because some friends – in the war on terror – are more equal than all enemies to the current US government.

The busy ballistic missile flight testing represents yet another double standard in international security, and suggests that initiatives are needed to limit not only proliferating countries from developing ballistic missiles but also find ways to curtail the programs of the existing nuclear powers.
(source: Strategic Security Blog)

Aren’t these chilling facts for the upcoming year(s)?!

// Oliver

Posted in /dev/null, EN | Leave a comment

Funny link for today

Posted on 2007-01-01 by Oliver

… here are some hints if you consider plastic surgery during this year :mrgreen:

// Oliver

Posted in /dev/null, EN | Leave a comment

Now that’s democracy!!! (US-style)

Posted on 2006-12-31 by Oliver

The US-led coalition promised to bring democracy and freedom to Iraq. After many months there is still no peace in Iraq, no freedom, no democracy. And finally Saddam Hussein – surely a cruel person – was executed. But is the capital punishment a sign for democracy or justice? While I guess many (although not all) US-Americans would agree, I strongly disagree. No one, including a state and its representatives has the right to kill people for whatever reason and under whatever circumstances. Surely this somehwhat spoils the “fun” of war, since killing people is one of the core elements of it, but on the other hand I’d argue that the civil population of any war region in this world would surely agree with me. Killing is inhumane, even killing tyrants!
Continue reading →

Posted in EN, Thoughts | Leave a comment

Any problems with DDKWizard?

Posted on 2006-12-29 by Oliver

Lately I got one email with feedback that after installing DDKWizard none of the wizards worked anymore. However, even after five emails from me to the reporter in reply to that report I got no answer. So I wonder whether this report is serious or not. Please provide feedback even if DDKWizard causes problems!
Continue reading →

Posted in DDKWizard/DDKBUILD, EN, Programming | 1 Comment

Cool new features in VMWare Workstation 6

Posted on 2006-12-27 by Oliver

VMWare released the beta version of VMWare Workstation 6 and some of the features there have been on my wishlist for ages. Especially the last three points:

  • Integrated Virtual Debugger – Workstation integrates with Visual Studio and Eclipse so you can deploy, run, and debug programs in a VM directly from your preferred IDE
  • Automation APIs (VIX API 2.0) – You can write scripts and programs to automate VM testing
  • Headless mode – You can run VMs in the background without the Workstation UI

Sounds wicked. Looking forward to upgrade :mrgreen:

// Oliver

Posted in EN, Software | Leave a comment

Something interesting on Corrine’s blog

Posted on 2006-12-27 by Oliver

That’s how a privacy company treats the email address of customers and (ordinary) newsletter subscribers.

// Oliver

Posted in EN, IT Security, Lava-watch, Software | Leave a comment

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.
Continue reading →

Posted in DDKWizard/DDKBUILD, EN, Programming, Software | Leave a comment

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!).
Continue reading →

Posted in EN, IT Security, Software | Leave a comment