Sometimes it happens that you need to run a special program when you are near computer and shut it down when you leave. A typical example is winamp: you want winamp to play internet radio when you are working on machine, but when you leave it is better to shut it down – it saves [...]
Archive of posts filed under the utilities category.
bsod offset search tool (bos) version 1.0.0.1 released
Some time ago I was writing a post about how to find a cause of bsod without having a memory dump file. I decided to implement a tool for myself which is automating these steps. If you by any chance require such a tool, it is available for download for free. All you have to [...]
Label your partitions to make booting Linux and mounting partitions far easier
Introduction With version 2.6 of the Linux Kernel, which has been in use now for almost seven years, udev was introduced as the device manager. Udev dynamically assigns entries in /dev for among other things, drive partitions, for which it supports LABELS and UUID designations in place of the usual /dev/sda, etc. You will most [...]
PDBExt plugin (32 bit) v(0.2) for IDA Pro v(5.0 and higher) is released
As I promised, here is the next version of plugin. This version introduces extended set of settings. In addition to ‘local’ settings (which are specific per project) there are so called “global” settings. This feature seems to be very useful for me, because when I worked under several projects I constantly was forced to specify [...]
PDBExt plugin (32 bit) v(0.1) for IDA Pro v(5.0 and higher) is released
IDA Pro allows you to load symbols for windows components. However, this feature is not fully suitable for me, because it constantly loads them from internet. Looks inefficient, especially if you use IDA on different machines – symbols get downloaded for each of them. I prefer everything that can be controlled, so my idealistic vision [...]
