ab origine ... : general

Buying computer in Switzerland

V. S. — Sat, 18 Oct 2008 02:43:00 GMT

I was inspired to write this post after having tried several companies in Switzerland in terms of computer staff. First thing you notice in Switzerland is that: 1. The prices usually are higher than in US or Canada (difference is quite big) 2. There are...(read more)

Undeletable bug in VS2008?

V. S. — Wed, 27 Aug 2008 01:33:00 GMT

I see this bug for a quite a long time, starting from VS2005. To illustrate the problem: 1. Go to project properties, open some tab 2. Do not close the property dialog windows simply change the focus by clicking in code editor [...] Please read the post...(read more)

Moving to www.shcherbyna.com

V. S. — Sat, 21 Jun 2008 08:31:00 GMT

I always wanted to have an own domain, hosting mail, blog and probably some important files for me. However, I always felt the leak in time, and this direction was non primary for me. Until today. As you probably have mentioned, the server msmvps.com...(read more)

Windows Research Kernel

V. S. — Tue, 27 May 2008 07:09:00 GMT

Have you ever think about accessing sources of Microsoft Windows kernel? Now thoughts might become reality. Quote taken from http://www.microsoft.com/resources/sharedsource/licensing/researchkernel.mspx : “ The Windows Research Kernel (WRK) packages core...(read more)

Microsoft has opened Singularity sources

V. S. — Thu, 06 Mar 2008 08:13:00 GMT

Everyone is able to download sources at http://www.codeplex.com/singularity...(read more)

explorer.exe is in danger :)

V. S. — Thu, 27 Dec 2007 19:41:00 GMT

Kaspersky ( http://www.kaspersky.com/ ) recently released a signature update that treats explore.exe as a virus. This false signature may affect those people who set the option 'delete virus' ON - it let's anvtivirus delete the suspicious...(read more)

NG tips document

V. S. — Tue, 25 Dec 2007 17:02:00 GMT

Newsgroups tips doc has been published recently on my blog. I am pretty sure it will be useful for newbies who are going to use Microsoft newsgroups. For more details, please visit this link ....(read more)

my first FAQ ...

V. S. — Fri, 30 Nov 2007 22:49:00 GMT

Well, it's "better later then never" . I decided to write a small FAQ document on TDI. The idea to write this document came into my head when I noticed that there is not so much documentation on this field. Yes, I realize that TDI becomes...(read more)

A shame on Kaspersky ...

V. S. — Thu, 23 Aug 2007 18:34:00 GMT

As one of the stages in my work, I do tests of different antiviruses with components I develop. This allows me to handle incompatibility issues, profiling BSODS and other critical errors that might appear during software lifecycle ;) These days I was...(read more)

Do you code in assembler ?

V. S. — Tue, 19 Dec 2006 23:36:00 GMT

I do. And the best tool for me to code in asm is RadASM . This is the great IDE which is able to work with following the compilers: - masm - tasm - nasm - fasm - goasm I wonder, why MS did not wrote any simular IDE for assembler programming. BTW, IIRC...(read more)

IE7 release still beats us

V. S. — Sun, 17 Dec 2006 11:51:00 GMT

I participate in wininet NG from time to time. Since IE7 release, the major part of issues that I read there is connected with the changes introduced by IE7. Fortunatly for us, WNDP team is ready to investigate any bug you'll find. Of course, you can...(read more)

www.sysinternals.com is gone

V. S. — Thu, 16 Nov 2006 09:46:00 GMT

There is no www.sysinternals.com already.

If you try to navigate to Mark's web site you will find that it redirects to http://www.microsoft.com/technet/sysinternals/default.mspx. Since Microsoft acquired Sysinternals in July, 2006 it already changed the project a bit ...

Developers Days in Kiev, Ukraine. Novermber 10, 2006

V. S. — Thu, 09 Nov 2006 10:38:00 GMT

If you live in Ukriane you have a chance to visit Microsoft Developers Days that will take place in Kiev on 10-th of November 2006. For more details visit the following link: http://www.microsoft.com/Ukraine/Events/DevelopersDaysAutumn2006/Kiev.mspx

I am not going to visit it because I live in a bit different world now. There is no Ajax, WF, WPF here.

Russian guy in Windows Kernel Team ...

V. S. — Wed, 08 Nov 2006 23:22:00 GMT

Here is an interesting blog I read from time to time: http://blog.not-a-kernel-guy.com/.

Unfortunately the blog is written in russian, so those of you who does not know it need to use translation tools. The blogger name is Alexey Pakhunov and he works as a developer in Windows Kernel Team.

TDI Filter drivers in Vista: new article is coming

V. S. — Wed, 08 Nov 2006 11:09:00 GMT

WNDP team is going to publish on its blog the document which describes in details how to create TDI clients and TDI filter drivers in Vista. An interesting thing is that Vista does not allow to hook the dispatch table of TDI provider. The TDI filter should use IoAttachDeviceToDeviceStack or IoAttachDevice to layer itself between TDI clients and TDI providers.

The magics of FILE_FLAG_BACKUP_SEMANTICS flag or contradiction in the MSDN library

V. S. — Wed, 19 Jul 2006 16:35:00 GMT

MSDN: "The FILE_FLAG_BACKUP_SEMANTICS flag specified in the call to CreateFile gives the backup application process permission to read the access-control settings of the file or directory. With this permission, the backup application process can then call GetKernelObjectSecurity and SetKernelObjectSecurity to read and than reset the access-control settings.".

However there is another (undocumented) behavour of FILE_FLAG_BACKUP_SEMANTICS flag. It allows non-privileged user to flush buffers on a volume.

The documentation for FlushFileBuffers function contradicts the found undocumented behavour: "To flush all open files on a volume, call FlushFileBuffers with a handle to the volume. The caller must have administrative privileges."

Read this discussion on kernel NG.

First (rather philosophical) post ...

V. S. — Wed, 05 Jul 2006 12:29:00 GMT

Here there.

My name is Vladimir Scherbina. I am a software developer living in Ukraine in a nice city named Kiev.

I am kind of person from a "new generation" - those who started their programming expirience with high level languages. My first language was "BASIC" and my first computer was "Korvet" - it's an Soviet computer that was used in a schools for teaching kids. These computers were canceled in 1985 y. in Soviet Union but they still can be found in ukranian schools (I hope).

After "BASIC" I moved to Pascal, C, then C++ and finally x86 asm. I also worked (a lot) with MC++, C#, J#, Java, PHP, VB, VB.NET and other interpreted languages but my love is pure C/C++ or x86 asm.

I'll try to post here an interesting ideas/investigations concerning win32/win64.

For now that's all. I hope you will forgive me my mistakes in English (my native language is russian/ukranian).