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2025-02-18
Checking for DLL side-loading vulnerabilities in Windows applications
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Alas, despite this issue being one of the most common plague of win32 applications, and Microsoft having had all the time in the world to m...
2024-10-29
Instructions on how to disable/tweak the Pixel Refresher on LG OLED CX
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NB: This would have been posted in answer to this or this but unfortunately these posts are archived, so it's not possible to comment ...
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2024-08-29
Reboot to UEFI firmware settings from UEFI Shell
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reset -c -fwui There, you have it.
2024-08-19
Adding EDK2 as a submodule without cloning it
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Yeah, I have my reasons for this (mostly I commit on Windows, run the builds through GitHub Actions but compile from a non version-controlle...
2024-06-18
Downloading signtool.exe from Microsoft
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In their typical fashion, unless you know what you're doing, Microsoft made it incredibly difficult to get your hands on a simple basic ...
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2021-01-05
Python script to fix EDK2 patches downloaded with ThunderBird
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It looks like ThunderBird and the EDK2 mailing list don't play too nice together, and you get annoying double line feeds being inserted ...
2020-12-16
UEFI Hexdump
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If you're developing UEFI firmware content, sooner or later you're going to want to dump binary data using the debug facility. And s...
2020-08-08
Updating XML files with PowerShell
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Say you have the following file.xml : <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> <data> <item name="I...
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2020-07-08
(Ab)using Microsoft's symbol servers, for fun and profit
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Since I find myself doing this on regular basis ( Hail Ghidra! ), and can never quite remember the commands. Say you have a little Microsoft...
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2020-06-23
Et tu, Microsoft
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It's a beautiful Saturday afternoon. Everything is going as peachy as could be, with the satisfaction of having released a new version ...
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2020-05-15
Why is my Samba connection failing?
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Or how nice it is to have a problem that has long eluded you finally explained. Part 1: The horror You see, I've been using a FriendlyA...
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2019-11-17
PowerShell script to Convert UTF-8 misinterpreted file names
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You'd think that somebody else would have come up with a quick script to do just that on Windows, but it looks like nobody else bothered...
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2019-07-24
Installing Debian ARM64 on a Raspberry Pi 3 in UEFI mode
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That's right baby, we're talking vanilla Debian ARM64 ( not Raspbian, not Armbian) in pure UEFI mode, where you'll get a GR...
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2018-10-31
GitHub verified commits with GPG, TortoiseGit and MSYS/MinGW
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If you've been browsing git repositories in GitHub, you may have seen that some of them have Verified commits, which is a nice way to i...
2017-05-17
Using a YubiKey to store code signing certificates
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Preamble (skip this if you only want the How To) If you are a Windows software developer and/or distributor, then, by all means, you are w...
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