Larry Osterman's WebLog
Sun Apr 24 04:35:33 EDT 2011
Home: http://blogs.msdn.com/b/larryosterman/
Feed: http://blogs.msdn.com/larryosterman/rss.aspx

How do people keep coming up with this stuff (mspaint as an audio track).

Someone is a glutton for punishment

The case of the inconsistent right shift results…

Why does Windows still place so much importance on filenames?

Hacking Windows with Phones… I don’t get it.

It’s a bad idea to have a TEMP environment variable longer than about 130 characters

What does “size_is” mean in an IDL file?

Microsoft Office team deploys botnet for security research

Not Invented Here’s take on software security

NextGenHacker101 owes me a new monitor

What’s up with the Beep driver in Windows 7?

More fun with Amazon reviews.

Why are they called “giblets” anyway?

Windows 7 Reflections…

Win7 Whoppers

Looking for new skillz (turning the blog around)…

I can make it arbitrarily fast if I don’t actually have to make it work.

Building a flicker free volume control

The story behind the mysterious “Ding” in Windows Vista.

What’s the difference between GetTickCount and timeGetTime?

Digging into the history bin (AKA: Microsoft Developer says that Windows is useless)

25 Years Ago Today (August 27th, 1984)

24 years ago today (1985)

23 years ago today (1986)

20, 21 and 22 years ago (1987-1989)