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February 2006 - Posts

Katamari 'R Filler

For Christmas, we got the kids a PS2, they've been having a great deal of fun with it. On Raymond ’s recommendation , I also got a copy of Katamari Damacy, which IS the most messed up video game ever. Daniel’s beaten it, I’m only about halfway through Read More...
Posted Tuesday, February 28, 2006 10:39 AM by LarryOsterman | 4 Comments

Threat Modeling, then and now

Way back in the day, back when we were doing the initial threat models for the vista audio stack, I wrote a couple of articles about threat modeling and the process as I saw it then. Well, I've now been through another round of writing threat models (I Read More...
Posted Monday, February 27, 2006 11:16 AM by LarryOsterman | 2 Comments

Suggestion Box

Recreating the suggestion box :) Please note that I reserve the right to choose which suggestions I write on, and I'm not likely to write about things I don't know about. Topics I feel comfortable writing about (in no specific order): Microsoft History Read More...
Posted Friday, February 24, 2006 8:44 PM by LarryOsterman | 8 Comments

The Code Room: Breaking Into Vegas

Sorry about the lack of posts, I've just not been motivated to post recently. Someone pointed out the new episode of "The Code Room" , which is focused on Security, it's an interesting perspective. I did find it rather hokey, the various security experts Read More...
Posted Friday, February 24, 2006 1:03 PM by LarryOsterman | 2 Comments

The Clueless Manifesto

I don't usually echo other people's content, but I ran into this via Scoble : " The Clueless Manifesto " I'm not entirely sure why it struck a chord, but it did. Read More...
Posted Monday, February 20, 2006 11:13 PM by LarryOsterman | 10 Comments

Why does the NT redirector close file handles when the network connection breaks?

Yesterday, Raymond posted an article about power suspend and it's behavior in XP and Vista . It got almost as many comments as a post in the IE blog does :). I want to write about one of the comments made to the article (by "Not Amused Again"): James Read More...
Posted Friday, February 17, 2006 10:06 AM by LarryOsterman | 29 Comments

Why Threat Model?

We're currently in the middle of the most recent round of reviews of the threat models we did for all the new features in Vista (these happen periodically as a part of the SDL ). As usually happens in these kinds of things, I sometimes get reflective, Read More...
Posted Monday, February 13, 2006 9:40 AM by LarryOsterman | 17 Comments
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WFP is my new best friend

I've mentioned our computer setup a couple of times before - Valorie's got her laptop, Daniel, Sharron and I each have our own desktop computers, and there are a couple of other machines floating around the house. Since the kids machines don't have internet Read More...
Posted Tuesday, February 07, 2006 9:34 AM by LarryOsterman | 25 Comments

So apparently there's a "football" game going on this weekend?

I thought we were done with football this year, but apparently not :) Actually, this Superbowl is somewhat problematic for me. I grew up in Albany, NY, which has absolutely no professional sports teams at all. So I never really understood the whole "fandom" Read More...
Posted Friday, February 03, 2006 9:46 AM by LarryOsterman | 7 Comments

What Hath God Wrought

Well, it had to happen. Western Union is finally going out of the telegram business . One of the questions asked in the MSNBC article linked is "Ever get a telegram" (ok, it's in a fake survey linked along with the article). Actually, to my knowledge, Read More...
Posted Friday, February 03, 2006 9:42 AM by LarryOsterman | 8 Comments
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Firewalls, a history lesson

Recently, a rather high profile software company has been taken to task about its patching strategy. One of the comments that was made by the customers of this company was basically: "We don't have to worry, all our servers are behind a firewall". I've Read More...
Posted Thursday, February 02, 2006 8:46 AM by LarryOsterman | 23 Comments
 
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