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September 2006 - Posts

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Most of our customers (and most professional software developers) don't really understand how much is involved in making a feature. It's not just the specification and code work. It's all the other things that have to be handled. I like to lump these Read More...
Posted Friday, September 29, 2006 8:59 AM by LarryOsterman | 17 Comments

A bedtime story :)

Once upon a time (all the best stories start with "Once upon a time"), there was a computer manufacturer, let's call it by a totally random collection of letters, let's say "JCN". JCN had a brand new computer that it was producing (called the QD-BU). Read More...
Posted Friday, September 22, 2006 11:17 AM by LarryOsterman | 17 Comments
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It's Bedlam all over again...

A really long time ago, I wrote a post about the " Bedlam DL3 " event at Microsoft. Well, a couple of days ago, we had another Bedlam DL3 event. For some reason, the permissions on one of our internal DLs were messed up, and someone had granted "send-as" Read More...
Posted Monday, September 18, 2006 10:12 AM by LarryOsterman | 11 Comments

Going gaga over XGL

Chris Pirillo's been making a ton of noise over a video he posted showing off a YouTube video of a demo of the XGL desktop running on KDE. He then turns around and asks "Why can't Vista look like this?". I'm not a UX (user experience) guy, but I have Read More...
Posted Friday, September 15, 2006 12:13 PM by LarryOsterman | 45 Comments

My life is a House episode

Fox TV here in the US has a show called "House". Valorie and I started watching it sometime towards the end of the 2nd season, the 3rd season started last week. House stars Hugh Laurie as a genius drug addicted, lame doctor who, with his brilliant associates, Read More...
Posted Monday, September 11, 2006 3:22 PM by LarryOsterman | 14 Comments

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Way back when when NTFS was first being designed, the designers of the filesystem had a problem - what should they do with "." and "..". Traditionally, in *nix filesystems (and MS-DOS's FAT filesystem), "." and ".." were two hard links that were created Read More...
Posted Thursday, September 07, 2006 10:36 AM by LarryOsterman | 21 Comments
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