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The New Sounds are here!!!

I don't usually do "Me Too", but I just had to share this. James Senior has released a short podcast with the new Vista sound scheme! It's super awesome :) Check it out here ! Read More...
Posted Monday, October 30, 2006 1:44 PM by LarryOsterman | 4 Comments
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Last Checkin Chicken

In the lifetime of every single project I've ever worked on, there's this little "game" that's informally played at the very end of the ship cycle. It's never been formalized, but it's always been played (at least it was in every group I've ever worked Read More...
Posted Wednesday, October 25, 2006 9:20 AM by LarryOsterman | 19 Comments

Two Bloggy Shoutouts

I wanted to shout out to two bloggers I read religiously but haven't commented on. The first is Ryan Bemrose, who writes as the Audio Fool . Ryan's been writing a bunch about signal quality and DSP in audio (which makes sense since he's one of the testers Read More...
Posted Wednesday, October 18, 2006 4:13 PM by LarryOsterman | 2 Comments

Mother, Can I?

Recently someone posted the attached screen shot on the internal self hosting alias. What's wrong with this English? It's the use of "Can" instead of "May". This happens to be one of my minor pet peeves with common English usage. The difference between Read More...
Posted Tuesday, October 17, 2006 9:37 AM by LarryOsterman | 45 Comments

So when is it ok to use SEH?

I got an email from someone using the contacts form asking: There is an article on MSDN about using VirtualAlloc to reserve then commit memory pages. Here is the link: http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/memory/base/reserving_and_committing_memory.asp Read More...
Posted Monday, October 16, 2006 11:36 AM by LarryOsterman | 9 Comments

It's much worse, in a better way

I was just chatting with one of the other developers in my group (Mitch), and he mentioned a bug that just popped up on our radar. In our bug tracking system, there's a field called "NumInstances" which indicates the number of people who have encountered Read More...
Posted Thursday, October 12, 2006 10:53 AM by LarryOsterman | 3 Comments

Thanks!

So I decided to take the advice people mentioned in the previous post , and my laptop is now happily running Vista - I get a WEX score of 3.0 based on the video perf (expected), other than the video, the machine gets a 4.4, and I'm a very happy camper. Read More...
Posted Thursday, October 12, 2006 10:50 AM by LarryOsterman | 5 Comments

Forced to use XP again

A couple of weeks ago, my old laptop's motherboard gave up the ghost, so after much price and feature shopping, I got a new Toshiba Satellite A100 laptop for work. In general, I love this box. It's pretty fast, has a good modern processor, a decent video Read More...
Posted Wednesday, October 11, 2006 4:10 PM by LarryOsterman | 24 Comments

Sometimes people don't really get the point of defensive programming for security...

I was reading this months issue of Dr. Dobbs Journal, and I ran into the column " Illusions of Safety " by Pete Becker. Pete writes about enhancements to the C language, and I usually really enjoy his columns. This month was an exception. Pete basically Read More...
Posted Wednesday, October 04, 2006 9:28 AM by LarryOsterman | 23 Comments
 
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