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July 2007 - Posts

Live search thinks I'm who?

Live search added face recognition to their image search the other day (which is way cool). Someone decided to see what various bloggers looked like, so they tried searching for: "larry osterman" filter:face What shows up? I'll give you a hint, it isn't Read More...
Posted Tuesday, July 31, 2007 8:54 AM by LarryOsterman | 4 Comments

Actually, the Internet IS a series of tubes...

Alaska's Senior Senator Ted Stevens was widely disparaged for a speech he gave back in June of 2006 when he compared the Internet as a " series of tubes "[1]. The backlash against the comment was quite remarkable, IMHO. People seemed to believe that this Read More...
Posted Monday, July 30, 2007 9:36 AM by LarryOsterman | 26 Comments

Playsound is failing on Vista! What's wrong?

Recently BillP , the author of the antispyware application WinPatrol asked on the MSDN forums about a problem he was having with his application . His app called PlaySound(MAKEINTRESOURCE(IDR_WOOF), hInst, SND_RESOURCE | SND_SYNC | SND_NOWAIT) but it Read More...
Posted Tuesday, July 24, 2007 12:01 PM by LarryOsterman | 23 Comments

How do I compare two different NetBIOS names?

On one of our internal aliases, someone asked the following question: [i]s there any API that I can use to do case insensitive comparison of two OEM strings? (NetBIOS names are encoded in OEMCP.) Wow, that's question was a blast from the past. Windows Read More...
Posted Wednesday, July 11, 2007 1:05 PM by LarryOsterman | 10 Comments
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Is there a difference between an "Administrator" and a "person with an admin account"?

Yuhong Bao pointed me to his blog post (about Raymond's post " The admin is an idiot ") which referenced this snippet from an Apple Style Guide : To maintain the distinction between professional administrators and Mac OS X users with administrator accounts, Read More...
Posted Friday, July 06, 2007 9:55 AM by LarryOsterman | 24 Comments

My mother will be happy, her grandson's going to be a Dentist!

Well, he's going to be playing a dentist on stage :). Tuesday Evening, Daniel was cast as Orin Scrivello, DDS in the Seattle Children's Theater summer season production of " Little Shop Of Horrors ". He'll be playing in the Green cast, and performing Read More...
Posted Thursday, July 05, 2007 10:24 AM by LarryOsterman | 6 Comments
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