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November 2008 - Posts

The ducking whitepaper is now online

I just got an email indicating that the powers that be have just published the Ducking (automatic volume adjustment for communications applications) whitepaper that I mentioned during my PDC Talk . It's the whitepaper entitled "Stream Attenuation in Windows Read More...
Posted Tuesday, November 25, 2008 2:47 PM by LarryOsterman | 12 Comments

I get more spam :)

I just received this phishing letter, I liked it simply because it was so remarkably brazen: -- Dear Webmail User, This message was sent automatically by a program on Webmail which periodically checks the size of inbox, where new messages are received. Read More...
Posted Friday, November 21, 2008 4:58 PM by LarryOsterman | 9 Comments

What’s wrong with this code, part 25 – the answers

Yesterday I described a very real bug in some of the Windows UI. CControlLayout::CControlLayout( const HWND hWndControl, const HWND hWndDlg) : m_hWnd(hWndControl) , m_hWndDlg(hWndDlg) { // Get the parent (dialog) rect, and the control rect ::GetClientRect(m_hWndDlg, Read More...
Posted Tuesday, November 18, 2008 4:09 PM by LarryOsterman | 3 Comments

What’s wrong with this code, part 25

Wow, 25 already. This one’s pretty straightforward. Once again, it’s a UI issue, since I’ve been spending most of my time doing UI lately. In this particular case, the code comes from the constructor for an auto-layout class that is used internally in Read More...
Posted Monday, November 17, 2008 8:43 AM by LarryOsterman | 10 Comments

If you live in the US, don’t forget to vote today

It’s a really big deal, regardless of your political persuasion.   Already the MSFT internal mailing lists have been filled with people asking “how long are the lines at my polling place”.  The good news is that the times appear to be pretty Read More...
Posted Tuesday, November 04, 2008 10:26 AM by LarryOsterman | 11 Comments
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PDC 2008, Day 4 (and finale)

Ok, the PDC’s finally over and I’ve had a chance to decompress a bit.  So here’s my day 4 report, only a few days late :). I got up at 6:15, finished packing and schlepped my stuff to the convention center for my tech check at 7:40.   At the Read More...
Posted Monday, November 03, 2008 12:13 PM by LarryOsterman | 6 Comments
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