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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

I get spam :)

I just received this spam message the other day: From: Microsoft [mailto:customerservice@microsoft.com] Sent: Saturday, October 11, 2008 11:13 PM To: Larry Osterman Subject: Security Update for OS Microsoft Windows Dear Microsoft Customer, Please notice Read More...
Posted Tuesday, October 14, 2008 9:13 AM by LarryOsterman | 18 Comments

Larry and the "Ping of Death"

Also known as "Larry mounts a DDOS attack against every single machine running Windows NT" Or: No stupid mistake goes unremembered. I was recently in the office of a very senior person at Microsoft debugging a problem on his machine. He introduced himself, Read More...
Posted Tuesday, October 16, 2007 9:36 AM by LarryOsterman | 33 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

Annoying coding tricks

I'm sure I've linked to The Daily WTF , on it Alex Papadimoulis collects egregious programming mistakes and distributes them one per day. This one isn't really that hideous, but I ran into this construct the other day while working on some stuff and it Read More...
Posted Friday, March 03, 2006 11:49 AM by LarryOsterman | 31 Comments

Psychic Perf Analysis, or "RegFlushKey actually DOES flush the registry key"

One of Raymond 's more endearing features is what he calls "Psychic Debugging", it even made his wikipedia entry (wow, he even has a wikipedia entry, complete with picture :)) There's a variant of Psychic Debugging called "Psychic Perf Analysis". It works Read More...
Posted Thursday, March 02, 2006 2:40 PM by LarryOsterman | 13 Comments
 
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