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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 | 8 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 | 17 Comments

Ok, I’m strange…

I was looking at the front page of MSNBC and ran into this picture : (image copyright Sebastiao Moreira / EPA).    My first thought was “Why do these people all have hotdogs with yellow mustard pressed up to their face?”   I did say that Read More...
Posted Tuesday, September 30, 2008 5:11 PM by LarryOsterman | 5 Comments
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Oh Wow, Dr. Horrible is AWESOME!

Someone just pointed me to http://www.drhorrible.com , which is Joss Whedon’s newest epic. The first two acts are up on the web (the final act will go up on Saturday). They are spectacularly cool, especially to a musical nut.  I knew that Neil Patrick Read More...
Posted Thursday, July 17, 2008 11:34 AM by LarryOsterman | 4 Comments

BillG Memories, part 1…

I’m going to be out of town tomorrow, so I won’t be able to post this on Bill’s last full time day at Microsoft, but I wanted to post a couple of anecdotes about Bill. This one actually comes from Valorie, it was her first interaction with Bill…   Read More...
Posted Thursday, June 26, 2008 11:09 AM by LarryOsterman | 3 Comments

Who's on that banner?

For whatever reason, various groups at Microsoft love to run banners and posters that promote their products on campus. I'm not sure why they do it, I'd think that their money would be better spent advertising to (say) customers as opposed to advertising Read More...
Posted Tuesday, June 10, 2008 10:40 AM by LarryOsterman | 8 Comments
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News Flash: Spaces are legal characters in both filenames and passwords!

I recently figured out a problem that I've been having with one of our internal tools. The tool is used to automatically deploy our daily builds (extremely handy when you're doing that every other day to several test machines). As a part of the tool, Read More...
Posted Tuesday, June 03, 2008 3:34 PM by LarryOsterman | 33 Comments

Somehow I managed to do another Channel 9 video and I didn't even know it!

Dan Fernandez over on the Channel 9 team just let me know that one of my earlier videos was featured in their new Video Spam Filter intro . It's weird - I hadn't realized how much I swore. Go figure that one out :). Read More...
Posted Tuesday, April 01, 2008 9:58 AM by LarryOsterman | 5 Comments
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"We're back and..."

Raymond sent me an email yesterday asking me to confirm an old Lan Manager slogan. Back in the Lanman 2.0 days, Brian Valentine (who ran the Lanman group) made up a series of T-Shirts for the team with the words: Lan Manager... We're back and we're BAD". Read More...
Posted Wednesday, February 20, 2008 10:04 AM by LarryOsterman | 15 Comments
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Every Domain Name tells a story, I wonder what this one's was.

And I'd love to know the story behind this site: http://www.modestapparelchristianclothinglydiaofpurpledressescustomsewing.com/choosing_your_fabric.htm . I ran across it while shopping online the other day. The root page of the domain ( http://www.modestapparelchristianclothinglydiaofpurpledressescustomsewing.com/index.htm Read More...
Posted Tuesday, January 01, 2008 3:17 PM by LarryOsterman | 10 Comments

I don't know if I should be honored or ashamed :)

Yesterday, we had the weekly security contacts meeting for the WEX division. At those meetings, they sometimes give out awards for people who have gone above and beyond the call of duty. Much to my surprise, I won one of the awards! You can't read the Read More...
Posted Friday, November 16, 2007 8:57 AM by LarryOsterman | 6 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

Got Tetris?

I just wanted to take a quick break from threat modeling to point to a video that Valorie passed on to me that's nothing short of remarkable (from the blog of one of my favorite magazines, Mental Floss ): Advanced Tetris Gameplay : The magic happens about Read More...
Posted Wednesday, September 12, 2007 8:38 AM by LarryOsterman | 7 Comments

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

My wife and I are SUCH geeks.

Once again, nothing technical, but massively geeky (and maybe a bit TMI, but I figure most of the people reading this are grownups). Last night, I was reading my email on my computer (which lives in our bedroom) when my daughter came in and asked "Where's Read More...
Posted Wednesday, June 06, 2007 10:02 AM by LarryOsterman | 7 Comments
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