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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

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

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

It's Bedlam all over again...

A really long time ago, I wrote a post about the " Bedlam DL3 " event at Microsoft. Well, a couple of days ago, we had another Bedlam DL3 event. For some reason, the permissions on one of our internal DLs were messed up, and someone had granted "send-as" Read More...
Posted Monday, September 18, 2006 10:12 AM by LarryOsterman | 11 Comments

It was a dark and stormy last night

It was a dark and stormy night... The band of infiltrators crept into the deserted building. After checking to make sure that the authorities weren't present, they crept up to the sixth floor. At this point, they were committed, there was no going back. Read More...
Posted Monday, April 03, 2006 11:24 AM by LarryOsterman | 14 Comments

Fun with names

The other day, someone sent an email to an internal mailing list asking about a "typo" in the eventvwr. It seems they noticed a number of events coming from the "bowser" event source, and they were convinced that it had to be a typo. Well, it's not :) Read More...
Posted Tuesday, March 14, 2006 11:16 AM by LarryOsterman | 10 Comments

Da Goat Horns

Raymond's post the other day about a giant inflatable bunny that showed up in his office finally prompted me to get off my duff and borrow a scanner from the PM in my group so I could scan in this picture: The scan's pretty horrible, but you get the idea Read More...
Posted Thursday, December 08, 2005 9:04 AM by LarryOsterman | 9 Comments

My favorite hardware bug

Adi Oltean asks: What's your favorite Bug? My personal favorite was on the ICL PWS-400. The ICL PWS-400 was a custom hardware design built by ICL. I was on the team of 5 (two from Microsoft, three from ICL) whose job it was to port MS-DOS 4.1 to this Read More...
Posted Monday, August 29, 2005 9:50 AM by LarryOsterman | 16 Comments

Moving offices - again

Editors Note: This was posted last Thursday evening, and was promptly lost in a blog rollback. Apologies to those who have already read it. I moved my office today. I hate office moves. I don't know how many times I've done it (it's been well over a dozen, Read More...
Posted Monday, May 09, 2005 1:18 PM by LarryOsterman | 12 Comments

It's the hardware, stupid!

Riffing on Raymond, once again :) Raymond's post today reminded me of an email message sent out (company wide) by one of the very senior developers on the Windows 1.0 team about 6 months before they shipped. In his email, the developer announced that Read More...
Posted Tuesday, April 12, 2005 11:37 AM by LarryOsterman | 5 Comments

Things not to do when you run a combined build and BVT lab...

First, a caveat: I have nothing but respect for the people who run build and BVT labs. It’s a thankless task that requires obscene amounts of time and energy. Now on with the story J … My favorite example of things that you shouldn’t Read More...
Posted Friday, May 07, 2004 4:47 PM by LarryOsterman | 7 Comments
 
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