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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

Why no Easter Eggs?

Yesterday's post caused a bit of a furor in the comments thread. A large number of people leaving comments (and others ) didn't understand why the OS division has a "no Easter Eggs" policy. If you think about this, it's not really that surprising. One Read More...
Posted Friday, October 21, 2005 2:47 PM by LarryOsterman | 32 Comments

Early Easter Eggs

Jensen Harris's blog post today talked about an early Easter Egg he found in the Radio Shack TRS-80 Color Computer BASIC interpreter. What's not widely known is that there were Easter Eggs in MS-DOS. Not many, but some did slip in. The earliest one I Read More...
Posted Thursday, October 20, 2005 9:56 AM by LarryOsterman | 53 Comments

Unintended consequences of adding APIs to the system

Yesterday, I wrote about a trick to reduce the number of bits in a number by one. It turns out that I've only ever had one opportunity to use this trick (although I ran into an instance of it when code reviewing some stuff the other day), back when I Read More...
Posted Friday, October 14, 2005 10:10 AM by LarryOsterman | 31 Comments

It's on the whiteboard

Way back when, when we were first shipping NT 3.1, checking files into the source tree was pretty easy. You made your changes and checked them in. Not a big deal, since there were only 20 or so people working on the code base - the chances of collision Read More...
Posted Wednesday, October 12, 2005 1:59 PM by LarryOsterman | 14 Comments
 
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