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January 2008 - Posts

Wow - We hired Crispin Cowan!!!

Michael Howard just announced that we've hired Crispin Cowan ! This is incredibly awesome, I have a huge amount of respect for Crispin , he's one of the most respected researchers out there. Among other things, Crispin's the author and designer of AppArmor Read More...
Posted Friday, January 18, 2008 10:31 AM by LarryOsterman | 5 Comments

We're finally legal!

Continuing in a stream of blog posts that started with " 18 years ago, Today ", " Nineteen years ago ", and " 20 years and going strong ", today Valorie and I celebrate our 21st wedding anniversary. We can finally go out and have a drink to celebrate Read More...
Posted Thursday, January 17, 2008 10:38 AM by LarryOsterman | 7 Comments
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What's this untitled slider doing on the Vista volume mixer?

Someone sent the following screen shot to one of our internal troubleshooting aliases. They wanted to know what the " Name Not Available " slider meant. The audio system on Vista keeps track of the apps that are playing sounds (it has to, to be able to Read More...
Posted Tuesday, January 08, 2008 2:06 PM by LarryOsterman | 80 Comments
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Playing Librarian...

Those of you who know me (and my family) from beyond my blog know that among my our many passions, one of the biggest is books. And we've got a lot of them. A couple of years ago, Valorie got me a Flic barcode scanner and a copy of the program Book Collector Read More...
Posted Thursday, January 03, 2008 9:22 PM by LarryOsterman | 24 Comments

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
 
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