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More fun with Amazon reviews.

A co-worker sent this around and I just HAD to share it…   It’s not nearly as geeky as “The Story of Ping”.   For those that don’t want to follow the link, these are some of reviews for this:   “I bought this review based on all of Read More...
Posted Wednesday, November 04, 2009 2:35 PM by LarryOsterman | 7 Comments
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Why are they called “giblets” anyway?

Five years ago, I attended one of the initial security training courses as a part of the XP SP2 effort.  I wrote this up in one of my very first posts entitled “ Remember the giblets ” and followed it up last year with “ The Trouble with Giblets Read More...
Posted Monday, October 26, 2009 9:05 AM by LarryOsterman | 0 Comments
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Win7 Whoppers

Wow, one of my co-workers just sent this image out. It’s totally awesome (IMHO)… http://twitpic.com/mehp6/full Edit: The image tag didn't work for some reason so I removed it and just left the link... Bonus: The first Win7 ad: http://video.nytimes.com/video/2009/10/21/multimedia/1247465293593/an-ad-for-windows-7-from-microsoft.html Read More...
Posted Wednesday, October 21, 2009 6:39 PM by LarryOsterman | 8 Comments
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I get still more spam

This morning I awoke to find the following spam email in my inbox: Greetings from Amazon Payments. Your bank has contacted us regarding some attempts of charges from your credit card via the Amazon system. We have reasons to believe that you changed your Read More...
Posted Wednesday, July 01, 2009 4:02 PM by LarryOsterman | 4 Comments
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XKCD tries Windows 7 and loves it!

    Well I thought it was cute :). Read More...
Posted Friday, January 09, 2009 10:14 AM by LarryOsterman | 18 Comments
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"The Story about Ping", someone else's book review

I was looking up old favorite children's books on Amazon the other day and I ran into one of my childhood favorites: The Story about Ping , a family about ducks living on the Yangtze river in China... I eventually scrolled down and noticed the first review Read More...
Posted Friday, December 05, 2008 11:09 PM by LarryOsterman | 4 Comments
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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 | 11 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

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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