The Old New Thing

2012 Q3 link clearance: Microsoft research edition

My Q1 and Q3 link clearances are traditionally for links to other Microsoft bloggers, but this time I'm going to link to a few Microsoft research papers I found interesting. Why do Nigerian scammers say they're from Nigeria? Short answer: Because it ensures that the replies come only from the most gullible people on earth. Bonus ...

Data in crash dumps are not a matter of opinion

A customer reported a problem with the function. (Gosh, why couldn't they have reported a problem with a function with a shorter name! Now I have to type that thing over and over again.) We're having a problem with the function. We call it like this: On some but not all of our machines, our program crashes with the following call ...