The Old New Thing

A reported vulnerability about getting paid apps for free is really about paying for free apps

November 28, 2023 Nov 28, 2023 11/28/23

Raymond Chen

Try shopping around.

Microspeak revisited: Line of sight

November 21, 2023 Nov 21, 2023 11/21/23

Raymond Chen

A fancy way of saying unimpeded network connectivity.

Starting on the other side of this airtight hatchway: Running a program that leaks memory

November 14, 2023 Nov 14, 2023 11/14/23

Raymond Chen

There are a lot of things you can do to consume memory.

Why doesn’t reduction by modulo work for floating point values?

November 6, 2023 Nov 6, 2023 11/6/23

Raymond Chen

Working out why it works for integers and seeing what goes wrong.

Why is there a hash of a weak password in the Windows cryptographic libraries?

October 24, 2023 Oct 24, 2023 10/24/23

Raymond Chen

They're part of an internal self-test.

Microspeak: The As-Appropriate (AA) interviewer

October 17, 2023 Oct 17, 2023 10/17/23

Raymond Chen

So, how are things going so far?

It rather required being on the other side of this airtight hatchway: Knowing the domain administrator password

October 10, 2023 Oct 10, 2023 10/10/23

Raymond Chen

If you give away the password, well, that's sort of on you.

How do I manually update a remote tracking branch, say, to undo a fetch?

October 2, 2023 Oct 2, 2023 10/2/23

Raymond Chen

Updating refs to point to whatever you like.

When looking to free up disk space, don’t forget your symbol file caches

September 18, 2023 Sep 18, 2023 09/18/23

Raymond Chen

They go all over the place.

The odd cadence of narrative engineering design documents

September 12, 2023 Sep 12, 2023 09/12/23

Raymond Chen

Following the rubric off a cliff.