geoffdunbar

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   by geoffdunbar 3y ago

   I worked at Microsoft from 1996 to 2011. I was a SDE and lead on Windows Media and Media Foundation. This is a cute story, but I never heard of anything like this. There is no way my management would have approved any time off to write a bo
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   by geoffdunbar 3y ago

   I'm probably being dumb here, but what do you mean by /lit/? I can't figure out how to turn that into an Internet thing (website? social? what is it!), and searching for /lit/ is predictable not helpful. Always
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   by geoffdunbar 4y ago

   I don't remember... but it's long enough ago that that doesn't mean anything. Virtually everyone I knew there left the company around 1996 as the raises weren't keeping up with the market. New hires were making more than
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   by geoffdunbar 4y ago

   I worked at Oracle from 1993-1996, porting the Oracle database to Netware. > Novell wouldn’t, or couldn’t, make Netware use task preemption and memory protection. I actually remember being shown a pre-release version that had memory prot
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   by geoffdunbar 4y ago

   I worked at Microsoft on the NetShow Encoder, later known as the Windows Media Encoder, in the Windows 95/Windows NT4 era. I remember carefully writing millisecond code that would deal with differences, instead of absolutes, so that we
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   by geoffdunbar 5y ago

   Yes, absolutely. If the webserver is compiled 32-bit, that is only 4GB of data, which might be feasible? I don't know enough to say. Assuming a hacker kindly won't overflow your buffer is never a good idea. However, the presence o
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   by geoffdunbar 5y ago

   I love C, but it's pretty scary sometime. 5 minutes ago, "I wonder if I can find a potential memory overwrite in 5 minutes?" Sure enough, the function StrAppend potentially overflows a size_t size (without checking), and then