November 2005 Entries
hmmm ... what does this remind me of? Just kidding But I thought this would be a lot of fun to read
We had a bug that got reported on November 1 this year. Nobody could figure out the reason for the bug except that the possible module for the bug had to be a module that I wrote. The bug was reported across all the clients. The condition had not occured before even during extensive testing. I could not reproduce the bug on my machine nor could the testing team. We were quite confounded by the bug till someone pointed out that Nov 1 was right after we moved to daylight savings time. This gave me...
Over the past month or so, a funny thing happens when I log in every morning - my desktop screen shows up in the background with a focussed login window for the Microsoft Passport Network. I did not bother with it till this morning (which was the first time I wasn't busy as crazy in a month). As I started investigating the cause of this annoying sign-in box, I discovered that the Google Desktop Crawler was the process responsible for it. My immediate thoguht was - "spyware". After making all the...