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OSR
Company blog · osr.com/blogsystemsprogramming
OSR is the company blog at osr.com, writing about systems and programming. Since 2010, 13 different Hacker News readers have linked it 13 times, most often “Microsoft: No Driver Updates Allowed for Win7 and Win8”. The last post was in 2024, but the archive is still widely read.
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Most-linked posts?
- Microsoft: No Driver Updates Allowed for Win7 and Win82 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2020-10-16
- /nt-insider/2019-issue1/the-state-of-windows-file-system-filtering-in-2019/2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2024-07-22
What Hacker News says?
Azure Temporary Storage disks are stored on the host hypervisor machine. Non-temp storage is stored in Azure Storage. That's the only difference. FAT[32] does implement minifilters. https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-hardware/drivers/i... https://www.osr.com/nt-insider/2019-issue1/the-state-of-wind...
Comment linking /nt-insider/2019-issue1/the-state-of-windows-file-system-filtering-in-2019/
on “SQLite: 35% Faster Than the Filesystem”Submitted Withdrawing from the Microsoft MVP Program as a story · 226 points
HN discussionThey've done a technology transition once already from legacy file system filter drivers to the minifilter model. If they see enough benefit to another change, it wouldn't be unprecedented. Mind you, it looks like after 20-ish years Windows still supports loading legacy filter drivers. Given the considerable work that goes into getting even a simple filesystem minifilter driver working reliably, it's safe to assume…
Comment linking /nt-insider/2019-issue1/the-state-of-windows-file-system-filtering-in-2019/
on “No More Blue Fridays”Submitted Microsoft: No Driver Updates Allowed for Win7 and Win8 as a story · 147 points
HN discussionWin10 even changed the requirements actually: https://www.osr.com/blog/2015/03/18/microsoft-signatures-req... Personally, I think that signing all drivers off a single root makes sense, but I am concerned about the EV requirement. EricLaw mentioned before that they don't sell them to individuals, for example.
Comment linking /blog/2015/03/18/microsoft-signatures-required-km-drivers-windows-10/
on “The Windows Driver Frameworks are on GitHub”Submitted C Is Not Reasonable as a story · 28 points
HN discussionYes, hopefully somebody will work on this some day. http://www.microsoft.com/whdc/devtools/ifskit/default.mspx http://www.microsoft.com/whdc/devtools/IFSKit/ifskit_about.m... http://www.fs-driver.org/ http://www.microsoft.com/whdc/DevTools/WDK/WDKpkg.mspx http://www.acc.umu.se/~bosse/ http://www.osr.com/seminars.html
Comment linking /seminars.html
on “Rebooting is for Windows”Submitted Introduction to NVMe Technology as a story · 9 points
HN discussionULONGLONG is in fact a Windows Drivers Kit specific type. WDK has its own specialised set of weird and uncomfortable type conventions in the MS style [0] and although the author's point about C arithmetic type promotion is generic, his context is WDK device drivers, so ULONGLONG is absolutely correct, if possibly somewhat archaic (there's a ULONG64 lately). [0] https://www.osr.com/blog/2015/05/27/newbie-corner-there…
Comment linking /blog/2015/05/27/newbie-corner-theres-type-unexpected-world-windows-kernel-types/
on “C Is Not Reasonable”Submitted Mitigating the $I30:$Bitmap NTFS Bug as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Microsoft: No Driver Updates Allowed for Win7 and Win8 as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Meltdown and Spectre: What about Windows Drivers? as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted NTFS Status Debugging as a story · 1 points
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