I do love my job somedays

Yesterday I was talking to one of the software engineers that works on some of the problems I find.  In my testing of Windows 8, I also tested Direct X 11 samples. It turns out that the software emulation we do to render some of these samples was causing weird crashes and it was on some of my newer systems with I7 CPU's.  Apparently I seemed to have found an obscure bug in Intels I7 CPU's. If they change the CPU of my system with an I5, the bug miraculously vanish!

I've always said I'm gifted at finding the weirdest problems, this is one of them!!!!  I've found all sorts of bugs in the hardware I test, but this is the find time I find an Intel CPU bug. I've found an Intel chipset bug before.  One of our hardware engineers will be contacting Intel with the particulars of the bug.

I still hate Windows 8 even if it was the source of this cool bug!

Blogger to Buzz bug

I just noticed that when I embed a Youtube video in my blog posts, they don't get linked on google Buzz.  Have not yet bothered to research if it's a bug or a feature :) 

But it does look stupid when I say something like "What a great video BBC did" and there's no link or nothing to it! 

The other thing I find is missing going between Google blogger and buzz is that the comments on Blogger don't get passed on to buzz and vice versa, comments on buzz don't get ported to blogger. So the same post will have two separate sets of comments.