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August 2009 - Posts

It doesn't matter if those folks were gonna screw me since some other folks already did!

Nothing technical, you know the drill.... This blog is not going to be about politics. Well, not really. I'll mention politics a bit but hopefully not enough to rile up the kind of people who get riled by such things. If I'm wrong, I'm gonna ignore the Read More...
Posted Monday, August 31, 2009 7:01 AM by Michael S. Kaplan | 2 Comments

Is this blog safe for work? (aka Sometimes you gotta say 'What the rżne!')

Although Microsoft tries to be more transparent and give people more ways than ever to contact them, not all of those methods include the formal training of the handoff . Now the handoff is very important because in many or possibly even most cases, the Read More...
Posted Thursday, August 27, 2009 7:01 AM by Michael S. Kaplan | 6 Comments

No Welsh puns here. Ever. Not even a little one. Not at all...

I have the feeling that certain questions are going to keep getting asked. Some in person, like "What's up with your facebook profile pictures?" Or others via email, like the one about people not feeling like a code page selection is right for a particular Read More...
Posted Monday, August 24, 2009 7:01 AM by Michael S. Kaplan | 10 Comments

When you're in the red, you don't have a lot of choices

This blog is not about the economy! Regular readers may remember this blog, where I mentioned how much I limited my negative categorizations -- the whole English language and I was holding it down to three adjectives. It turns out that there is a part Read More...
Posted Thursday, August 20, 2009 7:01 AM by Michael S. Kaplan | 1 Comments

On not looking at Uyghur through a Chinese prism

I just remembered that I have a Suggestion Box! In it, Abdusalem asked: Hi Michael, I would like to ask/or suggest as a topic something about the Uyghur (PRC) locale in Windows 7. This is a new locale that has been supported by Windows since Windows Vista Read More...
Posted Monday, August 17, 2009 7:01 AM by Michael S. Kaplan | 3 Comments

Header files are not retarded, aka What the @#%&* is _O_WTEXT?

There was a recent [internal] discussion thread where someone was asking about what was the best way to output localized text to the console. After a bit of thread drift, STL pointed out that blog post ( Conventional wisdom is retarded, aka What the @#%&* Read More...
Posted Friday, August 14, 2009 7:01 AM by Michael S. Kaplan | 0 Comments

Turkish Character in Directory Name Hung Windows NT 3.5, aka small enough to be internationally stupid

The other day I was looking for something. On the Internet. You know how that goes, I'm sure. I didn't find it, though I know it is out there. You probably know how that goes too. I tried with both Google and Bing. Now I'm not a religious nut about either Read More...
Posted Wednesday, August 12, 2009 9:41 AM by Michael S. Kaplan | 0 Comments

On the nonubiquitousness of Ü

So, in a quick follow-up to Garbage in, garbage out -- and this means Ü! from the other day, the investigation into the cause has happened: ok, what happens is that MFC is actually throwing an exception, because _mbsupr_s() does return EILSEQ. The crash Read More...
Posted Tuesday, August 11, 2009 9:29 AM by Michael S. Kaplan | 4 Comments

On not getting arrested for rolling under the influence

Very very very very offtopic. I can barely excuse myself for writing it; your reading it is simply unacceptable.... There are always multiple sides to any story. And the subject of this blog is no exception. The issue is the way that drunk driving or Read More...
Posted Monday, August 10, 2009 7:01 AM by Michael S. Kaplan | 2 Comments

English is just another language -- so Windows 7 released all 36 at once!

In case you haven't noticed from the other gazillion blogs and tweets, Windows 7 released today. Windows has released a bunch of times, so what makes this one different, exactly? Well I could be boring and explain at length why it is the best, most secure, Read More...
Posted Thursday, August 06, 2009 11:31 AM by Michael S. Kaplan | 5 Comments

16 is not to 64 as 8 (either 8) is to 16....

So McDowell asked in a comment: Apologies if this is the wrong place, or this has come up before, but does 64bit Windows sound the death knell for OEM code pages on the console? I haven't run a 64-bit version of Windows, so I can't check if I'm just behind Read More...
Posted Wednesday, August 05, 2009 7:01 AM by Michael S. Kaplan | 5 Comments
 
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