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October 2009 - Posts

Maybe we're wrong, but we'd likely never admit it

The question from Jim was: I am troubleshooting an issue with Vista SP2 where the common dialogs seem to be failing – Notepad – File/Open gives: “Not enough memory available to complete this operation. Quit one or more applications to increase available Read More...

Posted Monday, October 26, 2009 7:01 AM by Michael S. Kaplan | 1 Comments

Filed under: Locales/Cultures, Int'l Programming, Unicode Lame List

On the avoidance of being too tired to move, and the iBot

I've had more and more people asking me lately about my symptoms -- just what are they, people wonder. My guts tell me that this is not something to write about, but after 39 years on this planet I've decided that if I have learned anything, it is that Read More...

Posted Saturday, October 24, 2009 10:01 AM by Michael S. Kaplan | 2 Comments

Filed under: Potpourri, Multiple Sclerosis, iBOT

Fastest? Perhaps. Wrongest? Certainly!

The question was deceptively simple: Hi, I used all three and I find ToLower() to be fastest .But the Msdn article says that ToLowerInvariant should be faster. http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.string.tolowerinvariant(VS.85).aspx . Which Read More...

Posted Thursday, October 22, 2009 7:01 AM by Michael S. Kaplan | 0 Comments

Filed under: Collation/Casing, Locales/Cultures, Linguistic, Int'l Programming

On not discrimniating, and on overheating an iBot

Horrendously, stupendously, tremendously off-topic!!! I do not believe in discrimination. It is I think fairly important to point out this simple fact today. You'll see why in a moment. And you might want to take me to task by the time you're done reading Read More...

Posted Wednesday, October 21, 2009 7:01 AM by Michael S. Kaplan | 6 Comments