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December 2004 - Posts

Friday, December 31, 2004 7:00 AM

Using fibers to simplify enumerators, part 3: Having it both ways

Fibers let both sides think they're in control.
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Thursday, December 30, 2004 6:58 AM

Using fibers to simplify enumerators, part 2: When life is easier for the caller

This time, we'll watch the enumerator lose.
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Wednesday, December 29, 2004 7:00 AM

Using fibers to simplify enumerators, part 1: When life is easier for the enumerator

The problem with enumeration is that somebody always loses.
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Tuesday, December 28, 2004 7:00 AM

Computing the size of a directory is more than just adding file sizes

Hard links and sparse files make directory size computations tricky.
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Monday, December 27, 2004 7:00 AM

You can create an infinitely recursive directory tree

So watch out when doing tree recursion.
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Monday, December 27, 2004 7:00 AM

Alton Brown book tour 2005: I'm Just Here for More Food

Promoting his latest book, "I'm Just Here for More Food: Food x Mixing + Heat = Baking".
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Friday, December 24, 2004 7:00 AM

Why does the system convert TEMP to a short file name?

For compatibility, of course.
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Friday, December 24, 2004 7:00 AM

How to open those plastic packages of electronics without injuring yourself

They seem to be specially-designed to cause maximum hand damage.
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Thursday, December 23, 2004 6:58 AM

Do you need clean up one-shot timers?

What would the world be like if it were true?
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Wednesday, December 22, 2004 7:00 AM

BOOL vs. VARIANT_BOOL vs. BOOLEAN vs. bool

Still more different ways of doing the same thing.
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Tuesday, December 21, 2004 7:00 AM

Sometimes people don't like it when you enforce a standard

Your average computer user wouldn't recognize a standards document if they were hit in the face with it.
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Monday, December 20, 2004 7:00 AM

Don't save anything you can recalculate

Sometimes it's all about paging.
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Friday, December 17, 2004 7:00 AM

How did Windows 95 rebase DLLs?

Instead of doing it en masse, Windows 95 did it incrementally.
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Friday, December 17, 2004 7:00 AM

Excellent blog about Windows and Unicode

Michael Kaplan's random stuff of dubious value.
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Thursday, December 16, 2004 6:58 AM

Optimization is often counter-intuitive

Things you think would be faster often aren't.
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Thursday, December 16, 2004 6:58 AM

How to get more hits on Google than even Steve Ballmer

Have a very common name.
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Wednesday, December 15, 2004 7:01 AM

The hunt for a faster syscall trap

Syscall performance is always being tuned.
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Wednesday, December 15, 2004 7:01 AM

This Game Boy won't hurt a bit, just help the Powerpuff Girls count backwards from ten

Game Boy proves more effective than tranquilizers at calming children before surgery.
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Tuesday, December 14, 2004 9:04 AM

Why do dialog editors start assigning control IDs with 100?

Because the small numbers are already taken.
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Tuesday, December 14, 2004 9:04 AM

Scientists come one step closer to the perfect poppy-seed bagel

On the quasi-uniform distribution of points on a manifold.
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Monday, December 13, 2004 8:52 AM

Tintin goes to the neurologist

All those blows to the head.
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Monday, December 13, 2004 8:51 AM

Why do I get E_NOINTERFACE when creating an object that supports that interface?

It's the other half of the missing IMarshal.
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Friday, December 10, 2004 4:00 AM

Dragging a shell object, part 5: Making somebody else do the heavy lifting

Making somebody else do the heavy lifting.
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Friday, December 10, 2004 7:00 AM

For all your chicken sequencing needs

The International Chicken Sequencing Consortium.
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Thursday, December 09, 2004 7:00 AM

Dragging a shell object, part 4: Adding a prettier drag icon

Adding a prettier drag icon.
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Thursday, December 09, 2004 7:00 AM

Time to dust off your conspiracy theories

Apartment in Stockholm explodes under mysterious circumstances.
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Wednesday, December 08, 2004 7:00 AM

Dragging a shell object, part 3: Detecting an optimized move

Detecting a Move even if it was optimized away.
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Wednesday, December 08, 2004 7:00 AM

It is not illegal to use James Bond style tactics for winning at the roulette wheel

Using a laser to predict where the ball will land deemed not illegal in England.
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Tuesday, December 07, 2004 7:01 AM

Researchers find connection between lack of sleep and weight gain

Shortage of sleep is linked to obesity, according to research published yesterday.
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Tuesday, December 07, 2004 7:00 AM

Dragging a shell object, part 2: Enabling the Move operation

Enabling Move (even though it's not a good idea here)
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Monday, December 06, 2004 7:00 AM

Dragging a shell object, part 1: Getting the IDataObject

The shell gives you the IDataObject; all you have to do is drag it around.
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Friday, December 03, 2004 7:00 AM

Why are documents printed out of order when you multiselect and choose "Print"?

It's a race to the printer.
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Thursday, December 02, 2004 7:00 AM

Why did Windows 95 run the timer at 55ms?

It goes all the way back to the original IBM PC BIOS.
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Wednesday, December 01, 2004 7:00 AM

What is the purpose of the bmPlanes member of the BITMAP structure?

This one goes back to the EGA video card.
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