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July 2005 - Posts

Friday, July 29, 2005 7:00 AM

Does Windows have a limit of 2000 threads per process?

You've run out of address space.
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Thursday, July 28, 2005 7:00 AM

What is this "web site" thing you are talking about?

Why Windows 95 didn't point users to web pages.
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Wednesday, July 27, 2005 7:00 AM

When the normal window destruction messages are thrown for a loop

Destroying a window that is already being destroyed leads to strange behavior.
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Tuesday, July 26, 2005 7:00 AM

What is the difference between WM_DESTROY and WM_NCDESTROY?

One is sent at the start of the destruction process, the other at the end.
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Monday, July 25, 2005 7:00 AM

Dinner at the Herbfarm in Woodinville

A destination restaurant.
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Monday, July 25, 2005 7:00 AM

On paying for your meal upon leaving a restaurant

It is generally recommended.
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Friday, July 22, 2005 7:00 AM

Marin Alsop to be music director of the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra

Baffled why this news is as big as it is.
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Friday, July 22, 2005 7:00 AM

The importance of passing the WT_EXECUTELONGFUNCTION flag to QueueUserWorkItem

The thread pool uses it to decide whether it should create a new thread or wait for an existing work item to finish.
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Thursday, July 21, 2005 7:00 AM

News flash: Going for a walk on a nice day makes you feel better

More results from the world science community.
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Thursday, July 21, 2005 7:00 AM

FindFirstFile is not a SQL query

It's a very simple directory enumerator.
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Wednesday, July 20, 2005 7:34 AM

The Northwest Mahler Festival performs Mahler's Second Symphony ("Resurrection")

A moving rendition.
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Wednesday, July 20, 2005 7:00 AM

Why does FindFirstFile find short names?

Counterintuitive results from the file search.
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Tuesday, July 19, 2005 7:00 AM

What is the deal with the ES_OEMCONVERT flag?

It's pointless today.
Posted by oldnewthing | 14 Comments
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Monday, July 18, 2005 7:00 AM

Watching the game of "Telephone" play out on the Internet

How one person's remark on the word "blogcasting" turns into a word-ban
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Monday, July 18, 2005 7:00 AM

If InitCommonControls doesn't do anything, why do you have to call it?

Because it's the fact that you cared.
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Friday, July 15, 2005 7:00 AM

The apocryphal history of file system tunnelling

It's about quantum mechanics.
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Thursday, July 14, 2005 9:56 AM

When Marketing edits your PDC talk description

A few years ago, I told a story of how Marketing messed up a bunch of PDC slides by "helpfully" expanding acronyms... into the wrong phrases. Today I got to see Marketing's handiwork again, as they edited my talk description. (Oh, and psst, Marketing
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Thursday, July 14, 2005 7:00 AM

Where did the names of the computer Hearts opponents come from?

Danny Glasser explains.
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Wednesday, July 13, 2005 7:00 AM

Converting from traditional to simplified Chinese, part 3: Highlighting differences

Using custom-draw to change sub-item colors.
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Tuesday, July 12, 2005 7:00 AM

Converting from traditional to simplified Chinese, part 2: Using the dictionary

Consulting our dictionary to generate simplified Chinese from traditional.
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Monday, July 11, 2005 7:00 AM

Converting from traditional to simplified Chinese, part 1: Loading the dictionary

Knowing when a simple data structure is better than a complex one.
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Friday, July 08, 2005 7:00 AM

The best book on ActiveX programming ever written

Mr. Bunny's Guide to ActiveX.
Posted by oldnewthing | 14 Comments
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Friday, July 08, 2005 7:00 AM

How can I recover the dialog resource ID from a dialog window handle?

You can't. It's gone.
Posted by oldnewthing | 4 Comments
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Thursday, July 07, 2005 7:00 AM

What struck me about life in the Republic

Reaction to the most recent Star Wars movie.
Posted by oldnewthing | 41 Comments
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Thursday, July 07, 2005 7:00 AM

What are SYSTEM_FONT and DEFAULT_GUI_FONT?

They are fonts nobody uses any more.
Posted by oldnewthing | 22 Comments
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Wednesday, July 06, 2005 7:00 AM

What's the point of DeferWindowPos?

To position multiple child windows at one go.
Posted by oldnewthing | 23 Comments
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Tuesday, July 05, 2005 7:00 AM

Answers to yesterday's holiday fun puzzles

Here ya go.
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Tuesday, July 05, 2005 7:00 AM

Using script to query information from Internet Explorer windows

The ShellWindows object was designed for scripting.
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Monday, July 04, 2005 7:00 AM

Some holiday fun: Puzzle supplementary material

Unused but still potentially amusing.
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Monday, July 04, 2005 7:00 AM

Some holiday fun: Puzzle #6

Matchboxes.
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Monday, July 04, 2005 7:00 AM

Some holiday fun: Puzzle #5

An old-style riddle.
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Monday, July 04, 2005 7:00 AM

Some holiday fun: Puzzle #4

Mixing things up.
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Monday, July 04, 2005 7:00 AM

Some holiday fun: Puzzle #3

Working back and forth.
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Monday, July 04, 2005 7:00 AM

Some holiday fun: Puzzle #2

The ol' switcheroo.
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Monday, July 04, 2005 7:00 AM

Some holiday fun: Puzzle #1

Seek and you shall find, but it's what you don't find that's even more interesting.
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Friday, July 01, 2005 7:00 AM

I hope you weren't using those undocumented critical section fields

Because they changed.
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Friday, July 01, 2005 7:00 AM

What's the difference between My Documents and Application Data?

One is for users to store data, the other is for programs.
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