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September 2005 - Posts

Friday, September 30, 2005 7:00 AM

The reverse-engineering of PDC 2005 pass colors

I think I got them all.
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Friday, September 30, 2005 7:00 AM

English Cut: Bringing bespoke tailoring into the general consciousness

On the dying art of custom tailoring.
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Friday, September 30, 2005 7:00 AM

But I have Visual Basic Professional

A chat room from 1995.
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Thursday, September 29, 2005 7:00 AM

The DHS television show was all a scam, it appears

Too good to be true.
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Thursday, September 29, 2005 7:00 AM

On objects with a reference count of zero

Playing with matches.
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Wednesday, September 28, 2005 7:00 AM

Avoiding double-destruction when an object is released

The trick of the artificial reference count.
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Tuesday, September 27, 2005 7:00 AM

COM object destructors are very sensitive functions

If you try to do too much, you can find yourself in trouble.
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Monday, September 26, 2005 7:00 AM

Raymond's 2005 MVP Global Summit event diary

A few things here and there.
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Monday, September 26, 2005 7:00 AM

Kurt would have wanted it that way

Is distortion art or a bug?
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Sunday, September 25, 2005 7:00 AM

This is an unsupported ride, so if you stop, you will fall over

Trying to climb Zoo Hill.
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Friday, September 23, 2005 4:23 PM

The Double-E Half Hour of Pain

I'm pretty confident I'm going to regret this.
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Friday, September 23, 2005 7:00 AM

Ten things I noticed at the 2005 PDC

Following up on Sara Ford's report.
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Thursday, September 22, 2005 7:00 AM

Contradictory feedback from my 2005 PDC talk

What people say and what they do are often at odds.
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Thursday, September 22, 2005 7:00 AM

Coming to the completely opposite conclusion on Windows versions

Maybe I didn't explain it well.
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Wednesday, September 21, 2005 7:00 AM

Black(out) humor at the 2005 PDC

Trying to make light (get it? light?) of the situation.
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Wednesday, September 21, 2005 7:00 AM

Giving fair warning before plugging in your computer

Make sure you're not overloading the circuit.
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Tuesday, September 20, 2005 7:00 AM

Please disconnect all cell phones, signal watches, and pagers

A cell phone ring from an unexpected place.
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Tuesday, September 20, 2005 7:00 AM

Things to do at Microsoft when the power goes out

Enjoy the silence.
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Monday, September 19, 2005 7:00 AM

Corrections to the answers I gave at the end of my PDC talk

Following up on the questions asked at the end.
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Monday, September 19, 2005 7:00 AM

Why doesn't Microsoft give every employee a UPS?

The cost-benefit analysis simply doesn't pay off.
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Friday, September 16, 2005 7:00 AM

Fiddling with the fonts, part 2: Keeping the English font small

Changing the font on a column-by-column basis.
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Thursday, September 15, 2005 7:00 AM

Fiddling with the fonts, part 1: Making the Chinese characters larger

Building fonts relative to other fonts.
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Wednesday, September 14, 2005 2:54 PM

Typo patrol at the PDC

On the failures of proofreading.
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Wednesday, September 14, 2005 7:00 AM

Like an invention out of Harry Potter, except that Harry's would use a quill

A pen for dyslexics.
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Wednesday, September 14, 2005 7:00 AM

The double-Ctrl+Alt+Del feature is really a kludge

So don't rely on it.
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Tuesday, September 13, 2005 5:29 PM

Sorry I missed you all this morning

Scheduling snafu.
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Tuesday, September 13, 2005 7:00 AM

Annoying renditions of the songs of Elvis

The worst music everywhere.
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Tuesday, September 13, 2005 7:00 AM

Why is there no all-encompassing superset version of Windows?

Because actual customers prefer it that way.
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Monday, September 12, 2005 7:00 AM

Richard E. Grant as Dr. Who

Waiting for the New Who to reach the States...
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Monday, September 12, 2005 7:00 AM

Understanding the consequences of WAIT_ABANDONED

It tells you that you're in big trouble.
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Friday, September 09, 2005 7:00 AM

Reading the output of a command from batch

The kludgy batch language gets even kludgier.
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Thursday, September 08, 2005 7:00 AM

I won't be signing books but don't let that stop you

You can sign things other than books.
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Thursday, September 08, 2005 7:00 AM

Why does the function WSASetLastError exist?

Because Winsock was originally written for 16-bit Windows.
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Wednesday, September 07, 2005 7:00 AM

Declared unsuitable for minors in Australia! Sort of.

Nothing to see here.
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Wednesday, September 07, 2005 7:00 AM

Why aren't low-level hooks injected?

Because there is nowhere to inject them into.
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Tuesday, September 06, 2005 7:00 AM

Windows Server 2003 can take you back in time

The Volume Shadow Copy service shows you what your files used to be.
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Monday, September 05, 2005 7:00 AM

Spider Solitaire unseats the reigning champion

The new leader.
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Friday, September 02, 2005 7:00 AM

Precision is not the same as accuracy

Accuracy is how close you are to the correct answer; precision is how much resolution you have.
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Thursday, September 01, 2005 7:00 AM

More undocumented behavior and the people who rely on it: Output buffers

The contents of output buffers are typically undocumented on failure, but that doesn't stop people from using them.
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