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October 2005 - Posts

Monday, October 31, 2005 7:00 AM

Night of the Knitting Dead

Okay, wrong zombie movie.
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Monday, October 31, 2005 7:00 AM

The Hallowe'en-themed lobby

Spookiness for the season.
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Friday, October 28, 2005 7:00 AM

Even in the enlightened year of 2005, we have programs that don't handle long file names

At least not by default.
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Friday, October 28, 2005 7:00 AM

How to recognize different types of sentinel timestamps from quite a long way away

Values at or near the limits of various timestamp formats.
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Thursday, October 27, 2005 7:00 AM

Without a doubt, the world's worst online Swedish lessons

Then again, they're not really trying to be particular good.
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Thursday, October 27, 2005 7:00 AM

Why is the OEM code page often called ANSI?

More laziness.
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Wednesday, October 26, 2005 7:00 AM

PC Magazine interviews "the team behind Windows" on its twentieth birthday

Curiously, they're all managers.
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Wednesday, October 26, 2005 7:00 AM

When programs assume that the system will never change, episode 1

Grabbing resources directly out of system binaries.
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Tuesday, October 25, 2005 7:00 AM

It's like being at the PDC, but without the lines or the tote bag

PDC 2005 videos are now online.
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Tuesday, October 25, 2005 7:00 AM

Seattle Twenty-Five for $25 November 2005 restaurant list is available

Sampling fine dining.
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Tuesday, October 25, 2005 7:00 AM

One person's discoverable feature is another person's annoyance

At what point does a prompt cross the line?
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Monday, October 24, 2005 7:00 AM

Fair Isle: Knitters Wanted

Two houses to let at quite reasonable rates.
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Monday, October 24, 2005 7:00 AM

New device detected: Boeing 747

A flying modem.
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Friday, October 21, 2005 7:00 AM

Why is it even possible to disable the desktop anyway?

Back in the old days, programmers were trusted not to be stupid.
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Thursday, October 20, 2005 7:00 AM

The things in the PDC 2005 introductory video

Which you never saw because they went too fast.
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Thursday, October 20, 2005 7:00 AM

Quick and dirty buzzword bingo cards in Excel

Not pretty but it gets the job done.
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Wednesday, October 19, 2005 7:00 AM

Follow-up: Portsmouth Spinnaker Tower now open, but maybe you should take the stairs

Little problem with the lift you see.
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Wednesday, October 19, 2005 7:00 AM

There's something about Rat Poker

The odd draw of cartoon rats.
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Tuesday, October 18, 2005 7:00 AM

Answering the phone, a classic rookie mistake

The hazards of answering the phone when you're taking the day off.
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Tuesday, October 18, 2005 7:00 AM

Be careful what you name your product group

They thought they were so clever when they named the Desktop Applications Division.
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Monday, October 17, 2005 7:00 AM

The undeletable Outlook folder

Pending synchronization operations.
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Friday, October 14, 2005 7:00 AM

The history of the path separator in Japanese and Korean Windows

Michael Kaplan blows the dust off this classic question.
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Friday, October 14, 2005 7:00 AM

Thread affinity of user interface objects, part 5: Object clean-up

When the window manager and GDI clean up objects and how you should behave.
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Thursday, October 13, 2005 7:00 AM

Make money working at home in your pajamas, and it's completely legal!

Qualified captioners are in demand.
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Thursday, October 13, 2005 7:00 AM

Thread affinity of user interface objects, part 4: GDI objects and other notes on affinity

GDI objects have no thread affinity.
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Wednesday, October 12, 2005 7:00 AM

Newark Liberty International Airport Terminal A travel tips

Take line 1 through security.
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Wednesday, October 12, 2005 7:00 AM

Thread affinity of user interface objects, part 3: Menus, icons, cursors, and accelerator tables

These objects have no thread affinity.
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Tuesday, October 11, 2005 7:00 AM

New blog on integrating Groove with Office

Integration of both software and people.
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Tuesday, October 11, 2005 7:00 AM

Thread affinity of user interface objects, part 2: Device contexts

Device contexts have a limited degree of thread affinity.
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Monday, October 10, 2005 7:00 AM

The difficult balancing act between customization and supportability

How much is too much?
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Monday, October 10, 2005 7:00 AM

Thread affinity of user interface objects, part 1: Window handles

The underlying principles come from 16-bit Windows.
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Friday, October 07, 2005 7:00 AM

On the dangers of sharing your apartment

Or, as Marc calls it, COMmunism.
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Friday, October 07, 2005 7:00 AM

Your profiling tools can manufacture performance issues where there were none

Be midful of the Heisenberg effect
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Thursday, October 06, 2005 7:00 AM

Jensen Harris joins the 7am club

My colleague Jensen Harris from the Office User Interface team has joined the 7am club, posting fascinating glimpes into Office history and the upcoming version of Office code-named " Office 12 ". And they come out at 7am every weekday. Then again, maybe
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Wednesday, October 05, 2005 7:00 AM

The unfortunate interaction between LOAD_LIBRARY_AS_DATAFILE and DialogBox

When two components try to overload the same flag.
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Wednesday, October 05, 2005 7:00 AM

My history of time is briefer than yours

Competing books with the same title.
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Wednesday, October 05, 2005 7:00 AM

Running old programs in a virtual machine doesn't necessarily create a good user experience

You can run them, but they won't behave correctly.
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Tuesday, October 04, 2005 7:00 AM

Katamari Damacy: The most screwed-up video game ever

In a good way.
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Tuesday, October 04, 2005 7:00 AM

Consequences of the scheduling algorithm: Sleeping doesn't always help

Sleep(0) doesn't solve everything
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Monday, October 03, 2005 7:00 AM

Perhaps I like the phrase "withered hand" a bit too much

I didn't mean to be more popular than Jesus.
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Monday, October 03, 2005 7:00 AM

Consequences of the scheduling algorithm: Low priority threads can run even when higher priority threads are running

Priorities don't solve everything
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