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December 2005 - Posts

Friday, December 30, 2005 7:00 AM

2005 end-of-year link blowout sale

Cleaning out the leftovers.
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Thursday, December 29, 2005 7:00 AM

On the abuse of properties

Properties are not methods.
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Wednesday, December 28, 2005 7:00 AM

There's more to calling a function than just getting the types to match

There's that whole semantics thing.
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Tuesday, December 27, 2005 7:00 AM

If one certification is good, more must be better

Or is more simply confusing?
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Monday, December 26, 2005 7:00 AM

Why did the Windows 95 CD have extra fun stuff?

Because it was fun!
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Friday, December 23, 2005 7:00 AM

On the "Days without a pony" web page

It's really not that exciting.
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Thursday, December 22, 2005 7:00 AM

Why do up-down controls have the arrows backwards?

It's perfectly logical and simultaneously counter-intuitive.
Posted by oldnewthing | 29 Comments
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Wednesday, December 21, 2005 7:00 AM

The office disco party

An elaborate office prank.
Posted by oldnewthing | 34 Comments
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Tuesday, December 20, 2005 7:00 AM

"Pro forma" was so 1990's

The new buzzword is "non-GAAP".
Posted by oldnewthing | 12 Comments
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Tuesday, December 20, 2005 7:00 AM

Why does Windows setup lay down a new boot sector?

Because the alternative is worse.
Posted by oldnewthing | 76 Comments
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Monday, December 19, 2005 7:00 AM

Music to slip into a playlist to see if anybody is listening

Klezmer Nutcracker.
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Monday, December 19, 2005 7:00 AM

Beware the Image File Execution Options key

Its power can be used for evil as well as for good.
Posted by oldnewthing | 18 Comments
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Friday, December 16, 2005 7:00 AM

The Dead Sea Scrolls are coming to Seattle

Tickets now available.
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Friday, December 16, 2005 7:00 AM

When hyperthreading is enabled, all the processors are virtual

Clearing up a misunderstanding about hyperthreading.
Posted by oldnewthing | 25 Comments
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Thursday, December 15, 2005 7:00 AM

A note to headhunters: Check your links

It's the little things.
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Thursday, December 15, 2005 7:00 AM

You probably don't want to run programs directly off your USB memory drive

Even if you could.
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Wednesday, December 14, 2005 7:00 AM

Whole lotta cranking going on

Human-powered electronics as emergency gadgets
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Wednesday, December 14, 2005 7:00 AM

On the ambiguity of uniqueness

The anmbiguity of the English language.
Posted by oldnewthing | 27 Comments
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Tuesday, December 13, 2005 7:59 AM

We Microsoft bloggers do talk to each other occasionally, y'know

No blogger is an island.
Posted by oldnewthing | 11 Comments
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Monday, December 12, 2005 7:00 AM

Experiencing the world from flight level 210

Airline bloggers.
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Monday, December 12, 2005 7:00 AM

Your debugging code can be a security hole

Your log files and debugging hooks can reveal information.
Posted by oldnewthing | 18 Comments
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Friday, December 09, 2005 7:00 AM

On the inability to support hardware that nobody makes any more

Windows Vista losing support for really old DVD drives.
Posted by oldnewthing | 67 Comments
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Thursday, December 08, 2005 7:00 AM

The not-entirely-unwitting victims of the Daily Show interview

They know it's coming and are helpless to stop it.
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Thursday, December 08, 2005 7:00 AM

Using a physical object as a reminder

The hat.
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Wednesday, December 07, 2005 7:00 AM

Rory Blyth explains the difference between 720p and 1080i

Rory Blyth explains the difference between 720p and 1080i in a cartoon.
Posted by oldnewthing | 7 Comments
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Wednesday, December 07, 2005 7:00 AM

Whimsical embarrassment as a gentle form of reprimand

I suspect this happens in a lot of groups.
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Tuesday, December 06, 2005 7:00 AM

Humanity's greatest invention, according to seventh grade students

Into the mind of seventh-graders.
Posted by oldnewthing | 42 Comments
Tuesday, December 06, 2005 7:00 AM

When a token changes its meaning mid-stream

The changing attitudes towards Hawaiian shirts
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Monday, December 05, 2005 7:00 AM

It's always a good idea to check your sources

Because who knows, they might be biased.
Posted by oldnewthing | 35 Comments
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Monday, December 05, 2005 7:00 AM

Using floppy disks as semaphore tokens

Low-tech accounting.
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Friday, December 02, 2005 7:44 AM

Derren Brown's tips on being a psychic

Psychology over psychics.
Posted by oldnewthing | 17 Comments
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Friday, December 02, 2005 7:44 AM

Psychic debugging: Why your CPU usage is hovering at 50%

Simple mathematics.
Posted by oldnewthing | 23 Comments
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Thursday, December 01, 2005 7:00 AM

What one Windows XP feature am I most proud of?

Pinball.
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