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January 2006 - Posts

Tuesday, January 31, 2006 7:00 AM

Why does the Recycle Bin have different file system names on FAT and NTFS?

Because you might convert from one to the other.
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Tuesday, January 31, 2006 7:00 AM

"I attack the kobold wearing the headdress made of human ears"

Gamer geek mockumentary.
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Monday, January 30, 2006 7:00 AM

Why does a corrupted binary sometimes result in "Program too big to fit in memory"?

Because the program isn't actually corrupted. Sort of.
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Monday, January 30, 2006 7:00 AM

Liquefied NBA points apparently cannot be sold on eBay

Of course we don't find this out until somebody tries.
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Friday, January 27, 2006 7:00 AM

Waiting for all handles with MsgWaitForMultipleObjects is a bug waiting to happen

You're waiting for a message, too.
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Thursday, January 26, 2006 7:00 AM

Stephen Tolouse's reminiscences of Windows 95 RTM day

From a product support point of view.
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Thursday, January 26, 2006 7:00 AM

Pumping messages while waiting for a period of time

Putting together pieces you already know.
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Wednesday, January 25, 2006 7:00 AM

Welcome to the United States, unless you're a Canadian technologist who is an invited guest at a Microsoft conference, in which case, keep out

This means you.
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Wednesday, January 25, 2006 7:00 AM

You can call MsgWaitForMultipleObjects with zero handles

If you want to emulate WaitMessageTimeout.
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Tuesday, January 24, 2006 7:00 AM

Creepy messages in your baggage

Heather Leigh's ongoing saga.
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Tuesday, January 24, 2006 7:00 AM

Performance consequences of polling

A program should not poll as a matter of course.
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Monday, January 23, 2006 7:00 AM

There are two types of rebates, and you need to be on the alert

Slate explains.
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Monday, January 23, 2006 7:00 AM

If your callback fails, it's your responsibility to set the error code

Because only you know why.
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Friday, January 20, 2006 7:00 AM

The vtable does not always go at the start of the object

There is no requirement that it does, and it often doesn't.
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Thursday, January 19, 2006 7:00 AM

How air conditioning revolutionized competitive bicycling

Sometimes you have to reject the conventional wisdom.
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Thursday, January 19, 2006 7:00 AM

The cost of trying too hard: String searching

Another case where simple usually wins.
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Wednesday, January 18, 2006 7:00 AM

From Doom to Gloom: The story of a video game

NPR's series on flops touches on video games.
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Wednesday, January 18, 2006 7:00 AM

The cost of trying too hard: Splay trees

Amortized cost looks good on paper.
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Tuesday, January 17, 2006 7:00 AM

ReadProcessMemory is not a preferred IPC mechanism

Many limitations, some with security implications.
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Monday, January 16, 2006 7:00 AM

At least there's a funny side to spam

Poorly-drawn cartoons inspired by actual spam subject lines!
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Monday, January 16, 2006 7:00 AM

Understanding what things mean in context: Dispatch interfaces

When you are working with dispatch interfaces, you are in the world of scripting.
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Friday, January 13, 2006 7:00 AM

France, she is, how you say, on sale!

It's the winter sale season.
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Friday, January 13, 2006 7:00 AM

Why do words beginning with "home" get treated as URLs?

It's trying to auto-correct.
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Thursday, January 12, 2006 7:00 AM

When web sites rely on security holes

The dangers of changing the platform.
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Wednesday, January 11, 2006 7:00 AM

The decoy visual style

Mallard the duck.
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Tuesday, January 10, 2006 7:00 AM

The decoy display control panel

Another use of decoys.
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Monday, January 09, 2006 7:00 AM

Beware the MSJ subscription scam

Selling something that doesn't exist.
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Monday, January 09, 2006 7:00 AM

When programs assume that the system will never change, episode 3

One of the wackier application compatibility puzzles.
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Friday, January 06, 2006 7:00 AM

Where do call signs come from?

In celebration of the return of Battlestar Galactica to the airwaves.
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Friday, January 06, 2006 7:00 AM

Why do image lists and tool bars use horizontal strips if vertical is so much better?

That's just the interchange format.
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Thursday, January 05, 2006 7:00 AM

Converting between LCIDs and RFC 1766 language codes

The handy IMultiLanguage interface strikes again.
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Thursday, January 05, 2006 7:00 AM

The first rule about knit club...

You know the drill.
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Wednesday, January 04, 2006 7:00 AM

Don't underestimate the resourcefulness of people trying to be annoying

Always looking for an evil hack.
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Wednesday, January 04, 2006 7:00 AM

Taxes: Detecting session state changes, such as a locked workstation

WTSRegisterSessionNotification tells you this and more.
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Tuesday, January 03, 2006 7:00 AM

Taxes: Remote Desktop Connection and painting

Adapting to the cost of drawing to the screen.
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Monday, January 02, 2006 7:00 AM

The world's slowest RET instruction

Because it's not actually there.
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