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February 2006 - Posts

Tuesday, February 28, 2006 7:00 AM

Raymond, you so write like a girl

On penmanship.
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Monday, February 27, 2006 7:00 AM

Ry Jones seems particularly amused by things I've written

I can't believe he saves this stuff.
Posted by oldnewthing | 16 Comments
Monday, February 27, 2006 7:00 AM

Changing a window class affects all windows which belong to that class

It's obvious yet not obvious enough.
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Friday, February 24, 2006 7:00 AM

The Top Gear Winter Olympics 2006

That crazy British car show.
Posted by oldnewthing | 28 Comments
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Friday, February 24, 2006 7:00 AM

Why can't I disable the Cancel button in a wizard?

Users don't like it when they can't cancel.
Posted by oldnewthing | 40 Comments
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Thursday, February 23, 2006 7:00 AM

That $9 you got from the PayPal settlement? Taxable income.

Gotta report everything.
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Thursday, February 23, 2006 7:00 AM

Enumerating threads in a process

It's all there in the tool helper library.
Posted by oldnewthing | 19 Comments
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Wednesday, February 22, 2006 7:00 AM

Games give you hand-eye coordination and spatial intelligence together with map-reading skills

Turn the lights down low.
Posted by oldnewthing | 16 Comments
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Wednesday, February 22, 2006 7:00 AM

The performance cost of reading a registry key

It's not free, so spend it wisely.
Posted by oldnewthing | 46 Comments
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Tuesday, February 21, 2006 7:00 AM

In pursuit of the message queue

It appears when needed, and no sooner.
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Tuesday, February 21, 2006 7:00 AM

In pursuit of Michael Cassini, "the king of con"

Posing as a Microsoft employee to the tune of over four million dollars.
Posted by oldnewthing | 15 Comments
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Monday, February 20, 2006 7:00 AM

How the study of languages influences one's appreciation of international competition

If I can speak their language, I tend to root for them.
Posted by oldnewthing | 9 Comments
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Monday, February 20, 2006 7:00 AM

Why does my program run faster if I click and hold the caption bar?

It means the program is spending too much time drawing to the screen and not enough time doing actual work.
Posted by oldnewthing | 46 Comments
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Friday, February 17, 2006 7:00 AM

Diving into kernel mode with Doron

For those who like it at ring zero.
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Friday, February 17, 2006 7:00 AM

Not all team integrations go smoothly

Sometimes it gets off to a bad start.
Posted by oldnewthing | 23 Comments
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Thursday, February 16, 2006 7:00 AM

Because programmers were trusted to do the right thing, part 2

Like prevent a computer from shutting down.
Posted by oldnewthing | 133 Comments
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Wednesday, February 15, 2006 7:00 AM

Recycling old PCs and cell phones

But this time, they mean it.
Posted by oldnewthing | 12 Comments
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Wednesday, February 15, 2006 7:00 AM

The "symmetric" in symmetric multiprocessing really means "symmetric"

They have to be identical in every way.
Posted by oldnewthing | 19 Comments
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Tuesday, February 14, 2006 7:00 AM

Studs from Microsoft

Another classic sketch from Almost Live!
Posted by oldnewthing | 11 Comments
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Tuesday, February 14, 2006 7:00 AM

Other things people do with beta versions of the operating system

Somewhat belatedly riffing on Larry and his discussion of time bombs in beta products , I'm reminded of one instance of a major PC manufacturer who apparently couldn't wait for Windows 95 to RTM. Tired of waiting, they shipped several thousands of machines
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Monday, February 13, 2006 7:00 AM

That's just super (and a note on baking)

Microspeak.
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Friday, February 10, 2006 7:00 AM

The dangers of sleeping on a UI thread

It clogs up the messaging system.
Posted by oldnewthing | 48 Comments
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Thursday, February 09, 2006 7:00 AM

Shifting from program management to programming also affects your social life

My collague makes the leap from program management to programming.
Posted by oldnewthing | 29 Comments
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Wednesday, February 08, 2006 7:00 AM

Comparing writing specifications to writing code

My collague makes the leap from program management to programming.
Posted by oldnewthing | 35 Comments
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Tuesday, February 07, 2006 7:00 AM

Apparently I can't take myself anywhere

Can't even keep a shirt clean for two hours.
Posted by oldnewthing | 23 Comments
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Tuesday, February 07, 2006 7:00 AM

Viewing function composition as transformation of the domain

A tip from abstract algebra.
Posted by oldnewthing | 12 Comments
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Monday, February 06, 2006 7:00 AM

You know you're in trouble when your channel loses to dead air

Apparently, SBS can't even beat nothing
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Monday, February 06, 2006 7:00 AM

Beware of redirected folders, too

Not all folders in the user profile are stored in the user profile.
Posted by oldnewthing | 32 Comments
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Friday, February 03, 2006 7:00 AM

You can't even trust the identity of the calling executable

Thanks to code injection.
Posted by oldnewthing | 17 Comments
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Friday, February 03, 2006 7:00 AM

Mysterious things Steve Yi has eaten

I've actually had many of theset things.
Posted by oldnewthing | 18 Comments
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Thursday, February 02, 2006 7:00 AM

Be careful when interpreting security descriptors across machine boundaries

There are some SIDs that are machine-relative.
Posted by oldnewthing | 6 Comments
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Thursday, February 02, 2006 7:00 AM

The pornography of food

On television's treatment of food.
Posted by oldnewthing | 4 Comments
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Wednesday, February 01, 2006 7:00 AM

The per-class window styles and things really are per-class

Each window class defines its private style bits, and you can't just mix-and-match.
Posted by oldnewthing | 13 Comments
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Wednesday, February 01, 2006 7:00 AM

The military marriage of convenience

What's in it for both of them.
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