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April 2006 - Posts

Friday, April 28, 2006 7:00 AM

Grace period for Swedish currency conversion extended to the end of the year

Check your souvenir money stash.
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Friday, April 28, 2006 7:00 AM

What does CS_SAVEBITS do?

It saves the bits covered by a window. The real question is why.
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Thursday, April 27, 2006 7:00 AM

A new scripting language doesn't solve everything

You need to interoperate with batch files
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Wednesday, April 26, 2006 7:00 AM

No good deed goes unpunished: Bug assignment

Sometimes you're better off keeping your fool mouth shut.
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Tuesday, April 25, 2006 7:00 AM

Correctly spell xerophthalmia and the crowd goes wild

The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee
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Tuesday, April 25, 2006 7:00 AM

No, really, you need to pass all unhandled messages to DefWindowProc

If you don't, all sorts of bad things happen.
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Monday, April 24, 2006 7:00 AM

Ich habe meinen Computer zu Deutsch gewechselt

Need to work on the German.
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Monday, April 24, 2006 7:00 AM

Troubleshooting tips are not formal product documentation

The "level of service" is much lower.
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Friday, April 21, 2006 7:00 AM

Then again, it might not be overclocking after all

It could be overheating or malware.
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Thursday, April 20, 2006 7:00 AM

More about the house in front of Microsoft's RedWest campus

As the info trickles in.
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Wednesday, April 19, 2006 7:00 AM

The 2006/2007 Seattle Symphony subscription season at a glance

The pocket reference guide.
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Wednesday, April 19, 2006 7:00 AM

Adding a new flag to enable behavior that previously was on by default

Another example of changing the rules after the game is over.
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Tuesday, April 18, 2006 7:00 AM

Maybe you don't sound like Carl Kasell, but you can have his job

The Corporation for Public Broadcasting is searching for radio hosts.
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Tuesday, April 18, 2006 7:00 AM

How to fill in that number grouping member of NUMBERFMT

Because making it match GetLocaleInfo would have been too easy.
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Monday, April 17, 2006 7:00 AM

Merchandise your food with pride

Any noun can be verbed.
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Monday, April 17, 2006 7:00 AM

Locale-sensitive number grouping

It's not always in threes.
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Friday, April 14, 2006 7:00 AM

Where did start.com get its name?

It too was just lying around.
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Thursday, April 13, 2006 7:00 AM

Chain tax preparers do not fare well in undercover investigation

Not a single correct return.
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Thursday, April 13, 2006 7:00 AM

Where did the name for Microsoft Access come from?

It was already taken, but that's okay.
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Wednesday, April 12, 2006 7:00 AM

News for dummies in French and English

Just a little searching.
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Wednesday, April 12, 2006 7:00 AM

Why is the Microsoft Protection Service called "msmpsvc"?

That wasn't its name originally.
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Tuesday, April 11, 2006 7:00 AM

What's the deal with the house in front of Microsoft's RedWest campus?

It's a little ol' house.
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Monday, April 10, 2006 7:00 AM

You'd think it'd be easy to give away a ticket to the symphony

Such busy social calendars.
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Monday, April 10, 2006 7:00 AM

Be very careful if you decide to change the rules after the game has ended

You can't just declare apps as buggy if they followed the rules at the time.
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Friday, April 07, 2006 7:00 AM

News for dummies now available in podcast form

German and Swedish news for dummies.
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Friday, April 07, 2006 7:00 AM

Computing over a high-latency network means you have to bulk up

It's not what you do, it's how often you do it.
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Thursday, April 06, 2006 7:00 AM

Sometimes you just have to make a snap decision

A very short telephone conversation.
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Thursday, April 06, 2006 7:00 AM

It's more efficient when you buy in bulk

FindNextFile does buffering going on behind the scenes.
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Wednesday, April 05, 2006 7:00 AM

USER and GDI compatibility in Windows Vista

From Nick Kramer.
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Wednesday, April 05, 2006 7:00 AM

Adding flags to APIs to work around driver bugs doesn't scale

How many flags do you want?
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Tuesday, April 04, 2006 7:00 AM

German adjectives really aren't that hard; they just look that way

This is where the instinct comes in.
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Tuesday, April 04, 2006 7:00 AM

Spamming the event log doesn't make things any better

You have to be judicious.
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Monday, April 03, 2006 8:17 AM

What seventh-grade students want to be when they grow up

More gems from seventh graders.
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Monday, April 03, 2006 8:16 AM

Doing the best we can until time travel has been perfected

Mistakes were made.
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