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August 2006 - Posts

Thursday, August 31, 2006 7:00 AM

The wisdom of seventh graders: Contributions to class discussion

Self-confidence, perhaps.
Posted by oldnewthing | 5 Comments
Thursday, August 31, 2006 7:00 AM

The dialog class goes under the sneaky name WC_DIALOG

Okay maybe not so sneaky.
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Wednesday, August 30, 2006 7:00 AM

How do you wash soap?

Imponderable.
Posted by oldnewthing | 30 Comments
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Wednesday, August 30, 2006 7:00 AM

If you work at a company, it's not your computer any more

Your IT department is in charge.
Posted by oldnewthing | 24 Comments
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Tuesday, August 29, 2006 7:00 AM

As I recall, Germany did not ratify the United States Constitution

Just saying.
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Monday, August 28, 2006 7:00 AM

How did "Start Me Up" become the theme for the Windows 95 launch?

A lot of negotiation.
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Monday, August 28, 2006 7:00 AM

Try to avoid having BOOL function parameters

What does FALSE mean here again?
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Friday, August 25, 2006 7:00 AM

We know it's insecure, but we want to do it anyway

Sometimes I really wonder.
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Thursday, August 24, 2006 7:00 AM

Moving a file does not recalculate inherited permissions

Inherited permissions are established at creation.
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Thursday, August 24, 2006 7:00 AM

Those folks from Birmingham talk funny, and I mean that in a scientific way

A study of regional accents.
Posted by oldnewthing | 18 Comments
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Wednesday, August 23, 2006 7:00 AM

Environment variable expansion occurs when the command is read

And its logical consequences.
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Tuesday, August 22, 2006 4:00 AM

Raymond's excursions into East Asian pop music, episode 2: China Dolls (中國娃娃)

A Thai duo that performs in Thai and Chinese.
Posted by oldnewthing | 16 Comments
Tuesday, August 22, 2006 4:00 AM

Who says there's only one? There can be more than one logon session

So it's wrong to ask about "the" user.
Posted by oldnewthing | 60 Comments
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Monday, August 21, 2006 7:00 AM

[6] days since last monorail breakdown

Almost made it a whole week.
Posted by oldnewthing | 11 Comments
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Monday, August 21, 2006 7:00 AM

Sucking the exception pointers out of a stack trace

To see what exception really occurred.
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Friday, August 18, 2006 7:00 AM

We encourage everyone to pack gel-filled bras in their checked baggage

So recommends the TSA.
Posted by oldnewthing | 23 Comments
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Friday, August 18, 2006 7:00 AM

Applications and DLLs don't have privileges; users do

The Windows security model is based on identity.
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Thursday, August 17, 2006 7:00 AM

A modest proposal: On allowing mobile phones on airplanes

The yapping section.
Posted by oldnewthing | 48 Comments
Thursday, August 17, 2006 7:00 AM

Don't trust the return address, no really

No really, you can't.
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Wednesday, August 16, 2006 7:00 AM

Computer monitors float, screen upwards

More conversations with Curtis Ebbesmeyer
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Wednesday, August 16, 2006 7:00 AM

Accessibility is not just for people with disabilities

You'll probably use it too.
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Tuesday, August 15, 2006 7:00 AM

Cool web site: Bill Monk

Another online brain.
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Tuesday, August 15, 2006 7:00 AM

Do not change program semantics in the debug build

What you don't want is a problem that goes away when you debug it.
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Monday, August 14, 2006 7:00 AM

The cultural anthropology of getting on a bicycle

It says where you're from.
Posted by oldnewthing | 53 Comments
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Monday, August 14, 2006 7:00 AM

Why can't I see all of the 4GB of RAM in my machine?

It's above the 4GB boundary.
Posted by oldnewthing | 34 Comments
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Friday, August 11, 2006 7:00 AM

Exploiting the inattentive, episode 2: The unlabeled line

More games with detergent scoops.
Posted by oldnewthing | 42 Comments
Friday, August 11, 2006 7:00 AM

Why does SetWindowsHookEx take an HINSTANCE parameter?

It made sense at the time.
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Thursday, August 10, 2006 7:00 AM

Space scientist James Van Allen (1914–2006)

A reminiscence on, well, not the scientist himself.
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Thursday, August 10, 2006 7:00 AM

One way people abused hooks in 16-bit Windows

Unhooking by hooking again.
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Wednesday, August 09, 2006 7:00 AM

How were window hooks implemented in 16-bit Windows?

A very different type of architecture.
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Tuesday, August 08, 2006 7:00 AM

A look inside WinInet's index.dat file and changes in IE7 and Vista

The mysterious history file.
Posted by oldnewthing | 5 Comments
Tuesday, August 08, 2006 7:00 AM

Candidate for most obscure keyboard shortcut: Shift+F8

For listbox discontiguous extended selection.
Posted by oldnewthing | 28 Comments
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Monday, August 07, 2006 7:00 AM

Even more about C# anonymous methods, from the source

From the compiler-writer himself.
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Monday, August 07, 2006 7:00 AM

The day Tully's ran out of coffee

But there'll be plenty of Wi-Fi.
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Friday, August 04, 2006 7:00 AM

The implementation of anonymous methods in C# and its consequences (part 3)

How local variables are captured.
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Thursday, August 03, 2006 7:00 AM

News Flash: Big houses also cost more to cool

The stress on the power grid.
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Thursday, August 03, 2006 7:00 AM

The implementation of anonymous methods in C# and its consequences (part 2)

When the anonymous class becomes visible.
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Wednesday, August 02, 2006 7:00 AM

The implementation of anonymous methods in C# and its consequences (part 1)

First we'll look at how they're implemented.
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Tuesday, August 01, 2006 7:00 AM

C# nested classes are like C++ nested classes, not Java inner classes

The nesting controls visibility, not behavior.
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