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October 2006 - Posts

Tuesday, October 31, 2006 7:00 AM

So that's what daddy does at work

At least that's what it looks like to the kids.
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Tuesday, October 31, 2006 7:00 AM

Separated at birth: The Windows XP SP2 launch team

Maybe, maybe not.
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Monday, October 30, 2006 7:00 AM

Руками не трогать!

Space tourism.
Posted by oldnewthing | 31 Comments
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Monday, October 30, 2006 7:00 AM

Why can't I get my program to use more than 50% of the CPU?

Because you have two processors.
Posted by oldnewthing | 22 Comments
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Friday, October 27, 2006 7:00 AM

Now it looks like I speak far more languages than I actually do

Thanks to the power of somebody else translating for me!
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Friday, October 27, 2006 7:00 AM

The great Polish Sea -or- We forgot Poland!

Oopsie.
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Thursday, October 26, 2006 7:00 AM

Let the dead computer scavenging commence!

Parts scavengers.
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Thursday, October 26, 2006 7:00 AM

For a brief shining moment, DirectX was more popular than another word that ends in x

While it lasted.
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Wednesday, October 25, 2006 7:00 AM

Non-resolution of the dead home desktop problem

Punt.
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Wednesday, October 25, 2006 7:00 AM

Offline mode silently prevents you from streaming media content

Silly offline mode.
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Tuesday, October 24, 2006 7:00 AM

Invalidating the null window redux

It just won't die.
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Tuesday, October 24, 2006 7:00 AM

More tales of dead computers: My home desktop

Actually, the story is about its replacement.
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Monday, October 23, 2006 7:00 AM

Quick and dirty Hallowe'en costume for physics geeks

A discarded idea.
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Monday, October 23, 2006 7:00 AM

Psychic debugging: Why doesn't my program show up when I call ShellExecute?

You probably forgot to set nShow.
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Friday, October 20, 2006 7:00 AM

Wired Magazine's report on that bizarro Ferarri crash

A spectacular event that merely opened the door to an even more strange story.
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Friday, October 20, 2006 7:00 AM

How do I shut down a workstation via Remote Desktop?

Back to Alt+F4.
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Thursday, October 19, 2006 7:00 AM

No good deed goes unpunished, part 2

That Outlook/Exchange bug.
Posted by oldnewthing | 33 Comments
Wednesday, October 18, 2006 7:00 AM

Dead Sea Scrolls lectures available online (or in person if you can get there)

At Town Hall in Seattle.
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Wednesday, October 18, 2006 7:00 AM

Don't require your users to have a degree in philosophy

Help text is not the place to put logic puzzles.
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Tuesday, October 17, 2006 7:00 AM

Answering phones at KUOW for their Fall 2006 pledge drive

Ring ring.
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Tuesday, October 17, 2006 7:00 AM

What does the letter "T" in LPTSTR stand for?

Text.
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Monday, October 16, 2006 7:00 AM

Raymond's excursions into East Asian pop music, episode 4: Yuki

Yuki Isoya.
Posted by oldnewthing | 15 Comments
Monday, October 16, 2006 7:00 AM

640 x 480 is still not dead

Not very popular, but not quite dead.
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Friday, October 13, 2006 7:00 AM

Why do I see the same fake names in Microsoft samples over and over?

There is a stock collection of fake names.
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Thursday, October 12, 2006 7:00 AM

Shifting fortunes at Airbus over the A380

Delays for the mega super jumbo.
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Thursday, October 12, 2006 7:00 AM

How do I prevent multi-line edit controls from eating the Enter key?

Use what you know about the WM_GETDLGCODE message
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Wednesday, October 11, 2006 7:00 AM

Proto-Microspeak: The goat rodeo

A little folksy jargon.
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Tuesday, October 10, 2006 7:00 AM

When something is available for the user, which user are we talking about?

And when something is reserved, who's it reserved for?
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Monday, October 09, 2006 7:00 AM

How Raymond learns languages (and why it's not working)

Some people seem to be interested.
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Friday, October 06, 2006 7:00 AM

A very brief return to part 6 of Loading the Chinese/English dictionary

Belated answers to exercises and other questions.
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Thursday, October 05, 2006 7:00 AM

Why does Windows hide keyboard accelerators and focus rectangles by default?

Introduced in Windows 2000.
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Wednesday, October 04, 2006 7:00 AM

You can invent new adjectives too

It's not just verbs and nouns.
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Tuesday, October 03, 2006 7:00 AM

There's a reason why envelopes have backs

So you can write on them.
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Tuesday, October 03, 2006 7:00 AM

If only he'd known to offer to back up their PC instead

Odd news stories get odder when they reinforce each other.
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Monday, October 02, 2006 7:00 AM

Any similarity to actual German or Swedish words is purely coincidental

Ignore the dots.
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Monday, October 02, 2006 7:00 AM

Does a dual-core processor count as one or two for licensing purposes?

Licensing is done by processor, not by core.
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