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May 2007 - Posts

Thursday, May 31, 2007 7:00 AM

You'd think questions about underwear were understood to be off-limits

Strange what sorts of things need to be spelled out explicitly nowadays.
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Thursday, May 31, 2007 7:00 AM

Visual C++ 2005 will generate manifests for you

One less thing to worry about.
Posted by oldnewthing | 23 Comments
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Wednesday, May 30, 2007 7:00 AM

The three things you need to know about tsunamis

Learn about it later this summer.
Posted by oldnewthing | 9 Comments
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Wednesday, May 30, 2007 7:00 AM

The sad predicament of the unempowered manager

What do you do when you have an unfunded mandate?
Posted by oldnewthing | 38 Comments
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Tuesday, May 29, 2007 7:00 AM

Let's talk like people

Cutting through the charade in Poland.
Posted by oldnewthing | 22 Comments
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Tuesday, May 29, 2007 7:00 AM

Psychic debugging: Why does FormatMessage say the resource couldn't be found?

Because it really couldn't.
Posted by oldnewthing | 25 Comments
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Monday, May 28, 2007 7:00 AM

Cool, they're using Roman numerals!

At least that's what it looks like.
Posted by oldnewthing | 26 Comments
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Friday, May 25, 2007 7:00 AM

Raymond's SIFF schedule (2007)

What I'm seeing.
Posted by oldnewthing | 16 Comments
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Friday, May 25, 2007 7:00 AM

The parameters to PostQueuedCompletionStatus are not interpreted

Even though they have names, they don't mean anything.
Posted by oldnewthing | 6 Comments
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Thursday, May 24, 2007 7:00 AM

Being nominated for the Nobel Prize isn't as big a deal as it sounds

The committee doesn't determine who is nominated.
Posted by oldnewthing | 20 Comments
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Thursday, May 24, 2007 7:00 AM

We should just get rid of that stupid middle tier

Three-tier computing.
Posted by oldnewthing | 28 Comments
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Wednesday, May 23, 2007 7:00 AM

Das Leben der Anderen

Another German movie.
Posted by oldnewthing | 28 Comments
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Wednesday, May 23, 2007 7:00 AM

Microspeak: The forcing function

Not from mathematics or user interface design.
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Tuesday, May 22, 2007 7:00 AM

Another chapter in Swedish political hypocrisy (2007 edition)

This time it's the Swedish Democrats.
Posted by oldnewthing | 18 Comments
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Tuesday, May 22, 2007 7:00 AM

You're not my manager, so I'm not going to ask how high when you tell me to jump

And you are who again?
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Monday, May 21, 2007 7:00 AM

The unidentified award

Some sort of award winning snack [sic].
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Monday, May 21, 2007 7:00 AM

Don't be helpless: I don't know anything about MFC modal loops, but unlike some people, I'm not afraid to find out

You have the source code.
Posted by oldnewthing | 24 Comments
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Friday, May 18, 2007 7:00 AM

Don't drive your pick-up onto the roof of a house, especially if, well, read on

The story that keeps giving.
Posted by oldnewthing | 19 Comments
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Friday, May 18, 2007 7:00 AM

Getting in on the action while it's still there

The day trader edition.
Posted by oldnewthing | 12 Comments
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Thursday, May 17, 2007 7:00 AM

Store Wars and the Meatrix

Offbeat spoofs with an agenda.
Posted by oldnewthing | 4 Comments
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Thursday, May 17, 2007 7:00 AM

We're all in this together: No good deed goes unpunished, redux

Punishing the tester doesn't help the product.
Posted by oldnewthing | 18 Comments
Wednesday, May 16, 2007 7:00 AM

Please refer to the instructions that don't exist

The range of my wireless mouse.
Posted by oldnewthing | 30 Comments
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Wednesday, May 16, 2007 7:00 AM

Why are console windows limited to Lucida Console and raster fonts?

Because most fonts don't work in command prompts.
Posted by oldnewthing | 59 Comments
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Tuesday, May 15, 2007 7:00 AM

Get Sea-Tac flight information (including gate and baggage claim) via email

Another flight status site.
Posted by oldnewthing | 3 Comments
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Tuesday, May 15, 2007 7:00 AM

Command lines need to be quoted; paths don't

Remember what the quotation marks are for.
Posted by oldnewthing | 27 Comments
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Monday, May 14, 2007 7:00 AM

Service required * Brewer error *

Things break, that's to be expected.
Posted by oldnewthing | 26 Comments
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Friday, May 11, 2007 7:00 AM

Evergreen Philharmonic Baroque Festival 2007

A student concert.
Posted by oldnewthing | 7 Comments
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Friday, May 11, 2007 7:00 AM

Performing an operation in each subdirectory of a directory tree from batch

Another simple batch file trick.
Posted by oldnewthing | 46 Comments
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Thursday, May 10, 2007 7:00 AM

Email tip: Don't ask the same question multiple times in different groups

It multiplies the work.
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Wednesday, May 09, 2007 7:00 AM

Revelations of My Friends: An ancestor of today's Mad Libs

I'm sure it was really popular in its day.
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Wednesday, May 09, 2007 7:00 AM

Don't be helpless: At least look at the function you're using

When you get an answer, at least pretend to try to understand it.
Posted by oldnewthing | 61 Comments
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Tuesday, May 08, 2007 7:00 AM

Session 0 isolation: Where backward compatibility loses to security

Closing off one category of security vulnerability in Windows Vista.
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Tuesday, May 08, 2007 7:00 AM

The administrator is an idiot

Most administrators didn't ask to be one.
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Monday, May 07, 2007 7:00 AM

Metromint: What were they thinking?

A form of water with no appealing characteristics whatsoever.
Posted by oldnewthing | 30 Comments
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Monday, May 07, 2007 7:00 AM

Drag and drop is a general purpose transfer model, not exclusive to Explorer directories

The target of a drag/drop operation is not necessarily a directory.
Posted by oldnewthing | 15 Comments
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Friday, May 04, 2007 7:00 AM

But they're not (puts on sunglasses) going to get away with murder

Endless Caruso one-liners.
Posted by oldnewthing | 12 Comments
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Friday, May 04, 2007 7:00 AM

How my lack of understanding of how processes exit on Windows XP forced a security patch to be recalled

Watch what?
Posted by oldnewthing | 78 Comments
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Thursday, May 03, 2007 7:00 AM

Unexpected consequences of self-checkout

There are always surprises.
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Thursday, May 03, 2007 7:00 AM

Quick overview of how processes exit on Windows XP

It's really scary.
Posted by oldnewthing | 37 Comments
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Wednesday, May 02, 2007 7:00 AM

Male perceptions of body image in Taiwan

Cultural differences.
Posted by oldnewthing | 9 Comments
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Wednesday, May 02, 2007 7:00 AM

The old-fashioned theory on how processes exit

Life was simpler back in the old days.
Posted by oldnewthing | 27 Comments
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Tuesday, May 01, 2007 7:00 AM

Two web sites that read the fine print

Footnoted and mouseprint.
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Tuesday, May 01, 2007 7:00 AM

Microspeak: Operationalize

As opposed to "carry out" or "put into effect"?
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