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October 2008 - Posts

Friday, October 31, 2008 7:00 AM

Stick to the normal candy and nobody gets hurt

Adventuresomeness unrewarded.
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Friday, October 31, 2008 7:00 AM

Working with ambiguous and invalid points in time in managed code

Who's got the time?
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Thursday, October 30, 2008 7:00 AM

Dude, the admission bracelet goes around your wrist

I don't know where you put it.
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Thursday, October 30, 2008 7:00 AM

If you're going to reformat source code, please don't do anything else at the same time

It makes code archaeology much more difficult.
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Wednesday, October 29, 2008 7:00 AM

PDC 2008 notes: How to get to room 406A, and other notes

Assorted musings.
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Wednesday, October 29, 2008 7:00 AM

Why does my Run dialog say that tasks will created with administrative privileges?

You're running an elevated Explorer.
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Tuesday, October 28, 2008 7:00 AM

Typo patrol at the 2008 PDC

Watch those dates.
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Tuesday, October 28, 2008 7:00 AM

To climb the corporate ladder you'll need some rope, but rope has many purposes

Rope can be used for other things, too.
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Monday, October 27, 2008 7:00 AM

Ah, local Los Angeles television news, how I miss thee

Isolated means a trend.
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Monday, October 27, 2008 7:00 AM

If you don't want to try to repair the data, then don't, but you should at least know that you have corrupted data

You can choose the consequences, but you need to know that there are consequences.
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Friday, October 24, 2008 7:00 AM

Man, this housing downturn is hitting everyone

Even the ultra-rich.
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Friday, October 24, 2008 7:00 AM

Sucking the trap frame out of a kernel mode stack trace

Look for the KiDispatchException.
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Thursday, October 23, 2008 7:00 AM

Strange things happen when you let people choose their own name, part 3

Sometimes it's unintentional.
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Wednesday, October 22, 2008 7:00 AM

Strange things happen when you let people choose their own name, part 2

Playing with the free-form-text field.
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Tuesday, October 21, 2008 7:00 AM

Strange things happen when you let people choose their own name, part 1

Exploiting the free-form-text field.
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Monday, October 20, 2008 7:00 AM

Off-Roading The Old New Thing

When you care enough to go off topic and stay there.
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Monday, October 20, 2008 7:00 AM

Why can't you thunk between 32-bit and 64-bit Windows?

The address space is too big.
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Friday, October 17, 2008 7:00 AM

The cult of PowerPoint, episode 2

PowerPoint is nice, but you don't need to structure your email in the form of a PowerPoint presentation.
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Thursday, October 16, 2008 7:00 AM

Psychic debugging: Why your thread is spending all its time processing meaningless thread timers

They were probably intended to be window timers.
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Wednesday, October 15, 2008 7:00 AM

Possessed: A documentary about hoarding

Stuff I can't get rid of.
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Wednesday, October 15, 2008 7:00 AM

Disable your wireless network card to speed up VPN'ing

So the VPN software won't try to mess with it.
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Tuesday, October 14, 2008 7:00 AM

Why does Task Manager let me kill critical system processes?

Because you told it to.
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Monday, October 13, 2008 7:00 AM

Why does killing Winlogon take down the entire system?

Because it is a critical system process.
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Friday, October 10, 2008 7:00 AM

How do I suppress the CapsLock warning on password edit controls?

Swallow the EM_SHOWBALLOONTIP message.
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Thursday, October 09, 2008 7:00 AM

How can I increase the number of files I can open at a time?

It's already limited only by available resources.
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Wednesday, October 08, 2008 7:00 AM

Why does the Disk Management snap-in report my volume as Healthy when the drive is dying?

It's worried about the partitioning and file system, not the physical drive condition.
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Tuesday, October 07, 2008 7:00 AM

Microspeak: Teaming

Formerly known as team-building.
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Monday, October 06, 2008 7:00 AM

Eventually, nothing is special any more

The special function becomes commonplace.
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Friday, October 03, 2008 7:00 AM

Stories of crossing into Canada: The wedding

What, no gifts?
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Friday, October 03, 2008 7:00 AM

Acquire and release sound like bass fishing terms, but they also apply to memory models

The degree to which operations can be reordered.
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Thursday, October 02, 2008 7:00 AM

The dangers of setting your double-click speed too short

You may not be able to hit it.
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Wednesday, October 01, 2008 7:00 AM

An artist's conception of the new citizenship test

Which launches today.
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Wednesday, October 01, 2008 7:00 AM

Why do maximized windows lose their title bar translucency?

For performance.
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