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April 2009 - Posts

Thursday, April 30, 2009 7:00 AM

Identity theft via repeated name changes

Change all you want, as long as it's not fraudulent, but that doesn't stop some people.
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Thursday, April 30, 2009 7:00 AM

Those notification icons, with their clicks, double-clicks, right-clicks... what's up with that?

There's a logic behind it, although not everybody follows it.
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Wednesday, April 29, 2009 7:00 AM

Qrystal does more research into those spam blogs

Even finding one for sale.
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Wednesday, April 29, 2009 7:00 AM

Why is there sometimes a half-second delay between the click and the action?

Waiting to see if the other shoe drops.
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Tuesday, April 28, 2009 7:00 AM

A simple bar chart on letter distribution

Though the source data is not identified.
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Monday, April 27, 2009 7:00 AM

What kind of uncle am I?

The terminology of family relationships.
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Monday, April 27, 2009 7:00 AM

The Start menu pin list is just a list of items; there's no magic

It's just a bunch of shortcuts.
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Friday, April 24, 2009 7:00 AM

No, we're not nerds, why do you ask?

Okay maybe we're nerds.
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Thursday, April 23, 2009 7:00 AM

Fashion is something that can be acquired by looking at lots of different fashions

Brenda Dickson teaches us how to be awesome.
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Thursday, April 23, 2009 7:00 AM

Why are there two values for PSH_WIZARD97?

They mean two different things.
Posted by oldnewthing | 25 Comments
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Wednesday, April 22, 2009 7:00 AM

If you can't find the statistics you want, then just make them up

What do you mean that isn't supported by the data?
Posted by oldnewthing | 22 Comments
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Wednesday, April 22, 2009 7:00 AM

What structure packing do the Windows SDK header files expect?

/Zp8
Posted by oldnewthing | 32 Comments
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Tuesday, April 21, 2009 7:00 AM

How to answer the telephone, according to the manual

In case you couldn't figure it out.
Posted by oldnewthing | 47 Comments
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Monday, April 20, 2009 7:00 AM

Principles of economics, translated

Yoram Bauman, the stand-up economist.
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Monday, April 20, 2009 7:00 AM

The dangers of destroying a window while it is processing a sent message

WM_ACTIVATEAPP is just another example.
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Friday, April 17, 2009 7:00 AM

Why is the animation common control limited to RLE8-compressed animations?

Because that's all it needed.
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Thursday, April 16, 2009 7:00 AM

The frustration of people who are not interested in why something works but only interested in the magic phrase they need to type

Reinforcing psychic powers.
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Wednesday, April 15, 2009 7:00 AM

Taxes redux: You can't open the file until the user tells you to open it

Offline storage again, plus metadata.
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Tuesday, April 14, 2009 7:00 AM

Microspeak: The plate

To have a lot of tasks and responsibilities.
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Monday, April 13, 2009 7:00 AM

Why is there no support in the window manager for mouse button chording?

You can easily build it yourself if you want it, but basically nobody does.
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Friday, April 10, 2009 7:00 AM

When people ask to disable drag and drop, they often are trying to disable accidental drag and drop

Adjust the drag sensitivity.
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Thursday, April 09, 2009 7:00 AM

Being able to call a function without using GetProcAddress is not a security vulnerability

The code is in your process; go for it!
Posted by oldnewthing | 13 Comments
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Wednesday, April 08, 2009 7:00 AM

Let GDI do your RLE compression for you

Less heavy lifting for you to do.
Posted by oldnewthing | 25 Comments
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Tuesday, April 07, 2009 7:00 AM

Clap and the filter graph claps with you

Setting up an alternate timer.
Posted by oldnewthing | 19 Comments
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Monday, April 06, 2009 7:00 AM

There's nothing wrong with making bold treeview items

The TVIS_BOLD state works just fine.
Posted by oldnewthing | 9 Comments
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Friday, April 03, 2009 7:00 AM

On the almost-feature of floppy insertion detection in Windows 95

Quick answers.
Posted by oldnewthing | 80 Comments
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Thursday, April 02, 2009 7:00 AM

Windows 95 almost had floppy insertion detection but the training cost was prohibitive

An almost-feature.
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Wednesday, April 01, 2009 7:00 AM

Office redecoration: The classic Microsoft prank

Getting the victim out of the office.
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