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October 2009 - Posts

Friday, October 30, 2009 7:00 AM

Still working out the finer details of how this Hallowe'en thing works

Magic words.
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Friday, October 30, 2009 7:00 AM

What is the format for FirstInstallDateTime on Windows 95?

It tries to be DOS date/time format but misses.
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Thursday, October 29, 2009 7:00 AM

What this batch file needs is more escape characters

One for each parsing pass.
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Wednesday, October 28, 2009 7:00 AM

Warning: Not much useful content inside

I told you so.
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Wednesday, October 28, 2009 7:00 AM

Why does the Photo Gallery show all my photos with a colored tinge?

Check your monitor color profile.
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Tuesday, October 27, 2009 7:00 AM

If aluminum pull tab redemption is a rumor, what happens to all the tabs?

They just get recycled normally, or maybe the amass in somebody's garage.
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Tuesday, October 27, 2009 7:00 AM

Freudian typo: The accidental emoticon

Off by one.
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Monday, October 26, 2009 7:00 AM

Why won't my computer go to sleep? Where is the energy going?

Powercfg will try to tell you.
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Monday, October 26, 2009 7:00 AM

Yes, there's a new desktop window manager, but no, I don't know any more about it than you do

Try the DWM folks.
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Friday, October 23, 2009 7:00 AM

If you have to cast, you can't afford it

Casts are the source of most alignment problems.
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Thursday, October 22, 2009 7:00 AM

Once you announce a date, you're already late

Time overrides the message.
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Wednesday, October 21, 2009 7:00 AM

Please, sir take a seat, sit anywhere you like, but oh, no, not there, rats

Where does Bill Gates sit? Anywhere he wants.
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Tuesday, October 20, 2009 7:00 AM

How to write like Raymond: Start a sentence with a question mark

I'm confused.
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Monday, October 19, 2009 7:00 AM

Leaving Reflections | Projections 2009, travel marathon part two

Back home.
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Monday, October 19, 2009 7:00 AM

Thinking inside the box

The state of sandboxes.
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Friday, October 16, 2009 7:00 AM

Arrived in Urbana-Champaign for Reflections|Projections 2009

Travel day.
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Friday, October 16, 2009 7:00 AM

Important window message numbers to memorize

You probably know them already.
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Thursday, October 15, 2009 7:00 AM

Don't use global state to manage a local problem, practical exam

Changing application settings for a single worksheet.
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Wednesday, October 14, 2009 7:00 AM

Viral video: Pianotrappan

And in Swedish, even.
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Wednesday, October 14, 2009 7:00 AM

When you want to pass a parameter on the command line, don't forget to pass the parameter on the command line

You get so distracted by how to get what you want that you forget to actually get it.
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Tuesday, October 13, 2009 7:00 AM

You always hurt the things you love

Because you love them.
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Tuesday, October 13, 2009 7:00 AM

Why do we have import libraries anyway?

There isn't enough information in the classical model.
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Monday, October 12, 2009 7:00 AM

The classical model for linking

All you have are symbols.
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Friday, October 09, 2009 7:00 AM

LoadString can load strings with embedded nulls, but your wrapper function might not

Check that those double-null-terminated strings really are.
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Thursday, October 08, 2009 7:00 AM

In Hawaiʻi, "mahalo" might officially mean "thank you"

But in practice it means something else.
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Thursday, October 08, 2009 7:00 AM

What is the format of a double-null-terminated string with no strings?

It's just a single null terminator.
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Wednesday, October 07, 2009 7:00 AM

I will be speaking at Reflections|Projections 2009

How Microsoft is different from school.
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Wednesday, October 07, 2009 7:00 AM

The ways people mess up IUnknown::QueryInterface, episode 3

An example of how it causes problems.
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Tuesday, October 06, 2009 7:00 AM

Proto-Microspeak: Efforting

As opposed to merely trying.
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Monday, October 05, 2009 7:00 AM

Trying to come up with the most annoying meal ever

The most effort for the least amount of food.
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Monday, October 05, 2009 7:00 AM

Why doesn't the mail image resizer check the image size before offering to resize?

That would hit the disk.
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Friday, October 02, 2009 7:00 AM

The mystery of the other girlfriend

Hello, Web.
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Friday, October 02, 2009 7:00 AM

When you commit memory, you get a commitment to receive memory when you need it, but no sooner

Just-in-time memory.
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Thursday, October 01, 2009 7:00 AM

A Few Seconds of Panic: Life as an NFL kicker

Stefan Fatsis does it again.
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Thursday, October 01, 2009 7:00 AM

In the search for the subtle source of the problem, you sometimes overlook the obvious one

Where did this duplicate GUID come from?
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