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The Old New Thing : April 2004 - Posts
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April 2004 - Posts

Friday, April 30, 2004 7:00 AM

Where does the taskbar get grouped button icons from?

It comes from the EXE itself.
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Friday, April 30, 2004 7:00 AM

Extreme croquet

It seems there's a sport for everything.
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Thursday, April 29, 2004 8:50 AM

Using the echo command to remember what you were doing.

Reading command line history into the record.
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Thursday, April 29, 2004 8:50 AM

$501 for 510g of peanut butter

But this is special peanut butter.
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Wednesday, April 28, 2004 7:00 AM

What is __purecall?

Calling a pure virtual function from the base class.
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Wednesday, April 28, 2004 7:00 AM

What, going to Sweden *again*?

I don't know what's come over me.
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Tuesday, April 27, 2004 7:00 AM

Why doesn't C# have "const"?

There are several reasons, but language interop is a big one.
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Tuesday, April 27, 2004 7:00 AM

Nobody said it was a democracy

Why bother voting?
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Monday, April 26, 2004 7:00 AM

In order to demonstrate our superior intellect, we will now ask you a question you cannot answer.

Asking the user for help doesn't necessarily work.
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Monday, April 26, 2004 7:00 AM

Musings on formal and informal address

Formal address in Swedish and English (and a little of German).
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Friday, April 23, 2004 6:59 AM

How to retrieve text under the cursor (mouse pointer)

Active Accessibility.
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Friday, April 23, 2004 6:59 AM

News flash: People are fooled by the Onion

Fact-checking? What's fact-checking?
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Thursday, April 22, 2004 7:03 AM

Cleaner, more elegant, and wrong

Just because you can't see the error path doesn't mean it doesn't exist.
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Thursday, April 22, 2004 7:00 AM

NFL cracks down on grandstanding

Celebration penalty among rules changes.
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Wednesday, April 21, 2004 9:57 AM

Why the compiler can't autoconvert foreach to for

Because the semantics are different.
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Wednesday, April 21, 2004 9:57 AM

Good-Bye, Lenin!

East Germany still exists - it survived in 79 square meters.
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Tuesday, April 20, 2004 7:00 AM

Why can't the system hibernate just one process?

Because there's more state than just the memory state of the process.
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Tuesday, April 20, 2004 7:00 AM

Beethoven as ambient music

Creating ambient music where there was none before.
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Monday, April 19, 2004 7:00 AM

WM_KILLFOCUS is the wrong time to do field validation

It comes at the wrong time or possibly not at all.
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Monday, April 19, 2004 7:00 AM

A $2 billion bridge to one person

Welcome to pork.
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Friday, April 16, 2004 9:03 AM

Mapping all those "strange" digits to "0" through "9"

FoldString(MAP_FOLDDIGITS) will convert all the digits.
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Friday, April 16, 2004 9:01 AM

Sorry, no free ice cream in Tennessee; it's illegal

Strange law in Tennessee banning ice cream giveaways.
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Thursday, April 15, 2004 7:00 AM

Why can't I install Windows on my USB drive?

Various
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Thursday, April 15, 2004 7:00 AM

Astonishingly, rules apply to everyone.

What's the point of being a person of privilege if you can't break the rules?
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Wednesday, April 14, 2004 7:00 AM

Not all short filenames contain a tilde

Novell just truncates.
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Wednesday, April 14, 2004 7:00 AM

Playing on an entirely different level

Competitive Scrabble is another game entirely.
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Tuesday, April 13, 2004 7:08 AM

First thing we do is kill all the jerks

What happens when you remove all the mean baboons from a troop.
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Tuesday, April 13, 2004 7:00 AM

Unicode collation is hard

Counterintuivity reigns with Unicode collation.
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Monday, April 12, 2004 7:00 AM

The random number seed can be the weakest link

Choosing a good random number seed is harder than you think.
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Monday, April 12, 2004 7:00 AM

Extraterrestrial income

Aliens don't have to pay income tax, I guess.
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Friday, April 09, 2004 7:34 AM

Comparing the Norwegian, Swedish, and Danish languages.

Raymond's first impressions.
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Friday, April 09, 2004 6:59 AM

A story about USB floppy drives

It all comes down to the color.
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Thursday, April 08, 2004 7:02 AM

Where does the taskbar get grouped button titles from?

It comes from the version resource.
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Wednesday, April 07, 2004 7:00 AM

A very brief anecdote about Windows 3.0

Dove Bars for everybody.
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Tuesday, April 06, 2004 7:00 AM

Reference counting is hard.

Even a seemingly-simple function has a reference-counting bug.
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Monday, April 05, 2004 10:44 PM

How can I format my USB drive as NTFS?

You have to promise to play friendly. Go to Device Manager and set the policy of the USB Stick device to "Optimize for Performance". The default is to optimize for Quick Removal, which restricts you to the FAT filesystem. If you do this, then you absolutely
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Friday, April 02, 2004 6:58 AM

Why a really large dictionary is not a good thing

The bigger the dictionary the harder it is to spell-check.
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Thursday, April 01, 2004 7:00 AM

The martial arts logon picture

No, really, it's randomly selected.
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