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May 2004 - Posts

Why is the default 8-bit codepage called "ANSI"?

Ben Hutchings digs up the answer.
Posted by oldnewthing | 14 Comments
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Chewing gum legalized in Singapore

But you need a license.
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Kipping

Apparently that's the term for knitting in public.
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How do you undo Minimize All and Show Desktop?

Win+Shift+M or Win+D, respectively.
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High-performance multithreading is very hard

Among other things, you need to understand weak memory models.
Posted by oldnewthing | 11 Comments
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What is the difference between Minimize All and Show Desktop?

They do almost the same thing but not quite.
Posted by oldnewthing | 40 Comments
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Meet Anton Chekhov

Not to be confused with Star Trek's Pavel Chekov.
Posted by oldnewthing | 7 Comments
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How does the desktop choose the icon label color?

There is no COLOR_DESKTOPTEXT after all.
Posted by oldnewthing | 16 Comments
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Art too bad to be ignored

Welcome to The Museum of Bad Art.
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When you change the insides, nobody notices

Calc and Notepad changed. Did you notice?
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The F*deral Bur*au of Inv*stigations

You can't say their name without permission.
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Extending the Internet Explorer context menu

It's just script.
Posted by oldnewthing | 46 Comments
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Do you know when your destructors run? Part 2.

Sometimes they don't run at all.
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Do you know when your destructors run? Part 1.

Sometimes they run too late.
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Coffee machine or assault weapon?

Sometimes it's hard to tell.
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Beware the hash reset attack

Don't use just the hash to check a file. Also use the file size.
Posted by oldnewthing | 18 Comments
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Letterboxing: Geocaching without the GPS

Global hide-and-seek, with hints.
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String sorting is not done by ASCII code any more.

Just because you have the ASCII table memorized doesn't mean you know how sorting works.
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When do you put ... after a button or menu?

If the operation requires additional information before it can be performed.
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Plane-spotters to require government license

You can do anything you want if you say it's anti-terrorist.
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Who'll be where for whom?

Mike Pesca undertakes a textual analysis of the Friends theme song.
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How did those FILE_SHARE_* values come to be?

Larry Osterman gives the background on the FILE_SHARE_* flags.
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Thinking through a feature

Writing the code is the easy part.
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Norway: Pros and cons

Some reasons to move to Norway, and some not to.
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Is your web site an open relay?

Spammers can sully your good name by using unverified redirects.
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Varför läser jag svenska?

Eftersom jag kan.
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How do the FILE_SHARE_* bits interact with the desired access bits?

Each sharing bit permits the corresponding access from other callers.
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Links about COM threading models

Raymond makes other people discuss stuff so he doesn't have to.
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There are two types of scrollbars

Standalone scrollbar controls and nonclient scrollbars.
Posted by oldnewthing | 26 Comments
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A guide to British pub etiquette

How to behave in a pub, as determined by
Posted by oldnewthing | 25 Comments
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Image File Execution Options

Handy registry key for debugging.
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When should your destructor be virtual?

If it is extended and deleted from the base class.
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Batman and Robin patrolling Whitley

Or at least two people dressed like Batman and Robin.
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Why did InterlockedIncrement/Decrement only return the sign of the result?

It's a limitation of the 80386 instruction set.
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Chris Pratley's history lesson

The history of Word.
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Scripting is a two-edged sword

What's easy for you is easy for others.
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Broadcasting user-defined messages

Broadcast messages much be globally understood.
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Dead man running

Legally dead man running for public office to highlight the plight of the legally (but not physically) dead.
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Is open source the new monoculture?

Buffer overflow in open source - how do you track all the versions?
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Truckers block highway to protest high gas prices

To protest rising gasoline prices, a group of truckers abandoned their vehicles in the middle of the highway . It struck me as odd that a country that brims with anti-French rhetoric would adopt one of their protest techniques. Presumably they don't want
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Why does my hard drive light flash every few second?

Welcome to misleading LEDs.
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Today is Swedish tax day

Of course, in Sweden, every day is tax day.
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You wanted Extreme Crochet?

If I meant crochet I would have written crochet.
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