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The Old New Thing : February 2008 - Posts
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February 2008 - Posts

Friday, February 29, 2008 7:00 AM

The 2008/2009 Seattle Symphony subscription season at a glance

The pocket reference guide for 2008/2009.
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Friday, February 29, 2008 7:00 AM

Why can't I get FormatMessage to load my resource string?

The FormatMessage wants a message table, not a string resource
Posted by oldnewthing | 14 Comments
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Thursday, February 28, 2008 7:00 AM

Coca-Cola for breakfast: It's not just for computer geeks any more

Catching up on orange juice.
Posted by oldnewthing | 34 Comments
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Thursday, February 28, 2008 7:00 AM

Why are process and thread IDs multiples of four?

Code re-use.
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Wednesday, February 27, 2008 7:00 AM

Making a reservation at the Asteroid and interrupting a cookie-bake

Unexpected events.
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Wednesday, February 27, 2008 7:00 AM

If you ask for STANDARD_RIGHTS_REQUIRED, you may as well ask for the moon

Since it's basically the moon.
Posted by oldnewthing | 13 Comments
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Tuesday, February 26, 2008 7:00 AM

TechDays 2008 learns the sneaky way of getting me to show up at your conference

Invite me while I'm already in town for something else.
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Tuesday, February 26, 2008 7:00 AM

Losing the game of Last Checkin Chicken two products in a row

Making the last change.
Posted by oldnewthing | 21 Comments
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Monday, February 25, 2008 7:00 AM

The United Kingdom of Great Britain, Northern Ireland, and France?

What could've been.
Posted by oldnewthing | 18 Comments
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Monday, February 25, 2008 7:00 AM

When somebody gives you a gift of code, it's more often than not a burden in disguise

It looks so nice at first.
Posted by oldnewthing | 43 Comments
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Friday, February 22, 2008 7:00 AM

Microspeak: Assorted babble

Babble phrases.
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Thursday, February 21, 2008 7:00 AM

Nobody actually talks the way they do in training videos, do they?

They pretty much demand bad acting.
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Wednesday, February 20, 2008 7:00 AM

Wait a second, I thought we stopped doing this back in 2003

How to go back to a normal DNS.
Posted by oldnewthing | 36 Comments
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Wednesday, February 20, 2008 7:00 AM

There can be more than one (or zero): Converting a process to a window

A process can have zero windows, or more than one.
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Tuesday, February 19, 2008 7:00 AM

If you used your credit card abroad between 1996 and 2006, you may be eligible for a class action lawsuit settlement

For certain credit cards.
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Tuesday, February 19, 2008 7:00 AM

When you ask somebody to take a look, you need to tell them what you want them to find

Sure, I can "look".
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Monday, February 18, 2008 7:00 AM

What's with all those spam ping-bots?

They're just stealing content.
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Monday, February 18, 2008 7:00 AM

Why does Explorer show a + sign even if there are no child folders?

On the importance of responding with SFGAO_HASSUBFOLDER when applicable.
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Friday, February 15, 2008 7:00 AM

Joshua Roman groupies may have to set up their frequent flyer accounts

Off to a solo career.
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Friday, February 15, 2008 7:00 AM

There's more to switching stacks than just loading a new stack pointer

There's a bunch of other bookkeeping.
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Thursday, February 14, 2008 7:00 AM

Bands of Valentine minstrels roaming campus

It must be Valentine's Day.
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Wednesday, February 13, 2008 7:00 AM

Follow-up: Politically motivated armed robber being sent back to the U.S.

Back in the U. S. of A.
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Wednesday, February 13, 2008 7:00 AM

Controlling which devices will wake the computer out of sleep

The powercfg program.
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Tuesday, February 12, 2008 7:00 AM

Thank you, people sitting behind me, for explaining what the conductor is doing

I'm sure what you have to say is interesting.
Posted by oldnewthing | 31 Comments
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Tuesday, February 12, 2008 7:00 AM

If you ask whether I'll be at a conference, the answer is usually No

Going to conferences is not actually my job.
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Monday, February 11, 2008 7:00 AM

Why does Ctrl+ScrollLock cancel dialogs?

An ancient keyboard shortcut.
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Friday, February 08, 2008 7:00 AM

Why couldn't you have more than one instance of a 16-bit multi-DS program?

Because there's only one HINSTANCE.
Posted by oldnewthing | 21 Comments
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Thursday, February 07, 2008 7:00 AM

Grass jelly may be an Asian drink, but it's not crazy

It's a refreshing snack.
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Thursday, February 07, 2008 7:00 AM

What did MakeProcInstance do?

Back in the 16-bit days.
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Wednesday, February 06, 2008 7:00 AM

Otaku cosplay culture makes another inroad into North America

A Chinese restaurant with a Japanese fad.
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Wednesday, February 06, 2008 7:00 AM

When there's a problem with the platform, you blame the platform, whether it's the platform's fault or not

Watch Scoble do it.
Posted by oldnewthing | 25 Comments
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Tuesday, February 05, 2008 7:00 AM

Why did the display become a snapshot of the last time the monitor was plugged into the computer?

Just enough power to keep the VRAM alive.
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Tuesday, February 05, 2008 7:00 AM

Who decides what can be done with an object or a control?

Don't run around dorking with somebody else's stuff.
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Monday, February 04, 2008 7:00 AM

The dead home desktop returns from the dead

It was the video card.
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Monday, February 04, 2008 7:00 AM

DLL forwarding is not the same as delay-loading

If you forward to a function, it still has to exist.
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Friday, February 01, 2008 7:00 AM

Pass the whipped partially hydrogenated soybean and coconut oils, please

But please don't call it guacamole.
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Friday, February 01, 2008 7:00 AM

Strange bug assignment: Programs are using too much memory

So blame Task Manager?
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