January 31, 2005Jan 31, 200501/31/05Over on Channel 9,
member Beer28 wrote,
“I can’t imagine there are too many problems with programs
that have type widths changed.”
I got a good chuckle out of that and made a note to write up
an entry on the Win64 data model.
January 28, 2005Jan 28, 200501/28/05Sometimes people go to great lengths to get information which
is available in a much simpler way.
We saw it a few days ago when we found a 200+-line C# program that
could be replaced with
a 90-byte batch file.
Here’s another example
of a rather roundabout way of
capturing the current directory from a batch file.
January 27, 2005Jan 27, 200501/27/05By default, the Background Intelligent Transfer Service (BITS) which is used by Automatic Updates will use idle network bandwidth for downloading updates. This is normally not a problem.
One case where it can be a problem is you have a large LAN that shares a single DSL connection.
January 26, 2005Jan 26, 200501/26/05In a previous life, I wrote database software.
A customer complained that one of their reports was taking an
unacceptably long amount of time to generate, and I was asked
to take a look at it even though it wasn’t my account.
January 25, 2005Jan 25, 200501/25/05If you have a file or directory that does not have a last-modified date, you may find that it causes Explorer to sort very strangely. (How do you get a file or directory with no last-modifiied date? It’s hard to do;
January 24, 2005Jan 24, 200501/24/05The CMD.EXE batch language
can be awfully cryptic,
but for those who miss the richness of command lines like
kill -1 $(ps -ef | grep inetd | grep -v grep | tr -s ” ” | cut -f2 -d ” “)
or bursts of line noise masquerading as a pipeline of
“find”,
January 24, 2005Jan 24, 200501/24/05Right on schedule, Alton Brown appeared at the Elliot Bay Book Company bookstore in downtown Seattle. One of my friends wondered aloud, “Wait a second, he’s promoting his cookbook. How do you do a reading from a cookbook?”
He didn’t read from his cookbook.
January 21, 2005Jan 21, 200501/21/05Not very well known is that the bottom two bits of kernel HANDLEs
are always zero; in other words, their numeric value is
always a multiple of 4.
Note that this applies only to kernel HANDLEs;
it does not apply to
pseudo-handles
or to any other type of handle
(USER handles,
January 20, 2005Jan 20, 200501/20/05Maybe they don’t want people to find them.
The copyright notice for the web site of Hutchison Whampoa Limited states,
Copyright Hutchison Whampoa Limited. 2003. All rights reserved.
No person, whether an individual or a body corporate, shall create or establish a hyperlink to the HWL Corporate Website by hypertext reference or imaging without the written permission of Hutchison.
January 20, 2005Jan 20, 200501/20/05Sometimes people try too hard.
You can download a
C# program to look for a file on your PATH,
or you can use a 90-character batch file:
@for %%e in (%PATHEXT%) do @for %%i in (%1%%e) do @if NOT “%%~$PATH:i”==”” echo %%~$PATH:i
