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Jul 4, 2005
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Some holiday fun: Puzzle #5

Raymond Chen
Raymond Chen

(Note: Read the puzzles in order from 1 to 6 for them to make sense.) Number five is an old-style riddle. My first is an avatar, you are guardian of its soul. My second you must vanquish if you wish to reach your goal. My third you may injure if you slide too hard to third. My whole is a place where dead people can be heard. My friend said ...

Non-Computer
Jul 4, 2005
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Some holiday fun: Puzzle #4

Raymond Chen
Raymond Chen

(Note: Read the puzzles in order from 1 to 6 for them to make sense.) A pretty straightforward puzzle. Answers to all puzzles will be posted tomorrow. Please do not post spoilers. Onward to Puzzle #5.

Non-Computer
Jul 4, 2005
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Some holiday fun: Puzzle #3

Raymond Chen
Raymond Chen

(Note: Read the puzzles in order from 1 to 6 for them to make sense.) This was by far the hardest puzzle to make. It's also going to be the hardest to solve because a lot of the clues were originally inside jokes, and rewriting them for a general audience makes the answers much less obvious. Hint: Quotation is by Nancy Pearl. ...

Non-Computer
Jul 4, 2005
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Some holiday fun: Puzzle #2

Raymond Chen
Raymond Chen

(Note: Read the puzzles in order from 1 to 6 for them to make sense.) Upon arrival at the first puzzle location, she was handed the second puzzle: "Opghg'i xk ialp opfxw zi z ioaufy jagiofkx." Wk ok opg fxqkhvzofkx ygib fx Lgxogh Pkaig zxy zib fq opge pzmg zxe oflbgoi zmzfnzdng qkh opg Vzhfxghi wzvg. The following clues are not necessary for...

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Jul 4, 2005
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Some holiday fun: Puzzle #1

Raymond Chen
Raymond Chen

Today is a holiday in the United States, so I thought I'd go entirely non-technical. But that doesn't mean you get to rest your brain. One of my friends was accepted to the Graduate School of Library and Information Science at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. We are of course very happy for her, but also sad that she will be leavi...

Non-Computer
Jul 1, 2005
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I hope you weren’t using those undocumented critical section fields

Raymond Chen
Raymond Chen

I hope you weren't using those undocumented critical section fields, because in Windows Server 2003 Service Pack 1, they've changed. Mike Dodd tells an interesting story of a vendor who used reserved fields and then complained when the system started using them!

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Jul 1, 2005
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What’s the difference between My Documents and Application Data?

Raymond Chen
Raymond Chen

The most important difference between My Documents and Application Data is that My Documents is where users store their files, whereas Application Data is where programs store their files. In other words, if you put something in CSIDL_MYDOCUMENTS (My Documents), you should expect the user to be renaming it, moving it, deleting it, emailing it to ...

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