The Old New Thing

October 24, 2006 - The Old New Thing

Invalidating the null window redux

October 24, 2006 Oct 24, 2006 10/24/06
Raymond Chen
The people who work on the next generation of the window manager, known as the Desktop Window Manager (DWM), told me that their original plan was to get rid of the compatibility hack that says that invalidating the null window invalidates the entire desktop, but by an amazing coincidence, two days after I posted that article, they received a...

More tales of dead computers: My home desktop

October 24, 2006 Oct 24, 2006 10/24/06
Raymond Chen
Yes, I said that my next dead computer story would be the AlphaServer, but late-breaking news has forced me to shuffle the order a bit. My home computer has been circling the drain for several months. (The Northbridge fan would buzz and sometimes spin really slowly.) When the motherboard finally stopped powering on, I knew its time was up. ...