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    The Old New Thing

    December 2006 | The Old New Thing

    2006 end-of-year link clearance
    2006 end-of-year link clearance
    Raymond ChenRaymond ChenDecember 29, 2006Dec 29, 200612/29/06
    A few random links that I've collected. And then the obligatory plug for my column in TechNet Magazine: And then the obligatory book plug: The electronic-only PDF version is now available for purchase, and it's cheaper than the dead tree edition. (Don't forget that the dead tree edition comes with 45 days of free access to the ...

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    Stop the madness: Subdirectories of My Documents
    Stop the madness: Subdirectories of My Documents
    Raymond ChenRaymond ChenDecember 28, 2006Dec 28, 200612/28/06
    As a follow-up to the difference between My Documents and Application Data, I'd like to rant about all the subdirectories of My Documents that programs create because they think they're so cool. I'm sure there are more. Everything in the My Documents folder the user should be able to point to and say, "I remember creating that file on ...

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    Linda Hunt's advice for Oscar-winners
    Linda Hunt's advice for Oscar-winners
    Raymond ChenRaymond ChenDecember 28, 2006Dec 28, 200612/28/06
    Academy-award winning actress Linda Hunt reminds newer Oscar-winners, "It's not about you...

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    The social skills of a thermonuclear device, part 3
    The social skills of a thermonuclear device, part 3
    Raymond ChenRaymond ChenDecember 27, 2006Dec 27, 200612/27/06
    Some years ago, a group different from the one I worked in invited me to "volunteer" to help them with serious problems they were having with their product. They asked to "borrow" me for one week so that I could magically resolve all their issues. I wasn't really that familiar with their product, and I certainly didn't know how it worked ...

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    I can't believe they actually can't think of a name for the recent storm
    I can't believe they actually can't think of a name for the recent storm
    Raymond ChenRaymond ChenDecember 26, 2006Dec 26, 200612/26/06
    The Seattle Times reports that the National Weather Service is inviting suggestions from the public on what to call the recent windstorm. They're baffled because "the storm didn't fall on a holiday." Huh? The storm blew in on the evening of the 14th, but its effects weren't really felt until the morning of the 15th, and the first dark night...

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    The first parameter to VerQueryValue really must be a buffer you obtained from GetFileVersionInfo
    The first parameter to VerQueryValue really must be a buffer you obtained from GetFileVersionInfo
    Raymond ChenRaymond ChenDecember 26, 2006Dec 26, 200612/26/06
    The documentation for the VerQueryValue function states that the first parameter is a "pointer to the buffer containing the version-information resource returned by the GetFileVersionInfo function." Some people, however, decide to bypass this step and pass a pointer to data that was obtained some other way, and then wonder why VerQueryValue ...

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    The Old New Thing book will also be available electronically
    The Old New Thing book will also be available electronically
    Raymond ChenRaymond ChenDecember 25, 2006Dec 25, 200612/25/06
    We interrupt this religious holiday for an important commercial announcement. As a special Christmas present, my new best friends at Addison-Wesley sent me an advance copy of the dead-tree edition of my book. (Obligatory plug: Order it from Amazon. You know I want you to.) One commenter asked whether my book would be available ...

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    The evolution of version resources – corrupted 32-bit version resources
    The evolution of version resources – corrupted 32-bit version resources
    Raymond ChenRaymond ChenDecember 22, 2006Dec 22, 200612/22/06
    Last time we looked at the format of 32-bit version resources, but I ended with the remark that what you saw purported to be the resources of shell32.dll but actually weren't. What's going on here? The resources I presented last time were what the resources of shell32.dll should have been, but in fact they aren't. A common mistake in ...

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    The unanswered Explainer questions
    The unanswered Explainer questions
    Raymond ChenRaymond ChenDecember 21, 2006Dec 21, 200612/21/06
    Slate's Explainer column answers questions about current events. Sometimes they do it multiple times, as they did when I asked them how to pronounce the name Pinochet and they said Pee-no-CHAY, then later corrected themselves with pin-oh-CHET, and then again re-corrected themselves with Yes. Yesterday, the Explainer provided a selection ...

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    The evolution of version resources – 32-bit version resources
    The evolution of version resources – 32-bit version resources
    Raymond ChenRaymond ChenDecember 21, 2006Dec 21, 200612/21/06
    Last time we looked at the format of 16-bit version resources. The 32-bit version is nearly identical, except that everything is now in Unicode. Each node is stored in the following structure (in pseudo-C): In words, each version node begins with a 16-bit value describing the size of the nodes in bytes (including its children), followed by...

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