December 29, 2006Dec 29, 200612/29/06A few random links that I’ve collected.
How to be an 31337 hax04 and send mail to a DL to which you don’t have rights.
Suggestions on what to do if you have only one day to visit Seattle. Original anchor article by the Seattle Times staff.
December 28, 2006Dec 28, 200612/28/06As 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.
Visual Studio Projects
My eBooks
My Received Files
Remote Desktops
My Scans
My Data Sources
My Virtual Machines
My Archives
I’m sure there are more.
December 28, 2006Dec 28, 200612/28/06Academy-award winning actress Linda Hunt reminds newer Oscar-winners, “It’s not about you.”
December 27, 2006Dec 27, 200612/27/06Some 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.
December 26, 2006Dec 26, 200612/26/06The 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,
December 26, 2006Dec 26, 200612/26/06The 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,
December 25, 2006Dec 25, 200612/25/06We 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 electronically.
December 22, 2006Dec 22, 200612/22/06Last 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,
December 21, 2006Dec 21, 200612/21/06Slate’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.
December 21, 2006Dec 21, 200612/21/06Last 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):
struct VERSIONNODE {
WORD cbNode;
WORD cbData;
