February 28, 2007Feb 28, 200702/28/07Long Zheng does it again. He follows up his interview with Hamad Darwish with a report on what Hamad has been doing lately, as well as links to high resolution versions of the entire Vista wallpaper photo shoot, including photos that didn’t make the final cut.
February 28, 2007Feb 28, 200702/28/07This computer didn’t die like the previous one; it merely outlived it usefulness.
In its prime, the machine was a force to be reckoned with. It was about the size of a small refrigerator and generated about as much noise as a vacuum cleaner.
February 27, 2007Feb 27, 200702/27/07A good friend of mine forwarded me this help-wanted ad on CraigsList:
Need a programmer to make a Search Engine like Google
I’m looking for some Programmer(s) who can help me create a search engine like Google. Only qualified person(s) encouraged to apply.
February 27, 2007Feb 27, 200702/27/07I promised to talk more about NMI, so here it is.
What generates an NMI? What does it mean?
The first question is easy to answer but doesn’t actually shed much light: Any device can pull the NMI line, and that will generate a non-maskable interrupt.
February 26, 2007Feb 26, 200702/26/07I learned this from Yes, Minister. They call it the politician’s fallacy:
Something must be done.
This is something.
Therefore, we must do it.
As befits its name, you see it most often in politics, where poorly-thought-out solutions are proposed for urgent problems.
February 26, 2007Feb 26, 200702/26/07A commenter asked, “As an application programmer, can I really ignore DDE if I need to interact with explorer/shell?”
The answer is, “Yes, please!”
While it was a reasonable solution back in the cooperatively-multitasked world of 16-bit Windows where it was invented,
February 23, 2007Feb 23, 200702/23/07You know, it’s gotten to the point where I wouldn’t be surprised if O. J. Simpson wrote a new book titled If I Were the Father of Anna Nicole Smith’s Baby.
Just saying.
February 23, 2007Feb 23, 200702/23/07Every year, I put together a little pocket guide to the Seattle Symphony subscription season for my symphony friends to help them decide which ticket package they want. As before, you might find it helpful, you might not, but here it is anyway.
February 23, 2007Feb 23, 200702/23/07Now that you understand the intended purpose of LockWindowUpdate, I’m going to tell you why you don’t want to use it, not even for its intended purpose!
You have to go back to the historical context in which LockWindowUpdate was created.
February 22, 2007Feb 22, 200702/22/07One of my colleagues recently posted the story of the work he did to get laptops to resume quickly. The fun part was implementing the optimizations in the kernel. The not-fun part was finding all the drivers who did bad things and harassing their owners into fixing the bugs.
