December 31, 2007Dec 31, 200712/31/07A few random links that I’ve collected over the last six months.
Catalog Choice helps you get off the mailing lists of all those catalog companies. The DMA’s Mail Preference Service is a bigger hammer, addressing all unsolicited mail from member organizations.
December 31, 2007Dec 31, 200712/31/07Commenter Andrej Budja asks why cmd.exe is not themed in Windows XP. (This question was repeated by Serge Wautier, proving that nobody checks whether their suggestion has already been submitted before adding their own. It was also asked by a commenter who goes by the name “S”,
December 28, 2007Dec 28, 200712/28/07In my mailbox yesterday arrived a few complimentary copies of the Japanese translation of my book. (Note: Still available in English.) I cracked the Japanese edition open and confirmed what I already knew: I can’t read a lick of Japanese.
But now I know how you all feel when you read this Web site: It’s page after page of text that makes no sense whatsoever.
December 28, 2007Dec 28, 200712/28/07Somebody asked our team for help
because they believed they hit a deadlock in their program’s UI.
(It’s unclear why they asked our team,
but I guess since our team uses the window manager,
and their program uses the window manager,
December 27, 2007Dec 27, 200712/27/07If you need variables to be aligned a particular way,
you need to ask for it.
Let’s say I have the following code:
void fn()
{
int a;
char b;
long c;
char d[10];
}
What would the alignment of the starting adresses of a,b,c and d be?
December 26, 2007Dec 26, 200712/26/07Professional basketball player Paul Shirley blogged about his experiences sitting on the bench for the Phoenix Suns back in 2005. I thoroughly enjoyed it, even though I don’t particularly care much for the sport of basketball. He describes the life of that guy who sits on the bench,
December 26, 2007Dec 26, 200712/26/07At Microsoft, there is an obsession with measurement. If you can’t measure it, then it doesn’t exist. As a result, we set up data collection mechanisms, and try to interpret that data, even if the data isn’t what we’re really interested in,
December 25, 2007Dec 25, 200712/25/07The wife of one of my relatives grew up in Taiwan and attended college in the United States. When she went home to Taiwan for the holidays, she would tell her classmates, “If you need to get in touch while I’m away,
December 24, 2007Dec 24, 200712/24/07A few years ago, Marketplace radio looks at those portraits used by the Wall Street Journal, known as hedcuts. Believe it or not, these drawings are hand-done, not computer-generated. View the Smithsonian National Portrait Gallery online exhibition to see, for example,
December 24, 2007Dec 24, 200712/24/07Welcome, Slashdot readers. Remember, this Web site is for entertainment purposes only.
Sean wants to know what the role of MS-DOS was in Windows 95. I may regret answering this question since it’s clear Slashdot bait. (Even if Sean didn’t intend it that way,
