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Jul 22, 2008
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Windows could not properly load the XYZ keyboard layout

Raymond Chen
Raymond Chen

In my rôle as the family technical support department, I get to poke around without really knowing what I'm doing and hope to stumble across a solution. Sometimes I succeed; sometimes I fail. Today, I'm documenting one of my successes in the hope that it might come in handy for you, the technical support department for your family. (If not...

Tips/Support
Jul 21, 2008
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A modest proposal: Getting people to stop buying SUVs

Raymond Chen
Raymond Chen

I developed this modest proposal many years ago, but it looks like rising gasoline prices have done the job. But in case they don't, here's my plan. SUVs are classified as "trucks" for the purpose of C.A.F.E. regulations, and those regulations are more lenient on gasoline efficiency for trucks. As a result, the auto industry happily built SUVs...

Non-ComputerA modest proposal
Jul 21, 2008
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MessageBoxIndirect loads the icon itself; you can’t hand it a pre-loaded icon

Raymond Chen
Raymond Chen

Commenter 8 wants to know how to tell the function to use an existing instead of pointing it to an icon resource. You can't. The loads the icon itself. You can't hand it a pre-loaded icon. Of course, it's hardly rocket science to write your own function that lets you use whatever icon you want. There's no law that says all Yes/No ...

Code
Jul 18, 2008
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Dr. Horrible’s Sing-Along Blog, available online for a short time only

Raymond Chen
Raymond Chen

Get it while it's hot. Available through this weekend only, Dr. Horrible's Sing-Along Blog is a three-act Web series featuring Neil Patrick Harris as Dr. Horrible, a wannabe mad scientist evildoer who video-blogs about his plans for world domination, his application to the Evil League of Evil, his arch-enemy Captain Hammer, and his crush on the ...

Non-Computer
Jul 18, 2008
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A new record for the shortest amount of time between an email message and its resend

Raymond Chen
Raymond Chen

As I've noted before, people didn't answer your first question for a reason, but one thing I forgot to point out is that you also need to give people a chance to answer the first time at all! Occasionally, I'll see somebody ask a question, and then resend the question a short time later. You also have to take into account the time of day. There ...

Otheremail
Jul 17, 2008
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Microspeak: Well, actually management-speak

Raymond Chen
Raymond Chen

I hate management-speak. Here's an example from an internal Web site. The purpose of this Web site is two-fold. Wow, let's look at the first stated purpose. It goes on for so long and uses blatant management-speak such as "facilitate" and "leverage" that by the time it's over, I forget how the sentence started. Going back and reading it...

Non-ComputerMicrospeak
Jul 16, 2008
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News flash: Online drug sales are shady!

Raymond Chen
Raymond Chen

In what I'm sure is a fantastic surprise to everybody who has visited the Internet, according to a report in the New York Times, researchers at Columbia University have discovered that there are prescription drug pushers on the Internet who will sell you prescription drugs without a prescription. From what I can gather, they didn't actually ...

Non-ComputerNews flash

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