September 30, 2009Sep 30, 200909/30/09It’s that time again: Sending some link love to my colleagues.
Peter Torr explains why the anti-phishing filter operates on the original URL instead of a hash.
Jamie Buckley from the MSN Search team explains why not every possible instant answer is offered.
September 30, 2009Sep 30, 200909/30/09The only thread message you can meaningfully post to a thread displaying UI is WM_NULL, and even then, it’s only because you want to wake up the message loop for some reason.
A common problem I see is people who use PostThreadMessage to talk to a thread that is displaying UI and then wonder why the message never arrives.
September 29, 2009Sep 29, 200909/29/09In finance, the net is the total after you have cancelled positive values against negative values. For example, if you took in $30 and paid out $20, then your net is $10.
In Microspeak, this term has moved into project planning and has undergone redoubling,
September 28, 2009Sep 28, 200909/28/09Nick asks why Explorer doesn’t have UI for creating hard links.
Heck, while you’re at it, why not ask “Why doesn’t Explorer have a UI for hex-editing a file?”
Remember, all features start out with minus 100 points. Explorer is not under any obligation to expose every last NTFS feature,
September 25, 2009Sep 25, 200909/25/09Sadly, I get to add another entry to
The ways people mess up IUnknown::QueryInterface:
Blindly responding to everything.
Some people are just too eager to please.
HRESULT CSomething::QueryInterface(REFIID riid, void **ppvObj)
{
*ppvObj = this;
this->AddRef();
return S_OK;
}
No matter what the interface is,
September 24, 2009Sep 24, 200909/24/09The media simply can’t resist a good panic story, even when there is no panic to be found. On the Media
interviews sociology professor Eric Klinenberg on what happens when the media ask you to talk about the nonexistent widespread panic over H1N1.
September 24, 2009Sep 24, 200909/24/09A customer wanted to know if there was a way to execute privileged instructions without having to write a driver.
“I just need to execute a few instructions, and writing a driver would be overkill since it’s only three instructions. Is there a way I can execute these privileged instructions without a driver?”
September 23, 2009Sep 23, 200909/23/09It should be second nature to you that the code which allocates memory
and the code which frees memory need to use the same allocator.
Most of the time, you think of it as
“If you allocate memory, you need to free it with the
corresponding mechanism,”
September 23, 2009Sep 23, 200909/23/09A local hotel advertises itself like so:
Surrounding the hotel are popular Seattle attractions such as Pike Place Market, the Space Needle, Safeco Park, home of baseball’s Seattle Mariners, and Qwest Field, home of football’s Seattle Seahawks, all just a short drive away.
September 22, 2009Sep 22, 200909/22/09A question was sent to an internal discussion list for users of the XYZ tool:
From: Q To: XYZ Users The GHI function in the JKL tool doesn’t work for me. «description of problem deleted»
I responded with this message:
To: Q,
