The Old New Thing

November 27, 2009 - The Old New Thing

How does Raymond get rid of his excess pennies?

November 27, 2009 Nov 27, 2009 11/27/09
Raymond Chen
Commenter Boris mentions that he uses NJ Transit to get rid of his excess pennies. But what do you do if your area isn't served by NJ Transit? I use the self-checkout line at the grocery store. The machine has a slot for accepting coins, and you can drop pennies in there until your arm falls off. I don't do this when the grocery store is ...

Caches are nice, but they confuse memory leak detection tools

November 27, 2009 Nov 27, 2009 11/27/09
Raymond Chen
Knowledge Base article 139071 has the technically correct but easily misinterpreted title FIX: OLE Automation BSTR caching will cause memory leak sources in Windows 2000. The title is misleading because it makes you think that Oh, this is a fix for a memory leak in OLE Automation, but that's not what it is. The is the string type used by ...