The Old New Thing

September 29, 2010 - The Old New Thing

We apologize for the delay, but there is an issue with the music

September 29, 2010 Sep 29, 2010 09/29/10
Raymond Chen
After the opening work of the Seattle Symphony concert last Saturday night, the orchestra members rearranged themselves to play the Foote, but conductor Gerard Schwarz didn't come out onto the stage. The delay grew and people started wondering what was going on. An announcement was made over the public address system: "We apologize for the ...

Where did my mail control panel icon go?

September 29, 2010 Sep 29, 2010 09/29/10
Raymond Chen
A customer ran into the following problem: I was trying to add another email account to Outlook, and the instructions say that I should go to the mail icon in the Control Panel, which to my surprise is nowhere to be found! How can I figure out what went wrong? A little bit of psychic debugging will solve this. The customer was running ...