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Mar 19, 2012
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The most exciting part of my morning is catching my bus, specifically, making the transfer

Raymond Chen

Note: Transit nerd content. You have been warned. I still rely on One Bus Away to tell me when my bus is coming. Recent changes in bus service means that there is no longer a direct bus from my neighborhood to my work. My basic options are as follows: If you sit and work out the math, the total travel time for all the options is about the s...

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Mar 19, 2012
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Why does holding the Ctrl key when selecting New Task from Task Manager open a command prompt?

Raymond Chen

Commenter Adam S wonders why holding the Ctrl key when selecting New Task from Task Manager will open a command prompt. It's a rogue feature. Windows XP introduced visual styles, and one of the tricky parts of debugging visual styles is that if the visual style engine goes berzerk, you can't see anything! One of the problems that the v...

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