The Old New Thing

September 27, 2012 - The Old New Thing

The Ride to Rio: Bicycling from Los Angeles to Rio de Janeiro

September 27, 2012 Sep 27, 2012 09/27/12
Raymond Chen
An acquaintance of mine remarked that he sold his bicycle in Seattle a few months ago to some guy who explained, "I'm going to ride it to South America." "Okay," my acquaintance said, probably with some degree of skepticism. But it's a real project, and they head out soon! Ride to Rio: Four riders who "share a thirst for being stupid and ...

Why aren't environment variables being expanded in my RGS file?

September 27, 2012 Sep 27, 2012 09/27/12
Raymond Chen
A customer was having trouble with their RGS file. I want to include the below line in a .rgs file: When I do this, registering of the dll fails with 80002009. Any help? If I change it to then the registration succeeds (but of course now contains a hard-coded path). A common problem people have when asking a question is assuming ...