The Old New Thing

March 11, 2013 - The Old New Thing

Derive the age of the planet Jupiter from the properties of liquid hydrogen and the planet’s surface temperature

March 11, 2013 Mar 11, 2013 03/11/13
Raymond Chen
I dreamed that my homework assignment was to derive the age of the planet Jupiter. The professor hinted that physical properties of liquid hydrogen and the current Jupiter surface temperature would be useful. My classmate Ted, on the other hand, had to extend a C++ base class to record a GUID name. The two of us were taking a class ...

How can I see what files and shares are being accessed remotely, and the general usage pattern for the NetXxx functions

March 11, 2013 Mar 11, 2013 03/11/13
Raymond Chen
Today's Little Program is a command line version of the Shared Folders MMC snap-in. Why? Because it illustrates the usage pattern for the Net­Xxx family of functions. (It's also a clone of the networking portion of the openfiles tool.) The Net­Xxx family of functions generally work like this: You pass in some parameters that ...