The Old New Thing

October 7, 2013 - The Old New Thing

But instead, they decided to build the Great Wheel

October 7, 2013 Oct 7, 2013 10/7/13
Raymond Chen
I dreamed that Seattle was building its own version of the Eiffel Tower. Just like the original, except that it was also a thrill ride similar to Round Up but you are seated. It turns out that the city of Seattle accepted my subconscious's instructions to replicate another city's famous landmark, but the message wasn't received loud and ...

Printing the contents of the clipboard as text to stdout

October 7, 2013 Oct 7, 2013 10/7/13
Raymond Chen
The takes its stdin and puts it on the clipboard. But how do you get it out? That's today's Little Program. (I guess we could call it .) Okay, what do we have here? We open the clipboard and try to get the Unicode text on it. We then look for the null terminator within the first 0x10000000 bytes. Why do I stop at 256MB? Because I'm lazy...