Not getting past the title: This is not the bug you’re looking for December 17, 2018 Dec 17, 2018 12/17/18 Raymond Chen The title contains the same word, but that's about the only thing that's the same.
The case of the mysterious LoadLibrary error message after signing in December 14, 2018 Dec 14, 2018 12/14/18 Raymond Chen A little screen shot forensics.
How can I programmatically wait until the taskbar has finished booting completely before I create my notification icon? December 13, 2018 Dec 13, 2018 12/13/18 Raymond Chen It will let you know.
How can I programmatically wait until the system has finished booting completely before doing my own computations? December 12, 2018 Dec 12, 2018 12/12/18 Raymond Chen Your observation of the system mutates the system.
Why doesn’t my lock screen image change after I replace the image file? December 11, 2018 Dec 11, 2018 12/11/18 Raymond Chen It got captured when it was set.
When a customer asks for something unsupported, and they promise not to get upset when it stops working, don’t believe them December 10, 2018 Dec 10, 2018 12/10/18 Raymond Chen Because they'll be back.
The case of the buffer overflow vulnerability that was neither a buffer overflow nor a vulnerability December 7, 2018 Dec 7, 2018 12/7/18 Raymond Chen Not quite knowing how assembly language works, I guess.
Xformer 10: The Atari 800 emulator has gotten a huge update December 6, 2018 Dec 6, 2018 12/6/18 Raymond Chen It's over 30 years old, but can still be improved, and it sure did.
How is it that WriteProcessMemory succeeds in writing to read-only memory? December 6, 2018 Dec 6, 2018 12/6/18 Raymond Chen Because it tries really hard.
How can dereferencing the first character of a string take longer when the string is longer? I’m looking only at the first character, which should be constant time December 5, 2018 Dec 5, 2018 12/5/18 Raymond Chen There's a lot hiding in that O.