The Old New Thing

Jag skrivar svenska inte so bra.

October 1, 2003 Oct 1, 2003 10/1/03
Raymond Chen
The nice thing about the schwa sound is that you don't have to spell it. Many thanks to C-J Berg for fixing my Swedish spelling errors. I probably introduced some new ones here, though. But why Swedish? Well, it wasn't Swedish initially. Many years ago, I saw an ad ...

Jag taler lita svenska.

October 1, 2003 Oct 1, 2003 10/1/03
Raymond Chen
Attended my first formal Swedish lesson last night. It's great to recapture the simultaneous thrill and frustration of trying to have a conversation in a language you don't really know. It's a small class - Swedish isn't exactly one of the "big-name" languages out there. I always feel ...

Why do I get spurious WM_MOUSEMOVE messages?

October 1, 2003 Oct 1, 2003 10/1/03
Raymond Chen
In order to understand this properly, it helps to know where messages come from. When the hardware mouse reports an interrupt, indicating that the physical mouse has moved, Windows determines which thread should receive the mouse move message and sets a flag on that thread's input queue...

In case people got the wrong impression

September 29, 2003 Sep 29, 2003 09/29/03
Raymond Chen
I really did enjoy my trip. I just like talking about the goofy things. I intend to go back to Sweden in the spring. I'm currently enrolled in Swedish lessons but this trip came far too soon for me to have learned anything useful aside from "tack", "ursäkta" and "Jag taler inte svenska." ...

How much is that gigabyte in the window?

September 19, 2003 Sep 19, 2003 09/19/03
Raymond Chen
Slashdot is in an uproar over a lawsuit charging computer manufacturers for misleading consumers over hard drive capacity. The manufacturers use the ISO definition, wherein a "gigabyte" is one billion bytes, even though most people consider a gigabyte to be 1024 megabytes. This is a tricky one. The computer industry is itself inconsistent ...