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Some holiday fun: Puzzle #6
(Note: Read the puzzles in order from 1 to 6 for them to make sense.) To see the final puzzle you need an SVG- or VML-enabled browser...
Some holiday fun: Puzzle #5
(Note: Read the puzzles in order from 1 to 6 for them to make sense.) Number five is an old-style riddle. My first is an avatar, you are guardian of its ...
Some holiday fun: Puzzle #4
(Note: Read the puzzles in order from 1 to 6 for them to make sense.) A pretty straightforward puzzle. Answers to all puzzles will be posted tomorrow. ...
Some holiday fun: Puzzle #3
(Note: Read the puzzles in order from 1 to 6 for them to make sense.) This was by far the hardest puzzle to make. It's also going to be the hardest to solve ...
Some holiday fun: Puzzle #2
(Note: Read the puzzles in order from 1 to 6 for them to make sense.) Upon arrival at the first puzzle location, she was handed the second puzzle: "Opghg'i...
Some holiday fun: Puzzle #1
Today is a holiday in the United States, so I thought I'd go entirely non-technical. But that doesn't mean you get to rest your brain. One of my friends was ...
I hope you weren’t using those undocumented critical section fields
I hope you weren't using those undocumented critical section fields, because in Windows Server 2003 Service Pack 1, they've changed. Mike Dodd tells an ...
What’s the difference between My Documents and Application Data?
The most important difference between My Documents and Application Data is that My Documents is where users store their files, whereas Application Data is where...
Beware of roaming user profiles
One of the less-known features of Windows is the roaming user profile. I know that this is not well-known because I often see suggestions that fail to take the...