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Raymond Chen
Raymond Chen
Jul 4, 2005

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...

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Raymond Chen
Raymond Chen
Jul 4, 2005

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 ...

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Raymond Chen
Raymond Chen
Jul 4, 2005

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. ...

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Raymond Chen
Raymond Chen
Jul 4, 2005

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 ...

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Raymond Chen
Raymond Chen
Jul 4, 2005

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...

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Raymond Chen
Raymond Chen
Jul 4, 2005

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 ...

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Raymond Chen
Raymond Chen
Jul 1, 2005

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 ...

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Raymond Chen
Raymond Chen
Jul 1, 2005

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...

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Raymond Chen
Raymond Chen
Jun 30, 2005

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...

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