The site www.emr.fr has been "under construction" for over eight years. I noticed it in June 1996 and check back on it periodically. Still Under Construction. Another site that I noticed as "Under Construction" in June 1996 is www.leary.com. And as of this writing, it is still under construction.
If the program doesn't provide this information itself, Add/Remove Programs is forced to guess. The problem is that there is no "obvious" way to map an entry in the Add/Remove Programs list to an actual program. Each entry in the list, for those who care about such things, comes from the HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\...
A commenter asks why icon label have "those ugly color boxes" when there is a background image. The answer: Because the alternative would be worse. Imagine if there were no solid background between the text and the background image. You would end up with text against an unpredictable background, which doesn't help readability. Take the ...
If you are attending a presentation, you can tell whether the person at the lectern is a manager or a programmer by looking at their PowerPoint presentation. If it's black-and-white, all-text, multimedia-free, and rarely has more than ten bullet points on a page, then the presenter is probably a programmer. If it's colorful, with graphics,...
If you find yourself in a meeting with a mix of managers and programmers, here's one way to tell the difference between them: Look at what they brough to the meeting. Did they bring a laptop computer? Score bonus points if the laptop computer is actually turned on during the meeting or if the laptop is special in some way (e.g., it has a w...
The air must be thinner the higher up the management chain you go, or maybe it just gives you more opportunities to look stupid. Like this message: From: <some upper manager> Subject: <some subject> I will try to keep this relatively brief as I know how busy everyone is. <... 4-page message follows...> If this i...
It's like stupid warning labels on consumer products: Once you read the warning label, you can already imagine the lawsuit that required the warning label to be written in the first place. Use that same imagination to interpret this Windows XP SP2 setup error message. [Dumb typo in title fixed 7:43am.]
Please post suggestions for future topics in the suggestion box instead of posting off-topic comments. Note that the suggestion box is emptied and read periodically so don't be surprised if your suggestion vanishes.And now that there's a suggestion box, I'm going to prune off-topic comments more aggresively.
Along the navband on the left hand side is a link to the comment policy. The most significant change since its first release is that I introduced the two-week rule. As a general rule, comments posted more than two weeks after the article publication are eligible for summary deletion. It's great that you're all interested n stuff, but havi...
A reader asked, I was wondering why it's common for some Microsoft products to have a directory called "1033" within it's program directory installation location? What does it mean? This reader was probably from the United States, because 1033 is the locale identifier for "English (United States)", whose hexadecimal value is 0x0409. You...
