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Thursday, July 15, 2010

Worst Microsoft Dialogs

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So, I thought this dialog was pretty bad: I mean, the only question in all that text (you know, the sentence that ends in a question mark...

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Wednesday, March 24, 2010

Perforce has the best error messages.

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I wanted to know what the path to something was on the server, but I couldn't remember. Little did I know that perforce would be so jud...

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Wednesday, March 17, 2010

GetModuleFileName() on OS X.

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So, you want to know the path to your module. On Windows, it's easy: you call GetModuleFileName() and pass NULL for the HMODULE. But...

Tuesday, November 10, 2009

Adventures in Diffing...

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So today Schneier recommended AVG as a useful, free anti-virus solution. As I'm terribly anti-virus, I wanted to see if really ran ...

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Things I Hope Are Fixed In The Next Version

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Exporting from the registry to disk happens on the UI thread. I hope this is fixed in regedit in Windows 7. Loading symbols (from disk or...

Thursday, July 16, 2009

a trip to the Microsoft company store...

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I was recently in Redmond and one of my good MSFT friends was kind enough to take me to the company store to pick up a copy of VS2008 and Vi...

Wednesday, June 10, 2009

Adventures in Driver Updates

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I love that Windows Update brings me the latest drivers for my video card. It's too bad that hardware OEMs still can't figure out h...

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