The Old New Thing

It rather required being on the other side of this airtight hatchway: Knowing the domain administrator password

October 10, 2023 Oct 10, 2023 10/10/23

Raymond Chen

If you give away the password, well, that's sort of on you.

Is there any performance advantage to marking a page read-only if I had no intention of writing to it anyway?

October 9, 2023 Oct 9, 2023 10/9/23

Raymond Chen

The CPU already figured it out.

A very belated improvement to the filtering of the Browse for Folder dialog so it shows only drive letters

October 6, 2023 Oct 6, 2023 10/6/23

Raymond Chen

The case of the very short UNC.

How can I get WideCharToMultiByte to convert strings encoded in UTF-16BE?

October 5, 2023 Oct 5, 2023 10/5/23

Raymond Chen

You first have to get it into a format the WideCharToMultiByte accepts.

On the confusing names for the Windows service SID types

October 4, 2023 Oct 4, 2023 10/4/23

Raymond Chen

Too much abbreviation.

A complaint about Links the Cat, the Office assistant

October 3, 2023 Oct 3, 2023 10/3/23

Raymond Chen

Do all cats do that?

How do I manually update a remote tracking branch, say, to undo a fetch?

October 2, 2023 Oct 2, 2023 10/2/23

Raymond Chen

Updating refs to point to whatever you like.

Template meta-programming: Avoiding saying a type before it is complete

September 29, 2023 Sep 29, 2023 09/29/23

Raymond Chen

Deferring use until after the class is defined.

C++/WinRT gotcha: get_strong() will produce a broken strong reference if destruction has already begun

September 28, 2023 Sep 28, 2023 09/28/23

Raymond Chen

A strong reference to nothing.

The dangers of releasing the last strong reference from within its own callback

September 27, 2023 Sep 27, 2023 09/27/23

Raymond Chen

Deadlocking with yourself.