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EduardoS: you could do that, but that's more work than just NOPing the instructions out.
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"Microsoft should have allowed the user to choose."And that's how you end up with questions you cannot answer, and how you end up with Options dialog boxes that present seemingly hundreds of confusing...
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Guess I'm glad I never upgraded -- I'm still running MS-Money 2000 on a XP VM. IMHO, the last usable version of money, even with all of it warts. :)
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"I was lucky in that all the function calls here were to imported functions, so I could extract the names from the imported function table."So you didn't even have symbols?[I thought I said that in the...
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great article Raymond. I've had to patch binaries via hex editor a few times with legacy enterprise apps that had long forgotten source code & developers. for a geek it's an ultra satisfying...
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#1 of Internet:If any special interest is imaginable, a web site exists for.www.explainxkcd.made my day!
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@Yuhong Bao: Raymond probably has access, but as he said, he didn't use it.@Malcolm McCaffery: Excellent suggestion, but I don't expect we'd ever see it.[I wish I had access! (My debugging...
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[Who would seriously check that box? -Raymond]Me. I'd also uncheck it if it did screw up one of my programs. But yeah, I saw immediately what a bad idea that was. Which is why some of us were...
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I use Money 2003. The later versions were changed so they would operate for only 18 months or so (maybe 2 years) before they shut down and HAD to be replaced. (Actually, some of Money 2003's features...
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Note that Money Plus Sunset can be freely downloaded, doesn't need to be installed as an upgrade, and doesn't need to be activated. :-) And, yes, those are very cool patching steps!
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Hi Raymond,I just want you to know that 4 years ago , you motivated me to drop medicine and do Computer science.I'm really happy now, I'm Brazilian and got a scholarship to study here(Seattle) for a...
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Raymond,Please reconsider publishing a video capturing one of your debugging sessions. Even if you just mumble a bit to yourself to give some vague insight and context, I'm sure there are any number...
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I just want to comment that for anyone what to try doing something like this, check inside the debugger for previous ecx value before using it and beware of loops.(Okay... for anyone who're able to do...
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Nerdiest byte sequence that I ever thought up was: EB 03 C3 yy xxIf you create a .COM file with those 5 bytes as the first ones, and look at the disassembly (I'm assuming an x86 disassembler here..),...
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"Which is why some of us were discussing an opt-in method for programs that understand."Congratulations - behavior is now inconsistent!
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Best would be a compatibility setting that required no modification to the source. But that happens all the time for supported products, I suppose.
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I'm still using Money 99. It's the last version sold in Germany and it works pretty well on Windows 7. ;-)
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re: Break it up, you two!: The zero width non-joiner
If anyone sees a square with 'FB06' in it, it's this character: www.fileformat.info/.../index.htm.
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That's just another case of people not realizing Unicode's neatness.
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Don't worry, ligatures are back in Word 2013. Try typing the word "bloodletting."In fact, ligatures are applied regardless of font size -- which makes for some really awkward-looking text at large...
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