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re: Why don't ZIP files have the FILE_ATTRIBUTE_COMPRESSED attribute?
DWalker: The index attribute doesn't know who is going to index the file any more than the "archive" attribute knows who archives files. It's just an attribute to be used by any content indexing system...
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re: The new business model: Intentional billing errors
Maurits [MSFT]: that blind man story is from Roald Dahl. At least that is where I read it.
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re: Misleading advertisement: Passports or green cards?
Sort of like those companies that will file your Homestead Exemption for a fee.
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re: Misleading advertisement: Passports or green cards?
If I remember correctly, Microsoft was one of the most prominent companies to try to sell passport to people.
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re: The new business model: Intentional billing errors
Ah, that's the origin. Here we go: "The Bookseller" www.roalddahlfans.com/.../book.php
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re: Misleading advertisement: Passports or green cards?
Green card lottery will always remind me of Canter & Siegel. Ah, those were the days.
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re: Creating context menus on menus
So what if the user presses the context menu key (Shift+F10 if they don't have one)? Is there a WM_MENUCONTEXTMENU message? I ask because I've had to scold a number of people for using WM_RBUTTONUP to...
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re: Misleading advertisement: Passports or green cards?
IBM produced a card listing the OpCodes and other developer information about their 360 mainframe. It was printed on green cardstock, and was generally known as a "Green Card". When IBM created the...
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re: Creating context menus on menus
@Douglas AFAIK, there is no such message. I use "context menus on menu" in my application, and I was unable to handle Shift+F10 or the context menu key. There is no such message and no documented way...
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re: Misleading advertisement: Passports or green cards?
@James, old-timers also refer to 3390 disks and object "decks" despite the fact that the underlying disk hardware is vastly changed and that a deck of puched cards hasn't been spotted in the wild since...
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re: Creating context menus on menus
Why use MF_DISABLED | MF_GRAYED, do you really need both?
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re: Creating context menus on menus
The Start menu in XP and 7 does show a nested context menu when you press Shift+F10 or the menu key. Interestingly, in Vista, only Shift+F10 works. I imagine that they're using a keyboard hook (or...
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re: Creating context menus on menus
I don't see why you shouldn't be able to use the context menu key to open a context menu on a main menu. (Ironically in Firefox you can even use the keyboard to open a context menu on a toolbarbutton...
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re: Why did HeapFree fail with ERROR_POSSIBLE_DEADLOCK?
The correct way to handle errors from free functions is to just ignore them, right?
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re: It must totally suck to live near Abbey Road
I feel bad living on the same planet that that is happening on.
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re: Why did HeapFree fail with ERROR_POSSIBLE_DEADLOCK?
Thinking more about this and yesterday's post, I have to wonder why anything is running any code during process exit. Yesterday I was thinking in terms of a process that was about to exit, cleaning...
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re: Why did HeapFree fail with ERROR_POSSIBLE_DEADLOCK?
After I read the previous post on the topic I went home and had a real-life experience that made me flash back... I was replacing a cat litter box that had cracked with a new one. I had prepared...
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re: When DLL_PROCESS_DETACH tells you that the process is exiting, your best...
Just a note - we've been bitten by a bug in Outlook since it calls TerminateProcess to kill itself to avoid cleanup slowdown... problem is... PCSC (via winscard.dll) requires 'clean' shutdown, else...
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re: Why did HeapFree fail with ERROR_POSSIBLE_DEADLOCK?
It seems the design (if any!) for process termination is a little ad-hoc to me. Was it always like that or did it just happen over the years? [See the classical model on how processes exit. -Raymond]
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re: When DLL_PROCESS_DETACH tells you that the process is exiting, your best...
@Garrick McPherson: >process could have hidden some memory elsewhere (a favourite place is in USB memory sticks). I'm afraid what you're saying makes no sense.
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