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  • Illegible Text in Eula

    Posted to Forum by samanddeanus on 11-01-2008
  • Re: Be careful what you use IE for

    Back to topic: As you may know, Microsoft tries to translate contents automatically if there's no translation for the article. This title was somehow translated from "Windows Internet Explorer 7 may crash when you use it to visit a Web site" to "Windows-Interneterweiterungsexplorer...
    Posted to Forum by Juifeng on 06-25-2008
  • Re: Fillipino Computer Engineers!

    [quote user="t94xr"]why Office 97 wouldnt work on sisters new Vista laptop... [/quote] Why? Honestly, I don't see a reason for it not to.
    Posted to Forum by Spectre on 06-17-2008
  • Re: One day, one will be zero

    [quote user="funthomas"] You're right, it's used as a flag. However: it uses 0 and 1 instead of false and true (no, "FileNotFound" not needed here) [/quote] QBASIC (old DOS BASIC from Microsoft) used 0 for false and -1 for true. Also, bitwise and logical operators were combined...
    Posted to Forum by samanddeanus on 05-15-2008
  • Re: Two windows active at once?

    [quote user="bstorer"] [quote user="vt_mruhlin"] Do they even have user manuals any more? I thought you were just expected to search the knowledge base for everything you need to find out. [/quote] Don't be silly, the Microsoft knowledge base contains little information of any...
    Posted to Forum by Spectre on 04-06-2008
  • slim CD/DVD R/RW - lense clarifications

    we are using lot of slim CD/DVD R/RW, the lense was damaged because of handling. what are all the pre cautions or warning msg i need. pls. clarify my doubts.
    Posted to Forum by basker82 on 03-21-2008
  • Re: More secure than strncpy()? strncpy_s()!

    [quote user="CodeSimian"] [quote user="gerard_"]Too bad there already is an improved version of strncpy: strlcpy [/quote] But neither strlcpy nor strncpy_s are standardized. strlcpy seems to appear on some *nix-based OSs, while strncpy_s is only for Windows. So anyone who wants to...
    Posted to Forum by Spectre on 03-19-2008
  • Re: More secure than strncpy()? strncpy_s()!

    Hold on, let me count the WTFs: strncpy_s doesn't behave like strncpy , bacause it doesn't pad the destination with NULs. Rolling out another "secure" replacement when StringCchCopy and the like've been existing for a while. Using strncpy as a strcpy replacement. Not using Unicode...
    Posted to Forum by Spectre on 03-18-2008
  • Re: Update your Updater so you can Update

    [quote user="ender"]Sounds almost like .NET Framework - download the base version first (through Windows Update), reboot, get the service pack (again through Windows Update), reboot, download more updates (for .NET), reboot. I've been wondering for years why couldn't they make an unified...
    Posted to Forum by Spectre on 03-03-2008
  • Re: Microsoft Source Force

    [quote user="hallo.amt"]This is ClickOnce deployment, try using it with IE :-([/quote] Doesn't matter, it's the server that doesn't work.
    Posted to Forum by Spectre on 02-22-2008
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