Niche market, but useful for that niche

I haven't run the Windows debugger (or the Windows debug kernel) since I quit being paid to do so in 1999. But when I did, I made use of crib notes created by Raymond Chen, a Windows dev who also opened a wide variety if interesting and useful bugs.

A few days ago, Raymond reviewed the book Advanced Windows Debugging, stating that "Even the section with the "Oh come on every moron knows this already" title Basic Debugger Tasks has stuff that I didn't know."

Eep.

So if you're doing Windows programming and stepping through the code in the IDE isn't enough to figure out what's going on ... if you're dealing with, say, a deadlock or heap corruption ... this might be the book for you. :)

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So I did the D&D character meme everyone else has been doing. Like every personality test, it has its share of things where I want to answer "both" or "it depends". Say,

It is better to...
a) ...take a stand for what you believe in.
b) ...try to see both sides of an issue.

I'm not sure you can take a stand unless you see both sides. Otherwise, how can you understand what you're doing? Or

Religion is an institution that...
a) ...allows some people to exploit the fears of others.
b) ...helps people live meaningful lives.

I want to select "c) ... both" but it's not there. Then there's

If I punched someone as hard as I could...
a) they would probably laugh at me.
b) I might hurt them.
c) I would definitely hurt them.
d) I might kill them.

Punch, eh, might hurt. Maybe. Kick? Would definitely hurt.

All that said, there majority of questions I could just answer.

But what I thought was funny was the details of my results. The alignment (lawful/neutral/chaotic) was very close - and the class really wasn't. :) ( Read more... )

for the 3 people who haven't already seen it....

The 12 Poly Days of Christmas song (stay for the credits) and lyrics.

thankful thursday

1. An employer that provides 4 weeks vacation ...
2. and expects me to take it.
3. Finding warm fuzzy old xmas CDs
4. New xmas CD (Wintertide)
5. jw1776, for soup and juice and hugs and snuggles ...
6. Orange juice / frozen strawberry smoothies
7. The luxury of eating fruit in winter
8. Tea
9. Soft tissues with lotion (yes, indeed, I have a cold!)
10. Puzzle Pirates, Tropico, and other escapes from coughing
11. Splitting nachos with skydancer ;)