http://grootveld.com But I digress... Tue, 02 Dec 2008 19:41:56 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Just came across the following line in the sources to zlib: if (hash_head) hash_head = 0; /* to make compiler happy */ http://grootveld.com/archives/31 Earlier today, I was trying to run a batch file as a scheduled task, using a non-admin service account. It didn't work, but the scheduled tasks interface didn't provide a lot of info to go on. After manually double-checking file system permissions, and running Filemon to try and figure out where ... http://grootveld.com/archives/30 Lately, our Canon S750 printer has started showing its age (nearly 6 years, which is not bad at all). It begun with a very sudden change in B&W print quality, which was mostly taken care of by cleaning the print head. Today it stopped functioning altogether. It took me a while ... http://grootveld.com/archives/29 I was writing some unit tests today where I wanted to start some process asynchronously, but have it automatically exit after a specified number of seconds. Preferably something that's available on a standard W2K3 box, so that I wouldn't be creating any additional prerequisites for other developer boxes or the ... http://grootveld.com/archives/28 In my previous post, I wrote about some findings w.r.t. REGEDIT. One of them was about a limitation on the depth of key hierarchies during a registry export. When I found out about this limitation, I was actually encountering stack overflows in REGEDIT. However, shortly afterwards I wasn't able to reproduce ... http://grootveld.com/archives/27 NOTE (2008-08-21): Also see the update to this post. I've been working on a tool that can export registry information in REGEDIT's .REG format. Since that format doesn't seem to be fully documented, I spent quite some time experimenting with REGEDIT. Here are some of my more interesting findings (all on ... http://grootveld.com/archives/26 I was just looking at Recipezaar for some culinary inspiration, and found the following "popular recipes" on the home page: http://grootveld.com/archives/25 I just received issue 49 of VMWare's corporate newsletter. Since I don't let GMail automatically download images, this is what the message looked like initially: After downloading the images, it looks like this: Blah blah indeed. http://grootveld.com/archives/23 Just a quick reminder to myself, so that I can forget about it... Fiddler can act as a man-in-the-middle and decrypt SSL traffic, but then System.Net.Security rightfully complains about an invalid remote certificate ("The remote certificate is invalid according to the validation procedure."). This results in a System.Net.WebException "The underlying connection ... http://grootveld.com/archives/22 Two weeks ago, an ex-colleague asked me to take a look at a problem that he and his team had encountered. They tried using a System.Uri with URL-encoded slashes, but those slashes kept ending up unencoded in the resulting URI: Uri uri = new Uri("http://somesite/media/http%3A%2F%2Fsomesite%2Fimage.gif"); Console.WriteLine(uri.AbsoluteUri); // Output: http://somesite/media/http%3A//somesite%2Fimage.gif That's a totally different URL, ... http://grootveld.com/archives/21 Triggered by Brent Strange's recent Defect of the day, I remembered a few similarly Zen-like ones from a product I worked on years ago: http://grootveld.com/archives/20 Looking for information about IRIs, I ended up at W3C's Internationalized Resource Identifiers page. Funnily enough (if you're a Unicode geek, that is...), this page deals with i18N topics but has an encoding issue: (I've notified W3C's web-human about the fact that the page is served as UTF-8, but contains Latin-1 ... http://grootveld.com/archives/19 When I was enjoying my sabbatical last year, I'd set up my LinkedIn profile to read "Principal Sabbatical Enjoyer at home". Ever since, I've been receiving notifications from LinkedIn, telling me to get back in touch with colleagues from home: http://grootveld.com/archives/18 Sometimes, words can have a very different meaning from one night to the next... Last night, I looked at some CDO-related stuff on MSDN, and then hibernated my computer. Tonight, I woke up my computer after having watched an episode of Dexter. Having a Firefox tab titled "BodyParts Property" didn't have any special ... http://grootveld.com/archives/17 A while ago, I had the following problem: The build system needed to run a unit test of some code that depended on some COM object. That COM object was not installed on the build system (it wasn't a part of the system we were developing). Installing that COM object would mean having ... http://grootveld.com/archives/16 For the first 6+ years of its existence, http://grootveld.com said: "This page intentionally left blank." I maybe should have kept it that way, but late April last year, I decided to start blogging. Just like everybody else (although a few years later than most...). I managed to create a few posts ... http://grootveld.com/archives/15 While going through some old e-mails today, I came across a picture I took a few years ago (click for more): http://grootveld.com/archives/14 (This post triggered by receiving a lovely screen dump of a message box. A message box covering almost the complete screen, and containing lots of serialized XML. XML containing lots of entitified HTML...) http://grootveld.com/archives/13 Trying to notify my manager of a few upcoming days off using Microsoft Project Web Access, I got: Microsoft sure has interesting ideas about "administrative projects"... http://grootveld.com/archives/12 I'm slowly making my way through the posts at languagehat, a linguistics weblog which I discovered a few days ago. In a comment on one of the articles, someone mentioned that entering 2665 on a mobile phone with predictive text input spells both "book" and "cool". Which got me thinking about ... http://grootveld.com/archives/11