Mike Dimmick's Bleurgh

Goran, a commenter at Raymond's blog , asks : As one of those people who only have a hammer :-( ... It looks like MFC just told us off ...

…that’s how long I was running Windows 7 RC1 without switching back to my hard disk with Windows Vista. The System event log shows I last bo...

I thought I’d break this into another post so that the fix is easier to understand for non-technical people. Comparing the old and new dri...

The Humax PVR9200T is a pretty good Freeview/digital terrestrial personal video recorder. I’ve had mine for a few years now. Over time, the ...

OK, I think my router has become too hackable. The reliability has hit the toilet, and I’ve had two messages from my ISP warning me that t...

You use the SOS debugger extension’s !U command. Yeah, that’s not very helpful. Here’s how to get from that terse description to something ...

I was looking at what the .NET x64 JIT compiler generates for some code, and saw something very odd at the end of the routine: the last inst...

Recently, at the end of September, I got a new neighbour in the flat downstairs. The property is an end terrace, split into two flats in 199...

CodeProject ’s one of my favourite sites – indeed, one of the few real regular sites I visit – but it’s always had a bit of a problem with e...

Dear Wave Systems , Fuck right off. When I bought my Dell Latitude D820 laptop, I went through and deleted a certain amount of the shovelw...