After I had installed a number of applications on my Vista system, I had to restart at some point and when the system came back up, a notification popped up telling me there had been some startup applications that had not been run because of missing permissions. Clicking the prompt brought up this window:

Now, for the life of me I can’t figure out what the applications are that are supposedly problemat …

I’m having this really peculiar problem using the manual archiving functionality in Outlook (2007) and I’m really wondering if there’s something ridiculous I’m doing wrong, because I can’t imagine Outlook having such a horrendous bug. So if there’s anybody out there who can shed some light on the problem, I’d be grateful.

What I really want to do is simple: I have this enormous amount of mail in my Exchange account, collected over the 13-odd years I’ve been doing e-mail. I do throw mail away, …

I was just going to start submitting sessions for DDD 4 and I found a new restriction in place: DDD 4 speaker submission is only open to UK residents. As you may or may not know, I do live in the UK, so this doesn’t shut me out or anything — I just happen to find it a pretty rude decision, considering that speakers from other countries have been allowed to take part in previous DDD events, and they did so on their own expense. What do you think? I can come up with a few ideas about the rea …

DeveloperDeveloperDeveloper day 4 has just been announced, and it is already possible to submit sessions. I’m a little pressed for time right now, but I’ll certainly submit a number of sessions later.

When Word 2007 is in reading mode, there’s a special menu titled “View Options” in the top right corner of the screen. In this menu there are entries to increase and decrease the text size — pretty useful for me, because I like to lean back and relax while reading stuff on screen, rendering the default font size a bit too small for comfort on my machine’s 1680x1024 resolution. The problem is that the increase in font size for each click to the menu entry is not very large, so I like to select …

On Unix the behavior of the kill command is a result of the operating system’s signal handling — the command simply sends a signal to a running process. In the absence of other parameters, the TERM signal is used, and while the option -9 is pretty common (sends the KILL signal to terminate unconditionally), it is also possible to send any other signal number to a process. There are loads of other semi-standardized ones, but an application can “listen” to any signal it wants.

The main intere …

I found some baffling behavior in my OneNote 2007 recently. I’m using the excellent new functionality that lets me store notebooks on my file server and open them on more than one machine. OneNote 2007 keeps automatic offline copies of these notebooks in this case, synchronizing offline changes back into the server side versions when the connection to the file server becomes available again. Really great stuff.

Problem is, it has stopped working. Well, not completely — it just started behavin …

Here’s one thing I have never really understood, apparently… all the time I’ve been using .NET, I’ve been working around this problem somehow. I hope somebody will be able to enlighten me, or maybe we can save the world together by finding a proper approach to this problem. The issue is something that I’m sure most people will have encountered if they program for .NET and they ever use threads — it’s well-known and -documented. Consider the following piece of code:

public partial  ...