September 2005 - Posts
In my last post, I complained about an obscure Excel crash. Well, this morning the client got back to me saying that he opened up the original workbook (with no workarounds in place), and obviously, got the crash.
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One of several applications I work on is a COM add-in for Excel. To put it mildly, this thing can be a real bear to support sometimes.
I was looking into a very peculiar access violation (AV) today. It seemed to only ever happen if—
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Take a moment to subscribe to this DBA blog being maintained by Ira Pfeifer and Mike Forman, two outstanding engineers that I happen to work with.
Their last post appears to be something about conducting raids with the South African Navy, but hopefully Read More
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In my original post, I left you with the assignment of modifying this command to create a series of dump files instead of overwriting the same one repeatedly.
0:003> bp kernel32!RaiseException ".dump /ma /o c:\\temp\\myapp.dmp; Read More
I went to the Christopher Hitchens / George Galloway debate at Baruch College last week, and let me tell you, it was a zoo. Since I wish to avoid turning this site into the same kind of situation, I will withhold comment aside from saying that this Read More
In my last post, I asked you to explain how to derive this command:
0:000> bp mscorwks!JIT_Throw "du poi(@ecx+10)+c; !clrstack; g"
The purpose of which is to print out the exception text when a CLR exception occurs.
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Since I discovered that I am currently—and quite inexplicably—the #1 Google Blog Search result for the term “WinDbg,” I decided that I would attempt to actually produce some WinDbg content.
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John Dvorak recently posted this plug for what appears to be a pseudoscience site, holoscience.com. Quote:
This site is devoted to looking at space science in a holistic, interdisciplinary manner. It also has some exceptionally cool images. Read More
Here is the latest in my correspondence with a bookstore “recommending” Kevin Trudeau's “Natural Cures 'They' Don't Want You to Know About.”
Part I
Dear Mr. McKinley:
Thank you for your email regarding your concerns Read More
OllyDbg is a very nice tool for debugging other people’s code. While I definitely still prefer WinDbg in most situations, OllyDbg is great for stepping through assembly.
I had a good reason to use it last week. I have an old VB6 Read More
I haven’t had a lot of technical content here lately, so I went and found some questions on forums and Google groups. Here’s a somewhat random assortment.
If you are questioning my honesty—as you should—these are real Read More
Here are some pictures from the office we just moved into last week.
Above is the view from my desk, looking west into the financial district.
This one is from the north side, looking towards midtown.
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There’s nothing like eight hours in various airports to make you want to try to change the world. Here’s an email I just sent to Gary McBrayer of the Hudson Group. I will post any replies I receive.
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