Formed in 2009, the Archive Team (not to be confused with the archive.org Archive-It Team) is a rogue archivist collective dedicated to saving copies of rapidly dying or deleted websites for the sake of history and digital heritage. The group is 100% composed of volunteers and interested parties, and has expanded into a large amount of related projects for saving online and digital history.
Sep 30, 2003
Post comments count0
Post likes count1
Why is the readonly property for folders so strange?
It's actually a signal to Explorer to look harder.
Showing archive results for September 2003
Sep 29, 2003
Post comments count0
Post likes count0
In case people got the wrong impression
I really did enjoy my trip. I just like talking about the goofy things. I intend to go back to Sweden in the spring. I'm currently enrolled in Swedish lessons but this trip came far too soon for me to have learned anything useful aside from "tack", "ursäkta" and "Jag taler inte svenska." Though ...
Sep 29, 2003
Post comments count0
Post likes count0
Why you can’t rotate text
Answering a comment from an earlier entry.
Sep 29, 2003
Post comments count0
Post likes count0
Back from Europe
Here are some things I learned in Sweden, Germany and Denmark.
Sep 20, 2003
Post comments count0
Post likes count2
When I dock my taskbar vertically, why does the word "Start" disappear?
Because the alternative is even worse. If the taskbar is not wide enough to display the entire word "Start", then the word "Start" is hidden. To get it back, resize the taskbar wider until the word "Start" reappears. This behavior is by design. From a design point of view, a partia...
Sep 19, 2003
Post comments count0
Post likes count0
Pre-travel insomnia
I can't sleep the night before an airplane flight. Certainly I'm not the only person with this problem, right?
Sep 19, 2003
Post comments count0
Post likes count0
How much is that gigabyte in the window?
Slashdot is in an uproar over a lawsuit charging computer manufacturers for misleading consumers over hard drive capacity. The manufacturers use the ISO definition, wherein a "gigabyte" is one billion bytes, even though most people consider a gigabyte to be 1024 megabytes. This is a tricky one. The computer industry is itself inconsistent as to...
Sep 18, 2003
Post comments count0
Post likes count0
Improving the world one bad analogy at a time
One thing I am known for at Microsoft is my frequent use of bad analogies. Everybody else at work has had to suffer; now it's your turn. Why are there so many copies of svchost.exe running? What is svchost.exe anyway? Traditionally, each service runs in its own process. When you are develo...
Sep 18, 2003
Post comments count0
Post likes count0
Emergency vacation
Hurricane Isabel made a mess of my weekend travel plans, so I decided, "If you can't beat 'em, join 'em." My outbound flight was cancelled, and even with the best possible substitution - a flight out the very next day - losing a day on a weekend trip pretty much kills it. So I extended it to a weeklong vacation...
Sep 17, 2003
Post comments count0
Post likes count0
The end of the scrollbar series
Okay, that's basically the end of the scrollbar series. Do people actually like the idea of a coding series? It gets very few comments, and it's a lot of work to write, so if nobody actually cares I can just write about quick little things and not try to be coherent from day to day. I guess that's what most blogs are like anyway. If you like th...