Best of Raymond Chen's blog

I'm a regular reader of Raymond Chen's amazing blog. This guy has never ceased to amaze me with his knowledge of windows internals, easy manner of explaining difficult things and sense of humor. A recent article explains the length to which Microsoft goes (or rather has to go) to avoid trouble, and avoid getting sued.

Some personal favorites:

• How do I shut down a workstation via Remote Desktop? (It came in handy on 8th November 2006)
  

• What you don't apologize for is as important as what you do

• Don't trust the return address, no really

• Do not change program semantics in the debug build

• Big houses also cost more to cool

• The series on DLL imports and exports

• Why can't you programmatically reorder the items on the Start menu?

• Why did the Add or Remove Programs control panel try to guess all that information?

• Solutions that don't actually solve anything

• Subtle ways your innocent program can be Internet-facing

• Doing the best we can until time travel has been perfected

• Solving one problem by creating a bigger problem

• Performance consequences of polling

• The cost of trying too hard: String searching

• When hyperthreading is enabled, all the processors are virtual

• You probably don't want to run programs directly off your USB memory drive

• On the ambiguity of uniqueness

• Raymond's review of Pride and Prejudice (Keira Knightley version)

• Take it easy on the automatic retries

• New device detected: Boeing 747

• Consequences of the scheduling algorithm: Low priority threads can run even when higher priority threads are running

• Windows Server 2003 can take you back in time

• Precision is not the same as accuracy

• How do you convince developers to pay their "taxes"?
  

• When people ask for security holes as features: Silent install of uncertified drivers

• The poor man's way of identifying memory leaks
  

• How can a company get access to Windows Error Reporting data?
  

• News flash: Going for a walk on a nice day makes you feel better

• What's the difference between My Documents and Application Data?

• You can create an infinitely recursive directory tree: This one proved to be quite useful in a real project I was working on.

PS: I originally wanted this list to have ten or at most a dozen links, but then figured that as of now, I'm the only reader of my blog, and I can use this post for bookmarking my personal favorites in Raymond's blog :-)