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Category Archives: Computers and Internet
32 MiB Working Sets on a 64 GiB machine
Memory is a relatively scarce resource on many consumer computers, so a feature to limit how much memory a process uses seems like a good idea, and Microsoft did indeed implement such a feature. However: They didn’t document this (!) … Continue reading
Posted in Computers and Internet, Investigative Reporting, memory, Performance, Programming, uiforetw, xperf
Tagged memory, priority, working set
10 Comments
Determinism Bugs, Part Two, Kernel32.dll
It was literally the day after I cracked the __FILE__ determinism bug that I hit a completely different build determinism issue. I was asked to investigate why the Chrome build number reported for Chrome crashes on Windows 11 was lagging … Continue reading
Posted in Bugs, Chromium, Computers and Internet, Investigative Reporting, Programming, Symbols
Tagged determinism, minidumps, symbol servers
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Two Deterministic Build Bugs
‘Twas the week before Christmas and I ran across a deterministic-build bug. And then another one. One was in Chromium, and the other was in Microsoft Windows. It seemed like a weird coincidence so I thought I’d write about both … Continue reading
Posted in Bugs, Chromium, Computers and Internet, Debugging, Programming
Tagged compilers, determinism, __FILE__
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Ditching WhatsApp
WhatsApp has served me well as a communications medium for my family, but I was never thrilled with its ownership by Facebook, and the recently announced privacy changes made it necessary for me to move on.
Floating Point in the Browser, Part 3: When x+y=x (y != 0)
A few years ago I did a lot of thinking and writing about floating-point math. It was good fun, and I learned a lot in the process, but sometimes I go a long time without actually using that hard-earned knowledge. … Continue reading
Floating Point in the Browser, Part 2: Bad Epsilon
A few years ago I did a lot of thinking and writing about floating-point math. It was good fun, and I learned a lot in the process, but sometimes I go a long time without actually using that hard-earned knowledge. … Continue reading
Floating Point in the Browser, Part 1: Impossible Expectations
A few years ago I did a lot of thinking and writing about floating-point math. It was good fun, and I learned a lot in the process, but sometimes I go a long time without actually using that hard-earned knowledge. … Continue reading
Home Network Printer Setup That Works
Whenever I add a network printer to one of my Windows computers at home I end up with a reference to a hard-coded IP address. That means that the next time my home router reboots and assigns a different IP … Continue reading
Hard Drive Upgrade
I finally put too many photos and videos on my laptop hard drive and I had to upgrade it. My original hard drive was a 640 GB drive and there are now 1 TB laptop drives available that have 8 … Continue reading
Other Causes of Alt+Tab Problems
Now that I have an easy way to find and fix problems with Alt+Tab it becomes easier to identify culprits. Whenever Alt+Tab misbehaves – whenever the grid of programs goes behind the current Aero Peek window – I run AltTabFixOnce.exe … Continue reading
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