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It was a running joke. A while ago (on the order of years) there was a Lounge thread about The MSDN Show[^] (now The .Net Show) and Erica Wiechers, who is on the show for a couple of segments. Being guys, we naturally started talking about her good looks. (This was back when Lounge traffic was much less than it is now, so the thread hung around for a while.)
The next month, when the new show came out, I posted a screen cap of Erica, again so we could talk about her good looks. Some else did it the following month, and then I had an idea. Some people keep a "sighist", a history of their funny or witty signatures. So I made the Ericahist, a history of Erica's outfits from various shows.
--Mike--
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"How does one know if one's aura is dirty? Does someone come along with their finger and write "wash me" on it?"
-- Buffy
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Is she actually a geek? Or is she just eye candy like those ladies on the screensavers?
How do I print my voice mail?
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Well, I don't know her, but I don't think so. Listen to her when she reads the news on the .Net shows, I think it's pretty clear that she doesn't know what she's saying, she's just reading the words. 
--Mike--
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I've never been much of a web reader, I only regularly read a few sites like:
CodeProject[^]
Homestar Runner[^]
ISCA BBS[^]
Alyson Hannigan Corner[^]
Astronomy Picture of the Day Archive[^]
As for blogs, I started with Raymond Chen's[^] (which was great at the beginning, he talked about historical stuff in OS development; still good now because he doesn't talk about much .NET stuff, which is refreshing), then gradually found other MS bloggers that were interesting. Here's an OPML file of my current reading list (not all the blogs are very active).
Other good blogs are Eric Lippert[^], Larry Osterman[^], and Sara Ford[^]
(Before you ask, Erica does not have a blog AFAIK; Robert Hess posts occasionally on the .NET Show blog[^] though.)
[edit]
BTW, I use SharpReader as my aggregator. I went through a couple of others but didn't like them, finally I tried SharpReader and it fits my needs well enough. I'm too lazy to keep going and find That One Perfect Aggregator.
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--Mike--
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I think so Brain, but if we shaved our heads, we'd look like weasels!
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This is good stuff. Especially the link to Alyson Hannigan Corner[^] 
"You can have everything in life you want if you will just help enough other people get what they want." --Zig Ziglar
Coming soon: The Second EuroCPian Event
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Over on Larry Osterman's[^] log (he's on the Exchange team) we were discussing which version of the CRT to use[^].
There are two schools of thought. The MS view is that they trust installers to never mess up someone's system so the exact correct versions of all DLLs will always be present; as a result you can always link to the CRT DLLs and get several benefits, most notably less physical memory usage due to the DLL being shared among processes, and fewer heaps in each process.
My view, as a programmer in the real world (not MS's world where they control everything) is that people's systems (especially 9x) get munged by bad installers or other accidents. If someone has a wrong/missing/corrupted DLL, it can cause my app to crash or misbehave, and guess who gets blamed for that? Me, not MS. Guess who loses sales because of it? Me, not MS.
Therefore I always use the static LIB version of the CRT in every one of my apps. If I lose any sales due to bugs, I can at least say it was my fault, not the system's.
--Mike--
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-- Michael P. Butler in the Lounge
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I was listening to the news on the radio whilst driving home tonight, and the girl reading the news did a list of "this day in history" items. One of them was in 1992, the Rodney King riots started.
I almost drove off the road when I realized that was twelve years ago.  I can remember it like yesterday, I was on campus at UCLA working in one of the computer labs when I first heard about the riots starting. The following days were pretty bad and the air smelled like smoke due to all the idiots setting stuff on fire.
--Mike--
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Kosh reminded me of some of the prima-donna programmers I've worked with. Knew everything but when you asked them a question; never gave you a straight answer.
-- Michael P. Butler in the Lounge
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Note: I've copied this post here from its original location[^] to give it (hopefully) better visibility.
Buffer overruns are possible because on x86 there are not separate categories of "readable memory" and "executable memory". If a block of memory has one permission, it has the other. They also work because a thread's local variables and return addresses are in the same area of memory, its stack.
Here's a typical stack with the default size of 1 MB, after one function call. Note how the stack grows down from high addresses towards low addresses.
0 100000
+--------------------------+
| <unused>|<vars>|<retaddr>|
| | | 40AE |
+--------------------------+
^ top of stackThat indicates that when the current function returns, control resumes at address 0x40AE. Now after a few calls, the stack will have a few layers of that:
0 100000
+------------------------------------------------------------+
| <unused>|<vars>|<retaddr>|<vars>|<retaddr>|<vars>|<retaddr>|
| | | 4E33 | | 4AD1 | | 4F10 |
+------------------------------------------------------------+
^ top of stackNow lets say the current function declares a char[10] array as its only local variable. That array is denoted by asterisks:
0
+-------------------------------
| <unused>|<vars> |<retaddr>| ...
| |**********| 4E33 |
+-------------------------------
^ top of stackIf the function blindly strcpy's an input string (from say, the network) into that buffer, without checking the length of the source string, it will write past the end of the array, over the return address. The copied bytes are denoted by $:
0
+-------------------------------
| <unused>|<vars> |<retaddr>|
| |$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$ ...
+-------------------------------
^ top of stackAll a hacker has to do is figure out what to use as the $$$ to change the overwritten return address to be an address within the $$$ itself. Since the $$$ is the malicious data, the hacker has control over it.
0 7AE1 100000
+------------------------------+---------------------+
| <unused>|<vars> |<retaddr>| |
| |$$$$$$$$$$| 7AE1 $$$$$$$$$$$$$ ... |
+----------------------------------------------------+
^ top of stackWhen the function returns, the thread reads its return value, which has been changed to point to within the $$$. Now the hacker has made the thread execute memory that he planted in the stack. If that thread happens to be running in a powerful account (like Admin or Local Service), bingo, your box is 0wn3d.
--Mike--
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-- Paul Watson, Linux Zombie
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Whoa boy. The June 2003 FHM (US edition of course) has some pics of the Buffy girls. New pics of Alyson. *drool* All I can say is DAY-UM.
Check out some scans here[^] (not safe for work)
[edit]The pics are gone now  The site had to take down a lot of its galleries due to its popularity and the resulting bandwidth costs.[/edit]
--Mike--
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"You have Erica on the brain" - Jon Sagara to me
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LOL!
You're really desperate, aren't you? 
Rickard Andersson8
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Me too...
although I must admit I have also recently developed a thing for Fred from Angel too!!...
...oh and Faith rocks too....!!!....
But Willow/Aly is the queen babe!!
![Rose | [Rose]](https://codeproject.global.ssl.fastly.net/script/Forums/Images/rose.gif)
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Sorry, I am newer hear.
and Try to test writing message 
Develope yourself
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Welcome to CodeProject If you're looking for a place to interact with the other CP members, check out the Lounge[^]
![Green Alien | [Alien]](https://www.codeproject.com/script/Forums/Images/alien.gif) welcomes you 
--Mike--
THERE IS NO THERE IS NO BUT THERE IS
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"You have Erica on the brain" - Jon Sagara to me
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anyway, your girl friend looks not bad
Have you ever study chinese?and what is the degree have you master it?
wish you make a tour in china with your lover, but not now because the SARS 
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Well, I hated my old picture, and I had this nice one of Alyson, so....
Marquis.D.J wrote:
Have you ever study chinese?and what is the degree have you master it?
I only studied for one year in college, and that was... oh man, now I feel old... 1993-94, so I've probably forgotten a lot by now. 
I was talking with a friend of mine a few weeks ago about going to China (he was born in the US, but his parents are from Taiwan and he'd like to go to China) but the Gulf War II and SARS have put a damper on that for the time being.
--Mike--
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"You have Erica on the brain" - Jon Sagara to me
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MSN's[^] tagline on their pages is "More Useful Everyday." Um, can the slogan writer please get his spelling right?
It should be "More Useful Every Day."
--Mike--
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My really out-of-date homepage
Sonork-100.19012 Acid_Helm
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Hi Michael Dunn,
Thanks very much for ur 2 articles on Strings..appreciate them a lot
I will definitely read your other articles..
They are life savers..
Very good karma for you..
Regards,..
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