Vista - Re: Has McCarthy been sacked!

12-01-2008

"Mike Williams" wrote...

Quote:

> "Frans Bouma [C# MVP]" wrote...
>

Quote:

> > His blog om msmvps is still there:
> > http://msmvps.com/blogs/bill/Default.aspx
> > and recently updated.

>
> Awful site, that. All flowers and marsupials and VB code errors! At one
> point he explains about the padding bytes in VB6 UDTs and he finishes with
> the statement, "What this equates to is: the size of the UDT must be a
> multiple of the largest "natural size" of it's members." This is a load of
> crap of course, because if it were true then the size of a UDT containing
> one Byte followed by one Double would be 16 bytes, whereas it is in fact it
> is 12 bytes. So much for the "never wrong" McCarthy!
>
> Mike

I've seen people deliberately and confidently write advice that I think they know is
obviously wrong (example from CastleCops forum: "experts would tell you to switch to
windows me. it's important to keep your ram below 256k to avoid application crashes"). I
don't know what to call these people (does "troll" apply?) but is McCarthy one of those
people?

Toni

12-01-2008

Hi Toni,

"Toni" <Toni24@xxxxxx> wrote in message
news:OCesYu9UJHA.5000@xxxxxx

Quote:

>
> "Mike Williams" wrote...

Quote:

>> "Frans Bouma [C# MVP]" wrote...
>>

Quote:

>> > His blog om msmvps is still there:
>> > http://msmvps.com/blogs/bill/Default.aspx
>> > and recently updated.

>>
>> Awful site, that. All flowers and marsupials and VB code errors! At one
>> point he explains about the padding bytes in VB6 UDTs and he finishes
>> with
>> the statement, "What this equates to is: the size of the UDT must be a
>> multiple of the largest "natural size" of it's members." This is a load
>> of
>> crap of course, because if it were true then the size of a UDT containing
>> one Byte followed by one Double would be 16 bytes, whereas it is in fact
>> it
>> is 12 bytes. So much for the "never wrong" McCarthy!
>>
>> Mike

>
> I've seen people deliberately and confidently write advice that I think
> they know is
> obviously wrong (example from CastleCops forum: "experts would tell you to
> switch to
> windows me. it's important to keep your ram below 256k to avoid
> application crashes"). I
> don't know what to call these people (does "troll" apply?) but is McCarthy
> one of those
> people?
>

The page William's is referring to is this one:
http://www.billmccarthy.com/Projects...rmVB/udts.html
If he had of bothered actually reading it, he would have seen it clearly
lists the "natural" size for a double as being 4 bytes, and this was based
on KB171583. The page of mine is archived content from 8 years ago.
Williams is just desperately trying to dig up any dirt he can as part of his
on going personal attacks. For months he was fixating over my hair, for
months and months he has had some obsession about sheep. Please just ignore
his personal attacks and rants.

12-01-2008	#1 (permalink)
Toni n/a posts	Re: Has McCarthy been sacked! "Mike Williams" wrote... Quote: > "Frans Bouma [C# MVP]" wrote... > Quote: > > His blog om msmvps is still there: > > http://msmvps.com/blogs/bill/Default.aspx > > and recently updated. > > Awful site, that. All flowers and marsupials and VB code errors! At one > point he explains about the padding bytes in VB6 UDTs and he finishes with > the statement, "What this equates to is: the size of the UDT must be a > multiple of the largest "natural size" of it's members." This is a load of > crap of course, because if it were true then the size of a UDT containing > one Byte followed by one Double would be 16 bytes, whereas it is in fact it > is 12 bytes. So much for the "never wrong" McCarthy! > > Mike I've seen people deliberately and confidently write advice that I think they know is obviously wrong (example from CastleCops forum: "experts would tell you to switch to windows me. it's important to keep your ram below 256k to avoid application crashes"). I don't know what to call these people (does "troll" apply?) but is McCarthy one of those people? Toni
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12-01-2008	#2 (permalink)
Bill McCarthy n/a posts	Re: Has McCarthy been sacked! Hi Toni, "Toni" <Toni24@xxxxxx> wrote in message news:OCesYu9UJHA.5000@xxxxxx Quote: > > "Mike Williams" wrote... Quote: >> "Frans Bouma [C# MVP]" wrote... >> Quote: >> > His blog om msmvps is still there: >> > http://msmvps.com/blogs/bill/Default.aspx >> > and recently updated. >> >> Awful site, that. All flowers and marsupials and VB code errors! At one >> point he explains about the padding bytes in VB6 UDTs and he finishes >> with >> the statement, "What this equates to is: the size of the UDT must be a >> multiple of the largest "natural size" of it's members." This is a load >> of >> crap of course, because if it were true then the size of a UDT containing >> one Byte followed by one Double would be 16 bytes, whereas it is in fact >> it >> is 12 bytes. So much for the "never wrong" McCarthy! >> >> Mike > > I've seen people deliberately and confidently write advice that I think > they know is > obviously wrong (example from CastleCops forum: "experts would tell you to > switch to > windows me. it's important to keep your ram below 256k to avoid > application crashes"). I > don't know what to call these people (does "troll" apply?) but is McCarthy > one of those > people? > The page William's is referring to is this one: http://www.billmccarthy.com/Projects...rmVB/udts.html If he had of bothered actually reading it, he would have seen it clearly lists the "natural" size for a double as being 4 bytes, and this was based on KB171583. The page of mine is archived content from 8 years ago. Williams is just desperately trying to dig up any dirt he can as part of his on going personal attacks. For months he was fixating over my hair, for months and months he has had some obsession about sheep. Please just ignore his personal attacks and rants.
My System Specs