Geoff Chappell - Software Analyst
This site had 29,342 visits in October 2022. The count of unique visitors looks to be lost because SSL certificate renewal restarted the statistics collection mid-month. The 13,382 and 15,960 visits before and after the restart were respectively from 10,452 and 11,407 unique visitors.
The list below is of document pages that were each viewed at least 100 times in the month. Ranks in parentheses are from September 2022. Faded titles are just index pages which I presume are viewed only or mainly on the way to others, especially while moving from one Table of Contents (TOC) to another. One of those index pages is just the skimpiest of placeholders, pending my writing an introduction, which I likely never will get round to. The TOCs are omitted entirely, as is the banner page, since none of these are meant to be seen independently of a document page.
That my off-and-on write-up of the KUSER_SHARED_DATA structure got thousands of visits is welcome but no surprise. Nor is it unwelcome that a thousand visits were made to my recently updated catalogue of Kernel-Power events. I wrote it precisely because I knew from commercial experience that a catalogue of these has real-world use: it’s all very well to see that some events got logged, even if Microsoft doesn’t trouble to provide plain-text descriptions, but what events might we have known to get logged had Microsoft documented the possibilities?
It’s always gratifying when my hobby pages about CPU features (as used by Windows) get attention. One got nearly 300 visits and three others made the arbitrary cut-off of 100 visits.
Totally mystifying is that 160 visits were made to my unfinished rant about the nonsense that CSS makes of styling whole columns in HTML tables. The people who work on standards committees undertake unenviable responsibilities and perhaps get by way of compensation some sort of standing in some sort of community, but I have not myself ever run into such a case of the standards leaving their community short.
This month brings the first appearance in the list of any of the pages that came from my looking at MS-DOS for the first time in decades. I find myself quite pleased with my documentation of int 21h function 30h. If something like it had been available in the late 80s, I might never have thought of disassembling executables to find what they really do.