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Friday, April 11 Windows error codes, know thy master
Those fscking Windows error codes really annoy me sometimes - how am I supposed to remember what 0x00002740 stands for? (It's "Only one usage of each socket address (protocol/network address/port) is normally permitted. WSAEADDRINUSE" aka errorcode 10048, incidentally).
If, like me, you don't have a photographic memory (or months to memorise what each code stands for), there's a couple of useful links you should have bookmarked:
Armed with those two error code reference points, you should be able to diagnose just about any weird error you come across, from BSODs to arcane or esoteric errors at a DOS prompt.