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For Some Reason You Can Still Do This: Using a Serial Mouse with Vista
30 Mar 2009, 04:04:00 PM
A few months ago, a coworker needed a serial mouse for a side project, and was asking around for someone who still had one. I recalled not throwing away my old Appoint Mouse Pen—it has a PS/2 plug with a DE-9 adapter—so was able lend it. He re ...
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Direct Disk and Partition Access in Managed Code
29 Aug 2008, 11:11:00 AM
A couple times a year, Vertigo supports a computer recycling drive. I happen to have a lot of old hard drives that I really wanted to give away, but not without wiping first. Not knowing how to do direct disk access in Win32, I was about to instal ...
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