<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><!--RSS generated by Windows SharePoint Services V3 RSS Generator on 9/6/2010 5:31:53 PM--><?xml-stylesheet type="text/xsl" href="/personal/davidb/Blog/_layouts/RssXslt.aspx?List=453a5bcb-e840-4e0a-b607-b702fca248fe" version="1.0"?><rss version="2.0"><channel><title>Blog</title><link>http://blogs.vertigo.com/personal/davidb/Blog</link><description>RSS feed for the Posts list.</description><lastBuildDate>Tue, 07 Sep 2010 00:31:53 GMT</lastBuildDate><generator>SharePoint CKS:EBE</generator><ttl>60</ttl><image><title>Blog</title><url>http://blogs.vertigo.com/personal/davidb/Blog/_layouts/images/homepage.gif</url><link>http://blogs.vertigo.com/personal/davidb/Blog</link></image><item><title>For Some Reason You Can Still Do This: Using a Serial Mouse with Vista</title><link>http://blogs.vertigo.com/personal/davidb/personal/davidb/Blog/archive/2009/03/30/for-some-reason-you-can-still-do-this-using-a-serial-mouse-with-vista.aspx</link><guid>/personal/davidb/Blog/archive/2009/03/30/for-some-reason-you-can-still-do-this-using-a-serial-mouse-with-vista.aspx</guid><description><![CDATA[

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 returned the thing today, and just for kicks, we deci ... (More)]]></description><dc:creator xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/">Dave Bautista</dc:creator><pubDate>Mon, 30 Mar 2009 16:04:00 GMT</pubDate><category domain="http://blogs.vertigo.com/personal/davidb/personal/davidb/Blog/archive/tags/Work/default.aspx">Work</category><category domain="http://blogs.vertigo.com/personal/davidb/personal/davidb/Blog/archive/tags/Other/default.aspx">Other</category></item><item><title>Direct Disk and Partition Access in Managed Code</title><link>http://blogs.vertigo.com/personal/davidb/personal/davidb/Blog/archive/2008/08/29/direct-disk-and-partition-access-in-managed-code.aspx</link><guid>/personal/davidb/Blog/archive/2008/08/29/direct-disk-and-partition-access-in-managed-code.aspx</guid><description><![CDATA[
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 install an old compiler and implement something for DOS,  ... (More)]]></description><dc:creator xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/">Dave Bautista</dc:creator><pubDate>Fri, 29 Aug 2008 11:11:00 GMT</pubDate><category domain="http://blogs.vertigo.com/personal/davidb/personal/davidb/Blog/archive/tags/Work/default.aspx">Work</category></item><item><title>Adding IntelliSense to Custom .config Editing</title><link>http://blogs.vertigo.com/personal/davidb/personal/davidb/Blog/archive/2008/04/02/adding-intellisense-to-custom-config-editing.aspx</link><guid>/personal/davidb/Blog/archive/2008/04/02/adding-intellisense-to-custom-config-editing.aspx</guid><description><![CDATA[     A few people have posted this already—though for older versions of VS—but the Visual Studio XML editor will add IntelliSense if it can associate the file you’re editing with an XML schema. How it does this varies with the Visual Studio version, and in VS 9.0 (2008), stems from a file, named cat ... (More)]]></description><dc:creator xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/">Dave Bautista</dc:creator><pubDate>Wed, 02 Apr 2008 18:56:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Yet Another Reason Why Physical Security is Paramount</title><link>http://blogs.vertigo.com/personal/davidb/personal/davidb/Blog/archive/2008/03/19/yet-another-reason-why-physical-security-is-paramount.aspx</link><guid>/personal/davidb/Blog/archive/2008/03/19/yet-another-reason-why-physical-security-is-paramount.aspx</guid><description><![CDATA[

I got wind of this from Bruce Schneier’s Schneier on Security blog.
 
I’m primarily a PC user, and while I have machines with Firewire interfaces, I don’t have any devices that make use of them—I have lots of USB whatnots, though.  According Wikipedia's Firewire entry one of the standard’s adv ... (More)]]></description><dc:creator xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/">Dave Bautista</dc:creator><pubDate>Wed, 19 Mar 2008 16:50:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>aspnet_regsql.exe and "Cannot create trigger" Errors</title><link>http://blogs.vertigo.com/personal/davidb/personal/davidb/Blog/archive/2007/09/20/aspnet_regsql-exe-and-quote-cannot-create-trigger-quote-errors.aspx</link><guid>/personal/davidb/Blog/archive/2007/09/20/aspnet_regsql-exe-and-quote-cannot-create-trigger-quote-errors.aspx</guid><description><![CDATA[

There doesn’t seem to be a whole lot about it online, but out of the box, ASP.NET’s included tool for enabling Polling-Based SQL Cache Dependencies doesn’t work with SQL 2005’s schema names.  However, a few manually steps can get them to interoperate.
The problem is that a stored procedure that ... (More)]]></description><dc:creator xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/">Dave Bautista</dc:creator><pubDate>Thu, 20 Sep 2007 21:19:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>A WPF Screen Saver Library</title><link>http://blogs.vertigo.com/personal/davidb/personal/davidb/Blog/archive/2007/07/19/a-wpf-screen-saver-library.aspx</link><guid>/personal/davidb/Blog/archive/2007/07/19/a-wpf-screen-saver-library.aspx</guid><description><![CDATA[

While Visual Studio 2005 includes a starter project for writing managed screen savers, it [the screen saver] doesn’t support display in the Screen Saver Settings dialog’s preview window, and isn’t built around WPF.  As an exercise for learning WPF and WPF 3D—but also because I have a thing for s ... (More)]]></description><dc:creator xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/">Dave Bautista</dc:creator><pubDate>Thu, 19 Jul 2007 20:05:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>On Duff’s Device</title><link>http://blogs.vertigo.com/personal/davidb/personal/davidb/Blog/archive/2007/02/08/on-duff’s-device.aspx</link><guid>/personal/davidb/Blog/archive/2007/02/08/on-duff’s-device.aspx</guid><description><![CDATA[
Duff’s device is a really neat construct for unrolling loops of indeterminate size.  It was invented by Tom Duff during the early eighties (Duff's account) as a highly efficient way of copying memory, but can be used for other things too.
Basically, it repeats the processing code in batches—of 8, ... (More)]]></description><dc:creator xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/">Dave Bautista</dc:creator><pubDate>Thu, 08 Feb 2007 18:18:00 GMT</pubDate></item></channel></rss>