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• Visual Studio 2008 At High (*) DPI Settings

  (*) "High" as in "more than 96" I have a frustrating issue with VS2008 on my Vista machine, but luckily I found a solution. Here's the issue: As long as my Windows DPI settings are set to the default of 96 DPI, everything is fine... Posted Dez 13 2007, 01:27 by Dirk with | with no comments Filed under: Programming, Computers

• Windows Vista - Do Not Board This Train

  The ÖBB , Austria's (formerly) federal railroad agency, offers companies (and people I assume) the possibility to endorse a train. So I could go ahead, endorse a train, and have the seductive female voice in stations announce "ICE 123 Dirk Rombauts... Posted Dez 07 2007, 09:46 by Dirk with | with no comments Filed under: Computers

• Useful Tidbit

  One of the things that makes me go berserk is a program that minimizes to the notification area of the Taskbar and animates itself all the time for no good reason. This is incredibly distracting: I keep looking down to it to see what's happening.... Posted Okt 25 2007, 12:16 by Dirk with | with no comments Filed under: Computers

• Fun with Electronic Business Cards

  An interesting article about using Electronic Business Cards (EBCs) in E-Mail signatures. I gotta play around with that a bit on Friday :-) Link to Microsoft Office Outlook Team Blog : The 1-2-3's on EBCs Posted Aug 27 2007, 07:46 by Dirk with | with no comments Filed under: Computers

• Another Link Roundup

  Architecture, Analysis and Design The Domain Tree : a thought-provoking comparison between domain models and the WPF visual tree. CSLA .NET 3.0 available for download Part III. Grabbing the ScreenShot Development tools and tips IE Developer Toolbar Tools... Posted Aug 23 2007, 11:05 by Dirk with | with no comments Filed under: Programming, Computers

• MathType 6

  Design Science have finally released version 6 of MathType , the "professional version of Equation Editor". I definitely need to give this a spin when I've got time (yeah right). Posted Aug 06 2007, 09:13 by Dirk with | with no comments Filed under: Computers

• Windows Vista release schedule

  From a blog entry that quotes an article by Paul Thurrot: Windows Vista Beta 2: According to Paul, Beta 2 has to be "feature complete" by the end of September. This probably means whatever features they want to include in Beta 2 needs to be... Posted Aug 31 2005, 07:06 by Dirk with | with no comments Filed under: Programming, Computers

• Monad Link Roundup

  Find the Bug in this "Virus" Monad Team Blog/ Posted Aug 29 2005, 01:04 by Dirk with | with no comments Filed under: Programming, Computers

• Time for another Nomad Link Round-Up as well

  Working with the new Monad beta -- getting settled in Param statement, and new-object Difference between $() and () Regular Expressions in Monad switch -file, and Regex Hooha Command-line shortcut for repetitive operations A Download Manager in MSH Rotate... Posted Aug 22 2005, 02:03 by Dirk with | with no comments Filed under: Programming, Computers

• I love Outlook

  Honestly - I love Outlook. Like the folks from NewsGator say, I "practically live in Outlook". I don't know whether my boss loves Outlook after yesterday's episode, though. He told us he'd be going on holiday next week - and there... Posted Aug 04 2005, 08:03 by Dirk with | with no comments Filed under: Computers

• Hasta La Vista, Baby

  So Microsoft have announced the official product name for Windows codenamed Longhorn: Vista. Sorry for not posting in the last couple of days, I'm having holidays :-) Posted Jul 22 2005, 02:54 by Dirk with | with no comments Filed under: Programming, Computers

• Another Monad Link Roundup

  Working with the new Monad beta -- getting settled in A History Browsing Prompt Monad and RSS, Part 4: Script Blocks Param statement, and new-object Monad and RSS, Part 5 Posted Jul 14 2005, 04:11 by Dirk with | with no comments Filed under: Programming, Computers

• Nomad reaches Beta 1 stage

  Nomad is the codename for Microsoft next-generation command lines shell. It's like a bit like "korn/bash/... shell meets .Net". Here are some interesting entries in the blogs of the Nomad guys: http://blogs.msdn.com/okoboji/archive/2004... Posted Jun 28 2005, 01:27 by Dirk with | with no comments Filed under: Programming, Computers

• How can I format my USB drive as NTFS?

  You have to promise to play friendly. Go to Device Manager and set the policy of the USB Stick device to "Optimize for Performance". The default is to optimize for Quick Removal, which restricts you to the FAT filesystem. If you do this, then... Posted Jun 25 2005, 08:32 by Dirk with | with no comments Filed under: Programming, Computers

• Use Ctrl+C/V in a Windows Command Prompt

  Somewhere in time, the windows command prompt lost the ability to paste text with a right-click. Here's how to re-enable it: Select Properties from the command window's system menu. Select the QuickEdit mode check box on the options tab and click... Posted Jun 24 2005, 03:38 by Dirk with | with no comments Filed under: Programming, Computers