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January 2003 - CraigBlog
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So, at lunch I was reading 3D Computer Graphics , a textbook written in 1993, and I came across the following: An unfortunate aspect of the standards viewing systems is that because they afford such generality they are hopelessly cumbersome and difficult...
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As part of my continuing coverage of the basics of Direct3D, this time I cover the initialization code needed to set up a Device object. The Device object is central to everything we do in Direct3D.
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Holy cow. When I read this in Clemens Vasters' blog , I thought, "Hey, given that all computer is based on physical security, this means we're pretty screwed." A security researcher has revealed a little-known vulnerability in many locks that lets a person...
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I tried. I really did. I made every effort to reuse something existing rather than write my own. But yesterday I caved in when I was told that I was going to have to run my load tests after hours, because the evaluation copy of ANTS Load I was working...
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As part of my continuing series on the basics of DirectX, in this post I talk about the basic high-level structure of a typical Managed Direct3D application. Most Direct3D applications will have code that looks something like what I show here .
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Stu Halloway has joined the ranks of bloggers. I'm pretty new myself, Stu, but I'm sure you'll have some interesting stuff to say.
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Kirk Fertitta just turned me on to the Microsoft Visual Studio .NET Help Integration Kit . He says it will let you integrate your help right in with the rest of the Visual Studio help stuff, so your API will show up right next to System.Foo.Bar . I haven...
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Like just about everyone else, I have more things I'd like to do than time in which to do it. But for some reason, this seems to have been getting worse lately. I'm not sure where it came from, but long about November I actually started working weekends...
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Keith Brown (the DevelopMentor Dark Prince of Security) turned me on to this link , which seems to have default passwords listed for just about any piece of hardware or software you can think of. The lesson? Change passwords on install.
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I saw this on Chris Sells ' off-topic mailing list. Win2VNC http://www.hubbe.net/~hubbe/win2vnc.html What it does: This program will let you use two screens on two different computers as if they were connected to the same computer. It even works between...
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I recently had just an excellent conversation with my friend Rich Blewett , also a DevelopMentor instructor. He asked me to explain the basics of cryptography, and the conversation went from there. I've put it here in its entirety with his permission...
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