Category: Microsoft

  • MarcEdit, Windows XP, and what the way too early log analysis says

    Related post: MarcEdit and the Windows XP Sunsetting conversation So, this has been kind of interesting.  Since Sunday, I’ve been running a script against my access logs to get a better idea of what the MarcEdit XP user community may look like.  I timed this with the update, because I’ve found that in general, a large…

  • Building your own reminder system

    One of the hats I wear is as a member of the Independence Library Board.  I love it because I don’t work with public libraries as often as I’d like to in my real job, and honestly, the Independence Public Library is the center of the community.  The Library is a center for adults looking…

  • Windows 8 first impressions

    I’ve been spending a lot of time working with the Windows 8 beta, partly because I wanted to make sure marcedit would work with the new system and partly because I know that at some point I’d be seeing it. First impressions: Not having the start button is a little jarring because you find and…

  • XP Virtualization in Windows 7

    I generally prefer to run Sun’s VirtualBox for virtualization — but the fact that Microsoft provides a free version of XP for virtualization was too good to pass up for my testing purposes.  Installing XP Mode was easy enough — but what I found interesting was how Microsoft integrated the XP Mode.  While you can…

  • Trying out Windows 7 with the TV

    One of the benefits of having a large flat screen TV is the wide abundance of video inputs.  At present, there are 8 on our TV, 4 HD,  2 RCA style, 1 cable and 1 PC connection (DVI).  This leaves lots of room for experimentation.  As noted on Saturday (https://blog.reeset.net/archives/614), I picked up a netbook,…

  • New toys

    So like most folks, I’m hanging out today kind of watching the super bowl — but am also playing with a new toy, my MSI Wind netbook.  This is a nifty little device, running a 1.6 ghz, 1 gb, 160 gb HD, 10.1 inch monitor weight about 2 lbs.  The machine came installed by default…

  • .NET 64-bit processor memory issues when using sendmessage to access a winform element

    I’m posting this in hopes that it will save someone else a lot of time or someone that knows .NET a bit better than I can provide a better solution.  Problem: Last week, I had someone ping me regarding MarcEdit and a problem that they were running into with the Editor running it on a 64-bit…

  • Random Google Thoughts

    I was following a thread today talking about some of the legal wrangling’s related to Google and their Google Books project.  The message that made me laugh was a series where someone had commented that Google had long since forgotten their ‘do no evil’ philosophy and have become pure evil.  Of which, someone said it was…

  • Sorry for the multiple posts

    I’m playing with MS’s Live Writer (which I actually like) and kept getting an error message.  I’d assumed that meant that it didn’t post.  Apparently not. 🙂   –TR

  • Using XMLTextReader to improve XSLT processing

    One of the things that I spend a little too much time working on was how to setup a more streamlined version of resolving entities and ignoring entities.  The key has to do with avoiding a call to the XMLValidateNavigator object, and using the XMLTextReader gives you more granularity over the process.  Here’s an example:…