Some more random stuff · Sat Aug 27, 04:24 PM

Cory Doctorow had a discussion of DRM at Microsoft. I enjoy many essays, speeches, and what-have-you that include the phrase, Hilarity ensues. Even more fun is jailarity ensues. Maybe I’m just easily amused . All amusement aside, though, it’s a really good discussion of why DRM fails, and why trying to make DRM work is bad for people, bad for business, and bad for society.

The Filemap Library for .NET—a managed interface to handling file mapping—has been updated. (Link courtesy of Commonality.)

I found some useful information on common causes of 80040E14 errors. The site is called ASP FAQ, but they have some good stuff for anyone using OLE DB and/or SQL Server as well (like a super-handy SQL Server 2000 Build Chart that lists build numbers and the fixes that are in each particular build).

firstobject XML Editor is a nifty, free XML editor. Best part is, it handles Unicode flawlessly, at least as far as I’ve seen. It even handles UTF-8 both with and without BOMs, which is a fairly common failing I’ve run across in other text and XML editors.

Ian’s Shoelace Site has a lot of good information on tying shoelace knots (diagrams, alternate techniques, troubleshooting hints, and the world’s fastest shoelace knot).

Pirate Music! ‘nuf said.

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SQL Server collation and temp tables Using Boost with managed C++