Lorin Thwaits

I had an error that was been driving me up the wall, CS0234: The type or namespace name 'Pkcs' does not exist in the namespace…

Demo unit on display this week at CEATEC Japan Commercial unit to be sold in December Finally, an OLED panel that's reliable enough to sell. Unlike…

A plea out to all those who are using ASP.NET AJAX with sites on IIS7, either under Vista or Longhorn Server: I've been battling a strange issue with…

I am very impressed with everything about the MVP summit. Never in my life have I been in attendance at an event with so much diversity. I've met people…

I was asked to be one of the folks answering questions at the big Phoenix "Ready for a New Day" launch event. Definitely a fun experience, and pretty well…

I recently bought a bigger 80 gig hard drive for my laptop, and wanted to copy the contents of my existing 30 gig disk with an XP install over to it. I…

Here's an interesting trick you can do with any Vista DVD. A limited version of this was actually possible back with Win2000 and WinXP. But back then it…

This post gives a little info about how to repair an LCD projector that has a washed-out and yellowing image, which results from the blue LCD panel…

SQL Server 2005 has lots of new tricks up its sleeve. During our user group meeting this past Wednesday night there was a question about how to use one…

Several years ago Bill Gates invested into a little aviation firm founded by his friend Vern Raburn in his old stomping grounds of Albuquerque, New…

A few months ago I wrote a simple Javascript beautifier, which suited my needs at the time. But since then while dissecting longer AJAX-centric scripts in…

I presented a session on WPF at the Arizona .NET User's Group last night, and today have been getting email and calls from several people who wished they…

People have been doing fascinating things with duct tape for a little over 60 years. Did you know, for instance, that it can cure warts?

Did you know that a laptop can double as a vacuum cleaner? At least that's what it feels like when you go in to clean out the heatsinks around the fan(s),…

While in Japan a week and a half ago I picked up Sony's new teeny ultramobile (UMPC), the Vaio VGN-UX50. Strongly reminiscent of the OQO, its sliding…

Below is a question that was posted to AZGroups earlier this afternoon. I removed the database and table names because I'm downright anal about security :)

The postulation of Douglas Engelbart back in 1965 that the complexity of computers would double every 24 months has held true ever since he said it.…

If you haven't seen the Toshiba HD-A1 tear-down, you should start there. New this time is a quick which shows my quest to get the M-Systems USB flash…

If you haven't read this post about dissecting the HD-A1, you should start there. I got the flash disk connected and checked out the contents a little.…

Here's a fun question that came through the Arizona.NET User's Group list about using client certificates with ASP.NET:

The behavior of CMOS sensors is not well understood amongst videographers, and in this post I hope to explain one of its major benefits: wide dynamic…

Recently needed to work on a friend's 12 year old minivan that for some reason still runs. It's ugly, gets crappy mileage, and has 180,000 miles on it,…

Ever had the annoying problem of IIS not wanting to start, coughing up the message "Unexpected Error 0x8ffe2740 Occurred."? The reason is that some other…

Some applications are just bent on seeing what appears to be the pristine original Default Web Site that is created when IIS is first installed. For…

Where I work there's a firewall application required in some parts of the network that doesn't play nicely with XP SP2. So we're still on SP1 while the…