ranger harke

MSDN has a fairly nice article about how to create an alpha-blended mouse cursor in Win32.

You can read the article at http://support.microsoft.com/kb/318876.

The long and short of it is that you create a BITMAPV5HEADER structure to describe your bitmap, then you call CreateDIBSection to create a DIB to hold it, then copy your pixels in, and bam, it works.

Well, most of the time. ... read more ...

I recently had occasion to convert an Amazon EC2 AMI image into a VMWare virtual machine, for local testing. Much of the process can be learned online, and I may go into details about it later, since the information is scattered, but there was one particular step that stumped me for quite some time, that I would like to document for the future. ... read more ...

So I ran into a small issue with LVM last night, and I thought I'd share my solution. I am by no means an expert on LVM, so whenever I encounter a problem, it is a learning experience. ... read more ...

Well, I guess this site is live, now.

I've created this to serve as more of a professional and technical blog. I'll probably post the occasional review, code snippet, or piece of sysadmin wisdom here. Personal stuff goes.. elsewhere.

I wouldn't expect this to be updated terribly often, but I've been posting tidbits elsewhere, and they always feel out of place. Hopefully this will serve as a better home for them. ... read more ...