Rene Schrieken - All Comments

re: Take a break

Kelly — Mon, 27 Oct 2008 07:29:42 GMT

If you keep that face, when you are back at the office, I'm sure everybody will run away... fast :-)

(found any ratlesnakes yet?)

re: Sandstone Peak

Rene Schrieken — Sat, 25 Oct 2008 15:27:05 GMT

Relaxing? Did you read all my posts? I've seldom been so tired. You can imagine how much I look forward to next week.

re: Sandstone Peak

Edward — Thu, 23 Oct 2008 19:33:18 GMT

Looks like you are having a few days of relaxing before the real thing starts next week! See you next week!!

re: PDC 2008

RJ — Mon, 08 Sep 2008 09:38:58 GMT

Nice Rene!

Hope to see you there :)

(Along with other -former- colleagues!)

re: PDC 2008

Erwyn van der Meer — Sun, 07 Sep 2008 12:45:26 GMT

Congrats! I'm pretty sure you are going to like what you are going to see at PDC ;)

re: DPC Horror

Michael — Sat, 05 Jul 2008 20:21:24 GMT

Ran into the very same problem on my MacBook (running windows xp at the time via bootcamp) My CPU usage started capping out so I went crazy looking for malware/spyware/virus and such and couldn't find anything. Eventually ended up using processexplorer and seeing the DPCs then googling again. Dropped the battery out and bam everything is back to 0% usage. My battery still had some use out of it and I don't have the money to replace it so I'm looking for a way to still use it.

re: DPC Horror

Jim — Wed, 12 Mar 2008 19:46:59 GMT

I don't know about any DPC debugger, but thank you for putting this in your blog all the way back in 2004. I have had the same problem and you have given me the non-obvious solution. I was just about to give up and buy a new laptop (a Mac this time though).

We have an Acer Aspire 1640 laptop (1642WLMi). The problem was that the keyboard and trackpad were not working properly. Key strokes would be missed and the trackpad worked intermittently. It had become unusable over the last week or so. Plugging in a USB keyboard / mouse did work just fine - but hardly a practical solution.

Task manager showed a process with the image name "system" using 20 to 50% of the CPU. After some Google searching I downloaded Process Explorer, which showed the CPU was spending its time doing DPCs. So I eventually found your post searching Google for dcps keyboard.

I took out the battery (while powered by the mains adapter) and DPCs activity disappears on Process Explorer and the keyboard and trackpad work perfectly!

After plugging the battery in again the keyboard still works - maybe it was a bad connection? maybe the battery has to be warm? Time will tell.

It turns out the battery life has been lousy over the last year so the laptop has been used plugged in most of the time.

The laptop has been shutting down intermittently too so we'll try with the battery out for a while. If it is OK then maybe the battery is somehow causing the shutdowns and I'll just buy a replacement battery.

Thanks again!

re: DPC Horror

ArthurT — Mon, 21 Jan 2008 12:51:06 GMT

A DPC debugger, just basically looks at your device list. ( Deffered, usually means that its a device driver interupt that is being deffered ).

The DPC is being used by the Battery monitor which *ABSOLUTLY* *MUST* check the freaking battery every second. ( On my Sony Laptop, the battery monitor is OFF unless I am using the battery, then I turn it ON by a mouse click on the desktop ).

A battery cannot generate intrupts, but a APCI moniter device can. Turn off you battery monitor, and if possible TURN OFF APCI ( Heh, your going to really like this acronym: Advanced Power Control Interface... Have Fun!

Yours,

ArthurT

re: Delete builds during the build

Lennart — Wed, 14 Nov 2007 16:15:51 GMT

Hello,

I think this tool sounds great, and I am about to try it out ASAP. But what happened to the source code that you mentioned? I did not find it in the download, only DeleteBuildEasy.dll.

Best regards,

Lennart

re: Delete builds during the build

Ramesh — Fri, 21 Sep 2007 17:54:53 GMT

I am interested in your latest version. Does it have the source code too. Please email me at ramesh@quickenloans.com.

Thanks.

re: Delete builds during the build

Souhil — Thu, 06 Sep 2007 17:50:47 GMT

I don't see the source in the downloaded file

re: Windows Live Messenger needs to close

Mon, 03 Sep 2007 10:48:47 GMT

I'm having the same damn problem.It sucks,big time.

re: I'm done!

Maarten Bruys — Thu, 14 Jun 2007 08:13:08 GMT

René, don't be too disappointed. According to Warhol everybody is entitled to 15 minutes of fame. So you can have two more shots at 5 minutes presentations. As Dennis said, finishing in time is a big plus and the contents of your presentation was worthwhile attending.

Maarten

re: I'm done!

Dennis van der Stelt — Thu, 14 Jun 2007 07:49:38 GMT

Same here... I've heard from Anko though that you did quite well and that you were the only one with a presentation that could actually be done in five minutes. Too bad you didn't win, but it's really hard to present anything in 5 minutes.

I'd love to see the screencast. If you'd like, we can probably host it at BloggingAbout.NET. Let me know.

re: I'm done!

Robin Paardekam — Thu, 14 Jun 2007 07:31:53 GMT

Hello Rene,

too bad I could not attend your 5 minutes of fame. I look forward to the webcast of it.

Robin Paardekam