Graphics Programming Black Book

Michael Abrash's Graphics Programming Black Book can be downloaded from BYTE.com.

Graphics Programming Black Book by Michael Abrash : "Michael Abrash's classic Graphics Programming Black Book is a compilation of Michael's writings on assembly language and graphics programming (including from his "Graphics Programming" column in Dr. Dobb's Journal). Much of the focus of this book is on profiling and code testing, as well as performance optimization. It also explores much of the technology behind the Doom and Quake 3-D games, and 3-D graphics problems such as texture mapping, hidden surface removal, and the like."

Checking User Logins on a Remote Server

Needed to check the logged in users on a server recently and couldn't remember the QWINSTA (Query WINdows STAtion) command or find my previous post about it so I figured I'd do another post on the issue and include the words I searched for when I didn't find it.

Managing Terminal Services Session Remotely: "Windows 2000+ (includes Windows XP and 2003) have two command-line tools called qwinsta and rwinsta that can query and reset a remote session."

The Query Session command is the replacement for qwinsta on Windows Server 2008.

Fractal Desktops

Fractal Desktops: "Mandelbrot set images for the desktop."

Celebration from their Best of 2004 collection is one of my favorites.