Lines Per-Page in LNCS Formatting

Typing with a text width of 72, I get about 60 lines or 550 words of text (with no formatting, sections, etc.) per page of LNCS formated LaTeX. An alternate way view of this is about one column of ACM 10pt text. Crazy!

Disabling Intellisense in Visual Studio

For one reason and another I've been needing to use MS Visual Studio 2005 on a big project at work. Unfortunately, running MSVS with a BIG project in a VM on an already resource limited machine can bring my system grinding to a halt. The key offender seems to be intellisense. The easy answer is to disable intellisense... Too bad that's not an option in MSVS! I finally found this tip from k_d on the Microsoft Forums:

The simplest way to disable Intellisense for a solution/project is to simply create a directory with the same name of the intellisense file in the directory where the file normally resides. In other words, if you have a Stuff solution, delete the Stuff.ncb file in the directory where Stuff.sln resides and create a directory named Stuff.ncb. Every time you load the solution a dialog panel will be displayed warning that intellisense will be disabled, but other than that everything seems to operate normally.

And it works!