March 2007 Entries
Jason Haley style, a rough guide to creating a development and blogging suite on Windows XP Professional x64.
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Interesting how some apps have the x64 tag appended to them but are just 32 bit apps which will run on XP x64. Also how some apps seem to be 32bit but then generate a 64 bit process (well that's at least how Process Explorer appears to work) and my AV program runs as both 32 and 64bit at the same...
I spent a very pleasant day down at MS HQ in Reading yesterday where the UK Dev Team hosted the last of the current MSDN Roadshow days. We got the following sessions (my titles)
Introduction to LINQ fundamentals from Daniel Moth. Looked at the new language features in C# 3.0 that enabled the new LINQ syntax and LINQ to Objects works. Cracking talk with a good bit of wit and great demos.
AJAX Development from Mike Ormond. Not sure what the aim of this talk was aside from to alert the audience that ASP.NET...
Something seems to have shifted. Usually when spam arrives, its some automated crap about v1@gra, but it seems that a few prominent tech bloggers have started getting much more unpleasant things in their comment feed and in blogs about them recently that's causing them to freak out. And frankly I don't blame them.
There's probably source material in the action for a novel but cyberstalking in public blogs just seems wrong. I'm all for digital liberty but in a free and friendly society and not one that's filled with cowards and FUD-mongers.
Technorati tags: Online death threats, Kathy Sierra, cyberstalking
According to wikipedia, it's best done with a running start.
I was definitely glomped when I proposed I recall. I almost fell through the door.
Technorati tags: glomp, wikipedia
You know that cliché of the empty street in a western outpost just before a climactic shoot out where a solitary bell rings high noon and a slow wind blows a ball of tangleweed and dust around the near-cavernous seeming road? That's what Microsoft Update reminds me of for Windows XP x64. Install XP x86 with SP2 fresh on a box and there are some 70 or so critical updates to download and watch tick by. For x64, there are five. It's spooky. The main reason would seem to be XP x64 Service Pack 2 which came out last week on...
I decided to repave my main box this weekend and as Asus aren't supporting the A8V Deluxe motherboard in Vista, I thought I'd switch to working 64bit anyway and installed Windows XP x64 instead. Which, having had the benefit of being out for a good couple of years in now reasonably supported - well, almost. The advantage XP64 has is that it does support much newer motherboards by itself and indeed half the drivers I would have installed from the CD that came with the mobo were installed by default anyway. And so what if there is no x64 driver...
La Haine on a Criterion disc? Got to have this.....
When he was just twenty-nine years old, Mathieu Kassovitz took the international film world by storm with La haine (Hate), a gritty, unsettling, and visually explosive look at the racial and cultural volatility in modern-day France, specifically in the low-income banlieue districts on Paris’s outskirts. Aimlessly whiling away their days in the concrete environs of their dead-end suburbia, Vinz (Vincent Cassel), Hubert (Hubert Koundé), and Saïd (Saïd Taghmaoui)—a Jew, an African, and an Arab—give human faces to France’s immigrant populations, their bristling resentment at their social marginalization slowly simmering...
Bugger. It's taken six weeks longer than I expected to have the new house in a stable enough state to start setting up computers and the like. The 3G laptop has been a godsend, but boy its nice to have a desk and a proper place to work. Trouble is, now seems a good time to re-pave the main box and I don't know where I put which files. Nothing's lost - just misplaced.
Oh well - I've sprung clean the house - now it's the file system's turn.
Just testing. The Live Gallery now has an XFN Link plugin and an hCalendar plugin which also seems to be using something called Live Clipboard that
Ray Ozzie
is chapmioning. Noble sentiment if we could get companies to standardize the way everything reads and creates feeds. So - testing 1, 2, 3....
What:
PDC 2007
Microsoft's Professional...