I installed the PDC Longhorn again today into VMWare. Much better experience: used "XP Pro" as the OS for VMWare. I could install VMTools directly (all drivers gave a "Haven't passed certification" warnings, which I ignored). Gave the VM 512MB RAM and 4GB drive; performance seems pretty darn okay on …
more ...Just wasted 1.5 hours installing longhorn on vmware as an "other Os... "-that's a mistake because you can't install vmware tools & therefore are restricted to 640 x480x 4 graphics! longhorn does not look nearly as impressive in VGA!
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more ...P#: A Prolog For .NET Implemented as a Prolog to C# translator.
more ...William Gibson wants lies exposed in telltale colors. Now that would be a good demo of P2P and Avalon!
more ...Speaking of awesome demos, here's an interactive "Powers of 10" slideshow that's great. via Polynomia
more ...Oh, my favorite demo of the whole show was one I got on a bus ride! Steven Burns showed me the Longhorn Shell, which advances the "pipes and filters" pattern of UNIX by piping not text streams, but object streams! So, for instance, you can grab all the currently running …
more ...Borland was showing Delphi for .NET at the PDC. BorCon is next week: you might want to bring your credit card.
more ...The first modeling tool from Microsoft's new "Whitehorse" initiative expresses deployment topologies and the constraints that work upon them (e.g., by dropping a "Hardened IIS" component in your DMZ and a "Web Services" component in your middle-tier and connecting them, you are expressing a whole slew of constraints about …
more ...At one of the CLR evolution talks, I disagreed with the prevailing notion that serving the needs of the current language community should be of paramount concern. To me, interop trumps language fidelity. It is only via interop that minority programming languages can enter the corporate market. Crown-jewel software is …
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