With the amount of coverage surely to be taken by Windows 7 we can’t forget the other side of the force, Ubuntu 8.10 Intrepid Ibex was released a few hours ago.
Believe it or not I actually stayed up waiting for it to hit the servers, then hopped over to the iinet FTP server (mirror’d by the Internode servers also) as the 3FL Mirror (Westnet) wasn’t up to date (it is now!
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If you like discussions about deep internals you’ll most definately have subscribed to the Going Deep series on Channel 9. Today they just released a fascinating interview with Kernel Guru, Mark Russinovich – of Sysinternals fame, who is now a Technical Fellow at Microsoft. One of my favourite books would have to be Windows Internals 4th Edition, and reference it quite frequently.
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Unless you’ve been living under a rock under the Apple tree you would have heard that a little company in Redmond WA has been working on a new version of Windows dubbed Windows 7 (which is what it will actually be called for once!).
At PDC today, Microsoft finally unveiled the much-anticipated release of Windows 7 and handed out pre-beta bits to atendees (tagged _6801.
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I’ll admit it, I still have a floppy-drive attached to my maturing beast, which is primarily used as my day-to-day development box. Floppies come in handy for that odd install of XP or below that require RAID drivers (though you can just use nLite and bundle it by default).
But what about the CD-R’s and DVD-R’s in the days of Cloud Browser based Operating Systems (funny)?
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We had a bit of a dilemma at work today, we just sent a version of a web application we’ve been working on for the past few months to staging (testing) to our client. Our client mentioned a move to .NET 3.5 is pending on the boxes there and that they need to ensure the products we ship are compatible.
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ntop is a network probe that shows how much the network is being utilised with very little overhead and impressive graphical representation via the web. Its definitely a must-have tool if you run a fileserver.
The version of ntop on the ubuntu mirrors is 3.2.x, so I set out to update to the latest release this weekend (3.
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Writing an operating system in Managed Code is not entirely a new concept but its quite an interesting one. The fact that we have AOT compilers gives us this ability to write such things. This post is a little guided tour or information dump on COSMOS as I worked through the initial bits this weekend.
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Heres a real quick tip (+ info) on how to debug a ASP.NET Web Application/Site when running inside IIS itself. After the launch of Whidbey (Visual Studio 2005) we didn’t really need to have Internet Information Services (IIS) installed thanks partly to the bundled hosting engine (based on Cassini). But sometimes – just sometimes� 🙄 – when you deploy your ASP.
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I’ve been using NAnt to build our source trees at work (via TeamCity ) and came across a somewhat annoying issue when it comes to signing satellite assemblies.
Problem Background For several of the projects we use the CSLA framework by Rockford Lhotka, the framework doesn’t ship a redistributable binary blob.
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Google has entered the browser wars with their own take on how the web should be with Google Chrome. They just released the first beta for Windows XP / Vista today so go on and download a copy.
First impressions : WOW! Its ridiculously fast – taking Digg and PageFlakes as a benchmark – and the memory footprint is quite a lot better (23Mb) than the Firefox (68Mb – Safemode), Opera (41Mb) and Internet Explorer (52Mb) counterparts.
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