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Tuesday, April 24, 2007 9:38 PM

Vista Died Today

All of the sudden Vista just broke. I can't connect to the internet. Initially, the DHCP client just refused to start. I resolved that problem by granting some permissions and setting a registry key, but I still can't use the internet. Well, that's...
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Sunday, April 08, 2007 11:48 PM

Tray and Play: ClickOnce for PC Games

Console'ish load times for PC games on first run coming to a PC near you: http://blogs.ign.com/MGS_HiredGun/2007/04/05/51370/
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Wednesday, March 21, 2007 6:43 PM

Who's The Best?

"I have analyzed the vulnerability disclosures and fixes for Windows Vista and examined the results in the context of its predecessor, Windows XP, along with several other modern workstation operating systems including Red Hat, Ubuntu, Novell and...
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Wednesday, March 21, 2007 7:29 AM

My First Vista BSOD

If you are installing vista after installing Daemon tools (in my case, I was upgrading the factory home edition to ultimate from MSDN ISO) and you start getting a blue screen after crcdisk.sys loads, the problem is most likely a file installed by Daemon...
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Sunday, November 19, 2006 3:09 AM

Vista RTM Installation Cannot Update Boot Configuration

If you get this error, I'll save you all the trouble I went through figuring out how to resolve this: 1. gpupdate /force /boot 2. reboot 3. give Administrator owner on \boot if it exists 4. give Administrator "full control" on \boot 5. delete...
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Tuesday, November 14, 2006 9:39 AM

Official Vista Download Date

"...we look forward to adding Windows Vista to our slate of offerings beginning November 17." [1] http://blogs.msdn.com/msdnsubscriptions/default.aspx
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Saturday, November 11, 2006 12:44 AM

Download Vista Tonight?

Subscriber downloads are going to go down shortly for a few hours of matinence. I wonder why... :)
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Wednesday, November 08, 2006 5:51 PM

Vista RTM Today?

According to Mary Jo Foley The day has finally come: Windows Vista is going gold. Foley mentions "the public announcement that Windows Vista has been released to manufacturing is going to happen tomorrow, November 8, around 11 a.m. PST, sources close...
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Thursday, October 05, 2006 3:57 AM

Screw 2.0, I'm Going Straight to 3.0

Recently the discussion came up about using .NET 2.0 in some future products. I work on server products, and we've been using 2.0 there for a while. However, there is a bit of concern around deploying the 2.0 framework with our desktop apps. Our software...
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Friday, August 11, 2006 1:18 AM

Visual Studio Express Should be Part of Windows

Jeroen van den Bos has made the case for adding VS Express to Windows. [1] Dan Fernandez responds by saying [2]: Legal: No really, this was an issue. I'm not going into details, but this is a "deal-breaker" if you will. Setup: Dropping bits...
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