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I am now running the new Beta of VMWare Workstation 6 , and it seems to be working fine in Vista x64 (RTM incase you are curious). The installation of Ubuntu which I am also running natively at home is supported as one of the OS's in this new version of VMWare and installs without a hitch. However to install VMWare tools after VMWare automatically mounted...
It might seem like a surprise to some of you, but then many others who are reading this probably won't be surprised to read that I am now running a native instance of Linux on one of my machines are home. I had an old machine (dual-proc PIII 1 GHz procs with 512 mb RAM) which was running Windows 2003 Server - and it had not been switched on for a while....
Not sure which Linux distro to use, well, then check this out - if my calculations are correct there are 234 different distros available - wow! If you still cannot make up your mind then just run Windows! :)
If you have had the pleasure of playing with Rotor in the past then you would be glad to know that MS recently released the version 2.0 of Rotor. This of course is officially called "Shared Source Common Language Infrastructure" and can be downloaded from here . Don't let the 21.6 mb download fool you, when you extract it and build it you need over a gig...
If you read the Ten Essential Tools Visual Studio Add-Ins Every Developer Should Download Now in MSDN Mag, then you are aware of CopySourceAsHTML which unfortunately works for only Visual Studio 2003. But if you are using VS 2005, fear not as Derick Bailey has updated the add-in . There is no installer (yet), but you can download the code and build it ,...
This is not new, but I recently stumbled on it. If you are developing or wanting to develop for bluetooth developing for Bluetooth technology (exposing Bluetooth services, enumerating devices or services, and connecting to services) the Windows Embedded Source Tools for Bluetooth Technology program provides a Win32 API Wrapper that developers can expose...
Hats off to the mono guys who got this running on Nokia 770 (their new internet appliance running Linux); screen shot here .
Thanks to Wai for passing this one. I think both my MS and Linux buddies will enjoy poking the penguin - you need to keep as it for a little while.
Let me start of by saying that Firefox is some decent amount of code, and if you read this blog regularly you know I have use that as my primary browser as opposed to IE. In spite of all the comparisons and market share updates , I still have a few issues with it - and these are serious issues (in my context) and not minor gripes. Crashes - yes every now...
What? Me ask what flavor of Linux to run? With all the hype of Star Wars, have I been consumed by the dark side??? On the contrary, I have been running a version in a virtual environment, and now have a old old machine, where I am comfortable running it natively. So, what version do you recommend and why? I do need a GUI since its been a while I worked in...
OSNews has an article Microsoft's Shared Source Initiative seems like an odd mix for the company when it works openly and a clever shot across the bow of open source when it works selfishly. How can the rest of us reconcile both positions? Microsoft ex-employee Stephen Walli shares his perspectives on the Shared Source Initiative from within and without...
Seattle Times has a story from the RSA Conference , where surprisingly they find Windows is more secure than Linux. No, this is not a study done by Microsoft. They compared Windows Server 2003 and Red Hat Enterprise Server 3 running databases, scripting engines and Web servers (Microsoft's on one, the open source Apache on the other). Their criteria included...
LinuxInsider writes about the Linux vulnerabilities creeping towards the Desktop. Though the question is this another FUD? Smells like one... As Linux increasingly hits the enterprise and consumer mainstream, a growing number of security threats are emerging which prey on holes in applications and files managed by desktop users. According to some industry...
This probably is no surprise to you (it sure was to me), but there is an excellent collection of extensions (@ the time of this post 228) for Firefox (you can also get to Mozilla and Thunderbird ). There are various categories and seem quite cool. I have not tried them yet, but am going to install some soon. Also not sure, if these are cross platform or...
I was pleasantly surprised to find out that Microsoft's developers have fixed the code issues when you use Firefox to view the sample code in MSDN. The code would all be screwed up and “mushy”, but now that has been fixed and Live bookmarks also work that earlier use to break. The fix for the code is supposed to be only in CSS, and you can read...
Celestia is probably one of the coolest apps (ever) that I have come across and it really gets the geek-meter high up there, not to mention it is so educational as well, so if you are a geek, or hungry for some knowledge and exploring or got kids in school who might benefit then read on. You can see the giant hurricane on Jupiter, take a quick spin to the...
There are many utilities I have come across over the years - most I used for a bit and moved on because they just did not do the job or were cut out for it or something better came along. A few are very useful from a Developer or Administrator such as Sysinternals . But NirSoft does have a unique collection of freeware utilities that will please to most...
NY Post reports that Google is working on a new browser (as reported on /. if you check www.gbrowser.com among other domains, they are taken by google). Based on the half-dozen hires in recent weeks, Google appears to be planning to launch its own Web browser and other software products to challenge Microsoft. Google hired Joshua Bloch, one of the main developers...
Well after an interesting post on Forbes view on Linux and Microsoft and Karan's lash back on the same I am back with more. Do I think is there an alternative to Windows? Absolutely! Is it for everyone? Well, if you believe the article in MIT's Technology Review then probably yes. Microsoft still commands 94 percent of the market for PC operating systems...
As Forbes writes (which I verbatim here), Is Linus Torvalds secretly working for Microsoft? That sounds crazy until you consider that lately, the free operating system he created, Linux, has been helping Microsoft close deals. Consider the deal that Microsoft snagged with the London borough of Newham, announced in early August. Looking to overhaul their...
MSDN Mag has an interesting article on tools that convert code from c# to vb.net and vice-versa. I have come across a number of clients and developers both in the company I work for and also at clients who are interested in this. I find this whole topic quite intriguing, especially since in .NET there are minimal differences between c# and vb.net, at least...
Interesting discussion going on MS and Opensource. Is it MS bashing? Is it more “meaningful”. Check it out and state your own opinion.
Pocket C# is port of C# compiler from DotGNU project to Windows CE. DotGNU contains open-source runtime, compiler, tools and many other things to make free cross-platform .NET environment. I took only compiler and several required tools and ported them with some modifications to WinCE platform. This would allow you to develop and build applications using...
About a month after releasing the first beta, Mono released the second beta that includes a c# compiler which is CLI compliant and also supports the same PE system as .NET. What is more interesting is that there are two stacks of APIs one for the Unix and its variants and the other is of the .NET Framework (v 1.1) to support ASP.NET including WebForms, WebServices...
IronPython is a new implementation of the Python language targeting the CLR. It compiles python programs into IL that can run on either .NET or Mono (now that is cool). This produces a standard assembly that other code can reference. It would be an interesting exercises to see the IL it produces and see if we can infer anything from that.