A single pretty important thing to mention, which held me up half an hour or so — for some reason, the installation program for the SDK doesn’t work correctly when used with the mouse. Specifically, the Next button on the first page and the radio buttons to accept the license do their jobs only when used with the keyboard… I hope this will save somebody some time.
Yesterday I managed to install Vista CTP build 5308 on my new Acer TravelMate 8204WLMi. This is what my BlogJet window looks like now:
In part it’s supposed to look like that, because the Glass effects of the new UI actually work pretty well on my system. In other parts it’s not as intended, for example where the menu bar is simply missing :-) The installation itself was easy and without problems. Kudos to Microsoft — I’m …
I guess some of you have noticed that my blog has been offline again for the past four days, after a similar problem two weeks or so back. I’m sorry about this, it happens randomly, apparently because of some funny problem in Microsoft ISA Server 2004. The first time this happened, I knew at least that I had made changes to the firewall configuration at the point where the problem crept in, but this last time I’m pretty sure I didn’t do anything to the server at that time. In either case, ISA S …
Last week I attended a session here in London, where Phil Holden talked about their newest plans. Obviously they have still a lot to do in most areas where other companies have had a head start, like the Search project. Few new things were introduced, although I found their new Fremont classifieds platform pretty interesting — it’s currently in a Microsoft US only testing phase, so it’ll probably be a while until it’s fit for general consumption. A completely different thing that was stressed …
Starting up IE 7 and navigating to Google :-), one of the first things I was wondering about was a funny whiteish blob, saying “Google”, in the upper left corner. As large as the funny combined tool-/menubar, but more imposing because of the white background colour, I was wondering what that might be. Well, now I know: it’s the tabs that IE 7 supports at long last, in the rendition created by the new Aero theme. Wow, who would have thought that this feature would have that ugly a visual represe …
I can’t find anything about it in Google and I don’t have time right now to pursue the matter, but my new Vista installation steadfastly refuses to talk to my file server, running Samba on a Linux machine. I can try to connect to the share and I’m asked for my authentication, but Vista doesn’t like my username/password combination, no matter what I do. I did manage to connect to a Windows XP machine, so I guess they just killed the protocol once again…
I just decided to just let it run next to some other things. Worked nicely in VMWare, I don’t understand what all the people are talking about, what with the problems creating an installation partition. I just used the standard tool there was to create a new partition and format it - one minor glitch here, I had to reboot the installation between creating the partition and formatting it, because the format function would just do nothing at first. The installation process itself is funny. It sta …
Apparently, I’m the only person out there who doesn’t know this, but I found myself wondering where the much-quoted user config file profile.msh could be found in my installation of the Monad beta. The only information I was able to find after quite a while was that it should have been in {systemdrive}\Documents and Settings\{username}, but it wasn’t there. I’m sure this is really documented in some place I couldn’t find, but I eventually used Filemon to find the location where msh.exe is …