Well, I gave it a shot. I’ve been running Ubuntu Linux on my home rig for the last month and basically been productive. No dual-booting was allowed, I wanted total immersion. And ya know? In general it went very well. Ubuntu is certainly easy to install and configure and I can’t claim I ran into
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I mentioned Microsoft’s Web Platform Installer back in early October. It was beta then and a Release Candidate version was announced late last week with some nice new features. No longer is it restricted to just Vista and Server 2008, it now adds support for XP and Server 2003. Some new tools have been added
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Today I noticed that the Evernote blog had a post up titled, “The Shiny and New Evernote for Windows Mobile” and I was initially quite excited to see it. New features, new views and no more resorting to the mobile web to see existing content — instead, there’s an integrated viewer.
Alas, it turns out to
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From the Server Core blog:
[Optional Features:]
Subset of .NET Framework 2.0
Subset of .NET Framework 3.0 and 3.5 – WCF, WF, and LINQ
Windows PowerShell
ASP.NET and additional IIS support – the only IIS feature not available in Server Core is the management GUI
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Now to wait to learn what “subset” will mean.
As a reminder, Server “Core” is the flavor
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After a brief foray back to the “Linux for old machines” scene, I have once again found myself running Windows 2000 on my old P2 ThinkPad. I’d been most recently running antiX Linux on it, but for a variety of vague reasons decided to go back to Win2K once again.
For me and the uses of
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