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• Microsoft, I'm Pleading With You

  I've mentioned this before, but I'm going to mention it again: Microsoft is absolutely killing me with their version mismatching versioning scheme as of late. A list of complaints: The .Net Framework v3.0 is anything but a major release...hell, it's barely even a point release. It should be called .Net 2.0 extensions or something similar. A 3.0 release should contain new versions of all the core assemblies, like WinForms, ASP.NET, ADO.NET, etc...all 3.0 includes is WCF, WPF, and WWF (sans WinFS.... Posted Nov 07 2006, 02:07 AM by Jayson Knight with | with no comments Filed under: Technology and Internet, Opinions, .Net, Irks, Vista and WinFX

• Vista Doesn't Like My New Memory DIMM

  So I made the first of my readiness upgrades for Vista today: I installed a second 1 gig DIMM of RAM in my machine...same brand and speed as the existing DIMM, lo and behold the memory test in Vista actually dropped 2/10ths of a point, from 4.2 to 4.0 (~5% decrease). I wasn't expecting it to go up, but certainly wasn't expecting it to go down. What gives? Could the new stick have some faults in it? Share this post: | | | | | Posted Oct 21 2006, 02:04 AM by Jayson Knight with | with no comments Filed under: Irks, Vista and WinFX

• Vista Re-Partitioned My External USB Drive

  I finally got around to installing Vista build 5270 earlier this evening; my thoughts on the newest build will have to take a back burner until another day due to the fact that somehow Vista re-partitioned my external USB drive…you know, the one with all of my data on it. All of my Visual Studio projects (though thankfully I have the important one’s in Source Safe on another machine), all of my work related stuff, all of my music (about 6800 tracks)…roughly 120 gigs worth of stuff. I didn’t even... Posted Jan 11 2006, 12:35 AM by Jayson Knight with | with 1 comment(s) Filed under: Irks, Vista and WinFX