January 2005 Entries
Due to mass comment spam, I'm turning on moderation (that I got from Don XML, with his .text moderation modifications entry). I did not enable the CAPTCHA stuff yet (from Miguel Jimenez’s HIP-CAPTCHA Control), because I hate to annoy anyone who may want to comment, but I will turn it on without further hesitation if need be.
However, the thing that's most important to me is now done - I will no longer give Google Juice to spamming losers. (The regular kind of loser can comment here and get juice if they want, as long as it's on topic)
Rob Caron and Buck Hodges discuss a newsgroup post by Ajay Sudan discussing how Microsoft subscribes to one of the multiple-universe theories... That is, MSDN Universal subscriptions will become “most” of the software a developer needs, and then you can buy additions to make it complete.
Huh? Let me look up the term “Universal”.
Now, I'm not whining about the cost (well, maybe I am) - I pay for a universal subscription out of my own pocket because it's worth it to me - I know that with that yearly fee, I can go into any client site and have the software...
Megan Davis has an article available on using sysprep to use a copied .vhd to avoid having to re-setup the base operating system time and again. I love the SysPrep tip, but I use it on a “Base” .vhd (virtual hard disk), then I create differencing hard disks against that. This way, I only have one copy of the base 1.3GB OS install on my hard drive, and I can create a new machine using only the virtual server administration console. The disk savings are pretty meager, but being able to use only the web site to create and run...