"Instantiate an object" vs. "Instantiate a class"- September 24, 2004 I raised this question at the office today and I was surprised by they debate which arose. Generally developers seemed to immediately favor "instantiate an object" until they had participated in the debate a little. Then the majority leaned on the side of "instantiating a class." Which one do you think is correcthttp://mark.michaelis.net/weblog/2004/09/24.html#a625 Customizing Windows Install- September 15, 2004 I spent considerable time customizing the Windows XP2003 install recently in order to slip-stream in the SATA drivers. In the process I came across several good links for this type of thing. All appear to have their root at Microsoft Software Forum Network, a great site especially for ITWindows type of information. Creating Multi-Boot DVDs - Provides a step-by-step guide on creating multi-boot CDs and DVDs. There is also a beginners guide. An entire..http://mark.michaelis.net/weblog/2004/09/15.html#a622 Wrestling with Windows 2003 x64 AMD wSP1 BETA- September 15, 2004 Last week I gave Windows 2003 x64 AMD wSP1 BETA a spin on my new 64 bit AMD server. I was disappointed at the viability of this. Not because the OS is bad (didn't use it enough to know) but because it had virtually no software or driver support. Here are my notes: Neither Microsoft Virtual PC nor Microsoft Virtual Server seem to have 64 bit versions and they don't even install on the 64 bit OS making them unavailable on that platform. This was the biggest...http://mark.michaelis.net/weblog/2004/09/15.html#a621 AMD 64 Server Purchase- September 15, 2004 I recently built an AMD 64 server using the following components. SuperMicro SC742T-550 Black ($286.00) 1 X OPTERON (AMD 64) 246 2.0 GHz ($485.00) Thunder K8S Pro (S2882) mother board ($519.99) Western Digital 7200RPM 80GB Hard drive WD800JB% ($63.50) 2 X Seagate 7200RPM SATA Hard drive ST3200822AS% ($128.00 each) Pioneer DVR-108 DVD+-RW ($91.99) 2 X DDRAM Transcend PC2700 1GB ECC ($235.00) Everything was purchased from www.newegg.com except the mother...http://mark.michaelis.net/weblog/2004/09/15.html#a620 Benjamin Michaelis.Net- September 13, 2004 While at his my Mom and Dad's a few weeks ago my 4 year old son got into a conversation about his last name. Granny told him that his last name was, "Michaelis," making his full name "Benjamin Michaelis." To which he promptly replied that his full name was, "Benjamin Michaelis.NET." VERY SCARY!!!!http://mark.michaelis.net/weblog/2004/09/13.html#a618 Applications: Running 32-Bit Applications with Windows Running on AMD Opteron and AMD Athlon 64 Systems- September 12, 2004 I came across this title in the release notes for the beta version of Windows 2003 for 64 bit AMD with SP1. It seems innocuous enough at first. The problem is in the details which I quote below: Generally, you can run 32-bit applications on Windows Server 2003, Standard Edition; Windows Server 2003, Enterprise Edition; and Windows XP 64-Bit Edition without making any changes. Applications that meet the following criteria, however, are not compatible with...http://mark.michaelis.net/weblog/2004/09/11.html#a617 System.Diagnostics.Stopwatch in .NET 2.0- September 10, 2004 One omission from .NET 1.0 that would have been extremely useful is a Stopwatch that can report accurate time (presumably using the high performance counter APIs). It is needed especially for doing any type of small scale testing. Unfortunately, there is no such class in .NET 1.0. However, 2.0 does have such a class in the System.Diagnostics namespace called Stopwatch. If you are stuck in the 1.0 world still then Daniel Strigl has defined a class on CodeProject..http://mark.michaelis.net/weblog/2004/09/10.html#a616 |