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Olympic Cold
15 August 08 11:26 AM | Adam Singer | 1 Comments   
A few of my coworkers and I were discussing the Olympic controversy regarding the ages of the female gymnasts. After much thoughtful discussion, we came up with several possible rational explanations for the discrepancies. Time travel - perhaps the gymnasts Read More...
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Pack-Man
15 August 08 11:02 AM | Adam Singer | 2 Comments   
In case you haven't heard, Visual Studio 2008 Service Pack 1 is available! As you prepare to install the TFS 2008 SP1 , I'd like to strongly recommend that you first run the BPA tool . From the Visual Studio Team System forums , I've seen two folks already Read More...
Hyperordinary
31 July 08 05:27 AM | Adam Singer | 1 Comments   
Apparently, if there's one thing that can get me blogging up a storm it's Hyper-V. I just can't get enough! The word of the day is "snapshots". Learn it, love it, and dance with joy. I currently have two different main machines I've been prodding over Read More...
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Virtual Machine has gained a level
30 July 08 05:01 PM | Adam Singer | 1 Comments   
I just wrote this up for a coworker who asked me how to move a virtual machine from being hosted by Virtual Server to Hyper-V. First off, I'd like to say that I am a big fan of this type of upgrade. The first step to improving your virtualization experience Read More...
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Ventriloquism: TFS Style
28 July 08 11:45 AM | Adam Singer | 2 Comments   
Quite a long time back, Buck posted about how to recover from the situation where one TFS machine is created as a clone from another. This can lead to clients still showing the project list for one server when the connect to the second. Based on a recent Read More...
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Measuring up
26 July 08 05:56 PM | Adam Singer | 5 Comments   
I just had a somewhat random thought. Throughout the history of computing, we've come up with one syllable abbreviations for collections of bits. First there were "bytes", then "k", followed by "megs" and now "gigs". How will we shorten "terabytes" to Read More...
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Hyper-V: They've gone plaid!
25 July 08 10:02 AM | Adam Singer | 4 Comments   
The title is a reference to "Spaceballs", of course. Recently, I've been doing all of my development on a machine that doesn't exist. This both amuses me greatly and increases my productivity. In case you haven't figured it out yet, I'm using a Hyper-V Read More...
Edifice Reqs II: The SQL
16 July 08 09:00 AM | Adam Singer | 1 Comments   
Back in March, I posted about the requirements for TFS installation. I promised to post about "SQL Server and it's Various Components", but have been tied up with the Visual Studio 2008 SP1 like a Thanksgiving turkey (only not quite as delicious). In Read More...
My service is packed, I'm ready to go
09 July 08 12:12 PM | Adam Singer | 4 Comments   
...installing here, upgrade once more (Adapted from "Leaving on a Jet Plane") A post on the Visual Studio Team System forums reminded me of one very important tidbit of Visual Studio patching. The integration of Team Foundation Server with Visual Studio Read More...
Edifice Reqs
07 March 08 10:16 AM | Adam Singer | 1 Comments   
I'd like to tip my hat to the father of a guy I worked with as a camp counselor one summer long ago for the post title. He owned a demolition company called " Edifice Wrecks ". In our last episode , I described the OSes that the various Team Foundation Read More...
Pre[ranasaurus] Reqs: The OSic Era
04 March 08 01:37 PM | Adam Singer | 3 Comments   
I've seen a bunch of questions over time about what it takes to get Team Foundation Server (TFS) components installed. Because it varies by component, the answer is usually rather lengthy and takes long enough to fully describe that eyes start glazing Read More...
License to Nil
09 February 08 11:54 PM | Adam Singer | 2 Comments   
As a follow up to my explication on the various TFS Editions and a few thread I saw on the Visual Studio Team System forums (including Upgrading TFS 2008 Workgroup to Std. Edition - then TF50626 ), I'd like to point out something about the upgrade from Read More...
Supercalifragilisticexpialidociou-dition
05 February 08 03:43 PM | Adam Singer | 4 Comments   
With Team Foundation 2008 generally available, I've seen a bit of confusion over the various Editions offered. Of course, there's still a bit of confusion over how " Workgroup Edition " relates to workgroup networks, but there's also some missing clarity Read More...
Absence makes the install grow fonder
16 August 07 11:15 AM | Adam Singer | 1 Comments   
As I mentioned in a previous post, our program manager Sudhir is blogging up a storm on all the great new features in Orcas, including remote Analysis Services and Sharepoint. You can also use pre-installed and configured Sharepoint instances, if your Read More...
More machine than man now
02 August 07 02:20 PM | Adam Singer | 2 Comments   
The other day, someone not in the computer related fields asked me an interesting question. He wanted to know what I think the difference is between the human brain and a computer. Now, it's been a long time since I took biology, but I believe I remember Read More...
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