WRITELINE

I just arrived in Berlin. The Developer Days 2004 will start tomorrow. I will hold the XPSP2 talk there and some of my demos are leveraging Virtual PC. It is my first time to demo on VPC images. I never had the hardware to run it smoothly. But with my stress tested external hdd performance is much better. Seperation of OS and VPC images on different drives make a huge difference. One important lesson I have learned when duplicating images. Don’t forget to change your SID! If you don’t do it you get weird behaviors when connecting systems using the same SID. I used NewSID from SysInternals to change that. It works pretty well!

Have you ever asked yourself how stable your hardware might be? Today I had my experience with my external HDD which has a USB 2.0 cable to connect to my laptop. I just threw in my drive like each day in the back seat of my car. This time my cable wasn’t stowed away correctly. It hung outside and touched with the USB 2.0 plug the street. My way to the MS Office is about 50 km. My drive top speed this morning was about 180 km/h. Just imagine the friction generated on the plug. After I parked my car I realized what happened. Trying to bend back the spoiled metal and trying to fumble it into my laptop I got after some tries a connection back to my hard drive. So, I just can say, USB 2.0 is real stable ;-)

Nachdem es ja zeitlich ein wenig hektisch geworden ist und wir dann doch durch den Cast gerannt sind, wollte ich zumindest noch das Source Beispiel aufs Web legen damit jeder die Chance hat den Ablauf nochmal nachzuvollziehen.

Morgen werden Thomas Titze und ich einen Webcast zum Thema C# halten. Wir möchten einfach nochmal jedem die Gelegenheit bieten einen Einstieg in die Sprache C# zu bekommen. Wir freuen uns schon auf die Fragen während des Webcasts und hoffen dass vielleicht der ein oder andere Java Entwickler auch mal vorbeischaut.