Friday, October 25, 2002

Werner Vogels reports that he is close to having a professionally hosted Rotor Community Site which would be a site similar to sourecforge for Rotor. He has worked out a contract with CollabNet, a professional collaboration hosting company, and Cornell. Exciting stuff! 2:45:40 PM

I've been having really bad cable modem problems the last 3 days and mostly can't upstream. A very big (- The AT&T guys will have to put a Repeater on the pole tomorrow. I also have been real busy with work. I have also been in machine hell the last few days. For work, I needed to install a future version of VS.NET on a future version of some Microsoft OS. I took some excellent advice and installed VMWare to run that OS inside it. Its pretty cool and seems to have come a long way since I last used it. The problem is that I made the "regular" NTFS drive on my system writable from VMWare and then tried to install that VS.NET back on top of the existing one on that drive. Suffice it to say that everything got trashed and I saw literally hundreds of files indicies being rebuilt (- Then I was in this strange state where I couldn't uninstall VS.NET and I couldn't install because it said there was an existing installation! After 6 hours of work with some Microsoft setup guys, suffice it to say that I know much more about msiexec.exe, msiinv.exe and msizap.exe and windowsinstaller than I ever cared to know! -) 11:20:11 AM