I was taking a cab home last night, I was commenting on all the beautiful looking women in Chicago, to which my cab driver responded with:

“You know if you see a women dressed that nice, that’s another mans’ money she is wearing.”

Cracked me up…..

0.7.6 has been posted. Mostly bug fixes and updates.

Check it out here.

Jeff Key points out how to enable RDC on a headless box.

Check out his the posting here.

Apparently, it’s just a single registry entry. That really doesn’t make me feel good about windows security.

People know I LOVE me some Virtual PC. But what I don’t love is the amount of disk space each image takes up.

I have a lot of virtual pc images on my main box “newton”. Now, I have tons of disc space, but that’s not the point. The point is that for each image, by default, there is 2+ GB of wasted space for the OS install.

Well, waste space no more. I found a great feature in Virtual PC call differencing disks. Basically, it allows you to define a parent hard drive for another hard drive. So, in my case, I have a windows xp default install as a parent hard drive. I can use that as the base for all my other windows xp installations, so as not to deuplicate the original OS install.

Aside form saving 2+ GB of disk space with every vm I create, I also avoid the while installation / activation of windows xp. I install it once, and that’s it. It’s very nice.

One of the downsides is that if you make any changes to the parent hard drive, it invalidated all the children of that parent. So it’s best to mark the parent hard drive as read only and go from there.

All in all, a nice way to save a TON of space.

Straight from the horses mouth comes this article about everything memory.

Read Dispose, Finalization, and Resource Management written with a lot of input from the .NET CLR team.

Check it out if your memory management skills are a little lacking.

One of the strangest .NET bugs to hit me.

Ever seen this message:

Configuration Error
Description: An error occurred during the processing of a configuration file required to service this request. Please review the specific error details below and modify your configuration file appropriately.

Parser Error Message: Access is denied: ‘Microsoft.ApplicationBlocks.Data’.

Source Error:

Line 196: <add assembly=”System.EnterpriseServices, Version=1.0.5000.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=b03f5f7f11d50a3a”/>
Line 197: <add assembly=”System.Web.Mobile, Version=1.0.5000.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=b03f5f7f11d50a3a”/>
Line 198: <add assembly=”*”/>
Line 199: </assemblies>
Line 200: </compilation>

Well, it actually has nothing to do with the MS app block assembly. It is actually a problem with MS Indexing Service & ASP.NET. Apparently, MS Indexing Service likes to lock files that ASP.NET might be using.

The solution is to STOP the Indexing Service, or exclude the temp ASP.NET directory from its’ scan.

MS KB article here.

Code Magazine has published my SOA article this issue.

You can check out the first page here. Or you could just go out and buy the issue and enojy the full article, in all of its wonder.

Brian Scott came through.

I now have a copy of the FULL Beta 2, including VSTS.

*UPDATE* And now it looks like I get a free eBook for registering VS.NET Beta 2. Here’s the link.

If anyone out there would be willing to lend me a copy, I would really owe you big time.

This would be for NON COMMERCIAL, personal use.

Any takers? contact me at griffincaprio at mac.com and we can arrange a exchange.

Walking up and down Michigan Ave., you are prepared to see a lot of things. But not this…

As readers of this blog know, I like to comment on the stange and obscure things that people do on Michigan Ave. to get tourists’ attention.

Well, today, for the first time in a long time, I saw one of my favorite Michigan Ave. attractions: Naked Ferrari Man. Allow me to explain.

On the weekends, there is a middle aged guy with a perm, who drives up and down and up and down Michigan Ave…. most of the times, he is shirtless and in speedos…. with the top down on his car.

Now, this, in and of itself is strange enough. But today it reached a new level of strange-ness. While getting a bite to eat, and doing a bit of shopping, my friend and I saw him, in a matter of 1 hour, 3 times. This by itself is bad enough, but then, when waiting for the bus, I saw it.

He actually makes sure to drive in the lane closest to the sidewalk. How do I know? Well I saw his pass a stopped taxi in his lane, only to wait in the middle lane until he could get back over. Yup, he held up traffic and everything. Just kinda sat there in the middle of Michigan Ave. as cars began to line up behind him.

As soon as he could, he moved back into the lane closest to the sidewalk, and onwared he went.

You just don’t get this stuff in the ‘burbs….