Windows.Vista.Downgrade();

my main reason to downgrade my laptop OS is because my Cingular 8125 won't work as a modem in Vista, and I really can't live without that now, which is the same reason (or so the rumors say) I won't be getting an iPhone when it comes out, being able to use my cell phone as a modem and have internet "anywhere on the road" (at least in USA) has been really great, I can't go back to not have that

other reasons are the many problems with VS2005 and Orcas on Vista, I really want to play with F# and don't want to deal with a beta product in a buggy IDE, yesterday Justin and I were playing with F#, expect posts on the subject soon

downgrading has been painful because XP didn't recognize a lot of the hardware, whereas in Vista everything just worked, for now I'm still keeping Vista on my PC though... XP feels old, but it works

burning iso images to cd / dvd in Windows Vista

for my own reference and to help anyone out there looking for this
took me a while to find it because I was looking for "burndvd"... arrgh
keywords: cdburn, dvdburn, burn, rktools

you can use the Windows Server 2003 Resource Kit Tools, after you install this kit, you will get a couple command line utilities under c:\program files\windows resource kits\tools\

cdburn.exe
dvdburn.exe

usage:

cdburn image

VS2005, VS2007 (Orcas), XNA, LINQ, WPF in Vista

how is that for a title... =o)

Justin and I were playing today with these technologies, it wasn't so much fun as we expected, in short all those things don't work together in Vista, if you want more details read on

• VS2005 doesn't work on Vista, it crashes randomly and very often
  
• VS2007 works fine on Vista
• XNA development is not supported on VS2007 or Vista, only in VS2005 Express
  
• the latest WPF is not supported in VS2007, only in VS2005
• LINQ works fine on VS2007

so if you're thinking about playing with any of those technologies in Vista, reconsider using Windows XP

Visual Studio 2005 SP1 for Windows Vista (Beta)

is ready, just in time for christmas

Windows is unable to find a system volume that meets its criteria for installation

I had a hard time installing Windows Vista on my old machine (hey, my machine is older than a year... and hey! I have been blogging for over a year!!) anyway... oh, the error message, I kept getting that error when trying to install to any of the (3) partitions on my SATA drive, I deleted them, formatted them, recreated them, nothing worked... one guy had posted a vague answer to this very problem: "Vista should be installed on active partition", what the h* is that supposed to mean?

on one last desperate attempt, I disconnected the other drive (that I didn't mention before) from my machine, leaving only the SATA drive connected, ran the installation and voila!, that's all I needed to do, the installation ran smooth after that, everything is working great so far, I think I even like IE7 a lot better in Vista and Aero Glass is sweet canadian mullet!

here are some shortcuts keys for you guys new to Vista

and hopefully my experience will be helpful to some other soul, now if you excuse me I got some playing to do, next stop: Office 2007 baby