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3D printers are very cool, I was at a rapid prototyping expo recently and they had loads on display.   The one I really liked was http://www.dimensionprinting.com/3Dprinting.html I so want one, but have yet to work out where to get the £18K from!!

Stephen.

Pure reference counting systems have issues as well, such as if two objects take out a reference on each other then the reference count will never drop to zero, hence why you need reference tracking systems such as the garbage collector that can work out these circular dependancies.

The is a paper somewhere, by Chris Sells I think where he modifies the Rotor code to use a hybrid system of counting and tracking.  Ah, here it is http://www.sellsbrothers.com/spout/default.aspx?content=archive.htm#refCountRotor

Stephen

More, More!

That was by far the best series of video I have ever seen on Channel9.  Please do more like this!

Stephen.

Haven't had time to watch all the videos yet, but is it possible to debug a php page in VS the same way you would an ASP.NET page?

Stephen

nightski wrote:

BTW - the results of this are -

00:00:00.0468750
00:00:00.0156250

which is very interesting because it shows the second version actually being faster than the first!

I found the same thing but only in debug, when compiled in release it's the other way round, except if you actually do something with the value in the loop at which point it's the same for both in release mode.

Stephen.

Talking about getting the framework deployed and it's size, it would be interesting if you could get a stub version of the installer that installed all the core things such as the GAC and the loader, but only installed stubs for the assemblies, and when the loader tries to load an assembly but only finds the stub it nips off to the MS download site and pulls down just the needed parts.

Don't know if it would make much difference overall, but might make initial barrier to downloading a .Net app a bit lower.

Stephen.

staceyw wrote:

Still no definition of Smart Client unless I missed it.  Seems it is another word for WinForm app to me.  If it is because it uses the network or port 80 then it should be WinForms Network Client.  WinForms clients have been clients in a client/server area for a long time so maybe just a new marketing term to refer to a WinForm client that in network enabled (i.e. WSE, Indigo, sockets, etc).

Outlook 2003 is one of the best examples of a smart client I've seen.  The way it swiches seamless from online to offline and back is what makes it smart compared to a classic client/server where when the network connection to the server dies the app packs up and shuts down.

Stephen.

leighsword wrote:

why the hotmail does not support the pop3?is it a tech problem to you?or an architecture problem?

I stummbled on this the other day, not tried it yet but could be useful if you want to use pop3.

http://www.freepops.org

Stephen.

eddwo wrote:

He mentioned the idea of having lots of different virtual machines sitting on a microkernel, isn't that just what Xen is trying to do?
http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/Research/SRG/netos/xen/
This is different to VMWare and Virtual PC because it does not require a fully featured OS to host the virtual machines.

vmWare's ESX server is along the same line, it's a  bare-metal architecture that inserts a small virtualization layer between the x86 server hardware and the virtual machines.

http://www.vmware.com/products/server/esx_features.html

Stephen

rasx wrote:

I've got that Dell laptop that allows me to run at 1600x1200 so I too find that 14pt Lucida Console is great for editing code as well!

You want to try the Dell D800 widescreen, 1920x1200 display.  I am total sold on wide screen for code editing in visual studio, so much more room for the toolbars down the side.

Stephen