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I believe the Jurassic Park "Unix" was the "Button Fly" demo app that came with Irix on Silicon Graphics Workstations. SGI workstations were the computers for visual fx at the time.

http://youtu.be/aqcc2lm0L9Q?t=1m28s

Follow up on the restore. It took about 16 hours total. Everything is working great so it's hard to complain. Here are some additional details. I had a hdd that I suspected was bad. (256gb). So I made a system image to an empty 2TB drive. I then restored back to my new ssd. The image was 97GB but it was about 129GB uncompressed as it seemed to unmark compression on all files. I just assumed if the drive speed was the issue, I would see the hdd light thrashing. (32GB memory, PhenomII 6 core 3.2ghz)

This seems like the perfect place to ask this question. Why is restoring a system image so incredibly slow? What is it doing? I barely see the hard drive light come on. I'm at about 25% after five hours. The image is about 95GB. Creating the image took only 40 minutes or so. New hard drive is a 256GB ssd.

At least I have time to watch all the old episodes waiting for this to finish.

Will this technology (remoteFX) be available for 1:1 scenerios. Win8 client to Win8 client? We let people work from home occasionally but the current remote desktop experience is insufficient graphics-wise but the bandwidth is already plenty. The idea is they can remote into their desktops and continue working.

Great job! Looking forward using these tools.

If app registration happens in HKCU, how do you prevent a desktop app from corrupting or injecting an exploit of the metro apps?

Events and Delegates? Does that mean that c++/cx might support LINQ and Rx in the future? Rx's subscribe/unsubsribe model seems like a better way to use events.

winRT == COM++

I'm glad that my c++/cli skills haven't gone to waste. ^s off to the winRT team!

As a plugin developer, we have less options for what versions of the runtime and compiler we use.  I can't even recommend my team learn about the new c++0x features.

Major vendors like Autodesk are still using vc9sp1.  So my recommendation is advocating the switch and potentially creating tools and tutorials for maintaining backwards compatiblity. (either vc10 exe and vc8,vc9 dll, or vc8,9 exe with vc10 dll).

Other features? Some of these aren't language features rather visual studio features.

OpenMP 3.0 (Or depriciate 2.0)

Shared_Array<T>

MultiDimentional_Array<T> (I've written and rewritten this class over and over)

OpenCL syntax highlighting

Great video. I would love to see more of these short videos on these types of topics.