Iain McDonald - Talking about release candidate of Windows Server 2003 R2 (and other stuff)

The Discussion

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  2003 R2 is a pretty cool product. I'm glad it's a bit more public now as it's been difficult biting my tongue to avoid mentioning it whenever W3bbo brings up POSIX compliance...
  
  The *nix interoperability stuff in it is supremely cool.

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  Iain is a pretty cool guy.
  
  Identity.  Identity.  Identity.  I sure we haven't heard the last of this, esp. as it relates to Vista.  We'll probably need an "Identity" tag here before long.
  

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  I'm playing around with different encoding techniques.
  
  That video is 566MB. Whew.

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  I used Movie Maker for that one.

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  I like the higher quality!!! Keep playing around with these qualities!

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  scobleizer wrote:

  I'm playing around with different encoding techniques.
  
  That video is 566MB. Whew.

  
  
  Good video but way too large.  I was happy with the videos the way they were.  Almost as big as Ubuntu Linux ISO.
  

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  >Not allowed to use Quicktime?
  
  It's not that I'm not allowed, it's that we have video streaming servers setup that use WMV. It all comes down to work. I don't have enough time as it is.

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  Regarding the video size, I still like 500kbps the best overall. These are too big, I agree. I might do them for specific things, though.

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  Robert, have you tried keeping 500kbps overall, but directing say 460-470kbps towards video and upping the resolution to 640 x 480? Also, if the native camera resolution is 720x480, you might try 360x240 instead of 320x240. BTW, I've used internet printing once or twice Haven't needed for a while though.

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  Haven't tried that yet. Thanks for the suggestions!

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  I think I tested Internet Printing once and then I shut it down, it wasnt necessary for a business our size.  He really does speak with a lot of candor and seems like he would be a cool guy to have a beer with.   Ballmer and Gates should let him do more keynotes but I can see it now, he would be demoing a feature and turn around and say, "That is the stupidest feature I have ever seen, we should be ashamed"
  

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  I like this video quality! But then again, I do have a 100Mbps Internet connection, so I can just click the download link and it'll open in WMP, start playing in two seconds and never have to buffer anyway.

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  one of the Starbucks outlets on campus
  
  How many SB's are there? Man, those must be a gold mine!

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  R2 question: is it finally possible to do an unattended Windows install with Certificate Services included?

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  AcidHelmNun wrote:

  one of the Starbucks outlets on campus
  
  How many SB's are there? Man, those must be a gold mine!

  
  
  I'd guess there's about half a dozen. I haven't been to all of them, though.

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  Robert, great video!
  
  And another great and very interesting interview with Iain.
  
  Guess if you were to find one word that doesn't describe him it'd be "shy".
  
  Interesting his comments with regards to deploying a "clean slate" so to say, and make the user enable things as they need it as opposed to having what some developers think are the "really cool" stuff turned on by default.
  
  Sounds like the aim is to keep the "attackable" surface as small as possible to eliminate potential attacks on services that many users probably would never make use of.
  
  I like listening to Iain in his videos, maybe that's because he's an Aussie?   (You should interview more Aussies Robert!)

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  The coolest thing in R2 is the new DFS Replication!!!

  Truly amazing!

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  BTW, I like the download file to be in higher quality like this too!

  People with slow connections can always use the streaming version.  The download version can be 1Mbps or so.

  Most Internet users have more than 3Mbps downstream anyway...

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  dotnetjunkie wrote:

  BTW, I like the download file to be in higher quality like this too!

  People with slow connections can always use the streaming version.  The download version can be 1Mbps or so.

  Most Internet users have more than 3Mbps downstream anyway...

  
  
  Well, remember that in some countries there's also the matter of download caps. Whereby either you go over the limit and pay at a higher rate how ever much you go over (by the MB i seem to recall) or some of the other providers slow you down to about 64k after you go over your 12GB.
  
  If all the videos of this size i'd need to be more selective with what I stream and what I download. With download I feel it's much smoother and I can watch it when i'm free but without a net connection. I have a Tablet PC because of it's size and form factor. I can be anywhere and just turn it on and do stuff with it, including watching videos from Channel 9 etc... Or if i'm at home surfing the net with wifi. It's already quite slow on wifi, streaming would be even slower. So I pre-download it and watch it later.
  
  I would love to have all of the videos at this size if I didn't have that limit.
  

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  dotnetjunkie wrote:

  BTW, I like the download file to be in higher quality like this too!

  People with slow connections can always use the streaming version.  The download version can be 1Mbps or so.

  Most Internet users have more than 3Mbps downstream anyway...

  
  
  I wouldn't be too happy with that. And I am sure a lot of people would not be given the fact that large pipes are still rare the world over.
  
  I think it would be wise for Channel 9 to have two version of the video available. One at the high resolusion like this one (I haven't seen it myself - too large to download - but if the comments are something to go by niners are loving it.) The second one being at lower resolution.
  
  Of course the new 'screencasts' (after the redesign) can be used to host high resolution screen recordings seperately.