While a lot of hype have been generated for Windows 7, the research operating system Singularity from Microsoft Research released their certain version into Codeplex. The OS is written on C#, unlike most OSes nowadays written in C/ C++. I heard although it is hosted in Codeplex, Singularity is not an open source OS. So don’t mistaken it for the likes of Linux and HaikuOS. There are a lot rumours about a secret OS project in Microsoft called Midori which is based on Singularity, but then again its all rumours.
This time to help users to get a feel of the OS within learning how to build the OS from scracth, they included a .ISO file download which is actually a Live CD of the OS. The ISO file can be mounted to VPC and it will work. Below are my screenshots, unlike Windows 7, this is a lot more boring.
Boot loader starting up
Kernel starting up
Initialising drivers?
Singularity command prompt loaded.
Get a list of available commands using ‘help’
Like the DOS days, ‘dir’ is working, but not ‘cd’. Maybe there is a new command name. Still at pre-release stage, there is not much functions on this OS yet, but if you are a research on OS technologies it is worth a good look on some of the new ideas around building OSes.
You might want to find out more here
http://www.codeplex.com/singularity
http://research.microsoft.com/os/Singularity/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_Singularity
I really like Microsoft’s new I’m a PC ad concept. While its a counter measure to Apple I’m a Mac ad, I’m a PC is more approachable than the former. Now they have a website to upload your own ‘I’m a PC’ quote as well! Now I can wait to get my hand on one of those I’m a PC T-shirts.
By the way, while the new Macbook Pro does come with a couple of innovations, doesn’t it in a way looks like a Sony Vaio? And Steve’s mentioned about they not interested in touchscreen? Between the lines, it means, "we are working on something super secretive about touchscreen which I won’t leak out at the moment"
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If you have such problem, then it is because the chipboard (the place where your cut/ copy content is stored) is opened by another process causing it not accessable from Windows. To fix it you need to shudown the application/ process.
To find out which process is opening the clipboard you can download the following application called GetOpenClipboardWindow.
Some people will like to work only with the command prompt especially if you come from UNIX background but not me. I discovered there is a simple Windows based program with GUI to configure certain properties on a Server Core installation.
The picture below shows you all the functions available. Download it here.
I was setting up a demo for a talk today. Normally my VPC environment will be 1 Domain Controller (DC) and another server for SharePoint and Visual Studio.
Then out of sudden I went to disable the Kerberos service on my DC just to avoid the startup error created by Kerberos service. Note: VPC start up is slower and for DC, normally Kerberos service startup will timeout but eventually it will get started.
Without Kerberos, I still managed to sign in to my SharePoint VPC with no problem whatsoever. It is until I start developing a VS2008 SharePoint Workflow project, then I realize the IIS restart fails to response until VS2008 returns a SharePoint Server not found error.
It took me a few hours to find out what happen until I check my event logs and realize I notice my SharePoint app pool user try to start certain services but hit authentication error. This is when I realize it must have something to do with the Kerberos service being disabled.
Ta! Ta! Once the Kerberos service got started, everything returns to normal and my day got saved!
Been using Lenovo T60 under the impression that it does not support Hardware virtualization for about 1 year! This is not until Serena Yeoh told about running Hyper-V on her T61 only I realize by default the Thinkpads have this feature turned off by default. You need to go into bios and set it in CPU configuration section. (pic below)
As stated on the screen, you need to power off the system and turn it on again to have this feature visible in Virtual PC (shown below)
Next? Maybe thinking of installing Windows Server 2008 64bit with Hyper-V on my T60 as well. 
Due to security concern, by default you are not able to Ping a Windows Server 2008 machine. At first I though there is a problem with my network but actually it’s disabled. To enabled Ping reply from Windows Server 2008, goto Window Firewall with Advance Settings from Administrator Tools menu.
Look inside Inbound Rules, scroll down to File and Printer Sharing, right click and enable this rule. (pic below)
After that the check icon will turn green
For Windows Server Core which does not have any UI, you can enable this rule from the command prompt.
netsh firewall set icmpsetting 8
To disable it type
netsh firewall set icmpsetting 8 disable
Was testing the beta some time ago. Today its released to public via website and Windows Update.
I didn’t feel any performance improvement as speculated by some, but its worthwhile to note that SP3 has need security features (which helps verify you are indeed connected to the intended computer) for you to remote connect to Windows Server 2008 and also Vista.
For developers WinXP SP3 comes with Microsoft Management Console (MMC) 3.0 which you can create .NET based plugin to.
Download it directly.
PC Magazine’s review
More info from Microsoft
I just started reading the SharePoint Products and Technologies Protocol Documentation today, quite interesting and profound to found out the level of details released under this document. All the specification of protocols (sometimes I would like to call it APIs) used by SharePoint from system behaviors, WSDL, XML Schemas, managed (and/or unmanaged) APIs as well as Stored Procedures used by SharePoint. Technologies from CAML, SharePoint list, view, search, workflow, administration all the way to the user interface is pretty well covered in this set of documents.
For Microsoft partners it opens up a whole new opportunities for them to build applications on top of SharePoint. (Almost) gone are the time when we try to figure out why SharePoint behave a certain way and there are no official documents to look at. Most of the time we resort to word by word advices from fellows developers in the forum. Imagine now it is possible for developers to write application (esp. those with different client platform) to works seamlessly with Microsoft SharePoint platform.
https://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=5e94ad07-902c-422f-aadd-ff2bba9e540a&DisplayLang=en
Besides SharePoint technologies, Microsoft also release Protocol documentations for Windows(incl. .NET Framework), Office and Exchange and also XAML (the markup language for Windows Presentation Foundation and Silverlight); all of these fall under the so called High Volume Products from Microsoft.
From 25th to 27th March 2008, I will be conducted a class for Certified Partners in Malaysia on creating Office Business Applications with the latest Visual Studio 2008 (VSTO 3.0) on top of Windows Server 2008. Windows Server 2008 will be something new to me so I will create a series of blogs on how to setup an SharePoint 2007 + Office 2007 development environment on WS08 later. So stay tuned.
To find out more about the launch of latest Windows Server, SQL Server and Visual Studio check it out here.
