On installing Windows Vista

A Microsoft employee describes installing Vista on his Dell Machine as a “personal hell”:

It said “Copying files 0%”. And there it stayed. I left for half an hour, came back and it had copied files but was at “Expanding files 1%”. I went to bed, woke up the next morning expecting to see a shiny new Vista to play with. Instead it said “Expanding files 24%”. I thought it had hung, but no: every few minutes the drive would spin up, and every 15 minutes the percentage would go up by 1. I estimated it would take 30 hours to expand the files at this rate, so I left it running all weekend. After a total of about 40 hours, I saw a login prompt. I logged in, and sat looking at the Vista background for eons, and went to work (the weekend being over and all). When I came home the machine had black-screened.

Read the full text here.

The weirdest thing i found in the comments:

I tried an install of Vista recently to try it out as a media center machine. I couldn’t see any of the machines on my network, until I remembered I’d need to change the workgroup name.
I did that, and Vista told me that I would need to reboot in order for the workgroup name change to take effect.
Are. They. F-ing. Kidding. Me?

After all this years, Windows needs to reboot after changing the workgroup… Welcome in 2007. *sigh*

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30-Jun-07

Rails and Grails revisited

I’ve never thought that my little little post would made such an impact.

While writing that post i was frustrated explaining the Spring configuration to my colleaques again, i was frustrated over the url mappings and so the post was a little harsh.

I don’t think that Hibernate is inferior to Active Record, regarding Spring and ActionController, i cannot tell, i like ActionController just better.

Anyhow, bring all three parts, model, view and controller, together… And see where Rails shines: In ease of use and working right out of the box. No wonder they came up with this whole screencasting things (at least, i never saw this before), it’s just impressing.

Instead of pushing out framework after framework, view technology after view technology (Faces, ADF, etc.), they bundled working things together and i think that’s what people like about RoR.

And i guess there’s a need for such think on the Java side of life as well… If not, why is the Grailsteam working on Grails? To paraphrase my last post positive: They bring good things in a nice package together.

For getting me into groovy i must thank the people behind Grails, this stuff is really cool.

For further reading i recommend the following posts:

Apart from this, can please anyone assure me, that some of the questions on the SCJP exam are a little weird and not really from this world? 😉

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25-Jun-07