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Published 04 April 06 05:27 PM | Sam Gentile

The last N&N was Feb 20, a month and 1/2 ago. I'm too busy being productive adding business value to our product to blog much considering I am still close to a intra-state move and dealing with the sale of one house and purchase of another. Meanwhile, the weekly plane flight commutes are just no fun especially after 6 months straight.

David Cross, in the UAC group at Microsoft, has confirmed that the users accounts created on Windows Vista Beta2 will be standard users. Yep, thats right...not an Admin, not a Protected Admin, but a standard user. Finally! I will still need an Administrator account from time to time though, which in the latest build I can't find, and this trick no longer works.
SuperFetch is a new feature in Vista that learns which applications you use most and preloads them into memory, reducing paging and load times. This is similar to the prefetch used in XP however, Microsoft has come up with a very complex prioritization scheme that will differentiate which applications you use and when you use them. What SuperFetch also allows you to do is insert a USB thumbdrive and use it to cache, rather than paging to the hard drive. Hard drives are much slower than flash based memory, and by doing this, there is a noticable performance boost.
My friends Beth, Frans, Jeffery, Raymond have all been renewed as MVPs! Great going and more excellence for Codebetter
Nicholas Allen from the WCF team has started posting in Indigo Internals. Awesome!
New versions of the MSF for Agile Software Development Process Guidance and MSF for CMMI Process Improvement have been posted to the Microsoft Download Center (VSTS MSF Agile 8.0)
Wow! 32-Bit and 64-Bit versions of Virtual Server 2005 R2 Enterprise are FREE now for download and will support running Linux
The BCL Team Blog has been relaunched
The MSBuild Community Tasks Project releases version v1.1.0.145. There are many new tasks in this release [via Mike]
Rails 1.1 has been released with over 500 features, with some cool small "forgotten features."
Mike Clark just announced a new course from the perpetually-sold-out Pragmatic Studio on Production Rails deployment.

Now playing: Yes - Big Generator - Rhythm of Love

Filed under: C#, Agile and Extreme Programming, .NET Framework 3/WinFX, WCF/Indigo, New and Notable, Windows Vista, VS Team System, TFS and MSF-Agile, Tools and Utilities, Ruby and Rails, MVP

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# Marc Brooks said on April 4, 2006 09:54 PM:

Why is it that >50% of the 'cool Rails' links I try to follow (like your forgotten features) lead to a Precondition failed message? Come on guys, if we're supposed to think this is a real environment, then how come nobody using it takes it seriously?

# Marc Brooks said on April 4, 2006 09:54 PM:

# SamGentile said on April 5, 2006 12:42 AM:

Marc,

I just checked and all the links worked for me. And next time, I can do without the attitude. It isn't "my forgotten features," is there's that they are working on. I'm just linking to it and it has always worked for me.

# SamGentile said on April 5, 2006 12:42 AM:

Marc,

# TrackBack said on April 8, 2006 10:09 AM:

Kristian Kristensen&#8217;s Blog &raquo; SuperFetch in Windows Vista

# TrackBack said on April 8, 2006 10:09 AM:

Kristian Kristensen&#8217;s Blog &raquo; SuperFetch in Windows Vista

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