Hard drives these days seem ridiculously large, and yet I've run out of disk space! So where does 120Gb go on an installation of Vista these days? Manufacturer losses Firstly its not 120Gb. Its actually 120,000,000,000 bytes or 7.3% less. Disk manufacturers conveniently believe users ca... [More]

Its been a while since I looked at Reliability and Performance monitor, but saw somebody else doing the same recently. Now I am not sure if using  laptop affects reliability over a normal machine, but compared to others, my Vista experience is more varied. On the whole I am very happy, I just... [More]

Cruise control works quite nicely on Vista right up to the point where you do something that requires elevation. In addition to the location where the source is stored, your build user will also need access to ASP.Net 'C:\Windows\Microsoft.NET\Framework\v2.0.50727\Temporary A... [More]

Technorati Tags: CruiseControl, Vista, VirtualStore Its just taken me two days to find a problem with a CruiseControl config, and the problem was it was using a copy stored in C:\Users\<Me>\AppData\Local\VirtualStore\Program Files. This seems to be a Vista feature? Deleting th... [More]

Now I don't particularly wish to join the ranks of Vista nay-sayers, but I haven't been having an overly productive time since getting my new laptop. I seem to get intermittent faults with the hard drive which manifest themselves as system freeze. I have had one instance where this has bee... [More]