My final two ‘missing’ Vista applications got fixed today.
Ping Plotter and Flash Video Studio.
I had a problem with Ping Plotter crashing on installation and startup; I emailed Pete Ness the author – he found a problem with a component interacting with DEP on Windows Vista.
Turns out that this fixed the Flash Video Studio crash too. I just added the two apps to the exclusion list.
Cool.
I’ll keep adding thumbnails to this page during the week.
28 Jan 2007
I’m always needing to check the integrity of ISOs and other large downloads; I use md5sum on Linux – and now a new tool on Windows.
digestIT 2004 is a free (beer not speech) tool for calculating the md5 and sha-1 checksums of files.
There is also an interesting project – the Antares Project – which seems to move the integrity checking game a lot further. FIPS-140-2 certification too. That’s interesting.
I’m in Singapore – it’s hot (28’C) and humid (90%)
Walking around this morning with Mark – and we saw a huge advertising display for the Vista launch; tied in nicely to the Chinese Lunar New Year.
More from Singapore later. Last time I was here was almost exactly four years ago.
A week late posting this – sorry.
For those that haven’t heard it – Pandora is an online music player – that plays music that you like and other music similar in style to it.
We’ve been wowed by it for over 15 months.
So late last week I read on the Pandora Blog that Tim – a founder of Pandora – was going to
be in SLC for a public ‘Town Hall Meeting’ – we decided to turn up.
I’ll let Grania add her comments too – but it was fascinating hearing about the business and the music side of Pandora; especially the level of detail, training and consistency of breaking down the genes of a piece of music. I think Grania was almost ready to move to Oakland, CA to train for the Classical analyst role.
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