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.
I asked for a feature; it got included in GLoSS 1.3.6.1 – I’m impressed.
I asked for the ability to turn off caching of bitmaps.
I got my feature; I paid the bounty.
“Ella” is here.
A long beta program – and it looks sweet.
Download from here.
Vista has been available for corporates since November; the retail launch is readying for the end of January.
Meanwhile there is a lot of discussion about Vista Service Pack 1 and when that will appear.
Microsoft Watch and a few others point to ‘project Fiji’ as SP1; and talk about a fall/autumn availability. This is slightly sooner than Windows XP SP1 (just under a year) – but if it’s true it will accelerate enterprise deployments for those that ‘wait for SP1 before deployment’.
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