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Mighty cold up here in the Northeast getting down to 12 (record cold for Nov) at night. I even, for the first time, didn't wear my customary T-shirts and found that I had a Longhorn sweatshirt that I had gotten at PDC. This is my lead-in to saying there isn't much out there but one stellar item just came across (and then a few other notables):

• Tim Sneath “Five Silly Mistakes to Make When Installing Longhorn“ is extremely useful. I wish we had this before we installed. Pay special heed to: “Don't bother installing it as a Virtual PC image unless you have a seriously well-specified machine; certainly not if you plan to play around in any depth with the sample applications that ship as part of the SDK. By well-specified, I mean a machine with more than 1GB RAM, a 3GHz processor, and ideally a separate hard drive / controller for the Longhorn image. I could swear that I heard the sound of laughter from my laptop when I fired up Longhorn for the first time as a Virtual PC image. (On the other hand, installing Windows Server 2003 / Whidbey / Yukon works a treat in a Virtual PC, and I've been using this combination quite happily since spring.) “ Mine was indeed laughing even though it was a 2Ghz Pentium IV laptop and 1GB Ram. He makes the critical point that most people don't get, “this is a developer preview release. This is the earliest in the product cycle we've ever given out bits without requiring stringent NDAs, to the best of my knowledge (although the first beta of Windows 2000 - Windows NT 5.0 as it was known at the time - was pretty ropey too). “ This is so true and I as a bleeding edge early adopter am very grateful for this and will deal with these scenarios. The point is, as with any software this early, is if you are not prepared to bleed heavily, then don't install it-)
• Shawn Morrisey asks for help/input on MSDN.
• He's back....(sinister laugh applied). Chris Brumme on Application Compatability. I haven't counted the words but this could be a record short post from him.
• Mike Deem, a former MSFT blogger in the “old days“ (2 years ago on Radio) has re-surfaced as a WinFS blogger and has a push-back to Joe's assertion of “complete failure“ for WinFS. Subscribed! [via Don]
• John Lam “aspnet_compiler.exe rocks!“ Yes it does!
• .NET Undocumented “XAML - Almost a Full Blown Language“ Another great post from Wesner