I'm really surprised that Sony won this format war. Luckily I'm generally a late adopter for media equipment, so I've been on the sidelines waiting for someone to be declared the winner.
Now I just have to wait for someone to come out with a $100 Blu-Ray player.
More here about the official demise of HD DVD.
I love the Perforce source control system - especially since the 2-user license is free. However, I was a bit confused by the error message I got when the service failed to start.
I had to copy/move a large virtual machine (167GB) from one hard drive to another on my Windows 2003 Server workstation today. All I really wanted to do is start the transfer and let it run in the background while I browsed the web. In a world of dual-core, 4GB honkin' workstations, I didn't think this was too much to ask. Unfortunately Windows Explorer's file-copy thought differently about it. Everything 15-20 seconds the OS would "hiccup" and refuse to relinquish control for a good 30 seconds to 2-3 minutes.
It finally pissed me off enough to go look for a solution. What I found was an explanation of the culprit (here for this who care.) And a (free!) solution - TeraCopy. It will integrate into your Windows Explorer / Shell (overriding the default copy/cut/paste behavior as well) and let you keep right on working. Not only that, but I'm actually seeing great performance numbers (54mb/sec) that I would expect from two relatively fast SATA hard drives.
I wouldn't recommend doing anything crazy like encoding 1080p HD video while doing file copies, but it's far and away a much more pleasurable experience (no jerky behavior, etc.) - I can keep coding in Visual Studio, keep browsing the web, etc. What can I say? Go download it! Save time! It's free (for home use!)
I'm so happy I may actually pay for the Pro version, just to show my support. Cheers!
Ever need/want to change the remote desktop port for a workstation/server? I've had to go through and modify the registry enough times to accomplish this task to make me take the time to build a simple remote desktop port switcher utility. Check it out here.
