They have all of the presentations from the PDC online now at http://microsoft.sitestream.com/PDC2003/. They even have audio of the presentation so its pretty much like being there. (although they dont have the code samples in the slide decks).
good stuff.
For those of you who missed the “not-so-easy-to-find” cd at PDC containing the ObjectSpaces mapping utility and some samples, it is now available in the GotDotNet workspaces here.
Well after 2 installs, 3 NICs and 3 different PCI slots, I finally got networking working on Longhorn! So this is my first blog entry from the new OS. I never would have guessed that it would have been this hard to get networking going on this thing. So now it’s time to start playing with some Indigo / Avalon stuff…
The 5th part of the interview with Anders Hejlsberg is up on Artima. I have really enjoyed reading this interview. Its interesting hearing why some of the decisions in C# were made.
There is another good interview with him on O’Reilly from a while ago, but worth the read nontheless.
I got home from the PDC all excited to install my copy of Longhorn only to realize that the “recommendation” was to install it on a clean partition (which makes sense because of the WinFS). Well I, like most people, only have one machine at home and I wasn’t willing to trade my WinXP system for an Alpha of Longhorn. I tried to find a suitable machine at work but could only come up with an old Dell Optiplex P3 500 with an old TNT2 16MB card. Needless to say Longhorn was a dog on this setup. Then it hit me… I run SCSI drives on my system at home! So how does this help? Well I created my own little dual boot system by throwing an old 6.4GB Quantum Fireball I had laying around into my system and switching the boot order. So when I want my WinXP system I set the bios to boot SCSI first, if I want Longhorn I just switch the boot order to IDE first. This works perfectly! The interesting thing though is that I can see all disks in both setups. I thought XP wouldn’t be able to recognize the Longhorn drive because of WinFS but it can see and browse everything.
So now I have my Longhorn box all ready to go! Now I just have to find out why none of my other devices found valid drivers (even my Ethernet card couldn’t install). 
