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Number of Apple computers in my house: 4
Number of Apple computers with Leopard: 2
Time spent downloading and installing iPhone SDK: approx. 30 min.
Time spent learning Cocoa and Objective-C: approx. 8hrs
iPhone Applications developed to date: 0
Book(s) I’m planning to purchase: 1

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Following up my recent LDNUG presentation of Windows Vista and the .NET 3.0 Framework, here is a screenshot tour of my installation journey with Windows Vista on Virtual PC 2007.
Prerequisites

Virtual PC 2007 (free download)
A healthy amount of RAM (I have 1GB, it ran fine once I turned off some services like SqlServer and IIS. [...]

I remember feeling a little defensive when I first learned that not all Mac users love Safari. Perhaps it was because I was being ridiculed for liking Safari. I have tried several times to make Firefox my primary browser on the Mac (it already is on PC), but keep coming back. However, [...]

Why would you want to do this? I’m not sureyet, but as an ASP.NET developer, I know I’m probably going to need to understand how to use it.
The .NET Framework 3.0 adds new technologies to the .NET Framework 2.0, which makes the .NET Framework 3.0 a superset of the .NET Framework 2.0. You [...]

I’m setting up a new PC with all the tools a Web Developer might need. While installing Microsoft SQL Server 2005, I encountered the following error during setup:
SQL Server Setup failed to obtain system account information for the ASPNET account. To proceed, reinstall the .NET Framework, and then run SQL Server Setup again.
This is [...]

My home PC (an ancient HP) running Windows XP Pro crashed today (again). I guess Visual Studio, Sql Management Studio, Internet Explorer and an install (updated Atlas Control Toolkit) were too much for the old girl! When I rebooted The following message displayed:
Operating system not found

I rebooted again and everything was normal. [...]

Chris Fay has a well written tutorial on how to install and configure Ubuntu 6.06 LAMP server. He also walks through the steps to install the Gnome desktop, Webmin, and ProFTPD.
I found a prettier version of the same tutorial. It includes comments by others, followup by Chris, and links to related tutorials.Technorati [...]