Well, I set back up my primary development physical machine in record time. I do development on it up until the point I reach final, then switch to the virtual machine (and continue beta development on the physical machine). Anyway, the installation of Windows 7 SP1 went foobar'd on this PC because I had installed a pre-release of it. Now, according to all documentation, this pre-release would clearly be listed on the installed Windows updates. It was not. Besides, the backup files it needs had long been deleted. Compounding my problems was trying to squeeze Windows 7 into a 50GB SSD. It works good at first, but trust me when I say that just isn't enough for the OS. I redirected about everything to my HDDs, but the usage kept growing. In the end, I didn't even have enough disk space to install any service pack anyway ;o.
SO, fresh new Windows install and I like it. Even with Windows 7, for whatever reason, a fresh install feels and runs so nice. I put that SSD to use as a page file. Honestly, that's all it is good for at this point. The Hybrid drives may be the future for the next while, SSDs just haven't the capacity yet (unless you are rich I suppose). Of course, the primary advantage of an SSD, for those who don't know, is that there is no seek time. It is like RAM, in that it can instantly read any address. Sadly, it can't write quite as fast because a write incurs a read/modify/erase cycle on an entire block. Also, sustained data transfer rate isn't as fast as you'd think. A defragmented HDD with no other I/O requests can serve you up a large file quicker than affordable SSDs. I say affordable because I got a cheap one, though it is second gen (I missed the first gen). They've since improved, and it was really only my free space issue that caused any performance problem.
I've already got the build environment set up and already rebuilt PL, so all is good to go. I noticed during my initial install that the BETA (only) was improperly telling people Terminal Services needed to be started in Vista+. So, one good thing did come from this.
I'm now going to dive straight into these minidumps, as this is bug fixes only. I have to get this release out ASAP, or issue a new final with some back-ports (minor adjustments and fixes... e.g. no more graph tooltips that quit working over time.. something fixed long ago in the beta).
Wish me luck in my continued endeavors ;)
Monday, 14 March 2011
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