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RE: VM Ware Fusion - Cleanup Deleted Snapshot Fails - How to get it working again

Nick Harris — Fri, 14 Nov 2008 19:34:35 MST

One additional note - if you're having trouble moving the cleaned up virtual machine back, try the following:

http://communities.vmware.com/thread/177181;jsessionid=92CE51F4A5123065C2D94FA6E8F3A145?tstart=0

For anyone interested in what was causing the copy failure even though VMware Fusion was not running nor was the vmware-vmx process running we were able to narrow it down, using TeamViewer, to the Applications folder within the Virtual Machine's Package and by deleting it the copy proceed without issue and the Virtual Machine is up and running back on the internal drive drive.

Note: Deleting the Applications folder within the Virtual Machine's Package is safe to do as it is self-regenerating however be sure to shutdown, not suspend the Virtual Machine before deleting it.

Anyway, John it was nice talking with you and thanks for letting me make the remote connection to make this easier to clear up. Have a good one. Woody

RE: My New Role

Nick Harris — Wed, 12 Nov 2008 08:30:58 MST

@Stu - not in the near future. I'm going to remain the lead on those products, but the API is going to be my dominate role for the foreseeable future.

@Gordon - I suppose "hack around a 16 item limit that we don't document" could be considered computer sciency :-)

@everyone else - thanks!

RE: SQLite and .Net

Nick Harris — Wed, 12 Nov 2008 08:28:20 MST

@Gorden -

I couldn't remember why we switched away from ADO. I'll have to keep that in mind when I get back to Inbox - though it doesn't look like that's going to be anytime soon.

RE: My New Role

stu Taylor — Wed, 12 Nov 2008 02:08:29 MST

Congratulations nick.

Are we likley to see more frequent development of the client tools like Toolbar, ScreenSaver?

RE: SQLite and .Net

Gordon Weakliem — Tue, 11 Nov 2008 21:43:03 MST

That is pretty cool. I remember looking at Firebird way back in the day for the same purpose.
If you recall, though, one reason Inbox went to XML files is that we tried using in-memory ADO recordsets, which would explode in both size and inefficiency with large subscription lists. Do you still see that problem?

RE: My New Role

Becca — Tue, 11 Nov 2008 15:17:39 MST

Congrats, Nick! That's awesome!

RE: My New Role

critter42 — Tue, 11 Nov 2008 13:10:39 MST

Congratulations, NickH!

RE: My New Role

Gordon Weakliem — Tue, 11 Nov 2008 13:02:29 MST

What's Greg talking about? How is wrestling with MAPI not computer sciency? :)

RE: My New Role

Nick Bradbury — Tue, 11 Nov 2008 10:42:18 MST

Congrats on the new/additional role, NickH!

RE: My New Role

David — Tue, 11 Nov 2008 09:17:11 MST

Congratulations Nick!

RE: Thirty

Gordon Weakliem — Thu, 31 Jul 2008 22:42:07 MDT

Thirty! Time to start counting in hex, you're still a teenager that way.

RE: Thirty

Mack D. Male — Wed, 30 Jul 2008 19:16:34 MDT

Happy Birthday!

RE: CS IQ and Turing Machines

Brian R — Wed, 23 Jul 2008 08:53:12 MDT

I had an analogous experience in my Intro to C class when we got to pointers. Much of the class grasped the concept almost immediately. We then spent an entire week worth of lectures trying to get the rest of the class to understand. I don't think they ever did.

I think you still see differentiation along this axis among "good" developers. I've watched people debug problems "by intuition." It might've been luck, but I tend to think they just had a really good internal model and the ability to reason about it very quickly.

RE: Inbox 3.0 Now Available!

mircalem — Sun, 20 Jul 2008 16:56:43 MDT

thanks.

RE: Should I tell Microsoft about this problem?

mircalem — Sun, 20 Jul 2008 16:56:04 MDT

thanks.

RE: Nick Bradbury asks - "The Future of Feed Reading: What Do YOU Want?"

mircalem — Sun, 20 Jul 2008 16:55:44 MDT

thanks.

RE: Outlook Development Tip - Icons on Toolbar Buttons

mircalem — Sun, 20 Jul 2008 16:55:14 MDT

thanks.

RE: Outlook Development Tip - Preventing Multiple Events with Toolbar Buttons

mircalem — Sun, 20 Jul 2008 16:54:54 MDT

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RE: Do people just not like change?

mircalem — Sun, 20 Jul 2008 16:54:28 MDT

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RE: NewsGator Widgets in the Wild

mircalem — Sun, 20 Jul 2008 16:54:06 MDT

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