Rick Heiges

Well kinda.......

As mentioned by Don Kiely on sqljunkies.com, congress passed a bill to extend Daylight Savings Time.  There was a provision to start the new extension this fall.  This means that the clocks would not be set back one hour that final weekend in October which would have brought the release of Yukon one hour earlier.

I like Daylight Savings Time. I get so depressed when it is dark in the AM when heading out to work and dark when you head home.  I love the summer time when everyone is out until 8pm.  It was a blast in Iceland in June when at 2am it looked like twilight.

Virtual Earth was released with Apple missing.....  Was it on purpose?  I don't think so....  Unless there is some type of iPod plot to rule PCs.  I first heard about Virtual Earth about 2 months ago on Channel 9.  There is a new video on Virtual Earth at http://channel9.msdn.com/

The second swing of the Get Ready for SQL Server 2005 Road Show will start next week.  I will be delivering the DBA Track in Portland and Seattle next week.  If you attend, drop by and say hello.

For more information about the shows, visit www.sqlpass.org.

I've had the June CTP since TechEd and I finally decided to get the install going.  I have a separate server that I run VPC on to house my various beta versions that I test.  Either I am now used to the install process or the install process is better.  The install is STILL very slow on the VPC.  I started installing it yesterday afternoon while working on another project.  I kept checking back to answer the dialogs to keep the process moving.  This morning about 5:30, I got to the point where the various components start copying items and such.  It is now almost 10am and the process is still going on.  I attribute most of the lack of speed to the VPC configuration.  I read Roman's tip here on sqljunkies about how to tune your VPC for speed, but I don't have all of those luxuries available for testing purposes at this time.  Still, the process is smoother than the first betas that I installed.  If you can get access to the resource kit for the June CTP, I'd recommend it too.  There are some cool webcasts, videos, whitepapers, etc on that DVD as well.  I watched one video from WinHec that was repeating during the Tuesday keynote where a failover occurs from a 32-bit system to a 64-bit system and the 64-bit takes it on easily as it was already processing a big load already.