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This is HUGE. GINORMOUS.

MS Changes licensing to reflect virtualization.

Highlights:
- Up to 4 instances of Win2k3 on a physical box for the price of 1.
- Customers only pay for concurrent RUNNING images - not shelved/backup images/instances.
-  Per Proc Applications will be able to stack, etc. on virtual machines.

There's apparently legislation underway that will attempt to provide journalists with better protection under the law. Some type of shield law. It drew my attention, because apparently bloggers aren't going to be shielded by said law - or at least it looks like that's the case at present.

But you know what? I'm now 100% officially sick to death of politicians. All of them. The 1st Amendment already provides for protection of the Freedom of Speech, and of the Press. Why the hell would we need another law to make sure that Journalists are protected? And, in in doing so, what about the REST of US?

And frankly, how does working for a company that sells hemorrhoid creme, laundy detergent, or used cars during commercial breaks make you any more trustworthy, relevant, important, or worth protecting than anyone else in this country who is attempting to dutifully and truthfully disseminate information, or that has an opinion and wants to see justice done?

This just proof positive that politicians spend entirely too much time with special ineterest groups - which means they've lost touch with America. I'm so disgusted I could spit...

I know I've already seriously bugged both of my readers with this news, but if somebody just happens to be swinging by... my first Xml4Fun article has been published up on MSDN's Coding4Fun site.

Two more articles will follow, and when the 'series' is complete, I'll have a spiffy little application that will let me use BackPack offline.

So far so good: comments I've recieved via email have been good - including one from David Heinemeier Hansoon (37Signals member and inventor/creator of Ruby on Rails) who told me that he enjoyed the article.

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Julia was mouthing off about CTP madness via Channel 9.

I'm up to 9 VPCs that I'm using currently. I've had to resort to naming them by build/ctp number so that I can remember what box goes with which project. Lame names like XP_50727.27_Dev, and SS2005_Sept_CTP, etc...

And I gave up on running Vista via VPC - it was just too ugly, so I'll try it out as a VM (and I've got 4 VMs currently). Absurd. (And I've been too swamped too look into LINQ yet, but it's definitely on my list.)

(I can't wait to see how many machines I start spawining when I begin writing the IT Professionals chapter of the upcoming Virtualization book I'll be writing with 3 Leaf.... I think I'll probably have to start using index cards and a rollodex to keep my sanity...)