That's the plan!

On Fri, Jul 23rd, 2010 at 11:02 AM, Corneliu Tusnea 
<corneliu.tus...@readify.net> wrote:

> Oh, just make sure you go for the x64 version of W7. (the packages you can
> purchase they all have two DVDs in there one for 32b and one for 64b).
> 
> Trust me, you'll never look back! :)
> 
> Corneliu.
> 
> 
> ________________________________________
> From: ozsilverlight-boun...@ozsilverlight.com
> [ozsilverlight-boun...@ozsilverlight.com] On Behalf Of Corneliu Tusnea
> [corneliu.tus...@readify.net]
> Sent: Friday, 23 July 2010 10:52 AM
> To: ozSilverlight
> Subject: RE: Out of memory exceptions in VS2010 with Silverlight 4
> 
> Lol, I don't get it why people get stuck with XP in 32b edition and all
> it's limitations. It's an OS designed 14 years ago!!! 14!! And released 12
> years ago.
> 
> Do any of your guys drive a car 14 years old?
> 
> Next thing you should do to yourself:
> - remove source control and do manual merges: cost $2000
> - replace your locks from the doors with a dodgy one that takes 15 minutes
> to open: cost $500
> and so on :)
> Sorry, I have to be a bit sarcastic on this :)
> 
> 
> How about:
> $1600 = 9 W7 Pro Licences if you buy them in a 3 licence pack
> (http://www.myshopping.com.au/PR--335070_Windows_7_Professional)
> $2000 = 8Gb of memory for almost all your 7 developers
> (http://www.staticice.com.au/cgi-bin/search.cgi?q=8gb+ddr2&spos=1)
> $1000 = 7200rpm HDDs for all your developers
> http://www.staticice.com.au/cgi-bin/search.cgi?q=7200rpm+500gb+hdd&spos=1
> 
> And you'll never see those problems again.
> 3 days of "lost" productivity and cost and your are done. You'll start
> being productive and remove all your frustrations.
> 
> Corneliu.
> 
> 
> 
> ________________________________________
> From: ozsilverlight-boun...@ozsilverlight.com
> [ozsilverlight-boun...@ozsilverlight.com] On Behalf Of ton...@tpg.com.au
> [ton...@tpg.com.au]
> Sent: Friday, 23 July 2010 10:20 AM
> To: ozsilverlight@ozsilverlight.com
> Subject: Out of memory exceptions in VS2010 with Silverlight 4
> 
> Hi all,
> 
> It's Friday, so I thought I would let you know about one issue in our
> team.
> 
> Basically, we are running 32-bit Windows XP. The machines have anywhere
> between 2 and 4GB
> RAM. Everyone in the team gets System Out Of Memory Exceptions. When that
> happens, you have
> wasted the compile time, and then you have to shut down VS2010, start it
> up, then open up the
> solution. The solution has a significant number of projects in it.
> Apparently this problem only
> happens in 32-bit windows.
> 
> So for the whole restart process, we have assigned 10 minutes to this
> procedure.
> 
> Next we have logged the total crash time for our team of 7 developers
> (some days people were
> away, but it ultimately doesn't matter).
> 
> The times lost are as follows:
> 14th 240 mins
> 15th 100 mins
> 18th 120 mins
> 19th 60 mins
> 20th 200 mins
> 21st 100 mins
> 22nd 140 mins
> 
> we have assigned an arbitrary value against the times of $100/hour. So the
> loss of productivity is
> 16 hours @ $100/hour = $1600.
> 
> Hopefully soon these figures will become a significant enough figure to
> justify an upgrade!
> 
> Regards,
> Tony
> 
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