Well, first attempt was on my Thinkpad w500 and that failed hard.  But it appears it was probably because of the switchable graphics card.

I installed the beta on my mac mini, which is the media center computer, and it works well.  Faster, but boot camp support for drivers is limited at best.  Hopefully Apple will come out with drivers soon.  One issue on the mini, after watching a movie in Media Center, media center crashes.

Since I didn’t get the w500 working with Windows 7, I did switch over to using that as my main computer, so that left the Thinkpad t61p to play around with.  Installed Windows 7 on the t61p was a snap.  Of course I had a bit of a challenge forgetting my dvd rom drive at the office in the docking station.  Thanks to my obsolete HD-DVD Xbox 360 drive, I was able to install Windows 7.

Install went well, most of the lenovo drivers installed fine, although I’d like to see more supported drivers, but that will happen at launch. 

I highly recommend anyone wanting to play around with the next desktop OS from Microsoft try Windows 7.  It is a much better experience than Vista, faster, easier to use and once released, the drivers and support will be much better ( I hope ).

Anyway, this post came from the new Windows Live Writer which is a great tool to post entries to many types of blogs.

I tried installing Wordpress 2.6.3 on my dev Windows 2008 server running IIS 7 and .Net 3.5sp1 and could not get it working.

I went back to 2.6.0 of wordpress which installed just fine and then did the upgrade to 2.6.3 which worked. No idea why it didn't install, but something clearly changed between 2.6.0 and 2.6.3 to break IIS 7 installs.

Oh well, now to figure out how to get comments and other functions in Wordpress to work under IIS7, got permalinks working, but think it broke the comments feature. I love the new URL Rewrite Pack for IIS7 as well as the Media Streaming Bandwidth throttle option for IIS 7.

Can't believe I am saying this, but the last couple of months working with IIS 7 has converted me from Apache. Still wish IIS 7 could do wildcard binding without dedicating an IP and retain the web.config file across publishes from Visual Studio 2008, but oh well. I also wish that the ASP.NET Visual Studio Web Server could understand the URL Rewrite statements in the web.config file and route the links appropriately instead of having to publish to my local IIS 7 install in Vista. Also wish that IIS 7 could be installed on XP.

Oh well, at least I got Wordpress running and MySQL on it, so that means I can start testing the various Wordpress sites I have moving from Apache to IIS 7. Next up is cleaning up my Wordpress export to BlogML for Blogengine.net import. Oh well, lots to do, little time to do it.

Ok,

My rant for the day is about trying to use Microsoft C# and LINQ and XML and WPF. I spend more time trying to figure out simple stuff, because nothing exists as solid examples of how to do what I need to do.
I spend so much of my time trying to find decent examples of how to do stuff on the net, and find nearly nothing.
Why?
I know people are doing this stuff, is it because its a closed source system and sharing the code just isn't "cool" by the users?
I am sick of it, and I am going to try to lead by example and post my minor victories in trying to do things using this great platform.

Why?
Well, couple of reasons...
1. Code should be free. Not as in not get paid for it, but how to do something should be shared, knowledge isn't worth anything unless you share it.
2. Selfish reasons, I can find different things I find much easier and watch my progression through the products
3. Cause I haven't really found a good reason to keep posting regularly on my blog, and this just might be a good excuse.

So, there you have it, my rant for the day and my promise to share my code examples of what I am trying to do.