Tree of Life

Figured out that the 0xc0000225 error is being caused by an extended feature (at least in VirtualBox - which is brilliant) called Enable IO APIC and the error goes away.

I found a great article via Hacker News by Instagram Engineering where they have a detailed description of the architecture layers, starting with OS all the way down to the DB. Very impressive. I want to emulate a cloud installation of a server using EC2 Amazon cloud (already tried a micro version of Windows). Next step is to configure it as Tomcat Java server + LAMP and go through some tutorials!

" What gets measured, gets managed "

Getting ready for the Windows 8 Developer Event , I finally got myself to install the W8 Beta that I downloaded years ago . Funny, neither VMWare workstation or MS Virtual PC was able to run the installer (returning "HAL_initialization_failed" error). I gave VirtualBox a try after reading some success stories and it works nicely. The interface of VBox seems to be pretty impressive.