So, I don’t think I’ve complained too terribly much about Microsoft’s activation system… but now I will.

As I may have mentioned before, awhile back I switched to VMWare from Parallels. Well, it wants me to reactivate in VMWare, just like it did in Parallels. At the time I was too busy to mess with it, so I let the 30-day grace period expire. Fast-forward to today.

I’ve been continuing my learning process with C#/.NET as I progress along in StudioMan, just as something else to think about when I get overloaded with Cocoa. Up until now, I’ve just been booting over. I read that the new version of VMWare had some speed improvements, so I upgraded this morning and tried it out. Predictably, Vista went into lockdown mode and I had to call in for activation, since it’s already activated natively.

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So, I woke up at 4AM and couldn’t get back to sleep… so I thought, what better time to start learning about bitwise operation!

Amazingly, it worked, and I’ve now gotten space-efficient serialization functions written to turn my array of bools into a nice tidy base64 string.

In related news… I’m hard at work on StudioMan. As soon as I get a little closer to UI completion, I’ll post a few screenshots. It’s going a lot better this time around than my previous try.