RSS readers

Okay, In a previous post I said I preferred Sharpreader as my RSS aggregator. But now I went back to feedreader again. SharpReader is just eating up to much memory. I'm mean, I'm just using the default refresh rate (once an hour), but still it's constantly using to much resources compared with feedreader. Hope it get's fixed in the future though.

Prepared for Windows Service Packs.

New Microsoft OS Service Packs these days means tighter security. And hey! That’s good! Don’t you think?

But the new default settings can always get you in trouble. It’s not fun when your software no longer works after the customer downloaded the latest windows service pack. So make sure that you are prepared. I think it’s great with improved security, but I’m not always to happy with the documentation for their changes.

Windows 2003 SP1 RC is ready for download and has been for some time.

The changes you saw on WinXPSP2 are now implemented on the server side (and other changes as well). But the default settings are not the same as on XPSP2. Things like the RestrictRemoteClients policy is at a level that will not change the default settings like it did on XPSP2.

The have a new policy: “Restrict anonymous access to named pipes and shares”. This one is enabled by default on the Release candidate of SP1. If you use some anonymous access (in some remote callbacks or something) you will have to set this one to disabled. As on XPSP2 they have introduced the option to set a limit to DCOM security on machine level.

Feeding time

I just got into the RSS and Atom feeds. It's really cool to get updated info in your favorite feed reader at any time. Sharpreader is my favorite by the way. I was testing both sharpreader and feedreader for a while. I was running Feedreader at work and Sharpreader at home. Feedreader has more functionality, but the alert looks really crappy so I could hardly read the popup alerts (it probably work better when using the default XP theme).

This is some of my favorite feeds:

MSDN just published gives you all recent MSDN articles. Great stuff!
http://msdn.microsoft.com/rss.xml

Microsoft Security bulletins
http://www.microsoft.com/technet/security/bulletin/secrss.aspx

Gives you the latest MS kb articles published.
http://www.kbalertz.com/rss/msall.xml

And there is lot’s of blogs, this one gives you all the latest MSDN blogs:
http://blogs.msdn.com/MainFeed.aspx

And this is my atom feed

My first posting

I just had to get a blog.

The idea is that I'll try to blog about all new things and experiences I have (with technology that is). This will first of all be a tool for my self to remember stuff, but by blogging it, other people might find it useful to.