Lockergnome: Penguins sited in Munich. In reality they will use then a linux distribution at their desktop and run MS Terminal Server session(s) to get their every day applications (e.g. Access and Excel VBA apps). Differences:

1. Much slower than before (via terminal server)
2. If TS is down, no one can work, and: how expensive are TS licenses?
3. IT division is down for all the requests they get from their users to impl. just small additions to the new app running now at linux (or they apply it in Excel VBA to be in time; see point 1).
4. Linux and the main stream apps like Office or Image processing have  community support, but government software?

Nothing against Unix/Linux (on servers).

Doug Lawty posted at Weblogs@ ASP.NET a very useful tip: don't press Alt-PrtScn to get a clipboard copy of the content of a messagebox (as a image), instead use simply Ctrl-C (just text)! It also works for .NET messageboxs like the Rss Bandit About box:

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About RSS Bandit
---------------------------
RSS Bandit 1.2.0.114 written by
* Dare Obasanjo Obasanjo (www.25hoursaday.com/weblog/)
* Torsten Rendelmann (TorstenR, www.rendelmann.info/blog/)
* and all the active members of RSS Bandit community.

Credits:
* Mike Krueger (#ZipLib)
* Chris Lovett (SgmlReader)
* SandBar Copyright (c) 2004 by Tim Dawson, http://www.divil.co.uk/net/
* Portions Copyright ©2002-2004 The Genghis Group (www.genghisgroup.com)
* sourceforge.net team (Project hosting)
---------------------------
OK
---------------------------

But maybe that's little bit too much to just get the version number copied

Yesterday I read a post from Chris Pirillo about a RSS Reader Security Check Tool. So I tested RSS Bandit and here are the good news: all tests succeeds without a security warning (v1.2.0.114). There is one exception: if you have it configured to display the link taget site of feed items that does not provide a description, then frames are allowed (if we would not allow frames, some news sites looks very wired). So the iframe test results in a security warning. Does anyone know a way to control iframes independent of normal frames within IE? Means: switch the download on/off independent of each other?

Some of the Rss Bandit users reported an issue with network connections using a proxy that require authentication (forum thread http://www.rssbandit.org/forum/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=260). All of them should try the provided binaries zip (link available at http://www.rssbandit.org/ow.asp?YetImplementedFeatures) and please report any further existing issues at the above forum thread.

Today I stumbled over a framework v1.1 issue related to the wellknown System.Collections.Specialized.NameValueCollection. I used it in a public interface as a return parameter and somewhere again as method parameter within a assembly marked with the attribute CLSCompliant(true). The MSDN docs are silent about CLS compliance in that case and I figured out, it is not compliant! Got compile errors like this:

ADSIAuthenticationProvider.cs(31,37): error CS3001: Argument type 'PROCOS AG.Components.Authentication.Shared.IAuthenticationConfiguration' is not CLS-compliant

or

And still very busy at work. Not much free time left to get more progress at Rss Bandit, but recently we get the bugfix release 114 ready for download.

Just read this at Early Adopter's:

"Every line of code you write today (and have to maintain) is 4 lines of new code that you don't get to write in the future. Write your code wisely." [80% of the cost comes after RTM]

He is soo right. I should have made the quote bold and 40pt size...

Today I got a technical support mail from my e-mail provider (GMX):

Does it looks like a real warning? Yes, reading the first two lines of the mail in my OL2003 preview (I'm careful) of the inbox I opened that (bad! But who knows?) and got another warning:

Scan type:  Realtime Protection Scan
Event:  Virus Found!
Virus name: W32.Beagle@mm!zip
File:  Readme.zip
Location:  Mail System

Morality: spamers and worm/virus mass mail senders are real humans. They did not simply take over random e-mail addresses to spoof the sender address, they impersonate it! Fortunately nothing badly happens to my system :-/

You are carefully enough?

...to my wife and all the other people celebrating today all the best!

Today I stumbled over this issue with the Visual Studio 7 Forms Designer:

 "The class Main can be designed, but is not the first class in the file.  Visual Studio requires that designers use the first class in the file.  Move the class code so that it is the first class in the file and try loading the designer again."

Here is the sample code:

namespace Test
{
 public class MyEventArgs {
  public string Param1;
  public bool Param2;
 }
 /// <summary>
 /// Summary description for Main Form.
 /// </summary>
 public class Main : System.Windows.Forms.Form
 {
 }
}

So: avoid this by using separate files for each class if possible or keep at least the forms class code alone.

Now also our public RSS Bandit forums at http://www.rssbandit.org/forum has feeds: http://www.rssbandit.org/forum/rss.asp (returns top 25 recently posted topics). You can have a look to the rss content to get infos about how to limit postings or subscribe to a special subsection.

And: today I found I can also read feeds from my local living region: http://www.szon.de/xml/rss_info/?SZONSID=7831f2ef8071d0bee0cef8ff4ecf284c (Schwäbische Zeitung, local news).

Was nice to watch and see my Rss Bandit coworker alive

if (System.Runtime.Version.Major == 1 && 
    System.Runtime.Version.Minor < 1 ) {...} else {...}

Isn't this (and variations) enough to have:

if (Environment.OSVersion.Major == 5 && 
    Environment.OSVersion.Minor >= 1 ) {...} else {...}

There are really enough differences we have to consider... :-(