Small issue I detected yesterday in the current .NET 1.1 compiler. Try to compile the following code:

        public string MyProperty {
            get { return null; }
            set { ; }
        }

It results in messages like this:

D:\Visual Studio Projects\test\ThreadedListView\ThreadedListView.cs: 
Internal Compiler Error: stage 'BEGIN' 
D:\Visual Studio Projects\test\ThreadedListView\ThreadedListView.cs(1): 
Internal Compiler Error: stage 'BEGIN' symbol '' 
D:\Visual Studio Projects\test\ThreadedListView\ThreadedListView.cs(11): 
Internal Compiler Error: stage 'BEGIN' symbol 'ThreadedListView'
Internal Compiler Error (0xc0000005 at address 53630902): 
likely culprit is 'BEGIN'. An internal error has occurred in the compiler. 
To work around this problem, try simplifying or changing the program near the 
locations listed below. Locations at the top of the list are closer to the point at 
which the internal error occurred.

I just removed the semicolon in the set, and it compiles fine. Today I wanted to repro that: but now no problems occured... So sorry, I cannot post a bug to MS for it.

Today I mentioned a post at ApfelWiki (german) and decided to test it with RSS Bandit's Remote Storage feature (used to sync. your feedlist/flagged items/search folders with other machines running RSS Bandit). It just works and also supports https: to keep your password a secret. Here is how to setup if you already a member/user of the free services at GMX:

1. Open Tools-Options dialog
2. Select the "Remote Storage" tab
3. Check the "Use remote storage" checkbox
4. Select "WebDAV" from the Protocol dropdown
5. Type https://mediacenter.gmx.net/ within the WebDAV folder url input box (important: it is gmx.net, not gmx.de!)
6. Provide your user name and password you use to login at gmx: e.g. <your account>@gmx.de
7. Press OK

[thanks to schockwellenreiter.de]

This night at around 3:00 AM we had a modarate earthquake: 5,4 Richter magnitudes. But it felt heavier as we woke up at night. Best of all: no damages or personal injuries, we got off all the fright.

Double check your mails you get from xyz.com comercial domains! They may have viruses attached with exactly the name of the domain xyz.com
[Clever Virus Attack]

Yeah, Dare Obasanjo already posted about: but just in the moment the sourceforge feed reports 111666 downloads of RSS Bandit in "most recent daily statistics (30 Oct 2004) post...

Today I posted a comment to a blog that have a wfw:comment enabled feed. Just wondering why the post does not display in my favorite news reader, I visited the site directly and does the post again with the following return message:

Moderation

Comments on this blog are currently being moderated. An email has been sent to the owner with the details of your comment.

Click here to return to the original post or article

Did not know, http://weblogs.asp.net supports moderated comments. There are some ideas about a comment preview discussed here, but how about moderation? Shouldn't the comment API return an info about like that of the web comment? Worst case: the user post again, and again, and again... just wondering why the post does not show up in the aggregator producing a lot filtering work to the blog author.

Any ideas how it could be reflected into the comment API?

PS: hopefully the wfw:comment was also e-mailed...

Today I had time to visit my free brinkster.com account and have a look what's wrong again with my feeds there - this was the message it ends up:

I investigated further: the last message I received from brinkster was of Oct. 6th, 2004: "Brinkster *MUST READ* System Notice Re: Your web hosting account". Couldn't they not simply sent a warning mail about that f***ing account disabling feature? Badly they do not simply disable an account, they also delete all my files there! I can remember the pain I had to upload them all each file one by one through that f***ing web interface, all my galleries are away, the old private blog posts are somewhere on my home machine also (nice to have at least that)...

Today I found a real cool page within MSDN: Microsoft Win32 to Microsoft .NET Framework API Map. Have a look there before you go to pinvoke.net or setup your very own interop declarations...

A while ago one user complains about RSS Bandit was not running with installed/configured IPv6 on a windows machine. Today I got the answer (by mail from Frank Fischer, Microsoft Germany - thanks again!): open machine.config located at C:\Windows\Microsoft.NET\Framework\v1.1.xxxx\CONFIG and change the XML tag:

to:

This change allows the framework to parse and resolve IPv6 addresses. So any .NET application will be IPv6 enabled, not only RSS Bandit (but also

So we are at least two people that need a .NET 1.0 installer of RSS Bandit

I packaged one and uploaded a zipped installer. At http://www.rssbandit.org/ow.asp?DownLoad you find the link.

About to go to the BASTA! conference tomorrow. My plan for monday: Security Special with J. Freiberger and M. Willers and the Jet Lag open forum with Dan. I go by train, so the topic does not fit really, but I like to meet Dan!

Yesterday Dare Obasanjo packaged a new installer zip for download at SourceForge and I just repeat the list here again FYI if you are not able to get the infos from Dare Obasanjo's blog because of the problems he reported:

This release fixes a number of bugs in v1.2.0.114. Major features will show up in the next release as described in the RSS Bandit product roadmap.

Download the installer from here. Differences between v1.2.0.117 and v1.2.0.114 below.

UPDATE: v1.2.0.117 replaces v1.2.0.114 SP1

• FEATURE: French translation added.
• FEATURE: Double clicking on an item in the list view opens the link in a new browser tab.
• FIXED: In certain situations RSS Bandit crashes with the following error message 'StartMainGui() exiting main event loop on exception.'
• FIXED: Mouse wheel now supported in embedded Web browser pane.
• FIXED: Changing the maximum item age for a feed does not refresh the feed and download old items still available in the feed.
• FIXED: Synchronizing feed lists caused exceptions if categories were renamed, moved or deleted.
• FIXED: Feeds that use 302 redirects with relative URIs as the location no longer result in 'Unsupported URI format' errors
• FIXED: Fetching feeds behind a proxy no longer results in 'The remote server returned an error: (407) Proxy Authentication Required.' when the feed references a DTD
• FIXED: Duplicate entries when the title of an item changes
• FIXED: Relative URIs in images and links show up with about:blank as their base URI for certain XSLT templates.
• FIXED: Space bar sometimes does not always move to the next unread item
• FIXED: Environment variables are not accepted within Options|Remote Storage configuration protocol "File Share"
• FIXED: Toolbars don't remember that their visible state on restart when RSS Bandit closed via system tray context menu
• FIXED: Feeds returning HTTP 410 status code now disabled automatically and report the error "The requested resource is not longer available"

[Via Dare Obasanjo Obasanjo aka Carnage4Life]

Let me know, if you really like to have a installer supporting also the .NET 1.0 Framework.

Nice little flash movie: Olympics. A Bruno Bozetto production [via Thiemo Mättig]

During my daily feed scanning today I noticed: MS Research Publications is our time far ahead. Here is a snippet of the feed: