Sjoerd Visscher explains the diffs betw Echo and RSS. [Scripting News]
An interesting discussion of the evolution of RSS technology. The problem is broken feeds. The central question in the debate is whether RSS 2.0 is a better path forward than a completely new and clean spec, Echo. Proponents of Echo believe that we should make a clean break with RSS 0.91 and 1.0.
Yesterday my son decided he wanted to run Win98 again. He has Age of Empires installed on it. So we rebooted his desktop. His machine is dual boot with Win98 and WinXP. The default boot is for WinXP so we have not been in Win98 for quite some time. Guess what? It said I had the wrong password for the network login. I tried several times and locked out the account. It took me a couple of times of locking out the account before I realized that maybe one of my security changes to the Group Policy my have affected the login. This morning I focused my attention on the LAN Manager Authentication Level. I researched the problem and found that Dsclient can use either Lan Manager or NTLM. It uses Lan Manger by default. If you want to use NTLM 2 as recommended by CIS you must change the registry to enable NTLM Authentification as shown in Q239869 – How to Enable NTLM 2 Authenication.
The sourceforge newsletter mentioned something called tortoisecvs. I will probably download it when it releases the next stable version which looks like it will be soon. I would like to use it locally so I also looked at the new version of CVSNT. This version uses the active directory. Since I have committed my time next week to SOS I will not look at these products for another week.
History of RSS date formats. I want to talk about prior art. But I can't do that yet, because first I need to give my opinion about this “funky RSS” business. (1142 words) [dive into mark]
As long as I have worked with computers date formats have been an issue and that is a long time. Its kind of sad that date formats are the source of this “funky RSS” business. The good news is that Mark wrote a nice essay on the history of dates in RSS.
new macro. I found the most wonderful script on the workbench. One macro and voila! All my posts on one page. Sweet! [Adam Curry: Adam Curry's Weblog]
This is something I wondered about but it was a low priority. Sweet, yes!
Logo on the gogo. A free online library of over 5,000 corporate logos in Adobe Illustrator format may be just the thing if your corporate client sends you a small, crummy GIF image when you repeatedly request original vector artwork. The large archive is organized alphabetically and includes a fast Search function. You may preview any logo before downloading. [Jeffrey Zeldman Presents: The Daily Report]
I checked it out. Its a Russian site but it looks like some folks just trying to get everyone using better quality logos.
I found an interesting item for Internet Explorer. Netscape has a wonderful plugin called Checky. I really should use Netscape more often. The closest IE comes is favlets. Some work… some don't… mileage varies. When it works you click on favorite item and it runs a javascript that validates your current page. I want my web pages to work so this makes it easy for me to test. It avoids a little key entry. The key issue is reading the errors and warnings the validator generates and clean them up.
I found another place to update for the new administrator userid. I wasn't getting my daily reports.
Thomas Carlyle. “What we become depends on what we read after all of the professors have finished with us. The greatest university of all is a collection of books.” [Quotes of the Day]