http://www.digiwar.com Tue, 06 Mar 2007 23:38:46 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en I've been running Vista ever since it came out on MSDN and I'm pretty happy with it. There were two things that bothered me more then anything, The first one is Rundll32 crashes when I have a folder contianing videos in thumbnail mode and apparent random crashes of Explorer.exe. Unable to ... http://www.digiwar.com/archives/2007/03/07/171/ Just a notice that the blog isn't dead. It's just that I'm totally addicted to World of Warcraft. I've been playing it since the european launch and I'm playing it really heavy the last couple of months. And now the expansion has been released, so I'm more engrossed in the ... http://www.digiwar.com/archives/2007/02/02/170/ So on friday Windows Vista was available for download at MSDN. Actually, it was available thursday night, so I got lucky and downloaded it before the big rush I guess. After I got the download in, I burned it to DVD and started installing it on my laptop. Now, I use ... http://www.digiwar.com/archives/2006/11/18/169/ I needed SNMP support for an ASP.NET application that I maintain. There are several options for getting SNMP in .NET. One apparently is that SNMP is supported by means of WMI. I couldn't find it. Perhaps that's because I only needed to support sending SNMP traps and not receiving SNMP ... http://www.digiwar.com/archives/2006/10/16/168/ A little while back I wrote how I was getting annoyed by Firefox more and more. So last weekend I talked some computer stuff with some friends and I mentioned the "Firefox eats my RAM"-problem. I one of my friends told me the old story of how this was a ... http://www.digiwar.com/archives/2006/08/21/167/ Last night I implemented favicon icons in Feed Vortex. I'd seen this in FeedDemon and I really liked it. Instead of the icons I designed for Feed Vortex (which are pretty ugly), you can see the icons the site a feed belongs to uses. This adds some color and some ... http://www.digiwar.com/archives/2006/08/14/164/ You've probably seen it before sometimes. You install an application and it's Installshield installer requires(!!) you to fill in a company name. I just had it again with the demo of Dark Messiah of Might and Magic. It's a game for crying out loud! Why the hell do I need ... http://www.digiwar.com/archives/2006/08/12/163/ I don't want to bash Apple, but I don't get the hype. They're just as bad with software as Microsoft is. In fact, I'd say Apple is worse on marketing, because they continue to bash on Microsoft. Just look at this post by Robert McLaws and the accompanying pictures. It ... http://www.digiwar.com/archives/2006/08/10/162/ Allright, so I talked about my growing problems with FireFox recently. So now I was at the biggest webpage on the internet and found a hidden Firefox advertisement in there. The webpage says you should use Firefox, because: "It offers improved speed, security, and simplicity. It's tabs feature alone makes ... http://www.digiwar.com/archives/2006/08/05/161/ So last week I was implementing the Google Authentication for Installed Applications in Feed Vortex and after I solved the cross-thread GUI access problems I ran into a new batch of problems. You see, Google authenticates using cookies, but when you use the Google Authentication API for desktop applications you ... http://www.digiwar.com/archives/2006/07/19/159/ What is it with rebooting these days? I was so happy with Windows 2000 and then with Windows XP where Microsoft removed tens, maybe even hundreds of reasons Windows needed to reboot. Only driver updates or service pack installs should require a reboot. Yet, when I wanted update Acrobat Reader, I ... http://www.digiwar.com/archives/2006/07/12/157/ This is something I've had on my "to-write"-list for some time now. When I started working on Feed Vortex I wanted to have a treeview with the feeds you we're subscribed to and when you'd have unread articles the feed would have its name in a bold font and the number ... http://www.digiwar.com/archives/2006/07/12/147/ You've probably seen the new Apple advertisements. If not, take a look here. I think they're pretty funny. I think they are typical advertisements. I mean, they are from a company that tries to sell it's own product, so ofcourse their product is the hip new cool youngster. A few years ago ... http://www.digiwar.com/archives/2006/05/13/156/ I've recently created a whole new homepage for my Feed Reader. The idea is that I'll put general announcements concerning Feed Vortex on there. Ofcourse, the technical articles will still be posted here. If you are interested have a look at: http://www.feedvortex.com[Now playing: Killswitch Engage - When Darkness Falls] http://www.digiwar.com/archives/2006/05/13/155/ The plug-in redesign is as good as done. It's not useful right now, a lot of stuff is still hardcoded, but the basics are there. If I ever decide to make this plug-in thing work I should be able to do so without too much effort. I also had to deal ... http://www.digiwar.com/archives/2006/04/27/154/ When I announced I was going to write my own Google Reader front-end, I also mentioned I might put the Google Reader API specs on this website. I haven't done this so far, so this might be a good time to start. I'm not going to put up a page with ... http://www.digiwar.com/archives/2006/04/19/153/ So I wanted FeedME to be versatile. I want it to be able to use any back-end. So for that to be possible I need to create a plug-in architecture so you can easily write a DLL that provides a new back-end to FeedME. The plug-in architecure is basically just ... http://www.digiwar.com/archives/2006/04/18/152/ I'm already working on the 4th alpha version of FeedME. I added a lot of stuff and decided it was time for a overhaul. That's the downside to creating a program without a full-fledged design. But it makes the programming more fun. The reason for the overhaul is that I wanted ... http://www.digiwar.com/archives/2006/04/18/151/ Here is an interesting error message IIS gave me when I tried to start the default website: Unexpected error 0x8ffe2740 occurred Ofcourse, what it meant to say was: Port is already in use. If it had said that directly I would've immediatly known what was wrong. Now I had to Google for ... http://www.digiwar.com/archives/2006/04/11/150/ I have made very good progress on my news aggregator using the Google Reader back-end. It's in a state where it's useful enough for dialy use. So that's exactly what I'm going to do. Also, with a few minor adjustments, I'm going to release it as the first alpha version. ... http://www.digiwar.com/archives/2006/03/11/149/