Tech Guru - November 2003 Entries

Blogs for Project Management

posted @ Sunday, November 30, 2003 7:26 AM | Feedback (0)

Good idea, using blogs for managing projects!

Viruses Find a New Host: Cell Phones!

posted @ Sunday, November 30, 2003 7:18 AM | Feedback (0)

Slashdot: "A NYTimes article (free reg) describes the dangers posed by viruses as 3G and text-messaging become more common, inluding an incident in '01 where numerous phones in Japan began calling 110 (equivalent to 911 in the U.S.). Wired mentions 13M vulnerable phones in Japan alone."

Ali Daei Passed World's Goal Record

posted @ Sunday, November 30, 2003 7:12 AM | Feedback (0)

Seems he has passed the goal record by scoring his 86th international goal against Lebanon according to AFC. Congratulation to all Iranian.

RSS Enables Simple 'Headline News' on the Run

posted @ Sunday, November 30, 2003 7:09 AM | Feedback (0)

Dan Gillmor is using a PalmOS RSS Reader on his Treo 600 for reading news on his way. Nice! RSS Here, RSS There, RSS Everywhere!

Iranian Top Weblogs Competition Started

posted @ Sunday, November 30, 2003 7:06 AM | Feedback (0)

Like last year, top weblogs will be elected and voted this year too. Only Farsi ones, so I can't participate.

GotDotNet Aggregate RSS Fixed

posted @ Saturday, November 29, 2003 7:01 AM | Feedback (0)

Thanks to Brian Desmond for fixing the GotDotNet Aggregate RSS.

Introducing NDOC

posted @ Saturday, November 29, 2003 6:52 AM | Feedback (0)

From it's web site:
"NDoc generates class libraries documentation from .NET assemblies and the XML documentation files generated by the C# compiler (or an add-on tool for VB.NET)."

Page and Brin's Blog!

posted @ Saturday, November 29, 2003 6:45 AM | Feedback (0)

Hehe, now Google founders got a blog! See what they say: "I've wanted to do a blog for ages but Sergey couldn't manage to set up MovableType. Apparently it's "Just too difficult". Anyway, the other day he suggested that it would be a thousand times easier to just buy Blogger.com. So we did."
And bottom of the page, "No, this is not a real Google page". Via Google Weblog.

Nobel Winnder's Articles

posted @ Saturday, November 29, 2003 6:41 AM | Feedback (0)

Do you remember Shirin Ebadi? The first Iranian Nobel Price winner. You might be intrested in reading some of her publications. Take a look here. Via IranFilter.

Not Bad for the First Time

posted @ Friday, November 28, 2003 5:35 PM | Feedback (0)

Well, I attended First Iran International Web Festival today and payed a 1.5 hours visit. It was not what I expected to be, but not bad for the first time, and there were many troubles for companies which participated including Internet connection and ever lack of power. Anyway, here is Iran and these things are regular. Also attendance of companies was not good at all. The best section of the web festival was attendance of bloggers which was very good.
I saw many of my old friends and got happy talking to some new ones. Most of them are bloggers. Including but not only, Hamed(and his cousin), Mr. Taheri, Ehsani.org, Arashy.com and Tur2.com, iDevCenter and others I can't remember, sorry if I have missed anyone.
Also known companies which attended there were TAKGroup, Mizban, irCyberSpace, IRIB and Dibagaran.
I will write more on it if anything was missed. Don't forget, I am the first who is blogging about it!

MyIE2 v0.9.10 Released

posted @ Friday, November 28, 2003 7:59 AM | Feedback (0)

It is nice, I have been using it for a time. Try it.

Fortune on Google

posted @ Friday, November 28, 2003 7:55 AM | Feedback (0)

Fortune: Can Google Grow Up?. "Over the course of four months FORTUNE has peered behind the curtain at Google, conducting more than two dozen interviews." Via Google Weblog.

RSS End

posted @ Friday, November 28, 2003 7:51 AM | Feedback (0)

The End of RSS, by TELEDYN.

Thanks for Support

posted @ Thursday, November 27, 2003 8:38 AM | Feedback (0)

Thanks for help.net's support for freedom of Internet in Iran. The two documents I have linked in my post are in Farsi.

Microsoft Retires Netmeeting

posted @ Thursday, November 27, 2003 8:07 AM | Feedback (0)

InfoWorld: "SAN FRANCISCO - Microsoft is retiring its six-year-old NetMeeting online conferencing application and instead will push Office Live Meeting, formerly known as PlaceWare, for online meetings. "
The old days we have in RDC, Rayane Doostan Computer. Do you remember? It was nice, an small intranet, actually it was only two modems per each desktop computer and around 7-8 phone lines, with lots of good friends, we had NetMeeting, IRC, NNTP all back in those days, around 6-7 years ago. Gives you 1996-7.

Daei one Goal Away from National Scoring Record

posted @ Thursday, November 27, 2003 7:57 AM | Feedback (0)

Football Asia: "TEHRAN - IRAN skipper Ali Daei scored his 83rd goal for the Iranian National team in Beirut to place himself just behind Ferenc Puskas, the Hungarian football legend and the current best scorer in the history of football with 84 goals."
Wish him to score two tomorrow in Azadi!

Hoder for Parliament!

posted @ Thursday, November 27, 2003 7:50 AM | Feedback (0)

Hoder, an old Iranian blogger, has decided to run for parliament in upcoming elections here in Iran.
Wish you best Hoder.

Swede Solves 100 Year Old Math Puzzle

posted @ Thursday, November 27, 2003 7:46 AM | Feedback (0)

According to unstruct.org, reported from Swedish News Agency, Elin Oxenhielm, a 22 year old math student at Stockholm University, might have solved Hilbert's 16th math problem out of his 23 problems.
I have access to ScienceDirect at university, not at home, but you can read more on it on ScienceDirect. Via Boing Boing Blog.
That's great! 22 year old math student, has solved one Hilbert's problems. Great.

US Welcomes Iran Nuclear Report

posted @ Thursday, November 27, 2003 7:33 AM | Feedback (0)

BBC: "US Welcomes Iran Nuclear Report."
Seems there would be no problem for some time around nuclear issues for Iran. Nice to see that.

Freedom of Internet in Iran

posted @ Wednesday, November 26, 2003 7:52 AM | Feedback (0)

They are blocking more and more web sites. I am willing not to see one of my own web site's blocked a day.
Read about how they are blocking and how to bypass it.

November's Joke

posted @ Wednesday, November 26, 2003 7:49 AM | Feedback (0)

And now, our respectful professor, Dr. Jalali, has said: "Every Iranian, should got his own web site". That's very good. So Iran Telecommunication Corporation starts filtering them all and block those they just don't like. Isn't that right Dr. Jalali? More on Hamed's blog and FarsTec's blog.

Second News via Safari!

posted @ Wednesday, November 26, 2003 7:38 AM | Feedback (0)

Have you ever wondered how a web page looks like using Safari? Here is Second News. It looks pretty nice. Use it, Through the eye of a Mac browser.

ASP.NET Web Site Now Got RSS

posted @ Wednesday, November 26, 2003 7:24 AM | Feedback (0)

www.asp.net now got it's own RSS feed. Via Brian Goldfarb. But what about forums?
I would like instead of checking forums using my browser, I read posts using my aggregator then if I felt need of participation, I just go to the post. Don't you like this?

Mobile RSS

posted @ Wednesday, November 26, 2003 7:19 AM | Feedback (0)

MobileRSS brings RSS feeds to mobile users. Now you can read your blogs using a mobile device. Via help.net.

Debian Servers Hacked

posted @ Tuesday, November 25, 2003 6:47 AM | Feedback (0)

Lockergnome: "Linux distributor Debian reported Friday afternoon that some of its servers have been compromised since Thursday. The alert, posted to several security and Linux mailing lists, stresses that its archive had not been hacked, sparing thousands of installations a potential security nightmare." Read More . . .

"Security at Microsoft" Paper Released

posted @ Tuesday, November 25, 2003 6:45 AM | Feedback (0)

Michael Howard: "A new paper that outlines how Microsoft defends its network is now available here. It's a very good read."

Iran Vice-President is Blogging

posted @ Tuesday, November 25, 2003 6:43 AM | Feedback (0)

Mohammad Ali Abtahi, Iran vice-president, has started blogging. I think he is the first authority of Iran, who has started blogging. BTW, it is in Farsi.

Hello World!

posted @ Tuesday, November 25, 2003 4:39 AM | Feedback (0)

Hello World
I am SAber Khamooshi , studing Information System at Polytechnic University of Yerevan.
my best friend Ali Parvaresh the CEO of irtechies kindly invited me to blogging here , Thanks Ali !

I will write here about everything .

To Be Or Not To Be ?

Have Fun.

Some Changes to Iran Techies

posted @ Monday, November 24, 2003 9:34 PM | Feedback (0)

I lastly got time today to make some changed to Iran Techies. You can reach it from now and on using http://weblogs.irtechies.com/

Welcome Hamed!

posted @ Monday, November 24, 2003 9:32 PM | Feedback (0)

Say a big welcome to Hamed Banaei. A real .NET and Microsoft lover! Yes, we have all kind of techies here at Iran Techies.
You join us too! Send an email to mailbox@aliparvaresh.com

Welcome Saber!

posted @ Monday, November 24, 2003 9:30 PM | Feedback (0)

Saber Khamooshi, is new member of Iran Techies. He has been an old Linux and BSD lover.
Welcome Saber!

The Future of RSS

posted @ Monday, November 24, 2003 7:33 AM | Feedback (0)

Future of RSS is there! RSE, pronounced Rizzy. RSE is what Robert McLaws is thinking of the RSS future.

Blogs are Dying?!

posted @ Monday, November 24, 2003 7:24 AM | Feedback (0)

Are blogs dying? Dan Gillmor is pointing us into these articles: 1, 2, 3. And I saw a great comment on PCMag article, imafish writes: "I never understood the difference between blogs and those awful personal webpages from the 90s."
Do you remember how web looked like in 1996-7? I remember! Do you have any web page saved from those old days? I designed some, but don't have them around, it was all frames!

Interview with PersianBlog Authority

posted @ Monday, November 24, 2003 7:18 AM | Feedback (0)

Blog Street Journal: "Anyone Who cares about Persian blogging, certainly has seen the name "PersianBlog" on Blogshares or here and there on the net. Persianblog, the first completely Persian blogging service is the most welcomed blogzone among Persian language bloggers and as Reza Hashemi tells in the following interview, the biggest Persian cyber community on the internet." Via iranFilter.

When Free Is Not Really Free

posted @ Monday, November 24, 2003 7:16 AM | Feedback (0)

FREE is FREE or not, this is the questions. Via Lockergnome.

How to Build "Windows Media Player"-Like UI

posted @ Sunday, November 23, 2003 8:38 AM | Feedback (0)

Cory Smith now writing articles on how to build a "Windows Media Player"-like UI. Via ShowUsYourBlog

"But I was born powerful; God created me powerful."

posted @ Sunday, November 23, 2003 8:28 AM | Feedback (0)

Reza Zadeh, Iranian strongman retains world super heavyweight lifting title. Congratulation!
VANCOUVER (CP) - Weightlifter Hossein Reza Zadeh says it's not easy keeping the title of world's strongest man, but he had some help Saturday at the World Weightlifting Championships. "When you do heavy lifting, for sure it is difficult," the barrel-chested Iranian said after retaining his super-heavyweight title with lifts totalling 457.5 kilograms. "But I was born powerful; God created me powerful." Read More . . .

National Weather Service

posted @ Saturday, November 22, 2003 4:01 PM | Feedback (0)

help.net: "National Weather Service alerts(US only) are available in RSS 2.0."
And also help.net has used a great skin for his blog. Aggregators don't let us see weblogs much, so we understand changed a bit late!

PDC Sessions on Site Stream

posted @ Saturday, November 22, 2003 3:56 PM | Feedback (0)

Code/Tea/Etc...: "For the next 6 months, many of the PDC Sessions will available at http://microsoft.sitestream.com/PDC2003/Default.htm as streaming audio with synchronized PPT and demos. Check it out!!" COOL.

How Scott Hanselman got into Computers

posted @ Saturday, November 22, 2003 3:43 PM | Feedback (0)

Are you wondering how Scott Hanselman got into computers? Read it yourself! Have you written your own's? Tell me!

DotNetBar Suite 3.4 Released

posted @ Saturday, November 22, 2003 3:40 PM | Feedback (0)

.netWire Headlines: "DevComponents LLC announces the release of DotNetBar Suite 3.4. New release adds WindowsXP style Balloon control with extensive customization options. DotNetBar Suite includes Menus, Toolbars, Dockable Windows, Side Bar, Tab Strips and Explorer Bar controls with full Office 2003, XP, 2000 and Windows XP Theme Support. DotNetBar is 100% native .NET managed component."

Multiple Versions of Internet Explorer

posted @ Saturday, November 22, 2003 3:35 PM | Feedback (0)

Here you can find a guide on how to run multiple versions of IE under Windows XP. Via Lockergnome.

AXBlog RSS Feed

posted @ Saturday, November 22, 2003 3:28 PM | Feedback (0)

I can't view AXBlog RSS feed using FeedDemon anymore. What's wrong there Hamed?

Mounting ISO Files Virtually

posted @ Saturday, November 22, 2003 3:25 PM | Feedback (0)

You might have used Daemon Tools for mounting ISO files virtually till now. I use it a lot, specially while I am using my notebook and I want to see CDs that my notebook's CD drive is not able to read.
I just noticed that Adrian Bateman has pointed to a tool from Microsoft called, Virtual CD-ROM Control Panel for Windows XP. Go and get it!

TECHOPEDIA

posted @ Saturday, November 22, 2003 8:01 AM | Feedback (0)

TECHOPEDIA, is where tech defined. It is JraNil's new Farsi weblog. Congratulation.

Iran International Web Festival

posted @ Saturday, November 22, 2003 7:58 AM | Feedback (0)

First Tehran International Web, Wap and E-Publications Festival, will be held on November 28th to December 2nd, 2003 in Tehran International Trade Center. It includes seminars, exhibitions and competitions. If you like to know what's going on in Iran, come and visit this festival. Also don't worry about participation, take a look at this page for getting your VISA for free! Yes, it is free. If you are ready to come, the festival will also facilitate your accommodation in Tehran during the festival holding days in one of the selected five star hotels.
If you are going to come, leave me a comment so we arrange a time to visit each other!

My Host was Down

posted @ Saturday, November 22, 2003 7:36 AM | Feedback (0)

Sorry to all, but my host was down during last 6 hours. Again, sorry for that.

Introducing IRTechies

posted @ Friday, November 21, 2003 8:21 AM | Feedback (0)

Iran Techies, is a community blog for Iranian tech writers who want to write blogs. Right now I am looking for members, so if you like to write for this blog, feel free to send an email to mailbox@aliparvaresh.com and let me know a username, I will create the username for you and you will have a blog homepage like this: www.irtechies.com/username . Willing to see you on IRTechies. Thanks to Scott for his great blogging software, .Text.

nGallery v1.5 Released

posted @ Friday, November 21, 2003 8:11 AM | Feedback (0)

nGallery v1.5 is Out.

Introducing intraVnews

posted @ Friday, November 21, 2003 8:05 AM | Feedback (0)

Now newsgator has a competition. IntraVnews is another RSS aggregator based on Microsoft Outlook using .NET. What's more? It is free!. Via Scoble.

FTP Errors Explained

posted @ Friday, November 21, 2003 7:21 AM | Feedback (0)

All the FTP errors you need to know. Via Lockergnome.

More on MSN Newsbot

posted @ Thursday, November 20, 2003 8:06 AM | Feedback (0)

As I said, this is not Microsoft itself, it is moreover and Microsoft which forms MSN Newsbot.
"WASHINGTON (AFX) -- Microsoft is making strides is building a powerful rival to compete with Google. In an important step in that direction, Microsoft has teamed up with San Francisco-based Moreover Technologies to develop a continuously updating on the Web, according to the publisher of a newsletter about the search engine business." Read More . . .

Tablet Emulator for VS.NET

posted @ Thursday, November 20, 2003 8:03 AM | Feedback (0)

I was looking for the same today, and found a post about it by Julia Lerman.

Personal Firewall Day

posted @ Thursday, November 20, 2003 7:58 AM | Feedback (0)

Lockergnome: "Personal firewall day is intended to be the day we advocate computer security for desktop machines. Both home and corporate users need up-to-date protection."

Ink Blogs

posted @ Thursday, November 20, 2003 7:52 AM | Feedback (0)

Microsoft says, new tablet OS will allow "ink blogs". Via Anil Dash's Daily Links.

Why Microsoft Teams Should Implement RSS Feed?

posted @ Wednesday, November 19, 2003 7:16 AM | Feedback (0)

Scoble describes why Microsoft should implement RSS feed. RSS Rules!

News Images

posted @ Wednesday, November 19, 2003 7:09 AM | Feedback (0)

Google News, MSN Newsbot and now News Images are good news aggregators. Like Second News! News Images is actually an image news aggregator in which you can take a look at news using images. We are going to make such thing for Second News, though we will be showing headline of the news as the alt of image. No time, much work.
Long live aggregators!

Why Not Yes, No Instead of OK, Cancel

posted @ Wednesday, November 19, 2003 7:02 AM | Feedback (0)

Raymond Chen, is pointing to an important thing. We always have to try putting buttons that match the question. I never read the questions completely unless I see it unfamiliar, then in the answer of: "Do you want to restart now?...OK, Cancel", I can't usually make decision fast. Please choose correct ones.

COMDEX Key Note

posted @ Wednesday, November 19, 2003 6:51 AM | Feedback (0)

Adrian Bateman, is talking about Gate's speech on COMDEX. Take a look.

Digital Pen

posted @ Tuesday, November 18, 2003 4:17 PM | Feedback (0)

The i-pen, a USB digitial pen that works with Microsoft Office programs , moreee

Sun lands 500,000 desktop Linux deal

posted @ Tuesday, November 18, 2003 1:49 PM | Feedback (0)

Not a good news !!!

Sun chief executive Scott McNealy used his Comdex appearance to take his customary swipe at Microsoft, announcing a massive open source deal with the Chinese government signed in part because the Chinese authorities "didn't like the alternative". more

Linux, Mac and Longhorn

posted @ Tuesday, November 18, 2003 8:00 AM | Feedback (0)

Interesting article, read it yourself. Via Andrej Budja on Longhorn.

Google Censorship

posted @ Tuesday, November 18, 2003 7:55 AM | Feedback (0)

"Google Censorship I discovered it while trying to search "kazaalite" in Google. Try it yourself. The result is interesting." Via Geek Style.

MSN Newsbot

posted @ Tuesday, November 18, 2003 7:45 AM | Feedback (0)

And now... MSN Newsbot! From their website:
"MSN Newsbot (beta) is an experimental, automated news service. We gather news from over 4,000 sources on the internet and speed your discovery of news stories. News headlines are clustered together to allow you to compare coverage from multiple sources and each story links to the publisher's site where you can read the full article."
I think they are using moreover as their partner as they have said in their About page. And all the crawls are actually done by moreover in my opinion. Also one weak point on it, they only use Reuters pictures, I can't see pictures from any other news resource, but one the other hand, they are able to cluster news which is very nice. Availble editions are UK, France, Spain and Italy.
Hehe, Microsoft might think that they are the first .NET news aggregator, but they are not, since Second News have been before them. Second News is purely based on .NET and uses technologies such as, Windows Applications, Windows Services, Web Applications and lastly Web Services. Via Buzz Machine.

Weblog Spam, Blam Project

posted @ Tuesday, November 18, 2003 7:30 AM | Feedback (0)

Blam, Blacklist Manager, is a project aiming to help bloggers in their fight against comment spam. Via Dive Into Mark.

Blogs are Updated Every 0.86 Seconds

posted @ Tuesday, November 18, 2003 7:27 AM | Feedback (0)

Boing Boing from Technorati: "In March of this year, when we switched over to a 5 server cluster, we were keeping up with about 4,000-5,000 new weblogs each day. Right now, we're adding 8,000-9,000 new weblogs every day, not counting the 1.2 Million weblogs we already are tracking. That means that on average, a brand new weblog is created every 11 seconds. We're also seeing about 100,000 weblogs update every day as well, which means that on average, a weblog is updated every 0.86 seconds."

Why Microsoft Wants to Buy Google?

posted @ Monday, November 17, 2003 8:13 AM | Feedback (0)

Slashdot answers this question: "Why Microsoft Wants to Buy Google".

Now Blogger's RSS using Feedster!

posted @ Monday, November 17, 2003 8:11 AM | Feedback (0)

Feedster is doing a great job on giving out automated RSS for which ever Blogger based blog you want. Keep going!

Kasparov Wins Game 3 Against X3D Fritz

posted @ Monday, November 17, 2003 8:06 AM | Feedback (0)

"Garry Kasparov just brilliantly won game 3 in the Kasparov vs. X3D Fritz chess match, which pits man against machine." Read More . . .

Copyright Troubles!

posted @ Sunday, November 16, 2003 8:11 AM | Feedback (0)

Hmm, I was surfing some weblogs today morning, and checked Iran W3School. He had a link to Iran-IT.net web site in which they present Farsi news around IT. And I saw a familiar article on their first page, What is ADSL! One of my oldest articles which I think I wrote one year ago. I got happy for the reason that my articles are still useful for Iran IT community but I suddenly noticed they have not even written down my name as the author. That's not fair... Please respect copy right laws at least toward things that don't make you pay money! Did I ask for money!? Compare these two yourself. 1, 2.
Seems FarsTec is suffering same thing with a newspaper called Abrar. What can I say to a web site when newspapers aren't respecting rules?

More About Second News

posted @ Sunday, November 16, 2003 6:59 AM | Feedback (0)

First of all, special thanks to Tur2 and Keyvan Nayyeri for their kind words toward us about Second News.
Let me explain a bit his questions. Second News does not use any RSS feed even if the target site provides. It only uses the regular web pages and nothing more. And about it's speed. Right now it is working too fast and we are working more and more on it to make it better using improved computer algorithms. And also it does not update when a user refreshes it's page, it updates during specified intervals. And also Second News brings pictures for every single headline news which got a picture on it's main source and also 3 line of news body so you get what they news is on.
I hope this makes you more clear, if you got more questions, don't hesitate to ask.

Spammers are here

posted @ Sunday, November 16, 2003 6:49 AM | Feedback (0)

Ah, I had to delete 10 spam comments yesterday, is there anything availble for .Text to prevent spams?

RSS in Longhorn

posted @ Sunday, November 16, 2003 6:45 AM | Feedback (0)

Here you can see a picture to be sure that Longhorn supports RSS!

Yahoo! Won't Waste It's Time in Iran

posted @ Sunday, November 16, 2003 6:37 AM | Feedback (0)

Yea, of course they won't be giving even time for Iran. Take a look at article on IRNA.
Let me tell you something, I contacted one of Iranians who is in contact with Google in US, and we tried to activate Google.ir, just we told that we will register it and we will give the domain name to them just they use it for Farsi search and things like that. We have been still waiting without any reply!
Then you talking about Yahoo! to invest on Iran? Do not even think of it!

Programming and Music!

posted @ Saturday, November 15, 2003 6:53 AM | Feedback (0)

Last night, I posted about Mathematics and Art. Now programming and music's relationship. Take a look.

Microsoft and RSS

posted @ Saturday, November 15, 2003 6:52 AM | Feedback (0)

I didn't know that Microsoft has built in an RSS aggregator in Longhorn. That's great. Take a look and see why Scoble believes Microsoft is not going to kill web. Read More . . .

No Comments, Explained

posted @ Saturday, November 15, 2003 6:47 AM | Feedback (0)

.NET Guy discusses blog spammers.

Soon a Great Weblog...

posted @ Saturday, November 15, 2003 6:35 AM | Feedback (0)

I will be setting up a new blog soon, in a day or two which will be dedicated to... Let me set it up, you will see it yourself.

The Feedster Builder

posted @ Saturday, November 15, 2003 6:30 AM | Feedback (0)

Feedster Builder, is a tool in which you can generate RSS feed for the web sites which don't have RSS feed. You should be it's webmaster and add some span tags so it can find correct data on your web site. It is good for those who use Blogger service. PLEASE make one for yourself so we can read web sites easier and easier using aggregators. Thanks in advance!

Art and Mathematics

posted @ Friday, November 14, 2003 8:45 PM | Feedback (0)

Mathematics, as much as music or any other art, is one of the means by which we rise to a complete self-consciousness. The significance of mathematics resides precisely in the fact that it is an art; by informing us of the nature of our own minds it informs us of much that depends on our minds. John William Navin Sullivan, (1886 - 1937) Aspects of Science, 1925. Via Chemistry Coach.

Allow Sound Redirection in RDC

posted @ Friday, November 14, 2003 8:03 AM | Feedback (0)

HOW TO: Use Group Policy to Permit Users to Redirect and Play Audio in a Remote Desktop Session to Terminal Services in Windows Server 2003

Enable the "Allow Audio Redirection" Group Policy Setting Click Start, and then click Run. In the Open box, type mmc, and then click OK. On the File menu, click Add/Remove Snap-in. Click Add. Click Group Policy Object Editor, and then click Add. Under Group Policy Object, specify the Group Policy object that you want (for example, Local Computer Policy), and then click Finish. Click Close, and then click OK. In the console tree, expand the policy, expand Computer Configuration, expand Administrative Templates, expand Windows Components, expand Terminal Services, and then click Client/Server data redirection. In the right pane, double-click Allow audio redirection. Click Enabled, and then click OK.
Read More . . .

All Video Codecs

posted @ Friday, November 14, 2003 7:52 AM | Feedback (0)

I was facing so many troubles yesterday with Indeo Video codec format and I lastly find a page in which you can download all kind of codecs. Here you go.

ASCII Matrix

posted @ Friday, November 14, 2003 7:50 AM | Feedback (0)

The Matrix in ASCII format. Via /var/log/blog.

Next First Computing Story

posted @ Friday, November 14, 2003 7:43 AM | Feedback (0)

That's good, everyone is going to write one! 80/20 Solution's first computing story.

.Text Forum

posted @ Friday, November 14, 2003 7:41 AM | Feedback (0)

Now .Text got a forum instead of mailing list. MUCH more better.

Longhorn Interface

posted @ Friday, November 14, 2003 7:38 AM | Feedback (0)

A simulation of Longhorn Glass interface that works with IE. Try it here. Via Longhorn From India.

Second News and Google Adsens

posted @ Thursday, November 13, 2003 8:01 AM | Feedback (0)

Now Second News has joined Google AdSense project to cover a part of it's expenses. It was a good experience, you try for your own English website too, it might help you. Just read policies and terms of use before. I spent an hour yesterday only to study everything about AdSense.
Some parts of Second News will be changing these days, adding some new parts, improving pages. Second News is going on, join us at www.secondnews.com.

Longhorn Availble on MSDN

posted @ Thursday, November 13, 2003 7:55 AM | Feedback (0)

Those who are subscribed to MSDN now are able to download Longhorn. Via Philip Rieck.

.NET Guy and First Computing

posted @ Thursday, November 13, 2003 7:49 AM | Feedback (0)

.NET Guy writes on his first computing experience. I think it would be nice if everyone starts writing one.

Kasparov Started Fighting

posted @ Thursday, November 13, 2003 7:40 AM | Feedback (0)

Kasparov has started fighting with computer and Kasparov has drawn in the first match. I hope he wins in total of four matches, not the computer! Wish you good luck Kasparov!Read More . . .

Artificial Intelligence ChatBot

posted @ Wednesday, November 12, 2003 7:40 AM | Feedback (0)

Great job! This project can be used in many cases. Thanks to help.net.
"An AI (Artificial Intelligence) chatbot is a computer program that simulates a human chatting with other humans. With the TANU (Transplantable Artificial Neurological Units) architecture you can create, train and deploy your AI chatbot to ANY IRC or non-IRC chat network. That means ANYWERE you chat you can bring your TANU chatbot."

Longhorn Transformation Pack for Windows XP

posted @ Wednesday, November 12, 2003 7:29 AM | Feedback (0)

Lockergnome: "This download will make Windows XP and Windows Server 2003 look like Longhorn. Windows X made the Longhorn Transformation Pack which changes resources and some graphic designs to look like Longhorn."
I gonna make my life into Longhorn!

Defining 'Local' in the Internet Age

posted @ Wednesday, November 12, 2003 7:26 AM | Feedback (0)

Dan Gillmor defines local in the Internet age.

RTL and LTR in RSS?

posted @ Wednesday, November 12, 2003 7:22 AM | Feedback (0)

I am wondering if there is anyway to let aggregators know which RSS should be loaded Right-To-Left like my mother language, Farsi, and which RSS to be loaded Left-To-Right. It might be possible for RTL languages to add HTML tags somehow in their RSS so that body text of their post would be read RTL in any aggregator, but what about the subject? I think most aggregators remove HTML tags of subject.
Do you know any aggregator which supports RTL? So that you can modify an RSS and force the aggregator to load it automatically RTL.

Longhron @ MSDN RSS Feed

posted @ Tuesday, November 11, 2003 7:29 AM | Feedback (0)

RSS feed of Longhron page on MSDN. Via DotNetJunkie XL on the 7th Floor.

RSS Aggregators

posted @ Tuesday, November 11, 2003 7:23 AM | Feedback (0)

Here you can find a great list of RSS aggregators.

Second News Now Updates Every 15 Minutes

posted @ Tuesday, November 11, 2003 7:12 AM | Feedback (0)

And now, Second News updates and brings fresh news from 'net every 15 minutes. We are going to add many other news resources within this week. If you like to see an special news resource in our web site, feel free to leave me a comment. Also for US readers, soon a US edition will be added an it well have an RSS feed.

Happy Birthday Computer Viruses!

posted @ Tuesday, November 11, 2003 6:55 AM | Feedback (0)

Hehe, this post is not related to the previous one, not at all!
BBC: "This week computer viruses celebrate 20 years of causing trouble and strife to all types of computer users. US student Fred Cohen was behind the first documented virus that was created as an experiment in computer security."

Happy Birthday Windows

posted @ Tuesday, November 11, 2003 6:52 AM | Feedback (0)

About.com: "On November 10, 1983, at the Plaza Hotel in New York City, Microsoft Corporation formally announced Microsoft Windows, a next-generation operating system that would provide a graphical user interface (GUI) and multitasking environment for IBM computers. Microsoft promised that the new program would be on the shelf by April 1984." Via Anil Dash's Daily Links.

Introducing 40tude Dialog

posted @ Monday, November 10, 2003 7:03 AM | Feedback (0)

Royo has introduced a great news reader and it has been so far so good for me as well. Check it yourself.

VPC 2004 Will be Released Next Week

posted @ Monday, November 10, 2003 7:01 AM | Feedback (0)

According to SBC DotNet Weblog, Microsoft will be releasing Virtual PC 2004 to manufacturing next week and it also supports Linux.

First Public Longhorn Application Released

posted @ Monday, November 10, 2003 6:53 AM | Feedback (0)

Robert McLaws : "Jason Nadal posts what may be the first real-world application for Longhorn. It takes spoken words and translates it to a .Text post. Pretty nifty, but it only works on Longhorn. I'll be checking it out as soon as I get a DVD drive and Longhorn running."

A Blog Service is Blocked by an ISP

posted @ Monday, November 10, 2003 6:47 AM | Feedback (0)

Now, things are becoming too funny.
According to ITIran, the biggest free persian blogging service, PersianBlog, has blocked access of the biggest Iranian ISP's, ParsOnline, users to it's website and ParsOnline has blocked PersianBlog's website in return. Too funny, nah? I was ParsOnline's user for a long time, maybe 2 years, and after the same thing happened 4 months ago, I left them for ever.

The Shape of Weblog Software

posted @ Sunday, November 09, 2003 7:00 AM | Feedback (0)

Scripting News writes on future of weblog software:
"Weblog software is going to be like mail servers. Lots of ways to deploy, every niche filled. For the masses, services like Yahoo, MSN and AOL. Blogging servers for corporations, inside and outside of the firewall. For schools, for the military, specialized systems for lawyers, librarians, professors, reporters, magazines, daily newspapers. The next President will have a blog. Writing for the Web, the prevailing form of publishing in the early 21st Century, will come in many sizes and shapes, flavors and styles. It won't be one-size-fits-all. Open formats and protocols will make this possible. I'd bet on the formats and protocols we're using now, RSS 2.0, OPML and the Blogger API."

Second Anniversary of Persian Blogging

posted @ Sunday, November 09, 2003 6:55 AM | Feedback (0)

Hoder writes on the second anniversary of persian blogging.

More on Wallop

posted @ Sunday, November 09, 2003 6:46 AM | Feedback (0)

Study more on MyWallop, Microsoft's blogging tool.

Sharpreader v0.9.3 is Out

posted @ Saturday, November 08, 2003 7:29 AM | Feedback (0)

According to Santomania new version of Sharpreader witha better memory performance is out.

All Headline News

posted @ Saturday, November 08, 2003 7:23 AM | Feedback (0)

Another news aggregation service. It is called All Headline News and only brings headlines to you. We bring news summary and it's photo as well on Second News! And it is too powerful in RSS field and it has been announced by Scripting News.

Blog on

posted @ Saturday, November 08, 2003 7:17 AM | Feedback (0)

"Forget whistling while you work. Many Googlers are blogging while hard at work on the world's largest search engine, thanks to a simple technology Evan Williams developed." Read More . . .

Microsoft Fails to Renew Hotmail.co.uk Domain

posted @ Saturday, November 08, 2003 7:10 AM | Feedback (0)

The Register: "Microsoft was busy covering up an almighty cock-up last night after forgetting to renew its hotmail.co.uk domain name. Despite being warned that the domain for its popular Web mail service was up for renewal, it seems Microsoft - or whoever had the task of managing its hotmail.co.uk domain - overlooked this vital piece of administration."

More Than 13000 News at Second News

posted @ Friday, November 07, 2003 11:00 AM | Feedback (0)

You can see, 13000 news right now in Second News, only after two weeks with limited number of news resources we are using for the moment. Soon we will give ability to search on them or simply take a look at archive pages. Support us, leave me comments and tell me what else you need. We are willing to hear from you.

Matrix Tree

posted @ Friday, November 07, 2003 10:03 AM | Feedback (0)

Have you ever wondered how many spanning trees do we have on any type of Graphs?
There is a method called Matrix Tree which uses Linear Algebra for working with graphs. In this article you can learn more about this subject, specially how to count spanning trees. Right now I am busy with this article.
Soon I will give out an article in English concerning how to find articulation points in a graph using VB.NET. I use adjacency matrixes as it's base.

FeedDemon News

posted @ Friday, November 07, 2003 6:56 AM | Feedback (0)

First of all, Nick has created a great newsgroup, feeddemon.user.feeds in which you can offer RSS feeds to others! And also FeedDemon v1.0 RC3 is out and he says that this will be the last RC before finalrelease.

Google Deskbar

posted @ Friday, November 07, 2003 6:44 AM | Feedback (0)

After Google Toolbar, now it is Deskbar's turn. Google Deskbar.
"Google Deskbar enables you to search with Google from any application without lifting your fingers from the keyboard. Installs easily in your Windows taskbar."

Blogging is So Serious in Iran

posted @ Friday, November 07, 2003 6:42 AM | Feedback (0)

Yea, it is too serious because some Iranian bloggers are going to have a pavilion at Tehran International Web, Wap and E-Publications Festival. Some of the bloggers had a meeting last night at a coffee shop last night, including Hamed.
But can someone let us know what you bloggers going to do there?

Now Microsoft Knows How Hamed Loves Them!

posted @ Thursday, November 06, 2003 3:12 PM | Feedback (0)

Hehe, I was talking to Scoble last night while he was at office, and we talked about everything including Hamed! And I told him that Hamed is a real Microsoft Lover. Now Scoble has talked about him on his own weblog.
"One neat thing about working for Microsoft is that you get to meet all sorts of cool geeks from all over the world. Today I was introduced to Hamed Banaei who writes his blog from Tehran, Iran. His friend Ali tells me that Hamed had the first .NET-oriented blog in Iran and that he loves Microsoft so much that he downloaded all the PDC videos on his modem. Now that's dedication! Not to mention, isn't looking at the PDC videos banned in Iran? My wife tells me that looking at Aero and Avalon is a crime in Iran. Or so she heard. Seriously, Hamed and Ali live under threat of having their web sites blocked by their government. Those are tough blogging conditions!" Read More . . .

BgInfo (SysInternals)

posted @ Thursday, November 06, 2003 8:10 AM | Feedback (0)

BgInfo, the one I have been looking for. From it's website:
"If you manage multiple computers you probably need BGInfo. It automatically displays relevant information about a Windows computer on the desktop's background, such as the computer name, IP address, service pack version, and more." Via JonGalloway

Regulator v1.02a is Out

posted @ Thursday, November 06, 2003 8:07 AM | Feedback (0)

Roy has released another version of his great tool, Regulator.

And Now... PDC Hands on Labs Online

posted @ Thursday, November 06, 2003 8:03 AM | Feedback (0)

According to Julia Lerman, the PDC Hands on Labs will be online for free for all over the world. Kewl.

Matrix Revolutions

posted @ Thursday, November 06, 2003 7:53 AM | Feedback (0)

It is released now. Read More . . .

Damasanj RSS?

posted @ Thursday, November 06, 2003 7:36 AM | Feedback (0)

What's wrong with Damasanj.com RSS feed? It never updates for me. Leave me a comment and tell me whether you can use it or not.

Nikhil is Back

posted @ Thursday, November 06, 2003 7:26 AM | Feedback (0)

I just noticed that his weblog has become active again. Welcome back. To those who don't know who he is: Nikhil is the author of "Developing Microsoft ASP.NET Server Controls and Components" from MS Press.

Longhorn SDK

posted @ Wednesday, November 05, 2003 7:05 AM | Feedback (0)

Scoble points where you can reach online version of Longhorn SDK, on MSDN.

IE 7 Popup Blocker

posted @ Wednesday, November 05, 2003 7:03 AM | Feedback (0)

Now seems Internet Explorer 7.0 on Windows Longhorn includes a popup blocker too. So no need for Google Toolbar or MyIE for blocking popups anymore.

Mercedes SLR=NewsGator

posted @ Wednesday, November 05, 2003 7:00 AM | Feedback (0)

Though I don't use NewsGator myself, but Greg Reinacker is using his logic to show us:
"People who like the Mercedes SLR will like NewsGator."
It can be right!

100MB Free Blog Host using MT

posted @ Wednesday, November 05, 2003 6:57 AM | Feedback (0)

Someone is offering a 100MB free blog hosting based on Movable Type at weblogs.us. Via Brian Goldfarb.

Red Hat Cans Linux Distribution

posted @ Wednesday, November 05, 2003 6:51 AM | Feedback (0)

The actuall Linux leader, Red Hat, is going to change his way.
EWeek: "Leading Linux distributor Red Hat Inc. on Monday made clear its intention to focus on the enterprise space, telling customers that it will no longer be maintaining or releasing any of the its Red Hat Linux line after the end of April 2004."
Does it smell well to the open source lovers? I don't think so.

Now IRC is Google's Target

posted @ Wednesday, November 05, 2003 6:48 AM | Feedback (0)

According to Google Weblog, Google will be sending bots to IRC rooms to index them. I can imagine that many IRC rooms will be blocking Google's IP address as soon as they know what it is. I don't know why Google wants to know everything all over the world? Will Google index our home one day?

How to Download PDC Sessions!

posted @ Tuesday, November 04, 2003 7:47 AM | Feedback (0)

Are you tired of using "Save target as..."?
Get here and use the application Robert McLaws has coded to download them all with ease.

An Easy Way to Enable SSL on IIS

posted @ Tuesday, November 04, 2003 7:44 AM | Feedback (0)

Nice guide by Oddue Magnusson.
It has been a head ache to enable to IIS till now, but by this way, it will be more fun. Thanks!

.NET Toolbox reviewing nGallery

posted @ Tuesday, November 04, 2003 7:32 AM | Feedback (0)

"nGallery is a recent, open-source Web application that enables you to showcase your photos on the Web. It can be plugged into any existing site, or ran as a stand-alone application. It is freeware, open-source and is a pure .NET implementation written in C#." Read More . . .

PDC Video Content

posted @ Tuesday, November 04, 2003 7:20 AM | Feedback (0)

PDC Highlights Day One, Two and Three. Via Andrej Budja on Longhorn.

Iranian Filmmakers Released in Iraq

posted @ Tuesday, November 04, 2003 7:12 AM | Feedback (0)

Second News: "TEHRAN, Nov 3, (AFP) -- Two Iranian journalists working for state-run television were freed Monday by US authorities in Iraq after being held there for over four months on suspicion of spying, state media reported." Read More . . .

Cafe Blog

posted @ Tuesday, November 04, 2003 7:04 AM | Feedback (0)

What ever that you think can be related to blogs can be found in Iran! Now cafe blog:
"I'm not sure if there is any Cafe for bloggers in other cities, but there is one in Tehran. Actually it's recently opened in a northern area of Tehran and Ive heard that it's quite popular among Tehranian bloggers. It's called Cafe Blog and based on the website, they held some basic technical workshops for their members. There are some photos from their opening on their website." Via Boing Boing Blog.

PDC 2003 Sessions

posted @ Monday, November 03, 2003 7:13 AM | Feedback (0)

If you haven't been at PDC, now you can download all PowerPoint slides from MSDN. Via Bill Evjen looks at Longhorn.

Crack the code and win prizes

posted @ Monday, November 03, 2003 7:07 AM | Feedback (0)

Lockergnome: "Crypto Challenge IV is now open! Be the first to crack the code and win the Nikon Coolpix SQ or Kevin Mitnick's Art of Deception."

Indigo Introduction

posted @ Monday, November 03, 2003 7:05 AM | Feedback (0)

Indigo introduction at MSDN.

Credit Card in Iran!

posted @ Monday, November 03, 2003 7:02 AM | Feedback (0)

Hehe, these people are so funny.
They are talk about giving out credit cards in Iran, so when I am going to pay on the 'net, my connection suddenly gets lost either because of wonderful backbones (!) or our phone lines which may be disconnected without any regular reason, and the money which I was going to pay only reduces from my credit card and I don't get what I wanted and make me to repay!
For sure it can be successful, but please first make your connection stable, and then...
I know that they are not talking about credit cards for 'net usage, but sure they are to do this as well.

DotNetRocks @ MSDN

posted @ Sunday, November 02, 2003 4:09 PM | Feedback (0)

It is on MSDN now. Here it is.

We should ask government before InterNIC!

posted @ Sunday, November 02, 2003 7:44 AM | Feedback (0)

With all the respect to my blog readers, but please let me know what you think fo the story I talk on today!
Those who can read Farsi, please go to here. And the rest follow me:
Our respectful government has asked us to get a license before establishing a new web site, and if we don't, our web site will be blocked! Doesn't matter what it includes, Google, Microsoft, Yahoo and all of those who haven't get any license yet, please be fast! If you don't get license from our government, you will be missing this little amount of visitors from inside of Iran becasue you will be blocked. And also InterNIC, pay attention, please be sure that have got our license before registering a domain from Iran.
More you can find about this story on: ITIran, Sector Zero, Hamed Banaei
Though they have denied it after some hours, but I remember this very clearly that they asked for getting license some months back.

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