So, Microsoft bans modified XBoxes from XBox Live. I may be alone, but I honestly think that’s a reasonable move in the favor of – plain and simple – gameplay. The whole online “play with random folks on the Internet” is only fun as long noone is cheating. Mod your box as you wish, but don’t ruin my game-night with using an “invulnerability hack”. I think that putting mod-chips into the XBox certainly isn’t an evil...
Here’s a reminder to get your disaster recovery plans up to date and not to keep all backups on site. Very sad. University of Twente NOC Destroyed [Slashdot]
WS-Security and SAML got this year’s PC Magazine technical excellence award in the Protocols category. Congratulations to the authors. Cool. (Did I say “draft standards” anywhere here ?)
The event I’ve been waiting all weekend to announce: Everett is out!Visual Studio .NET 2003 Final Beta is here:For MSDN members only: download: http://msdn.microsoft.com/subscriptions/resources/subdwnld.aspsite: http://msdn.microsoft.com/vstudio/productinfo/vstudio03/ [Sam Gentile’s Weblog] …. that event is also an event that’s releasing me of yet another NDA. It’s a “freedom of speech” event. Celebrate! There’s tons of cool new things in Everett, but don’t look for the next wave of revolutions. Everett comes with very many little improvements here and...
Sigh….Net Server: Three delays a charm? [Scott Hanselman’s Weblog] Translated into a bit of my world: The server-version of COM+ 1.5 now ships in April 2003. Sigh!