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Saturday 10th, May 2008

Badkey move to ADSL XS4all 20 May 200805/10/2008 10:10 PM

During May 20th we will move to a new provider: XS4all (UK) or XS4all (NL).

We will use the ADSL Lite: 8/1Mbit during this period the website will be less active

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Release Notes for Windows XP Service Pack 3. Remote Desktop Client 6.1 (KB 937468)05/10/2008 04:09 PM

Remote Desktop Connection
If you have installed the prerelease version of Remote Desktop Client 6.1 (KB 937468),
and then install Windows XP SP3, the desktop will continuously display the text "For testing purposes only. Build 2600.xp_sp2_gdr…", and you will not be able to uninstall KB 937468 using Add/Remove Programs.

To avoid this, uninstall KB 937468 before you install Windows XP SP3.

If you have already encountered this issue, follow these steps to remove the test certificate that is responsible for the text message being displayed.
To remove the test certificate. Click Start, click Run, type certmgr.msc, and then press ENTER.

In the list that appears, find and expand the Trusted Root Certification Authority folder.
Within the Trusted Root Certification Authority folder, find and expand the Certificates folder.
In the right pane, find and delete all entries named Microsoft Test Root Authority. Restart the computer.

The release notes of Windows XP SP3 is quoted below.
New functionality included in this service pack

Technical Area	Functionality or Feature	Details
Networking	Black hole router detection	Improves black hole router detection (detecting routers that are silently discarding packets). This detection is turned on by default.
Networking	Network Access Protection	Allows you to better protect network assets by enforcing compliance with system health requirements. For more information about Network Access Protection, see http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkID=110597.
Security	Credentials security service provider	Allows forward compatibility with Windows Vista® and Windows Server® 2008, And enables applications to delegate user credentials from the client to the target server. This security service provider is available through the security service provider interface, and it is used by Remote Desktop Protocol 6.0.
Security	Descriptive security options control panel	Offers more descriptive text to explain the settings and prevent incorrect configuration of settings.
Security	Enhanced security for Administrator and Service policy entries	Presents Administrators and Service entries (in System Center Essentials) by default on new policy instances. Additionally, a user will not be able to remove the setting in the UI for the “Impersonate Client After Authentication” user right.
Security	Microsoft Kernel Mode Cryptographic Module	Implements and supports the SHA2 hashing algorithms (SHA256, SHA384, and SHA512) in X.509 certificate validation. The Federal Information Processing Standard (FIPS) 140-1 standard has been replaced by FIPS 140-2, and these modules have been validated and certified according to this standard.
Setup	Windows Product Activation	Allows users to complete their software setup without having to provide a product key.

Previously available functionality
The following items included in this release candidate were previously available as separate downloads.

Technical Area	Functionality or Feature	Details
Imaging	Microsoft® Windows Imaging Component (WIC)	Provides an extensible framework for working with images and image metadata. For more information about the WIC, see http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkID=110598.
Management	Microsoft Management Console (MMC) 3.0	Provides a framework that unifies and simplifies day-to-day system management tasks in Windows Server 2003 and Windows XP. For more information about the MMC 3.0 update, see http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkID=110599.
MDAC	Microsoft Core XML Services (MSXML) 6.0	Provides improved reliability and security, conforms with the XML 1.0 and XML Schema 1.0 W3C recommendations, and is compatible with System.Xml 2.0.
Windows Installer	Microsoft Windows Installer 3.1 v2 (3.1.4000.2435)	Provides a minor update to Windows Installer 3.0 (which was released in September 2004). For more information about Microsoft Windows Installer 3.1 v2, see http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkID=110600.
Networking	Background Intelligent Transfer Service (BITS) 2.5	Helps improve security. This is a required component for Microsoft System Center Configuration Manager 2007 and for Windows Live OneCare. For more information about the BITS update package, see http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkID=110601.
Networking	Digital Identity Management Service	Makes it possible for users who log on to any computer running Windows Server 2003 Service Pack 1 or higher and that is a domain member to silently have all of their certificates and private keys available for applications and services.
Networking	IPsec Simple Policy Update for Windows Server 2003 and Windows XP	Helps simplify the creation and maintenance of IPsec filters, reducing the number of filters that are required for a server and domain isolation deployment. For more information about IPsec security filters, see http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkID=69286.
Networking	Peer Name Resolution Protocol (PNRP) 2.1	Enables Windows XP Service Pack 3-based applications that use PNRP to communicate with Windows Vista programs that use PNRP. For more information about upgrading PNRP, see http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkID=110602.
Networking	Wi-Fi Protected Access 2	Provides the same support for Wi-Fi Protected Access 2 (WPA2) as is provided in Windows Vista and Windows Server 2003 with SP2. For more information about the WPA2 update, see http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=110604.

Apple computers
This issue affects Windows XP Home Edition and Windows XP Professional operating systems running through Apple Boot Camp.
If you attempt to install this release candidate on an Intel-based Apple computer (Mac Pro, Mac Mini, MacBook, MacBook Air, MacBook Pro, or iMac) that is running Windows XP SP2 through Boot Camp, installation may fail with the error “Out of disk space”.
To avoid this, manually create a necessary registry key as follows:
To create the registry key
1. Click Start, click Run, type regedit, and then click OK.
2. Locate and then click the following registry subkey: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Setup
3. On the Edit menu, point to New, and click String Value.
4. In the text box under the Name column, type BootDir and press ENTER.
5. Right-click the name BootDir, and then click Modify.
6. In the Edit String Value dialog box, type the drive letter for your system drive, and then click OK. For example, if your system drive is C:, type C:\.
7. Close Registry Editor.
After you have created this registry key (or if you created this key when you installed a previous version of this Service Pack), you can proceed with the installation.

Custom installation
This issue affects Windows XP Home Edition N and Windows XP Professional N.
Creating an integrated installer (”slipstream”) by combining the installation disk for this release candidate with Windows XP Home Edition N or Windows XP Professional N by using the /integrate or /s command options is not supported.
To perform an integrated installation of this release candidate for Windows XP Home Edition N or Windows XP Professional N, obtain the appropriate installation media directly from Microsoft.

Networking
If you have enabled Remote Access Server Quarantine Enforcement Client (RASQEC), it may appear to not be initialized even when it is. As a result, the first attempt to dial a Network Access Protection (NAP) RAS connection may fail.
If this occurs, redial the connection.

Printing
The font families Cambria and some versions of Arial may not print correctly on PCL- or PCL5e-type printers.
There is no solution at this time other than to choose a different font.

Remote desktop connection
If you have installed the pre-release version of Remote Desktop Client 6.1 (KB 937468), and then install this release candidate, the desktop will continuously display the text “For testing purposes only. Build 2600.xp_sp2_gdr…”, and you will not be able to uninstall KB 937468 by using Add/Remove Programs.
To avoid this, uninstall KB 937468 before you install this release candidate.
If you have already encountered this issue, follow these steps to remove the test certificate that is responsible for the text message being displayed.

To remove the test certificate
1. Click Start, click Run, type certmgr.msc, and then press ENTER.
2. In the list that appears, find and expand the Trusted Root Certification Authority folder.
3. Within the Trusted Root Certification Authority folder, find and expand the Certificates folder.
4. In the right pane, find and delete all entries named Microsoft Test Root Authority.
5. Restart the computer.

Windows Media Center
This issue affects Windows XP Media Center Edition 2002.
If you install this release candidate on a computer running Windows XP Media Center 2002 with XP SP1, Windows XP Media Center may malfunction.
To avoid this, install Windows XP SP2 before you install this release candidate.
If this issue has already occurred, uninstall this release candidate, install Windows XP SP2, and then reinstall the release candidate.

RDP and Windows XP Service Pack 3 console option is replaced. Use mstsc /admin05/10/2008 04:00 PM

Yep after installing XP SP3:

mstsc /console has been replaced by mstsc /admin

Note: Please use the new option to achieve the same results as before

RDP works fine when there's an available seat on the target server. However, when the terminal server exceeds it's maximum number of allowed connections you can't run Start > Run > type in MSTSC /CONSOLE.

Basically, the RDP console switch doesn't work with SP3 RC2 installed on XP Pro. There's workarounds by logging into other servers and connecting to the target server and logging someone off, but that's not an option for small companies with 1 server.

No more /console switch on the Windows Remote Desktop Connection tool, MSTSC.exe, starting from Windows XP Service Pack 3, Windows Vista Service Pack 1 and Windows Server 2008.

This is because of the design enhancements in Windows Vista and Windows Server 2008, by virtue of which you cannot connect to Session 0, which is the default session. Running services and user applications together in Session 0 poses a security risk because services in Session 0 run at elevated privileges and therefore can be targeted by malware that attack by attempting and exploiting a privilege escalation.

The new generation of the Windows operating system mitigates this security risk by isolating services in Session 0 and making Session 0 non-interactive to the user. In Windows Vista (and Windows Server 2008), only system processes and services run in Session 0. The first user logs on to Session 1. Subsequent users log on to subsequent sessions (Session 2, Session 3 etc). This means that services (like printer drivers loaded by spooler service, UMDF drivers, user/window interactive services, etc) never run in the same session as users' applications and are therefore protected from attacks that originate in application code.

Notice that the /console option is not available, but there is a /admin option. The /admin option lets you connect to Session 0 on a remote computer that doesn't have Windows Vista SP1, Windows XP SP3 or Windows Server 2008 or later installed.

However, if you try to pull the /console switch on a Windows Server 2008 or Vista SP1 machine,
you get an error "An unknown parameter was specified in the computer name field".

Thoughts from the Enterprise Platforms Windows Server Performance Team
More @blogs.technet.com and the Wiki of Microsoft RDP

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Friday 9th, May 2008

CESA-2008:0233 Important CentOS 5 i386 kernel Update (2008-05-07)05/09/2008 10:31 PM

More information on Redhat and Compatdb.org

Important: kernel security and bug fix update
Advisory: RHSA-2008:0233-10
Type: Security Advisory
Severity: Important
Issued on: 2008-05-07
Last updated on: 2008-05-07

Note:
kernel i686 2.6.18-53.1.19.el5 updates 13 M
kernel-headers i386 2.6.18-53.1.19.el5 updates 788 k

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SHOUTcast Radio, the home of free Internet Radio. Use with Freecom Mediaplayer-450 WLAN with HDMI05/09/2008 12:33 AM

Welcome to SHOUT Cast Radio, the home of free Internet Radio.
Tune-in to Thousands of free online radio stations and broadcasters around the world.

Start enjoying online radio with SHOUTcast Radio now in just three easy steps...

Download the Winamp media Player
Check out the SHOUTcast directory, also available within Winamp
Click the "Tune in!" button next to the station you want to listen to

Use the link to Sky Radio (Dutch) as a test link.

note: Just download .pls files from "http://www.shoutcast.com"
and put them into a directory called iradio in the root of the Mediaplayer Hard Drive

Extra:
I have put in this ZIP File 116 Free Radio Stations, most of them are Dutch

More @shoutcast.com

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Tuesday 6th, May 2008

Freecom Mediaplayer-450 WLAN with HDMI05/06/2008 09:49 PM

From: Freecom.com

Berlin, April 2008 – The new Network MediaPlayer-450 WLAN by Freecom,
is the key to unlimited home entertainment.

Films, photos and music can be accessed directly from the PC to the TV or stereo system via an HDMI connection.

The media player is very easy to operate through your television via the on-screen display (OSD).

* here the link to the Network MediaPlayer-45 500GB and the datasheet

Streaming client: direct access to data in the network:
The Network MediaPlayer-450 has direct access to media files on PCs, notebooks or NAS devices in a network, via WLAN or LAN. The player can stream this content and display it on television or via a stereo system. The built-in USB interface (host) allows external USB storage media, such as external hard drives or USB sticks, to be connected. This allows you to enjoy the content in your living room. Thanks to UPnP support, the player also offers direct access to media servers in the network.

Internet radio function: enjoy unlimited music:
The Network MediaPlayer-450 brings you a fresh sound from the Internet to your living room: thousands of Internet radio stations can be received without even turning on your PC. The stations are pre-sorted according to music styles and countries (including SHOUTcast service), are easy to select and can be played directly via the stereo system or television.

Optimal display: including HDMI:
The most powerful chipset from Sigma Designs not only supports video formats such as AVI, WMV, ASF, MP4, DAT and VOB, it also supports audio formats such as MP3, WMA, WAV and OGG Vorbis, as well as JPEG image formats. Videos can be displayed on compatible television sets with a resolution of up to 1080i/p using an HDMI connection.

Media archive: 1 TB of space:
With a memory capacity of 1 TB, the Network MediaPlayer-450 is also very suitable as an archive for a complete multimedia collection. It can also be used as a back-up.

An infrared remote control, USB cable, an AV cable (composite), an adapter, a pedestal, an extensive instruction manual on CD and a short installation manual are all included. The device is compatible with Windows 2000/XP/Vista and with Mac OS X. Freecom provides a one-year manufacturer's guarantee and unlimited helpdesk support.

Product specifications:
- Capacity: 250 GB, 500 GB, 1 TB or as Drive-In-Kit (without hard drive)
- Dimensions: 5.7 x 15 x 18.5 cm, weight: 1000 g
- Interface: USB 2.0, WLAN 802.11g, LAN

System requirements:
PC: Intel Pentium-III/AMD Duron 900 MHz or higher, 256 MB RAM (Vista: 512 MB RAM) or higher, Ethernet (RJ45), WLAN, Windows 2000/XP/Vista
MAC: PowerPC G3/G4/G5, PowerBook G3/G4 or Intel Mac, 256 MB RAM or higher, Mac OS X v10.3 or higher

Features :

Wireless, HD compatible multimedia player (TV with HD support required), including HDMI video output
Works directly on your TV/HiFi, without the use of a PC
Share movies, music, photo’s and large documents
Connects to your network via Wireless LAN (54 Mbps) or Ethernet connection (10/100 Mbps)
Stream AV files from any PC within your network directly on your TV/HiFi (uses Windows File Sharing)
Can also be used as USB 2.0 external harddrive and as network drive (FTP protocol)
Fully remote controlled
Including Internet Radio feature
Supports UPnP
USB Host port: add USB storage (hard drive, usb stick etc) and play back files from this USB device
Video Output: HDMI (480p, 720p, 1080i, 1080p), HD Component Y, Pb, Pr (480p, 720p, 1080i), S-Video, Composite
Audio Output: Stereo, Digital Coaxial, Optical 5.1 surround (DTS downmix to stereo)
Firmware upgradeable to ensure you have the latest features and updates
No cooling fan, ensuring noise free operation
Measures only 57 x 150 x 185 mm in size making it ideal for portable use
Including remote control for easy operation
AV connection cable included and
One year manufacturers warranty and unlimited free helpdesk support

Opening a world of multimedia entertainment
With the new Network MediaPlayer-WLAN, Freecom adds another dimension to the world of portable media playback devices. The player connects to your wireless access point, thereby opening a world of multimedia entertainment. You can now play back any multimedia content stored on any computer in your network, and watch it on your TV. Or you can store movies and/or music on the built-in harddrive and enjoy them directly from the player on the TV, without your PC having to be switched on.

The player is also available as a “Drive in Kit”, without hard drive built-in. You can either assemble a hard drive yourself, or use the device without hard drive as a AV Wireless streaming device.

The new MediaPlayer WLAN is powered by the latest generation Sigma Design chipset, and supports playback of HD files*. It is firmware upgradeable, to ensure you always will have the latest updates and newest features. Experience a new level of computer and home entertainment, provided by Freecom.

With the HDMI (High-Definition Multimedia Interface) connection, you can watch high definition movies on HDTV in the comfort of your living room. HDMI is the acknowledged world standard for connecting HD components. With just a single cable, HDMI transmits the highest quality digital video and audio between HD devices, in a wide range of data formats.

Freecom Press contact:
Monika Feldschow
Maren Bonjer
Zeughofstr. 1, D-10997 Berlin
T: 030/611 299-117 F: 030/611 299-190
http://www.freecom.de

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Sunday 4th, May 2008

Deploying Windows XP SP3 (Build 5512)05/04/2008 11:51 AM

From Microsoft and the Release Notes for Windows XP Service Pack 3

Windows XP Service Pack 3 (XP SP3) fixes a range of bugs and adds new features to Windows XP. The file is a large download and can be applied to any version of Windows XP Home, Professional, TabletPC or Media Center (32 bit only). In addition, it doesn't matter what XP patches you have previously applied to your system, SP3 will update any unpatched, partially patched or completely updated system (it includes all previously released patches, updates and features of Service Pack 1 and 2). Keep in mind that new patches made available after Service Pack 3 was released will still need to be applied.

Windows XP Service Pack 3 (SP3) includes the following:

All previous security patches and fixes released for Windows XP.
All enhancements and new features that were included with Windows XP SP1 and Windows XP SP2
Only two new features have been added: Black Hole Router Detection Windows and Network Access Protection (NAP).

The following are already available for Windows XP in stand-alone updates. Windows XP SP3 includes them by default (System administrators must choose to install each of these updates): MMC 3.0, MSXML6, Microsoft Windows Installer 3.1 v2, Background Intelligent Transfer Service (BITS) 2.5, IPsec Simple Policy Update for Windows Server 2003 and Windows XP, Digital Identity, Management Service (DIMS), Peer Name Resolution Protocol (PNRP) 2.1, Wi-Fi Protected Access 2 (WPA2).

From the Release Notes: "Microsoft is not adding significant functionality from newer versions of Windows, such as Windows Vista, to Windows XP through XP SP3. For instance, Windows XP SP3 does not include Windows Internet Explorer 7, although Windows XP SP3 does include updates to both Internet Explorer 6 and Internet Explorer 7, and it will update whichever version is installed on the computer. One notable exception is that, SP3 does include Network Access Protection (NAP)."

File Name: WindowsXP-kb936929-sp3-x86-enu.exe
File Size: 316MB

Form the PDF,

Deploying Windows XP SP3
Windows XP SP3 will be available through Windows Update and the Microsoft Download Center. The service pack will also be available to Volume License customers, TechNet subscribers, and MSDN® subscribers. Through Windows Update, the download size varies, but it is typically 70 megabytes (MB), depending on the computer’s configuration.

Through the Download Center, the download size is approximately 580 MB. Fundamentally, deploying Windows XP SP3 works the same as deploying SP1 and SP2 for Windows XP:

SP3 is cumulative, so users can install SP3 on top of Windows XP SP1 or SP2.
Windows XP SP3 supports the same languages as Windows XP did in its initial release.
You can run the SP3 update package on any SKU of Windows XP SP1 or SP2. For example, you can run the SP3 update package on a computer running the Windows XP Media Center Edition with SP1.
Tools and guidance for system administrators have not fundamentally changed from Windows XP SP2. For comprehensive information, visit the Deploy Windows XP Professional and Windows XP Service Pack 2 Deployment Information sites on Microsoft TechNet.
You can deploy SP3 using Microsoft Systems Management Server 2003, Microsoft System Center Configuration Manager 2007, or third-party solutions. The process has not fundamentally changed.

Note: Windows XP SP3 is for x86 editions of Windows XP only. The x64 editions of Windows XP were serviced by Windows Server 2003 SP2. For additional information, go to Windows Server 2003 Service Pack 2.

More @technet.microsoft.com

02.05.2008 kl 20:28 IDG News Service
Earlier in the week, Microsoft had cautioned against downloading such files. "It's possible that some third party websites are linking to the Windows XP SP3 software that we have published for MSDN and TechNet subscribers," a company spokeswoman said in an e-mail Wednesday. "Since we cannot confirm the source of every link, our recommendation is that customers wait until we've published Windows XP SP3 to Windows Update and the Download Center."

Microsoft, however, has not pulled the standalone installers from its servers; as of today, the links were still live.

Computerworld downloaded the English-language installer -- a 316MB file -- used it to install XP SP3, and confirmed that the result is Build 5512 of Service Pack 3.

In response to a query today, a Microsoft spokeswoman said the company had no new information to share about when it would add XP SP3 to Windows Update and post an official standalone installer to its download site.

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Saturday 26th, April 2008

Badkey goes 8Mb via XS4all04/26/2008 01:56 AM

Soon we will move to ADSL 8Mb / 1Mb

Have a look at the link:
http://www.xs4all.nl/en/ or in Dutch http://www.xs4all.nl

Providertest Consumentenbond:
XS4ALL hoogste klanttevredenheid (02-04-2008)

XS4ALL eindigt dit jaar als tweede in de Providertest van de Consumentenbond.
Het testoordeel is gebaseerd op helpdesk, spamfilter en algehele tevredenheid.

Kabelprovider @Home staat op de eerste plaats, van de ADSL-providers komt XS4ALL als beste uit de test.

Van de 17 geteste providers heeft XS4ALL de hoogste klanttevredenheid
De hoge waardering van klanten toont aan dat internetters zeer kwaliteitsbewust zijn.
Een betrouwbare verbinding en een kwalitatief goede helpdesk zijn minstens zo belangrijk als een scherpe prijs

XS4ALL is blij met dit resultaat en feliciteert @Home met het behalen van de eerste plaats en doet er alles aan om volgend jaar weer op nummer 1 te eindigen

More @xs4all.nl

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Sunday 30th, March 2008

Windows Server 2008 and VMware Server 1.0.503/30/2008 07:24 PM

Badkey: Going Windows 2008

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So we are looking for the 'next step'

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Windows Home Server. Windows Update - March, 2008. IBM/Lotus Notes03/30/2008 04:49 PM

WHS's data corruption problems go back to December 2007, when Microsoft confirmed that editing a document, image or e-mail stored on the server could corrupt the file, effectively destroying the data. Since then, WHS product managers have struggled to pin down the bug, saying in December that it cropped up only when the server was under an "extreme load" as it copied large files. They recanted that explanation just weeks later.

According to today's post, the team now knows what's going on. "We understand the issue really well at this point -- it is at an extremely low level of the operating system and it requires thorough testing to ensure that the fix addresses the issue."

In the revised support document, Microsoft went into greater detail about the cause of the data corruption flaw. "A bug has been discovered in the way that Windows Home Server manages file transfer and balancing across multiple hard drives," said the document. "In certain cases, depending on application use patterns, timing, and the workload that is placed on the Windows Home Server-based computer, certain files may become corrupted."

Windows Update - March, 2008
An update is available for Windows Home Server today via Windows Update. It should download automatically within the next 24 hours and get applied if you have Windows Updates turned on. The title of the KB article that explains the update is titled: "You may randomly receive a false expiration notice that prompts you to activate Windows Home Server." You can learn more about the update by visiting:

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/946146

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