Signing up for RSS

bradley — Tue, 09 Aug 2005 04:15:00 GMT

Looking to stay up to date on stuff like Security... stuff like Admin'ing networks?

Truly where a lot of great information lies in today is...right here.. in a blog. It's another 'been there, done that' person like yourself, saying 'hey this worked for me'.

So what is a blog? It's really nothing more than an easy way to post to a web page..but rather than G-O-I-N-G to the web page all the time, you use a newsreader to 'suck' in the posts so you can read them in a reader...now mind you... I still say that blogs work the best while you are online, because I personally know that I add links and what not and if you are stuck in an airplane without an internet connection...it's a little hard to follow a link...but anyway... so read this first... that's right...go follow the link... and when you are done..come back....

I'll just kinda hang around here until you are done...

la di dah....

Okay back? Did you go get a newsreader? You didn't?

Well go back and get one...and THEN come back here when you are ready to sign up for some blog feeds...

Good.. Okay now lets get you signed up for some RSS feeds. If you are using something like Newsgator...whenever you see an orange XML [and for the record.. I disagree with Microsoft's page where they say when you see an RSS icon you can click... they don't consistently do that and it's an XML icon anyway... geeze..what's with standards...I mean the IE7 team is getting on the bandwagon...anyway... when you see ...I guess ANY orange tag like that, right mouse click and see if you can 'subscribe in Newsgator” and voila ..that web page is now straight into a feed reader brought to you automagically so you don't have to go hunting for it....

Some of my fav's include....

The Master MVP blog - as this covers all sorts of things like Security from Donna, latest threats from Harry, X64 computing, and enough French culture from Christain to keep me entertained...
The rest of the Top Ten Useful Microsoft Blogs listed here...definitely the EHLO blog on Exchange, the MSRC blog on Security.
TechNet blogs [which are my fav over the MSDN ones..sorry] - http://blogs.technet.com/ all blogs here are more IT admin'y related
MSDN Blogs - http://blogs.msdn.com/ all the more “Dev'“ Related blogs are here
Dana's blog - http://silverstr.ufies.org/blog He and I will be presenting on SBS/hardening/security guides.. oh just paranoid stuff at SMBnation.com
SeanDaniel.com's blog - [yes poor guy is probably going to have to legally change his name to SeanDaniel.com with as much as I call him that]

Oh ... I cannot let this list go by without a major callout about this one....

http://www.thundermain.com/rss/

Go ahead and click on it... ugly isn't it? It has to be my most powerful RSS feed that I have. It has a simple job... it watches the Microsoft Download page and alerts me to new content. That's it. And yet, for a while there I had a couple of Microsoft employees wondering just how I was finding out about Security patches moments before they did up in Redmond...and it was all because of that feed. It would hit my feed reader before they were getting it in their mailbox.

You probably have to manually copy and paste it into your feed reader, but if you do no others..do that ONE right there.

I have lots and lots more ...and should probably stick the master listing [called the OPML file] somewhere for people to look at but until then.... even though I've covered this topic before and others have shared their RSS feeds... I thought I'd remind people how easy it is to keep up to date with RSS.

How to Shutdown

bradley — Wed, 30 Mar 2005 03:00:00 GMT

Ever notice how there's like four or five ways to do the same thing?

I posted about my Remote Web Workplace experience and wanted to know if there was a way to remotely shut down. Matt posted in the comments "shutdown.exe" but there's a couple more.

Handy Andy said Start> run> “shutdown -r“

For one, once I have that Control-Alt-End which is the remote desktop equivalent of Control-Alt-Delete [the infamous three fingered salute -- no relationship to David just happen to share the same name]...bingo, I have a button there that says "shutdown".

Duh.

Then Chad and Marina said, click on Start and Windows Security and sure 'nuff in a RDP session, Windows Security...which is the shortcut to the screen that gives you task manager, shut down, log off, etc. is right there. [Which is of course the same solution pointed out to me by Dave in the post that started this whole exercise in the first place -- that once you RDP into a session either via RWW or onto a server, that the Windows Security shortcut is right there, just a mouse click away]

Learn something new every day!

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Signing up for RSS

How to Shutdown