I’ve started a new personal project….setting up a Media Center Edition PC. I’ve got the OS software and have just purchased some new toys for my desktop at home to get started. This weekend I’m going to be attempting to get Windows XP MCE installed and do some test recordings. I’ll blog about my experiences, and if it is too problematic, I’ll put up an article of the steps I took to get it installed.
First post of the year for me…..I’m not one for one of those “relive the last year” people so here is some information about something that is coming up in the New Year!
Columbus’s first “Day of .Net ”. This is a free mini-conference hosted at the Microsoft office in Columbus. They will have a few different presentations (looks to be mainly leaning toward web services, but a few others by Alex Lowe on upcoming Whidbey things and a presentation by James Avery about tweaking your IDE).
One of the guys I worked with in the past (tomb) came across this several years ago when we were helping a client install some servers. The National Security Agency (NSA) puts out guidelines on best practices to lock down software and operating systems. You can check out their guidelines for a variety of OSs, databases, browsers, routers, and more at their website. If you run these systems you owe it to yourself to at least take a look at these guidelines and see if you are open to security issues or not.