Friday, July 02, 2004 - Posts

Important IE Configuration Update

Extremely important...

Today Microsoft is releasing a configuration change for Windows XP, Windows 2000, and Windows Server 2003, to address recent malicious attacks against Internet Explorer, also know as Download.Ject. Windows customers are encouraged to apply this configuration change immediately to help be protected from current Internet Explorer exploits.

Download: Critical Update for Microsoft Data Access Components - Disable ADODB.Stream object from Internet Explorer

Note: If you are using Windows XP SP2 RC2 you don't need to apply this update.

A date to remember...

This is an important date for italian people (like me) that have a .IT domain... the Italian Registration Authority has declared the end of the single .IT domain registration for a physical person.

In Italy you can register only a single .IT domain name (if you are not a society), but from the end of August this will finish and you could register more than one .IT domain for yourself.

Obviously, the requests will be a lot so... good work Registration Authority!

Express and Memory Usage

Andrea Boschin today points me to this curious and interesting fact...

He has tryed to install the Beta Releases of Visual Web Developer Express and Sql Server 2005 Express at the same time on a machine where Visual Studio .NET 2003 is already running... this is the result regarding memory usage:

As you can see, there's a big difference of memory usage between VS2003 and the other "Express tools": VS2003 is using 6084K of memory, against the 53376K used by Visual Web Developer Express and 72528K used by Sql Server 2005 Express.

Why this big difference? I hope it's only because they're on Beta stage...