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If somewhat late to wish you all a Merry Xmas, I might still be in time to hope you all have a great end of 2005 and a great start of the new year!

NO, I'm not posting my own predictions here nor anywhere else, as I don't feel like having the gift of clairvoyance, but I am linking to some interesting prediction for 2006 written on the DailyDave mailing list by Marc Maiffret of eEye - predictions which I was reding yesterday:

http://lists.immunitysec.com/pipermail/dailydave/2005-December/002747.html

Agree with him or not is up to you, obviously, but I would suggest giving it a read.

Anton is questioning if maybe Security has become mainstream, since a movie called "Firewall" is in the making ?

I guess it is the result of some HollyWood producer having heard the word "firewall" for the first time, and maybe being told that Dan Brown (who is mainstream these days…) had written Digital Fortress which talks of firewalls, gateways and encryption, and of bypassing the security gate…

Some time ago (actually quite a while - but I don't really get the time to blog sometimes…. you must have noticed that since I am blogging now that's Xmas holiday…. which is insane on its own, but that's another story), thanks to Peter Provost's blog I spotted NetDIG - available at http://mvptools.com !

I don't usually cross-post many links found elsewhere, but this one… I just had to.
I am a "command-line-guy", when possible. I like command-line power. So I usually hang around with both "Services For Unix" installed, plus a collection of other unix-like external tools and external/add-on CLI commands for doing all sort of things on my laptop….
…waiting for MONAD (http://channel9.msdn.com/wiki/default.aspx/Channel9.MSHWiki). But I've got the beta running.

So this nice port of "dig" was missing in my collection… and I was stuck with nslookup when it came down to solve DNS issues from Windows… now I have a "dig" implementation on Windows too. Awesome. In fact I'd always wondered why does Windows to date only comes with nslookup which is deprecated and considered a "legacy" thing on UNIX ??

I stumbled into the following blog post stating that "Java is the new COBOL":
http://blogs.msdn.com/nigelwat/archive/2005/12/06/500406.aspx

It is funny to see how different people at different times get to think the same things. In fact, I would not like to seem arrogant as I never wrote such an accurate analysis, but I used to think myself (and say, mostly as a joke tough) that "Java is the 21st-century's COBOL" - which is pretty much the same thing

And if you don't believe that I actually was already saying so, En3pY can confirm. I can remember having him cracking up laughing when I first said so to him.

I am not quite sure I understand why Roberdan has posted this http://blogs.msdn.com/roberdan/comments/502576.aspx very basic explanation of what an RSS feed is.
Probably to start educating the masses, and preparing that amount of business people to WHAT RSS is…. preparing them to actually use the format when (soon) it will finally be mainstream with Office 12 and IE7…. to this regard Scoble says "[...]don’t underestimate the effect of Outlook 12’s support of RSS here. It’ll bring millions of new businesspeople into the RSS world. This is HUGE.[...]". http://scobleizer.wordpress.com/2005/12/22/outlook-pm-talks-about-upcoming-rss-integration/
And he's right of course. I keep forgetting RSS is not in the mainstream yet. "My" idea of what is mainstream is mostly polluted by my geeky visions…

But coming back to the point - that was Roberdan's post - I wanted to comment there, but for some reason I am not able to do so (even though it does not seem to be a problem with http://blogs.msdn.com, as I can comment to my blog there… I don't know)… so I will comment here (hoping he sees the pingback). The comment I wanted to write is this that follows (in Italian):

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Bisognerebbe inoltre menzionare che anche le liste di SharePoint stesso si possono ri-pubblicare in formato RSS per farle fruire ad altri reader. Per il momento questa possibilita' non c'e' nativamente in SharePoint, ma si puo' attivare installando una web part quale "BlogWave"
http://blogs.msdn.com/asanto/archive/2004/08/22/218625.aspx oppure quella messa a disposizione da BlueDogLimited:
http://www.bluedoglimited.com/Downloads/pages/SyndicationGenerator.aspx

Anch'io ho scritto un simile oggetto che genera feed a partire da liste di siti realizzati con SharePoint, qualora non si avesse la possibilita' di installare webparts sul proprio sharepoint, e lo faccio da remoto, estraendo le informazioni dal Web Service si SPS.

Invece per fortuna lo SharePoint "futuro" che uscira', avra' questa possibilita' nativamente:
http://radio.weblogs.com/0001011/2005/09/17.html#a11176

Next time someone complains to me about "windows time" (no, not the w32time service, but the fact that copy operations across the network in windows sometimes show times that are increasing instead of decreasing, and the like…) he better remembers this…

Wow, I missed this yesterday - final version 1.0 of Ruby on Rails (www.rubyonrails.org) is out

[Info "borrowed" from: http://37signals.com/svn/archives2/ruby_on_rails_10_is_live_with_a_new_site_too.php]