It was announced back in December that Netscape would be officially no longer supported as of February 1st 2008, for many they see it as just another forgotten software program but for many others it was much more than that. For me, Netscape is part of the events that got me hooked on the Internet […]
Today we say good bye to Netscape Read More »
One of my favorite applications is Windows Live Writer. It’s a simple to use WYSIWYG blog editor that I’ve wrote about many times. I’ve been using it for probably over a year now and not too long ago it came out of beta. One of the things I truly enjoy with Windows Live Writer is
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Ever since Bill Staples first blogged about the collaborative work Microsoft was doing with Zend to improve PHP stability and performance on IIS, I’ve been giddy as a school girl. Having run a core component of the AppliedI.net infrastructure that makes use of PHP and MySQL on IIS7 and making use of FastCGI and the
There’s a new database option available for PHP, It’s called SQL2005 Read More »
We recently needed a way to extract files from a sharepoint site’s document libraries. With sharepoint all the files are stored in a SQL database so it would seem connecting to the database and pulling all the files out manually wouldn’t be such a hard thing to do. After a fair amount of time googling for
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If you’re seeing viewstate errors like “The viewstate is invalid for this page and might be corrupted” here’s the dealio. For security ASP.NET encrypts the viewstate using an Autogenerated Key that is generated when your application pool (or worker process) is started. At AppliedI.net (and many hosts today) each website is placed in a unique
If you’re seeing viewstate errors like “The viewstate is invalid for this page and might be corrupted” here’s the dealio. For security ASP.NET encrypts the viewstate using an Autogenerated Key that is generated when your application pool (or worker process) is started. At AppliedI.net (and many hosts today) each website is placed in a unique
I subscribe to windowsecurity.com‘s newsletter which is actually a pretty good read. Today’s newsletter has an article about the Microsoft UK Events Website getting defaced and goes into great detail to show just how the site was compromised. In a nutshell, they used SQL Injection and the fact that the web.config was configured to display
How Microsoft UK got hacked and how you can learn from their mistakes Read More »
My friends at webmastersdepot.com have been awesome. I’ve been helping them out with their VPS and the configuration of their applications and recently helped them setup wordpress mu. WordPress MU is a blogging application built around wordpress (greatest blogging app available) that allows you to create a blogger.com, livespaces.com, wordpress.com (in fact it powers wordpress.com)
Free Blogs courtesy of webmastersdepot.com Read More »
A follow up to Smartertools answers the cry on the fight against spam with smartermail 4.0. Alot of clients have been asking about how we’re handling spamassassin with Smartermail 4.0. It’s no secret that spamassassin on a windows server runs horribly slow. If more than a handful of domains are involved I have no doubt
Smartermail, Spamassassin, Virtuozzo VPSs Read More »
I recently installed the WordPress Category Visibility Plug-in which allows you to select categories you don’t want to show up in different places on your blog. I have delicious set to upload my delicious links every day to a special category and I removed it from the frontpage to keep it from junking up my
Windows Live Writer Style Not Updated Read More »