Re-did security at GearHost with some better sandbox configurations and stronger security. Of course this broke weird stuff like the cf tag for PDFs. I think its just cfpdf. Here’s the error. Security: The requested template has been denied access to applications\GearHost.pdf. The following is the internal exception message: access denied (java.io.FilePermission applications\GearHost.pdf read) I […]
Read More →Network Load Balancing (NLB) with IIS 7 for high availability
Recently we got a customer who wanted an inexpensive high availability solution. To keep costs down we decided to utilize NLB within Windows Server 2008 and load balance two IIS web servers. The issue we ran into was getting multiple sites to balance. It actually turned out be a very simple issue. When a request […]
Read More →Tucows – Nameserver doesn’t exist at the registry
Nameserver [ns1.domain-name.com] doesn’t exist at the registry When you are configuring a domain name with custom name servers the custom name servers need to be registered. It is free and needs to be done with the registrar of the domain name. To discover your registrar use this web site www.who.is and type in your domain […]
Read More →Playing around with photoshop
Here is my attempt to make some 80’s retro space sci fi thing. Gaze upon its horribleness. Click the crap above for a full size
Read More →Actual Search and Replace in Files
In regards to my post on the iframe hack I mentioned searching through the files and replacing the injected script. We didn’t search by hand. We used an application that scans files and looks for search string. It’s called Actual Search and Replace and worked great. http://www.divlocsoft.com/ You can search for a single line of […]
Read More →iframe hack
For the past 2 weeks we have been dealing with an iframe hack on one of our shared servers. It is a nightmare. I’ve been on the phone with Symantec for a few hours, worked all night, etc. Basically what has been happening is someone has found a way to add the everyone group with […]
Read More →Dell vs Macbook
I currently have a first gen white Macbook (my personal laptop) and my work laptop is a Dell Inspiron 9400. The Inspiron has a 17″ screen and weighs as much as a small midget. My boss asked me if I wanted a new one but I told him it wasn’t necessary. Aside from the weight […]
Read More →Site improvements, ISAPI_Rewrite with WordPress and IIS
A while ago I fixed my site and improved the load time. I removed some bad add-ons for WordPress, did some upgrading etc. I just found a nice post on using ISAPI_Rewrite with WordPress so I gave it a shot on my site. I’m using version 2 so I added the following rules to my […]
Read More →$200 PC (OSX x86 compatible)
No monitor or OS but this is everything you need for $199 http://www.tigerdirect.com/applications/SearchTools/item-details.asp?EdpNo=3986411&CatId=2358 Intel mini-itx proc pre-mounted. Can you imagine building a new PC for $200 just a year ago? No dual core, no PCI express, but you prob won’t need that in a $200 PC. Oh, and it makes a perfect candidate of OSX […]
Read More →Living without Microsoft Office
Living without Microsoft Office is really easy. No seriously, follow these steps. 1. Download OpenOffice. Open Office is open source software from Sun, it include a word editor, spreadsheet creator, presentation creator, database creator, even a math program. It can open and read almost all Office files and you can even save your files in […]
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