Update: Seventeen years later. Who knew that protocols would evolve? Seems that Microsoft changed the order at some point or maybe Addison Wesley and O'reilly were both wrong? Seems unlikely.
Anyway, this is the order that feels right and is documented by Microsoft in the undated reference, Microsoft TCP/IP Host Name …
Read MoreThe Macbook keyboard layout maps "Delete" to backspace which effectively makes it impossible to hit Ctrl-Alt-Delete unless you have an external USB keyboard.
The Windows Server 2003 Resource Kit comes with a handy tool called remapkey.exe but if you don't want to download it, just save this code to a .reg …
Read More- Woohoo!! A few months ago, I contributed to onmac.net, hoping that somone would be motivated by the nearly $13,000 offered up to get Windows running on a MacBook. They did, and two weeks later, Apple came out with Bootcamp which did the same thing but better. I swore that THE DAY the 13 inch widescreen Macbook came …
Read More - This isn't a very common scenario, but I figured I'd write about it anyway. We recently implemented a Windows 2003 Active Directory domain at work. I suggested to my employer that, going forward, we only install SQL Server 2005 when we need a database server (phasing out 2000). I'd also suggested consolidating a couple …
Read More I recently loaded up one of my servers and out of nowhere, I ran into this error:
Server Configuration Error The server has encountered a configuration error attempting to process your request. The configuration parameter MD_CUSTOM_ERROR (6008) has an invalid value. Please contact the server administrator for …
Read MoreUsing a Custom 404 error script in IIS makes it possible to emulate a very basic URL rewrite.
Sample Environment - IIS 6 - Website domain: "www.me.com" - URLRewrite directory: "code"
Steps 1. Create a file named rewrite.asp in the code directory. 2. Add a Custom Error for the 404 Not Found. Open up …
Read More[super old post, reposted] A few weeks ago, I asked in an IT forum if it was possible to have a "perma-VPN" connection with Windows XP.
After searching for awhile, I found that Microsoft calls perma-VPNs "Demand-Dial Interfaces" and these can only be found in the Windows Server family, not Windows …
Read More- I dug up this cold from my old netnerds blog. For Googlers wondering if sustaining a remote session is possible, the answer is yes; I've sustained remote cookie sessions using both ASP & VBScript. I've provided simplified code below. It should be self explanatory. If not, drop me a comment and I'll explain it. …
Read More The MSPress Exchange Training Kit supposedly says that you must uninstall/reinstall an Exchange Server in order to move it from one Administrative Group to another. I managed to do change the administrative group for one of my servers today using adsiedit. Here’s how I did it.
- Install the Support Tools from Microsoft …
Read MoreAwhile back I tried out FreeBSD for a couple months. I was used to SuSE (which I'm back to) so I ran a few commands to make my environment a bit more familiar. If you are a recent convert, you can use this code too.
whereis bash chsh change shell to bash (used sysinstall to install bash) ln -s …
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