Tech notes

ISA 2006 Firewall Stateful Application Layer Inspection Filters

2009-12-03T12:47:00.001+01:00

An overview of what application layer filters that ships with ISA server 2006. This page shows what you can configure on the various filters and what limits that exist.

med henvisning til: ISA Firewall Stateful Application Layer Inspection Filters (Part 1) (vis på Googles sidewiki)

Create RSS Feeds, Edit and Publish News Feeds with Software

2009-10-05T14:02:00.000+02:00

Create RSS Feeds, Edit and Publish News Feeds with Software: "FeedForAll allows users to easily create, edit and publish RSS feeds."

Which 3D Animation Software Should I Use?

2009-09-28T00:58:00.000+02:00

Which 3D Animation Software Should I Use?: "3D software tends to range in complexity and sophistication, although these days even the simplest 3D software is capable of impressive results."

Nokia PC Internet Access does not work

2009-09-18T08:29:00.001+02:00

<<Snagit1.png>> It is not fun when it does not work. The image above
does not go away.

I am not sure why Nokia decided to make Internet Access from the mobile
phone so hard to get to work. Windows Mobiles approach with an USB
network device seems much more easier use.

The Nokia e75 phone is great for almost every aspect of its use. But the
PC software as bad as HP printer drivers and proprietary connectors that
no one else has.

tcptrace - Official Homepage

2009-09-02T13:38:00.000+02:00

tcptrace - Official Homepage: "It can take as input the files produced by several popular packet-capture programs, including tcpdump, snoop, etherpeek, HP Net Metrix, and WinDump. tcptrace can produce several different types of output containing information on each connection seen, such as elapsed time, bytes and segments sent and recieved, retransmissions, round trip times, window advertisements, throughput, and more. It can also produce a number of graphs for further analysis."

Jeyo, Inc. - Jeyo Mobile Companion

2009-01-12T09:33:00.000+01:00

Jeyo, Inc. - Jeyo Mobile Companion: "Jeyo Mobile Companion 2.1 is an extensive update to the popular Outlook-style Windows Mobile device manager that allows you to manage and customize your Window Mobile device from your Windows PC. Its powerful threaded SMS chat mode enables you to communicate instantly with hundreds of millions of mobile phone users around the world using SMS directly from your PC, and manage all the important personal data on your Smartphone or Pocket PC phone. With Jeyo Mobile Companion 2.1, you can get much more out of your PC and Windows Mobile device."

Lips for Xbox how to play guide

2009-01-11T23:53:00.002+01:00

I have not found anything better than this on how to play Lips for Xbox. So read the official guide from Microsoft.

If unsure just sing the best you can. If you are good enough (or better than the competition) you will win.

NetCPS

2009-01-06T12:24:00.000+01:00

NetCPS: "Netcps is a handy utility to measure the effective performance on a TCP/IP network."

Blogger can not publish a site

2009-01-04T02:16:00.001+01:00

I can not publish my blogs any more. This only happens for one of my four blogs. The others works well. The problem started around Christmas time, but I can not give the exact date.

The error message is:
java.net.ConnectException: Connection timed out

I have read about many others with the same problem. The problem appeared at the same time. Unfortunately I have yet to find a solution for this problem.

I started by looking into my own server to see if I could find an error there. I could not.

I switched from sftp to ftp publishing to see if that helped. No luck.

I then changed from a hostname to IP address to see if that helped. It did not.

I do not see any kind of traffic through my firewall when I try to publish anything.

I then decided to try publish to another IP address, on another ISP. When I did so I could se traffic. When I did so I got the IP source 72.14.206.132 which belongs to Google.

This made me believe we have a routing issue on the Internet. But I checked that as well and it seems to be right. I can at least do a ping back to the originating IP.

It seems like blogger works from multiple sites. I have found in my logs that some of my blogs are published from a site in Canada - but I have this problem when publishing from Google i California.

I hope they find a solution really soon.

Some sources:

SmarterGeek
Blogger support thread with many complaints (but no solutions...)
A Google search

Mp3 player crashes after leap year

2009-01-02T10:49:00.000+01:00

Zune.net | Zune 30 FAQ: "Wait until after noon GMT on January 1, 2009 (that's 7 a.m. Eastern or 4 a.m. Pacific time)."

Cisco IOS Software Configuration Guide for Cisco Aironet Access Points, 12.2(11)JA - Configuring Multiple SSIDs [Cisco Aironet 1100 Series] - Cisco Systems

2008-12-02T11:49:00.000+01:00

Cisco article about multiple SSID with Cisco wireless

Cisco IOS Software Configuration Guide for Cisco Aironet Access Points, 12.2(11)JA - Configuring Multiple SSIDs [Cisco Aironet 1100 Series] - Cisco Systems: "The SSID is a unique identifier that wireless networking devices use to establish and maintain wireless connectivity. Multiple access points on a network or sub-network can use the same SSIDs. SSIDs are case sensitive and can contain up to 32 alphanumeric characters. Do not include spaces in your SSIDs."

No entry in /dev/disk/by-uuid/ after HD install - Ubuntu Forums

2008-12-01T11:31:00.000+01:00

No entry in /dev/disk/by-uuid/ after HD install - Ubuntu Forums: "No entry in /dev/disk/by-uuid/ after HD install"

Running udevtrigger updated /dev/disk/by-label and /dev/disk/by-uuid

MySQL :: MySQL 5.1 Reference Manual :: 1.4.1 What's New in MySQL 5.1

2008-11-30T10:04:00.000+01:00

MySQL :: MySQL 5.1 Reference Manual :: 1.4.1 What's New in MySQL 5.1: "What's New in MySQL 5.1" Read on. Here are many exiting news.

Nice to know about DV and timecodes

2008-08-24T02:12:00.001+02:00

A good article I found talking about timecode in DV movies. Lot's of other good stuff as well.

pptPlex

2008-08-15T13:44:00.000+02:00

A cool tool to present your powerpoint slides.

The Simpsons game walkthrough

2008-08-04T09:55:00.000+02:00

Here is how you can play through the game.

Test post - please ignore

2008-07-07T16:45:00.001+02:00

This is a test post. Please ignore.

Header 1	Header 2
Heading 1	Content of heading 1
Heading 2	Content of heading 2

Windows 2008 - where to start

2008-07-07T15:16:00.001+02:00

Here you can find some good information about Windows 2008 Server and it's features.

Anonymous access in Sharepoint

2008-07-03T18:48:00.000+02:00

Why does this have to be so hard??? If you follow the link above you can read all about how to configure anonymous access to a Sharepoint site.

RPC ping specification

2008-03-13T19:56:00.002+01:00

Here is the RPC XML ping (pingback) specification used to notify others of backlinks.

console renamed to admin

2008-03-11T09:00:00.002+01:00

For some reason Microsoft have decided to rename the famous /console parameter on the Remote Desktop Client.

For new users this parameter logs you on the console of a server instead of on a virtual desktop.

About antena gain

2008-03-05T23:09:00.000+01:00

Here is a good article discussing antenna.

http://www.marcspages.co.uk/tech/antgain.htm

Search keywords: dBi, dBD, antenna, wireless

Backup Cisco configuration

2008-02-01T14:44:00.001+01:00

With versioning???

http://www.kiwisyslog.com/kiwi-cattools-overview/

Publishing concepts in ISA Server 2006

2008-01-28T14:26:00.001+01:00

Publishing_Concepts.doc
http://download.microsoft.com/download/F/E/0/FE06C50A-92F2-4E2A-9C3B-C10301634690/Publishing_Concepts.doc

Concepts:

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You can use Microsoft® Internet Security and Acceleration (ISA) Server 2006 publishing to make content available to groups of users or to all users, typically from an Internal network or perimeter network (also known as a DMZ, demilitarized zone, or screened subnet) server.

ISA Server provides two types of publishing rules: Web publishing rules and server publishing rules.

Web publishing rules are configured to make Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP) and Secure HTTP (HTTPS) content available on Web servers, such as servers running Internet Information Services (IIS).

Server publishing publishes an entire server through a specific protocol, and enables you to restrict access to specific computers or networks.

You cannot publish HTTP content using server publishing rules.

This document describes Web publishing and server publishing in ISA Server 2006.

The following sections provide information about Web publishing, server publishing, rule elements, rule order, logging requests that match a rule, and deny rules.

ISA Server uses Web publishing rules to handle issues associated with publishing Web content to the Internet, without compromising Internal network security.

Web publishing rules determine how ISA Server intercepts incoming requests for HTTP objects on an internal Web server and how ISA Server responds on behalf of the Web server.

Requests are forwarded downstream to an internal Web server, located behind the ISA Server computer.

If possible, the request is serviced from the ISA Server cache.

You can limit the portions of your servers that can be accessed.

Restricting access to specific paths and content types.

User authentication can be delegated by ISA Server, eliminating the need to reauthenticate at the Web server.

Links in Web content to internal servers are handled seamlessly.

You can select to encrypt traffic between the ISA Server computer and the Web server.

For information on configuring Web publishing rules, see "Authentication in ISA Server 2006" at the Microsoft TechNet Web site.

Requests are forwarded downstream to an internal server, located behind the ISA Server computer.

Server publishing allows virtually any computer on your Internal network to publish to the Internet.

Security is not compromised because all incoming requests and outgoing responses pass through ISA Server.

When a server is published by an ISA Server computer, the IP addresses that are published are actually the IP addresses of the ISA Server computer.

Users who request objects assume that they are communicating with the ISA Server computer---whose name or IP address they specify when requesting the object---while they are actually requesting the information from the publishing server.

This is true when the network on which the published server is located has a network address translation (NAT) relationship from the network on which the clients accessing the published server are located.

When you configure a route network relationship, the clients use the actual IP address of the published server to access it.

Server publishing is not supported when ISA Server is configured with a single network adapter.

In this configuration, ISA Server recognizes only the Internal network.

For example, Web publishing rules require a Web listener network object, while server publishing rules do not.

You can see the rule elements that are available to you by expanding the ISA Server computer node, clicking Firewall Policy, and selecting the Toolbox tab in the task pane.

This rule element type contains protocols that you can use to limit the applicability of rules.

For example, suppose your policy does not allow Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol (DHCP) requests, and as a result, you see many DHCP requests that are being denied.

The request will be accepted only if a rule specifically allows the client access to the content.

Each of the wizards is designed to provide you with the default settings that are most appropriate for specific publishing scenarios, and that provide configuration advantages, including security advantages, for that scenario.

For example, when you are creating a Microsoft Exchange Server publishing rule for publishing Exchange Web client access, and create a new listener, the default method for obtaining client credentials is HTML forms-based authentication.

You specify the type of connection ISA Server makes with the published server (HTTP or HTTPS).

You must select a server certificate to be used by the Web listener, so that the ISA Server computer can authenticate itself to the client.

For example, if the Web site you are publishing allows client requests from the Internet (External network), you should select the External network for the Web listener.

Assigning a different certificate to each IP address enables you to publish several sites over HTTPS using the same Web listener, without using a wildcard certificate.

For example, you can publish mail.contoso.com using a certificate with that name on one IP address, and team.contoso.com using a certificate with that name on a different IP address.

By default, ISA Server listens on port 80 for HTTP requests.

However, if connecting clients are expected to use a different port, you should change the port number accordingly.

You can also enable the Web listener to listen for SSL requests.

You can configure the Web listener properties to define authentication methods for Web requests.

For more information about authentication, see "Authentication in ISA Server 2006" at the Microsoft TechNet Web site.

When users access two different Web sites, such as an Outlook Web Access site and a SharePoint site, users should not have to provide the same credentials again when they click a link to open another site.

The ISA Server 2006 single sign on (SSO) feature reuses user credentials for another published server, eliminating the need to reenter credentials a second or third time.

This enhances the user experience, because users click a link that opens another Web application without having to provide their credentials.

SSO is available when HTML forms-based authentication is the selected client authentication method.

SSO between different applications requires persistent cookies, which are disabled by default.

When ISA Server 2006 receives an incoming Web request, it determines whether the request is allowed, and then routes the request to the appropriate location on the Web server as defined in the Web publishing rule.

If the rule is configured to forward the original host header, ISA Server passes the host header (for example, Host: example.microsoft.com) included in the client request to the published server.

If the rule stipulates that the original host header should not be forwarded, ISA Server substitutes the original host header in the request with the name of the server specified in the Web publishing rule.

As a result, all requests that are routed to a particular Web server are sent to the same (default) Web site on that Web server.

For alternate access mapping to work properly, your SharePoint publishing rule must be configured to forward the original host header.

This is the default configuration when using the SharePoint Publishing Wizard.

SSL bridging is used when ISA Server ends or initiates an SSL connection.

In ISA Server 2006, SSL bridging is automatically configured when the specified Web listener is configured to listen for HTTPS traffic.

SSL bridging protects against attacks that are hidden in SSL-encrypted connections.

For SSL-enabled Web applications, after receiving the client's request, ISA Server decrypts it, inspects it, and terminates the SSL connection with the client computer.

The Web publishing rules determine how ISA Server communicates the request for the object to the publishing Web server.

If the secure Web publishing rule is configured to forward the request using HTTPS, ISA Server initiates a new SSL connection with the published server.

Because the ISA Server computer is now an SSL client, it requires that the publishing Web server responds with a server-side certificate.

ISA Server 2006 can publish a group of servers hosting the same data, also known as a server farm.

Server farms are rule elements, and can be defined either while creating a rule, or through the ISA Server Toolbox.

ISA Server verifies on regular intervals that the servers that are members of the server farm are functioning.

When you protect your server farm with ISA Server, you distribute client requests between the Web servers while maintaining client affinity.

We recommend that the servers in the server farm be located on a separate network from the users, to ensure that ISA Server can properly determine when the servers are available and not available.

In many scenarios, for load balancing to be effective, affinity must be maintained between the client and the Web server that receives and responds to the client's request.

Otherwise, a series of requests from the client and responses from the server farm will be handled by different Web servers, ignoring the context of the requests.

For example, Outlook Web Access is an application that requires client affinity, because the Outlook Web Access server maintains a context for the connected client.

The need for affinity is also demonstrated in a Web shopping scenario, where a client sets up a shopping cart on a Web server.

If affinity is not maintained, at some point in the client's session, the client's requests may be directed to another Web server that is unaware of the shopping cart.

When you apply a rule to a server farm, you can also configure whether the load balancing mechanism should be cookie based or source-IP based.

We recommend that you use session affinity when possible, because it provides more reliable client affinity when a Web server is restarted.

Session affinity should be used for load balancing Outlook Web Access or Windows SharePoint Services access, both of which use Microsoft Internet Explorer®, and therefore support HTTP cookies.

IP address-based affinity must also be used in a scenario where you are load balancing remote procedure call (RPC) over HTTP Outlook access.

Note that if your Web servers use a port other than port 80, specify that port on the server farm properties Connectivity Verification tab.

ISA Server provides a Drain option allowing you to specify that a server in the farm should temporarily stop accepting new connections.

Outlook Web Access provides Web browser access to e-mail, scheduling (including group scheduling), contacts, tasks, and collaborative information stored in Exchange Storage System folders.

RPC over HTTP enables users to access e-mail with Microsoft Office Outlook 2003 over the Internet.

The user accesses the ISA Server computer, which then forwards the request to the Outlook Web Access server or RPC over HTTP proxy server according to the conditions of your mail server publishing rule.

The published server is a SecureNAT client.

Therefore, no special configuration of the published server is required after you create the server publishing rule on the ISA Server computer.

ISA Server provides built-in inbound protocol definitions for server publishing.

The address of the source is translated only if the network relationship is NAT.

If the network relationship is route, there is no address translation.

If the Web proxy is used, the server being accessed sees the ISA Server address.

When the network relationship is defined as NAT, the client connects to the ISA Server external address.

The published server receives the packet from a source address of either the client or the ISA Server internal address, depending on how you configure the publishing rule.

The default setting for server publishing rules is that the published server receives the client address.

The default setting for Web publishing rules is that the published server receives the ISA Server internal address.

When the network relationship is defined as route, the client connects directly to the server.

The published server will receive the packet from the client address.

However, for Web publishing rules (only when publishing HTTP), you can configure whether the published server should receive the ISA Server internal address.

For access rules, SMTP, DNS, and POP filtering cannot be configured.

All other built-in application filtering can be performed.

For application filters developed by third-party vendors, the vendor should indicate the support model.

However, when a single server is typically accessed by many clients, we recommend that you use publishing rules, because ISA Server will ensure that the clients are load balanced when the server is accessed.

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More clipart

2008-01-19T11:24:00.001+01:00

This page also contains some good cliparts.

http://www.boxedart.com

Unison File Synchronizer

2007-11-08T10:26:00.000+01:00

Finally a tool that allows me to synchronize files both Windows and Linux clients without any worries.

Unison shares a number of features with tools such as configuration management packages (CVS, PRCS, Subversion, BitKeeper, etc.), distributed filesystems (Coda, etc.), uni-directional mirroring utilities (rsync, etc.), and other synchronizers (Intellisync, Reconcile, etc).

It installs as an native Windows application.

Share your scanner over the network

2007-11-04T11:44:00.000+01:00

Look at the link below. It allows you to share the scanner over your
LAN. The client is TWAIN compatible so you can use your favorite
scanning application.

http://www.masterslabs.com/en/content/view/12/54/

SMS gateways for Norway and Europe

2007-11-01T14:50:00.001+01:00

To send SMS messages over the Internet there are two known services.

http://www.sendega.com and http://www.pswin.com

Ethernet vendors

2007-10-18T11:08:00.001+02:00

From time to time you might wonder what equipment is behind a MAC address. The list is here.

Slow Outlook 2007

2007-10-13T11:14:00.001+02:00

Stopping Windows Search solved all my performane issues.

More information: http://www.slipstick.com/outlook/ol2007/known_issues.htm

Useful links for dolls houses

2007-10-12T01:20:00.001+02:00

If you are interested in dolls houses I have found some links that might be of interest to you.

They are:

http://www.small-dreams.de	Lots of cool items to keep inside of the house. Very good details on everything.
http://www.dollshouse.com/	Here you can find dolls houses and other collectables from the Victorian time. Big collection!
http://www.dollhousecollectables.com/	An american web site with lots of items.
http://www.lundby.com/eng/lundby.asp	Lundby dolls houses are known everywhere – at least in Norway. Every toy store sells it.
http://www.greenleafdollhouses.com/	They have some big houses you can build if you have the time.

Foxit PDF reader

2007-10-08T23:44:00.000+02:00

I am sure you all have seen that the new versions of Adobe Reader are getting slower and slower. Today I came across Foxit that seems boh fast, promising and got a small footprint. You can also purchase an option that supports annotation and all the bookmark features you have to pay lots of money from Adobe.

How to implement catch-all in Windows 2003 POP3 service

2007-10-08T08:28:00.001+02:00

This article teaches you how implement it.

ARCServe for Netware command lines

2007-10-02T10:37:00.000+02:00

I found an interesting article talking about how to unload tapesvr.nlm when in trouble.

http://www.ndsengineers.com/nw-6x-server-backup/385409-force-unload-arcserve-tapesrv-nlm-etc.html

Sleep within ASP (Active Server Pages)

2007-09-30T00:09:00.000+02:00

You can read on this page how to make your code sleep for a specific amount of time.

An easy LDAP tool

2007-09-22T10:08:00.000+02:00

This graphical tool is easy to use when you need to inspect and edit a LDAP data source.

Configuring SSL Host Headers (IIS 6.0)

2007-09-11T12:22:00.000+02:00

Microsoft supports host headers on SSL encrypted connections.

Organizations that host multiple Web sites on a single server often use host headers to create multiple Web sites without requiring a unique IP address for each site.

Need to create an avator for use on the web?

2007-09-05T02:25:00.000+02:00

Try http://www.stortroopers.com/

MSI explained

2007-09-05T01:09:00.001+02:00

This article talks about the difference between package code, product code, upgrade code and product version. It's an easy introduction to MSI.

Tool to convert video formats

2007-08-19T12:02:00.001+02:00

Smart-soft is another tool that can convert video formats.

Tools to see HTTP traffic

2007-08-16T13:28:00.001+02:00

Check out http://www.ieinspector.com/httpanalyzer and
http://www.httpwatch.com - both are tools to see what the web client
downloads from the net. These are cool tools to pinpoint latency related to
webservers.

The Mother of all Cisco PPT Icon Collections

2007-08-12T02:20:00.000+02:00

The link above gives you access to a PPT file with lots of icons for Cisco equipment.

MSN worm: messengerdeletechecker16.tk

2007-08-03T10:31:00.000+02:00

Have you lately received a link on MSN to messengerdeletechecker16.tk that shows a page from messenger-tips.com?

This is a worm - DO NOT LEAVE YOUR USERNAME AND PASSWORD

This worm have several names - but all points back to messenger-tips.com. You can read more about it here.

What if I have left my credentials there? If so, change your MSN password immediately

Microsoft Hotfix Request Web Submission Form

2007-08-03T09:03:00.000+02:00

You can use this link if you need to download hotfixes that are not public available.

This webpage is used instead of calling Microsoft support to get access to a hotfix. Easier for you and easier for Microsoft :)

Warning: These Hotfixes have not gone through full Microsoft regression testing.

DVD Profiler

2007-05-24T14:20:00.001+02:00

Finally the tool you need to stay in control of your DVD collection.

GUIDE: Load/DUMP ISO's using Fastloader or UMDEmulator

2007-05-02T21:32:00.001+02:00

I found this article talking about UMD and PSP.

http://forums.afterdawn.com/thread_view.cfm/283828

Online survey

2007-04-17T22:19:00.001+02:00

I found this tool to do online surveys. It seems quite good.

http://www.questionpro.com

Scheduling tools

2007-04-13T12:21:00.000+02:00

In my quest for tools to automate batch jobs this is what I have found;

24x7 Scheduler

Robotask - the automation software

VisualCron - advanced task scheduler

Automize - The most reliable automation software on the market

Screen capture tools

2007-04-13T11:38:00.001+02:00

Here is a list of screen capture tools I have to look into later.

Wink - freeware tool with authoring capabilities.

Camstudio - free tool

Relevant Google search is here.

links of today

2007-03-30T16:51:00.000+02:00

I am working on a issue with Broadcom drivers (BACP) that won't work after changes to the VLAN configuration. When searching I found two articles that I need to look in to:

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/555629

http://weblogs.asp.net/steveschofield/archive/2006/03/22/440846.aspx

and as a sidenote; here can you have your website build in Pakistan: http://www.awd.com.pk/

Share music

2007-03-26T09:35:00.001+02:00

A place to share music is http://www.jamendo.com

On jamendo, artists allow everyone to download and share their music. It's free, legal and unlimited.

SQL Server Hosting Toolkit

2007-03-20T23:42:00.000+01:00

I just came across this tool.

The goal of the SQL Server Hosting Toolkit is to enable a great experience around SQL Server in shared hosting environments.

Online backup

2007-03-14T14:09:00.001+01:00

I have found two online backup solutions that seems cheap and promising.

http://mozy.com/

http://carbonite.com/

Sender Policy Framework

2007-03-13T12:24:00.001+01:00

This is something I need to look more into later.

http://www.openspf.org/

Open source clipart collection

2007-03-10T14:07:00.000+01:00

If you look at http://openclipart.org you can download free cliparts i SVG format.

XPath expression tester

2007-03-09T23:01:00.000+01:00

I found this tool to check XPath expressions.

http://www.gotdotnet.com/Community/UserSamples/Details.aspx?SampleGuid=4f976e6e-9474-4813-b1cd-5e565f3219f9

Games for the Brain

2007-03-06T08:36:00.000+01:00

I came across this gaming site with easy games to play with.

A site to share music

2007-03-01T13:01:00.000+01:00

I found this site that allows a user to share music and playlists.

Google disk drive survey

2007-02-23T08:27:00.000+01:00

Google recently published an extensive report on hard drive failures.

Temperature is often quoted as the most important environmental factor affecting disk drive reliability. Previous studies have indicated that temperature deltas as low as 15C can nearly double disk drive failure rates

Read for yourself. You can find the source here. If you have any download problems you can download my copy here.

Technorati tags: Google, harddrive, MTBF

<<disk-failure.htm>>

Byte converter and download calculator

2007-02-22T10:14:00.000+01:00

Here is the tools you ever need to convert byte sized and estimate download times.

http://www.t1shopper.com/tools/calculate/byteconverter.shtml

http://www.t1shopper.com/tools/calculate/downloadcalculator.shtml

VistaDB

2007-02-18T22:53:00.000+01:00

I came across an embedded database that seems cool.

VistaDB 3.0 is the world's first fully managed and typesafe embedded SQL database engine built for Microsoft .NET, Compact Framework and Mono. Developers can build embedded cross-platform ASP.NET and WinForms database applications for desktops, mobile devices and web servers.

Read more at their homepage; http://www.vistadb.net

Ubuntu install problem

2007-02-18T22:52:00.000+01:00

When I installed Ubuntu 6.10 Server on my EPIA motherboard I got this error message filling up my screen:

Unknown Interrupt or fault at EIP 00000060 c0100295 00000294

The solution was to install Ubuntu with the alternate disc instead.

Upgrade Toolkit for Windows SharePoint Services Sites and Templates Guide

2007-02-17T23:03:00.000+01:00

A toolkit to upgrade WSS2 sites to WSS3

Guidance and tools to enable IT Pros to upgrade custom Windows® SharePoint® Services 2.0 sites and templates to function in Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 environments.

Windows mobile tools

2007-02-09T02:54:00.000+01:00

I found a page with some useful tech tools for Windows Mobile.

http://s-k-tools.com

How to publish with Blogger

2007-02-07T00:24:00.000+01:00

This article was posted in the wrong blog. You can find the entire article here.

Microsoft Snip IT

2007-02-03T16:54:00.000+01:00

Finally a tool to easy send snippets from a webpage on mail. You have probably already seen this feature if you have Google Toolbar. (Google Toolbar only works with Gmail or Blogger...)

SnipIT can be used to email the selected text in Internet Explorer using the user's email client of choice. The add-on currently supports Microsoft Outlook, Microsoft Hotmail, Yahoo Mail, Gmail and default installed MailTo client in Internet Explorer as email client options. Yahoo Mail Beta is not currently supported.

You can download it here.

Unsafe attachments in Outlook

2007-02-01T16:40:00.000+01:00

Do you often get a message saying that Outlook has blocked access to your attachments? If you install this tool you can fix that problem.

Revocation of SSL certificates

2007-02-01T15:41:00.000+01:00

I am reading about how Microsoft CrytoAPI handles CRL's - and found this old document that addresses some interesing points.

http://amug.org/~glguerin/opinion/revocation.html

Webalizer for IIS

2007-01-30T14:20:00.000+01:00

I found this Webalizer version that can read IIS logs out of the box.

Individual-i

2007-01-30T09:37:00.000+01:00

Individual-i: "Today, the rights of individuals are being eroded: by government, by corporations, by society itself. This icon — the Individual-i — represents the rights of the individual."

PowerPoint viewer 2007

2007-01-29T23:03:00.000+01:00

You can download their viewer here.

Signing PDF documents

2007-01-28T13:58:00.000+01:00

Ascertia have some products for signing PDF documents among other stuff.

http://www.ascertia.com/products/pdfsigner/default.aspx

Flexwiki

2007-01-28T00:16:00.000+01:00

I came across a Wiki platform for .NET that is called Flexwiki. It seems fast and easy to work with.

Cisco routers with unequal load sharing

2007-01-27T22:09:00.000+01:00

Challenge: My Cisco router does not share the load equal on two T1 lines. Solution: Add the "no ip route-cache" on my serial interface. Read the whole story here.

Lego Star Wars II: The Original Trilogy: Information from Answers.com

2007-01-27T19:08:00.000+01:00

Lego Star Wars II: The Original Trilogy: Information from Answers.com

You can find a list of all characters from the game here.

All Wikipedia Links Are Now NOFOLLOW

2007-01-27T15:54:00.000+01:00

All Wikipedia Links Are Now NOFOLLOW

Microsoft Photo Info

2007-01-23T20:56:00.000+01:00

Microsoft have just released a new tool called Microsoft Photo Info, version 1.0.

Microsoft Photo Info allows photographers to add, change and delete common "metadata" properties for digital photographs from inside Windows Explorer.

When installed, a new "Photo Info" item appears on the context menu for files selected in Windows Explorer. To use, simply select one or more image fiiles, right-click and choose "Photo Info" to open the Photo Info properties editor. You can edit metadata for files individually, or all together as a batch. Photo Info reads and writes metadata in IPTC and XMP formats (depending on file type). It also provides enhanced "hover tips" and additional sort properties for digital photographs in Windows Explorer.

Have a look for yourself. You can download the tool from this page.

Blogger tools

2007-01-23T08:52:00.000+01:00

This article talks about various tools every other blogger needs.

http://www.kineda.com/essential-tools-every-blogger-should-have/

Blog software for .NET

2007-01-22T07:54:00.000+01:00

http://www.dasblog.info/ is the homepage of the blog software homepage.

dasBlog is an ASP.NET weblogging application. It runs on ASP.NET 1.1 and is developed in C#. dasBlog is an evolution of the BlogX weblog engine initially written by Chris Anderson and contributors. The initial conversion from Blogx was created by Clemens Vasters. dasBlog adds lots of additional features like Trackback, Pingback, Mail notifications, and over 50 other major modifications some unique only to dasBlog.

JPG to ASCII conversion

2007-01-19T11:33:00.000+01:00

It can be done easily. Check here:

http://labnol.blogspot.com/2007/01/convert-any-photograph-into-text.html

Cisco Feature navigator

2007-01-17T10:36:00.000+01:00

This cool tool lets you search for Cisco features on various models. This is a must when you try to figure out what the different units can do.

Tags: Cisco

Download details: Reources for Tips and Tricks (PDF Format)

2007-01-12T12:36:00.000+01:00

If you need any reasons to upgrade to Microsoft Office 2007 you'll find them here

Download details: Reources for Tips and Tricks (PDF Format)

Application Response Measurement - ARM

2007-01-12T12:19:00.000+01:00

A framework to measure application throughput.

The Application Response Measurement (ARM) standard describes a common method for integrating enterprise applications as manageable entities. The ARM standard allows users to extend their enterprise management tools directly to applications creating a comprehensive end-to-end management capability that includes measuring application availability, application performance, application usage, and end-to-end transaction response time.

Dedicated to classic DOS games

2007-01-11T15:21:00.000+01:00

This site offers lots of games from the good old days with Commodore 64 and Amiga.

Fix Mom’s Computer Without Leaving Your Desk at The Blog Herald

2007-01-08T18:17:00.000+01:00

Fix Mom’s Computer Without Leaving Your Desk at The Blog Herald talks about tools to remote control other computers and how to make videos of what you do on your screen.

VG Nett - Teknologi Perfekt for kjøkkenbordet og bestemor

2007-01-07T19:39:00.000+01:00

VG Nett - Teknologi Perfekt for kjøkkenbordet og bestemor
This link - in norwegian - talks about an exiting product at home. I'll read more about this later.

Download YouTube videos

2007-01-04T16:49:00.000+01:00

I found an article talking about how to download YouTube videos.

Video and audio tools

2007-01-03T10:20:00.000+01:00

Here are some links to external sites that have audio and video tools:

How to make DVD movies

2007-01-03T00:00:00.000+01:00

This link is to a product - somewhat expensive - but with support for 8 audio streams, multi angle and lots of ofhter stuff not supported in other DVD creators. It also have lots of technical stuff about how the DVD work.

Tutorial to start .NET development

2007-01-01T18:15:00.000+01:00

Start in 1-2-3 with this tutorial.

Query Languages for Indexing Service

2006-12-19T17:46:00.000+01:00

How to program for the Microsoft Indexing service?

Here is a good starting point to learn more about how to program for the indexing service.

SSL Certificates FAQ - Extended Validation SSL FAQ - Online Identity Assurance - VeriSign, Inc.

2006-12-15T00:08:00.000+01:00

SSL Certificates FAQ - Extended Validation SSL FAQ - Online Identity Assurance - VeriSign, Inc. This page shows how IE will display sites with extended validation certificates.

How to tune Windows XP for performance

2006-12-07T18:34:00.000+01:00

Here is an article about how to performance tune your Windows XP installation.

http://kadaitcha.cx/performance.html

Tags: Windows XP, tweak, performance, tips.

How Google search works

2006-11-29T02:42:00.000+01:00

I found this article talking about how Google ranking works.

http://www.vaughns-1-pagers.com/internet/google-ranking-factors.htm

ISA Firewall and domain membership

2006-11-28T15:24:00.000+01:00

I found this article talking about the topic.

http://www.isaserver.org/tutorials/Debunking-Myth-that-ISA-Firewall-Should-Not-Domain-Member.html

Should the ISA firewall array be placed in a domain or a workgroup? That is the question. Is it nobler to place the ISA firewall in a workgroup where you can avoid the catcalls of clueless compliance managers, “hardware” firewall know-nothings, or “network guys” who think of network security as “port opening and closing”, or should you bear the slings and arrows of the same harridan housewives and carping screws for placing the ISA firewall in the domain, where you can get a higher level of overall security and substantially improve your security position?

http://www.isaserver.org/tutorials/Debunking-Myth-that-ISA-Firewall-Should-Not-Domain-Member.html

Tags: isaserver, firewall

Novell and Linux partnership

2006-11-27T12:35:00.000+01:00

Here is a joint venture document from Novell and Microsoft describing details about the agreement.

For customers who have a significant Windows investment and want to addLinux to their IT infrastructure,Microsoft recommendsSUSE Linux Enterprise from Novell.

http://www.helge.net/Networking/Linux/Novell-Microsoft%20Customer%20presentation-FINAL_1.ppt

Lego Star Wars cheat

2006-11-26T22:09:00.000+01:00

I found this article about how to win this exiting game.

Read for yourself!

http://www.bellaonline.com/gaming/w/lego2/

Windows boot screen history

2006-11-26T00:53:00.000+01:00

From past to present.

See them all here.

Free virus scanners

2006-11-26T00:06:00.000+01:00

I found this article talking about free antivirus scanners for Windows.

Customizing Microsoft Certificate services

2006-11-25T22:23:00.000+01:00

Microsoft have written ways to customize the web pages for the certificate authority. You can read more here.

I also found something on microsoft.public.security that can be of interest.