I had a Windows Server 2003 R2 x64 (30day edition) running. When I decided to run all updates (http://windowsupdate.microsoft.com), I saw the following warnings in the Application Event Log: Event ID: 37 Type: Warning Source: WINMgmt Description: WMI ADAP was unable to load the C:\WINDOWS\Microsoft.NET\Framework\v2.0.50727\aspnet_perf.dll performance library due to an unknown problem within the library [...]

Did you ever need to script ‘setting-file/folder-permissions’ or making a deployment or install script ? Or did you ever screwed-up the NTFS permissions on the C:\Windows folder (including all the subfolders) ? If so, you’d better read on; Microsoft finally came with a solution which stops all the horror of automaticly setting-NTFS permissions, including the [...]

Today I took some time to write a little about ABN-AMRO’s security weaknesses. This article including it’s examples and example code (which will be posted later) are for educational purposes only. Account blocking It’s made too simple to lock an account for internet banking. Going to https://www.abnamro.nl/nl/homepage/overview.html and typing an existing bank account number with [...]

Instead of making a wish list, I'll give you my miss list below. Most of the items should be vaporware #1 since many people are waiting years for it and the miss will be a bigger problem in feature. As soon as an item is available or a good workarround is available I'll post it next to [...]

Last year i bought my new HP Ipaq 6915. Last month the touchscreen broke (couldn’t touch it anymore), first i thought it was a software problem so i did a hard-reset on the device. Too bad, after a hard-reset you must tab-the-screen which i couldn’t.. I called HP which came to pickup the device and [...]

One year ago, the main domain name of my company was hijacked, fortunately we monitor those things and I was on time to prevent a little disaster. The company who initiated this hijacking was Trans IP, one of the larger hosting companies in The Netherlands. I thought it was my duty to write a little comment at the [...]

Last weeks i spent some time working on a ‘new’ DNS appliance. DNS is light weight but you must have multiple separate servers for redundancy in multiple locations. Using a power consuming HP DL-360 server would be a serious overkill and running Microsoft Windows Server for DNS only, is a waste of licensing / money / expertise and required hardware. The [...]

Last night i was developing with ServerXMLHTTP. ServerXMLHTTP is included with the Microsoft XML Parser (MSXML) version 3.0 or later. Do not confuse ServerXMLHTTP with XMLHTTP, which is designed for client applications and relies on URLMon, which is built upon Microsoft Win32 Internet (WinInet). The following bug is regarding to ServerXMLHTTP (so also: MSXML 3 - [...]

Recently i installed an IBM Workplace server on CentOS with VNCServer. The IBM Software can run on Windows as well as Linux (RedHat Enterprise or SuSe). Because you actually have to BUY RedHat Enterprise, they say you pay for a support contract but you cannot download the install files/ISO without buying the support contract. You [...]

Due to some technical issues (i’ll show you below) it is impossible to authenticate using Digest Authentication for authenticating the user against an Database/LDAP and the webserver itself. I did this before with Basic authentication, which works fine. Example1: It is possible to authenticate with basic authentication against a Database, simply write a 401 header [...]