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 [...]

Expressions in VBScript/ASP with "null" in it, will always return FALSE. See the examples below:Dim test If (test=null) Then Response.Write "True" Else Response.Write "False" End If If Not(test=null) Then Response.Write "True" Else Response.Write "False" End If Both will show "False". Because "null" is in the expression, none of them will ever return True. This is [...]

UPDATE: This bypass method described below doesn't work anymore. Visit mydigitallife's article for an updated (3-dec-2006) and easy method of bypassing WGA/Notifications/Visiting Windows Updates, etc. In 2005 Microsoft introduced Windows Genuine Advantage (WGA) which was (also) meant to reduce illegal copies. Since then, people who had an 'illegal' Corporate copy of Windows XP or Server 2003 were [...]

Lesson of this article is: Script It! I will also show an in depth example of a sheduled script which will zip/rotate/delete/move/copy you logfiles. This is a typical task everyone with a webserver would automate/script because you want to save your logfiles for statistics and to track ‘bad’ visitors while zipping them reduces it’s size [...]

This is a simple example of what can happen when you calculate with years only:Imagine you had a backup script which would delete all old backups, older than 1 year.When you were using a VBScript (or ASP) function like: DateDiff('yyyy', backup_create_date, Now)The 1st of January all your backups would be deleted (even the ones created [...]