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I recently had a client who was hosting a site on IIS under Windows XP Pro using .NET and ASP.

As a result, I needed to set up an appropriate development environment to test and debug the site before handing it over.

I opted for setting up VMware install that was running the necessary OS and software.

Following is a quick how-to on setting it all up.

Installing IIS 5.1 and .NET 2.0 on Windows XP Pro:

1. Go to Add/Remove

→ Continue reading “Setting Up an IIS Webserver under Windows XP Pro”

Windows tends to store a ton of temporary files that, over time, tend to fill up your hard drive.

There
are a number of places to look for these files and a couple of things
you can do to periodically purge your system of files you don’t need.

First, right-click on your C drive and select "Properties".  Then click on the "Disk Cleanup" button on the main tab.

You can also look in C:\Documents and Settings\Administrator\Local Settings\Temp

And look for → Continue reading “Deleting the Cruft in Windows 2000”

For all of you out there who use vi on a regular basis . . . I recently needed to do a search and replace on a large document and needed to key off of the new line characters in the document.

After a bit of searching here’s what I found:

If you need to do something like, search for all new lines and add the new line plus "foo" do the following:

:1,%s/\n/^Mfoo/g

You get the ^M character by → Continue reading “Search and Replace for a New Line Character in VI”

Anyone who has tried to W3C validate a page with the default output from Flash knows you get a slew of errors.

Here’s a great article on modifying your <object> and <embed> tags so that your pages will validate.

Flash Satay: Embedding Flash While Supporting Standards by Drew McLellan

Here’s a quick example that you can run with that includes the markup for a transparent background:

<object type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="368" height="201" data="icms_art/nbir5.hdr.anim.swf">
<param name="allowScriptAccess" value="sameDomain" />
<param name="allowFullScreen" value="false" />
<param → Continue reading “Embedding Flash with Valid Markup”

Let’s say you have a disk that you want to put in an external USB enclosure, mount and read some files.  What if it’s a boot disk that uses LVM?  What if you have two LVM groups with the same name?

Here’s a quick how-to on mounting just this type of LVM volumes from a USB disk.

When you first attach your disk in it’s USB enclosure you should be able to see which device it is associated with by → Continue reading “Mounting Logical Volumes Under Linux”