1. Backup your iPhone first; this is always a given and you may even want to make a copy of the backup to a USB stick
2. Select the Restore button instead of the Update button; yes Restore is the way to actually get the update pushed to your phone
3. Typically after about 20-30 minutes your phone is updated

Many users reported waiting hours to get their phone to update.  Some users waited over a day and the update still would not install but instead remain stuck or stalled at the backup stage.

When using remote desktop connection to connect to a server I recently encountered the “Because of a protocol error detected at the client (code 0x1104), this session will be disconnected.  Please try connecting to the remote computer again.” error. 

The error was encountered after:

• I had just logged into the the server the night before with no issues. 
• Able to login to another server and tried to roundtrip to server in question from another server.  Still the same error persisted.
• Rebooting of my machine did not change the errors.

How to fix:

In your RDP connection window, expand options if they are already not expanded and then select the Experience tab.  Unselect the Themes checkbox (Prior to Windows 7) or Visual Styles checkbox in Windows 7. 

Try logging in again.  The issue should be cleared.

Note: After one login, I was able to click Visual styles and login normal again. 

Ninite

Simply go to the Ninite site and select from dozens of apps and then click Get Installer and Ninite builds you a Windows installer of all the apps you’ve selected.  Much like the simple process of selecting your apps, your installation runs smoothly with little or no prompts.

There are a couple of limitations to the installer – the applications must be on their list and the machine installing must have web access.  However, lucky for us the current selection has a large number of applications unlike Google Pack and it’s extremely limited selection.

The current selection of apps includes:

Web Browsers

• Chrome
• Safari
• Opera
• Firefox

Messaging

• Skype
• Messenger
• Pidgin
• Digsby
• Google Talk
• Thunderbird

Media

• iTunes
• Songbird
• Hulu
• VLC
• KMPlayer
• AIMP
• Audacity
• Spotify

Imaging

• Paint.NET
• Picasa
• GIMP
• IrfanView
• XnView

Documents

• Office (Trial)
• OpenOffice
• Adobe Reader
• Foxit Reader
• CutePDF

Anti-Virus

• Essentials
• Avast
• AVG

Runtimes

• Flash
• Flash (IE)
• Java
• .Net
• Silverlight

File Sharing

• uTorrent
• eMule

Other

• Dropbox
• Evernote
• BumpTop
• Steam
• Google Earth

Utilities

• ImgBurn
• CCleaner
• Launchy
• Revo
• Defraggler
• RealVNC
• CDBurnerXP
• Recuva

Compression

• 7-Zip
• WinRAR

Developer Tools

• Python
• FileZilla
• Notepad ++
• JDK
• WinSCP
• PuTTY
• Eclipse

On machines where Vista/W7 is installed there appears to be an issue when checking to see if a user is in a role.  User Account Control (UAC) must be on to reproduce the issue.  The result is that the value returned is always FALSE even when the user does belong to the group.

Sample Code (UAC must be on to produce error)

If My.User.IsInRole(“My Domain\My Group”) Then

     Return True

Else

     Return False

End If

Workaround

To get around this I created a function using other .Net functions.

Public Function IsInUserRole(ByVal RoleToFind As String) As Boolean

    Dim id As WindowsIdentity = WindowsIdentity.GetCurrent
    Dim irc As IdentityReferenceCollection

    ' Gets a SID list of groups the user belongs to

    irc = id.Groups

    For Each ir As IdentityReference In irc

        ' Need to convert the SID to plain english

        Dim act As NTAccount = CType(ir.Translate(Type.GetType("System.Security.Principal.NTAccount")), NTAccount)

        If act.Value = RoleToFind Then

            Return True

        End If

    Next

    Return False

End Function

ajaxload.info is a new site that builds customized animated gifs for you.

Simple as 1-2-3!

1. Pick an indicator type from the Web 2.0 style drop down
2. Select your colors
3. Click Generate

Simple!  1 Site – 1 Page!

Upon continuing a Ruby on Rails project after a few months delay, Aptana Studio's RadRails editor installed some updates.  I suspect something that  changed in Rails itself (GEM update) caused the error I received.

Error Message

undefined method `include_root_in_json=' for ActiveRecord::Base:Class (NoMethodError)

Solution

To fix this error rename the config/initializers/new_rails_defaults.rb to config/initializers/new_rails_defaults.rb.bak.

It appears that the old code placed in these files no longer works with ROR 2.0.2.

# These settings change the behavior of Rails 2 apps and will be defaults
# for Rails 3. You can remove this initializer when Rails 3 is released.

# Include Active Record class name as root for JSON serialized output.
ActiveRecord::Base.include_root_in_json = true

# Store the full class name (including module namespace) in STI type column.
ActiveRecord::Base.store_full_sti_class = true

# Use ISO 8601 format for JSON serialized times and dates.
ActiveSupport.use_standard_json_time_format = true

# Don't escape HTML entities in JSON, leave that for the #json_escape helper.
# if you're including raw json in an HTML page.
ActiveSupport.escape_html_entities_in_json = false

The file now created in a new project appears as follows:

# These settings change the behavior of Rails 2 apps and will be defaults
# for Rails 3. You can remove this initializer when Rails 3 is released.

if defined?(ActiveRecord)
# Include Active Record class name as root for JSON serialized output.
ActiveRecord::Base.include_root_in_json = true

# Store the full class name (including module namespace) in STI type column.
ActiveRecord::Base.store_full_sti_class = true
end

# Use ISO 8601 format for JSON serialized times and dates.
ActiveSupport.use_standard_json_time_format = true

# Don't escape HTML entities in JSON, leave that for the #json_escape helper.
# if you're including raw json in an HTML page.
ActiveSupport.escape_html_entities_in_json = false

Footnotes

See  http://www.hostingrails.com/1461/dbmigrate-undefined-method-include_root_in_json for more help with this error.

With all the problems that plague the giant online meeting place, a shift to person-centric social networking is primed to take some share of users from MySpace and Facebook.  After all why would you want to rent space when you can own your own home.

WordPress and its upcoming sister product bbPress are offering a multitude of options for users who would are making the switch from social networking to blogging.  Why not start your WordPress site today?

Reference:

http://gigaom.com/2007/12/11/the-next-social-network-wordpress/

Fortunately Firefox has the slick ability to easily modify it's configuration to use Integrated Windows Authentication.

How to configure Firefox

1. Open Firefox
2. In the address bar type: about:config
   
3. Firefox3.x and later requires you to agree that you will proceed with caution.
4. After the config page loads, in the filter box type: network.automatic
5. * Modify network.automatic-ntlm-auth.trusted-uris by double clicking the row and enter http://www.replacewithyoursite.com or http://your-intranet-server-name
   
6. * Multiple sites can be added by comma delimiting them such as http://www.replacewithyoursite.com, http://www.replacewithyourintranetsite.com

Package for Large Installs

If you are a network administrator that has a lot of installs to do, you can modify the Firefox installer.

1. Use a tool such as 7-zip to extract Firefox Setup 2.x.x.exe
2. Extract browser.xpi from the setup
3. Edit all.js contained in browser.xpi contained in binjreprefs
4. Modify the entries as in items 4 and 5 above
5. Re-package browser.xpi and use the extracted setup to install Firefox

* Special Notes

To specify all subdomains use .replacewithyoursite.com instead of www.replacewithyoursite.com, help.replacewithyoursite.com, pictures.replacewithyoursite.com

Updated March 5, 2010

If you are a corporate user of this software that uses Community Servers integrated login module, you were out of luck, sort of until I discovered a forum post by Telligent employee Kevin Harder.

Windows Live Writer and Integrated authentication - Community Server

Windows Live Writer does not natively support integrated logins at this point and requires a username and password to setup a Community Server Weblog account.  To do this you need to perform one of the following workarounds.

Method A - Manipulating Community Server DB

1. Open IIS manager and drill down to your Community Server installation.  Find the /blogs/metablog.ashx file, right-click on it and select Properties.  Then click the File Security tab, click the Edit authentication button, and check the enable anonymous access checkbox.  This tells your web server to allow anonymous access to just the MetaBlog API service.
2. Now connect to your Community Server database, and find your username in the aspnet_Users table.  Note the UserId value for it.
3. Find the row in the aspnet_Membership table for your UserId.  Update the Password column value to be something that you will remember.  In addition, update the PasswordFormat column to be 0.  If you do not set the PasswordFormat column you will receive an error from Live Writer.  "An error occurred while attempting to connect to your weblog: Blog Server Error - Server Error 0 Occurred" User does not exist, you must correct this error before proceeding."
4. You should now be able to connect with Windows Live Writer using your username and the password that you chose.

Method B - Using the CS Administration Panel

1. Open IIS manager and drill down to your Community Server installation.  Find the /blogs/metablog.ashx file, right-click on it and select Properties.  Then click the File Security tab, click the Edit authentication button, and check the enable anonymous access checkbox.  This tells your web server to allow anonymous access to just the MetaBlog API service.
2. In your CS administration panel, click the membership panel tab and then Create New Account.  Create an account that you want to connect using Live Writer and assign it appropriate permissions within CS.  No database changes required.
3. You should now be able to connect with Windows Live Writer using your username and the password that you chose.

In either case you need to allow the metablog api control permissions to be accessed by anonymous users.  Method B works around using the existing user and creates an account just for use with Live Writer.

This implementation was tested with Community Server 2007.1 (SQL2005 data store) and Windows Live Writer 2008 (build 12.0.1366.1026).