Bart has a very interesting article about BITS, the download-manager/scheduler behind the infamous Windows Update technology. Following his instructions, you can use BITS as a free downloadmanager. Let’s see if somebody can come up with a nice GUI, instead of having to use the commandline utility “bitsadmin”.
This guy Greg’s really knows his way around photo-editing. On his website he shows his work, and mousing-over reveals the original. Some pictures (read: models) are disturbingly ugly without the retouching!
The instructions for getting MDaemon’s WorldClient running with Apache are here, but they don’t work. Browsing to the defined alias/directory results in a “403 – Forbidden”.
OMG! This is a screenshot of Flexwiki (a ASP.NET application), running under Apache. With mod_aspdotnet.
Perhaps, my problems are solved. Now lets see if I can get my mail via Apache2. Since the blog already works, I verified that earlier.
Simple, get out of the car, and it will do it itself! At least, if project Evolve will be implemented in future cars. Bad news for insurance-companies… Watch the movie.
I don’t have the busiest server in the world, but running a blog, reading my mail and having a photogallery really takes IIS to its limits. IIS on Windows XP Pro, that is. Although I meta-editted the maxconnections from 10 to 40, I still get a “too many users” quite regularly.
I want to switch to Apache. It’s fast, it’s has no connection limit (other than what the server can handle) and lot’s of free software is designed with Apache in mind. But Apache does not serve ASP.NET pages. And some applications I use have IIS-integration, but no Apache counterpart.
So, let’s upgrade to IIS 6. That seems logical. But that is quite an upgrade. One needs to upgrade the complete server, since IIS can only be run on Windows 2003. But since Windows 2003 is a server operating system, some tools (like Norton Antivirus) don’t work, since you need the server version for that. Server versions are far more expensive than their non-server counterparts.
So to be able to run IIS 6.0 to enable me to upgrade my ASP.NET programming skills, I need to buy Windows 2003 Standard or higher (Webedition does not suit my needs), perhaps a bigger server (since Win2K3 weighs a lot more than WinXP), and I need to upgrade some of my software to server-editions. How uncool is that?
Where is mod_httpsys.dll for Apache 2? Why is it that with Microsoft I always feel locked-in? If anybody knows a good (free or cheap) mailserver for Linux, perhaps I will reinstall the server.
Is it time for me to have a look at Janeva?
I just found out about Picasa 2, another free software product from Google. I haven’t downloaded it yet, but it looks kinda neat. Always nice to have free picture catalog software.
If you need your picture to look like it’s made with a LOMO camera, than you can follow the instructions found on this page. Cool.
For sharing my pictures, I use the excellent CopperMine Photo Gallery software. Today I found out that it does not work with FireFox. I cannot upload files. The result is a dialog saying “document contains no data”. When I look in the album directory, the picture has not even been uploaded. Doing exactly the same in IE, and things go fine.
Anybody?
Though it’s out there a couple of days now, I haven’t noticed it until now. Release 2 of Oracle’s Application Server is out, and to be had via an OTN download. Choose any of the options, per platform you will be presented with the same download page. It’s quite a lot though, at the moment I have 4 CD’s in the downloadqueue.
And while your filling your download queue, why not check out the preview of JDeveloper 10.1.3. I know I’ve added it to the list.