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Monthly Archives: February 2007

Migrate PuTTY saved sessions

Thursday, February 22, 2007

PuTTY stores its session information in the registry, and there’s no function in PuTTY itself to import/export sessions. This makes moving to a new computer a little sticky. I did some googling and whittled down the documentation for storing configuration in a file into a few steps: On the old computer, open up a command […]

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qpsmtpd-forkserver on debian

Thursday, February 15, 2007

I had some problems getting qpsmtpd-forkserver to run on debian. The punchline: qpsmtpd-forkserver relies on an environment variable called QPSMTPD_CONFIG, which should point to the directory containing your config files. $ export QPSMTPD_CONFIG=/etc/qpsmtp $ qpsmtpd-forkserver … Problem solved. I didn’t want to run qpsmtpd for its standard usage (wrapping a mail server on the same […]

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Server Application Unavailable, no event log, .NET 2

Wednesday, February 14, 2007

A perplexing error while setting up my new system: Server Application Unavailable The web application you are attempting to access on this web server is currently unavailable. Please hit the “Refresh” button in your web browser to retry your request. Administrator Note: An error message detailing the cause of this specific request failure can be […]

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Tightly coupled systems are unmaintainable

Thursday, February 8, 2007

Yet another example of why I believe this: Microsoft told me to update to IE7, so I did. To test something in IE6, I’m installing MS Virtual PC 2004 (provided free by MS), and running an image of Windows XP that has IE6 (also provided free by MS). I am following this article from the […]

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