The last time I intensively used IIS (Internet Information Services) was back in the year 2000 when I hosted a ASP site on the local Windows 2000 server. Since then, Apache has become my only friend in the web server world. Fast forward to present day with the current job where Microsoft technology is heavily based on, it’s time for me to get back on track with “almost-everything” Microsoft. Today, I tried to set up an Asp.net site on my local machine with IIS7, and I got the following error: ...

A while back, I let my brother using my laptop while he was waiting for his to arried from online order. My laptop has dual boot: Windows Vista Home Premium and Debian. Of course, my bro would only use Vista. He created a folder with his name on the desktop for whatever purpose it was. Let’s called it: Evil. When the laptop was returned to me, I wanted to get rid that Evil. No matter how many times I tried delete it, it kept coming back. I turned to Google for solution hoping someone on the Interweb experienced the same thing, but it wasn’t helpful either. ...

This is an ongoing list of shortcuts used in Visual Studio 2005. Go To Definition: Ctrl + F12 Go to line number: Ctrl + G To comment a block of code: Ctrl + E + C To uncomment a block of code: Ctrl + E + U

I was attempting to install MS SQL Server 2005 Express edition without success on a computer run Windows Vista Business. There was an error message mentioned “…failed to compile the Managed Object Format (MOF)…” I’ve tried about five times with various solutions; still it didn’t fix the problem. As always, I found a working solution when I was about to give up on this installation. The problem was that the WMI repository was corrupted. There are two ways to fix this: one is to reinstall the WMI, and alternatively you can repair it instead. ...

Eterm doesn’t display the fancy “ or ” on my Debian. It is not a big problem, but it’s very annoying when it doesn’t properly display these symbols used in some programs such as aptitude. I wanted to fix it, but didn’t realize it there was a fix. After two years or using it, I tried to find the solution again, and I found it. Just add the this code to the .profile in your home directory. ...