Steve Friedl's Weblog

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Best Practices for installing the Evo desktop client

Avoiding subtle C# locking errors in lazy-loading patterns

Unfortunate Windows Server experience, and *so* easy to get right

Microsoft Edge: Favorites Bar keeps disappearing [FIXED]

Evo error "Out of resources" caused by bad Windows Update

Evo GUI update problems re: 64-bit Readiness

64-bit Evolution is coming soon!

Sindoh 3D Printers - always get Type C cartridges!

Report types in Evolution (S/B/C)

"Binary file was modified: Evolution.exe"

Getting EvoTime to work on modern systems; MSSTDFMT not registered

Evo client: "Run as administrator" may prevent saving to network drives

Evo Server guidelines for your new IT people

Your UPS: "Replace Batteries" is not a suggestion

Evolution and Virtual Machines - it's ok!

Evolution and the CVE-2019-0708 (Remote Desktop) vulnerability

Best Practices for Replacing Server Hard Drives

Visual Studio 2017: Ending the line-ending wars

PowerShell cmdlet construction: hiding internal properties

Don't install fonts to fix printing problems - usually

Amazon AWS / .Net SDK: "MissingMethodException"

Moving client databases from one Evolution bureau to another can be dangerous

Do not schedule automatic reboots of Evo middle tier Windows systems!

When shutting down a workstation doesn't really shut down a workstation

PowerShell scripts don't show custom help information: FIXED!

Pipeline input into Powershell Scripts (not functions)

HP Printers: "Insert Cardstock Letter" - WTF?

New Evo Tip: Best Practices for Managing Evolution Services

Best Practices for self-hosted Evolution Printer configuration

Evil software idea: Cancel Roulette

Quickbooks Verify Error 196

Best Practice: Apply Windows Updates Manually

Mapping iSCSI filesystem mounts on Linux

Tech Tip: Patient's Guide to FOLFOX6 Chemotherapy

Over-minimalism in browsers?

Building a GPS time station with a Raspberry Pi 3

Evolution Client update failures after Evo upgrade: it's McAfee

Fortigate: changing switch to interface mode in 5.4+

Request Processors won't start: Windows perf counters confused or disabled

Windows 7 missing mouse clicks - Solved?

Determining OS version from the Evo stack trace

"Object already exists" error when installing the Evo Client

FortiClient SSL VPN - connecting before login

Evolution and the CVE-2015-0235 (Ghost) vulnerability

"Range Check Error" - funky default printer

Reporting the correct Evolution version number

Sending client files to the iSystems Secure FTP site

Evo DB Maintenance: Scrambled vs Unscrambled databases

One fix for Quickbooks' enormous QBSearchIndexerError.txt file

Floating-point Division by Zero when printing checks

Evolution Best Practice: reboot middle tier monthly

Why is moving the Request Broker so painful?

"Cannot initialize Report Writer" failures

Using multiple internet providers

Steve's IP Addresses

Dynamic DNS with EasyDNS and the Fortigate firewall

Evo Client use inside the service bureau

Remote Relay: can I turn off 9901..9903, leaving only 443/tcp?

Using port 443/tcp for Remote Relay

Consider disabling the Alternate Update Server

New Evo blog

FoodBabe is a Charlatan

Disabling Unicode in Visual Studio C++ projects

Unhappy surprise: Dell servers misreport RAID failures

Parking at Peters Canyon Regional Park

Ascending Sierra Peak - my first real hike

Space Aliens, Sports Radio, and a Really Good Book

Comodo - phone spamming for SSL cert biz

New Tech Tip: Microsoft's confusing "Not enough..." error messages

Unhappy surprise: Firebird SQL's backup/restore uses magic words for stdin and stdout

Unhappy surprise: PuTTY's PSFTP doesn't reflect batchfile errors in the exit code (+ patch)

Tech Tip: Deploying Mitel IP Phones in a VLAN/DHCP Environment

Alternate Data Streams and .NET - not supported

Enabling Office 2010 limited-user activation from Group Policy

"Could not access network location \Hewlett-Packard\\" error

"Pre-Windows 2000 names"

Fixing a loose handle on a GE Monogram ZFSB27DAG SS refrigerator

64-bit CentOS on IBM xSeries 346 panics

Strange password prompt from Outlook

VMware Workstation: "There are no un-bridged host network adapters"

California Ballot Analysis - June 8, 2010

Powershell surprise in Windows 7

A Quest: Tracking down an Exchange problem

Not just a tech blog...

New Tech Tip: Expanding RAID1 arrays on Dell PERC 6/i Integrated RAID controllers

Process-creation bug in SocksCAP

UNIX scripting tip: guard against bad directory names

Paychoice update

Payroll Associates doesn't care about its customers

How not to respond to a targeted malware attack

Security Response: the Paychoice/Online Employer incident

New Tech Tip: Analysis of initial patches for Microsoft's Hyper-V driver in the Linux kernel

Aligning objects with angled lines

New Tech Tip: Configuring Windows 7 for a Limited User Account

New Tech Tip: Understanding Microsoft's KB971492 IIS5/IIS6 WebDAV Vulnerability

Windows 7 UAC: Where do I type the Administrator password???

Neat C# features - Properties

California Election Analysis - May 19, 2009

Coding tip: including a mechanism to ignore a cmdline option

Visual Studio 2008 feature request

Windows XP Reinstallation failures on Dell Dimension 8400

How to estimate a software project

Stupid highway design

"BindingFailure was detected" in Visual Studio 2008

Stuff you didn't know: Dry Cleaners

Ok, for real this time?

Anti-freeze in your TV?

Steve's Election Analysis - Nov 6, 2006

"user-defined ObjectClass has inappropriate SUPerior"

Reloading Linux - How hard could it be?

What is "stopfaxnow.com"?

Excellent overview of memory technologies

Gotcha with Outlook 2003 with RPC-over-HTTPS

New Tech Tip: Remote Access for SBS2003

New tool: whoamIP

New Tech Tip: Converting Win32 Kernel-mode Print Drivers to User Mode

New Tech Tip: Slipstreamed Driver Installation of SBS 2003

New tool: lockrun

California Election Analysis - June 6, 2006

DrvStartDoc without a JobId

"Required Reading"

Lame idea: CSS Naked Day

Tech Tip: An Illustrated Guide to SSH Agent Forwarding

SPF Tip: only one TXT record

Another milestone: 25 years of UNIX

"What happened? Did you kill all the spammers?"

Speaking at SCALE 4X

"Brian, Dennis: sorry, you're not qualified enough"

Secure Linux/UNIX access with PuTTY and OpenSSH

Steve in the news: Election 2005

Resynchronizing uptime counters

What? No bond measures?

Trash your laptop with a battery...

Steffan Soule - Fantastic magician in Seattle

Looking for reasonable corporate IM solution

On being overly cautious

New Tool: fastzolver

September 11, 2005

Dumb software: CPAN

Finally: new website design

An Illustrated Guide to IPSec

Thumbs Up: Nextweb

Uptime: 12 hours...

Agile Programming: How to doom your software project

Things to look for in a gigabit switch

Building LIBGD on FreeBSD

"Think Assimilation"

Understanding Microsoft's PostScript print driver "PSINJECT"

SBC and Privacy - Huh?

A Proposal for Secure Storage of Credit Card Data

My first book... sort of

Keyword blacklisting for MT Trackback spam

Running as non-admin: Office 2003

Advisory: USPS Information Disclosure Vulnerability

Lame Journalism 102

Lame Journalism 101

Track Traffic With Webalizer

What's in a Security Certification?

Crypto hashes in the news again

Rejecting spammers with HELO

So you want to be a consultant... ?

Self promotion for the technical consultant

Whitehats, Blackhats, and Asshats

Win32 CRITICAL_SECTION efficiency and overhead

Malware analysis: Troj/Winser-A

Tech Tip: SQL Injection Attacks by Example

Spam blacklists as denial-of-service attacks?

Good food with an unappetizing name

Maddening VC7 linkage problem resolved

"whack whack"

Off to Microsoft SecuritySummit!

Not the only guy who writes about the ballot...

LA Times says I'm a "Political Junkie"!

California Ballot Proposition analysis

I'm an expert! I have proof!

Tooting my own horn: Microsoft Security webcast

Do you like Food <i>and</i> Open Source?

How to run a crappy ecommerce site: element5

Goodbye, Friendster

Cool Stuff: VisualThesaurus.com

New email spammer technique: banners

The LAST people you'd expect to be clueless about the internet

I'm back - ugh