Year: 2009
Serving Google KML and KMZ files from IIS
By default, Microsoft IIS only supports a small number of files. This is what you need to support KML and KMZ files in IIS. The MIME type details are: Extension: .kml MIME type: application/vnd.google-earth.kml+xml Extension: .kmz MIME type:…
Read More »Moon Shot
Article reads: St Petersburg Independent – Friday, July 4 1969 [image] Credit: AP Moon Shot This double exposure of the moon and the Apollo 11 moon rocket was made after the service gantry was moved away during a…
Read More »5 July 1969 – They'll grab more Moon
The Age – 5th July 1969 America’s Apollo 11 astronauts will bring back to Earth double the quantity of Moon specimens than was earlier planned, scientists announced in Houston today. Join me on twitter at www.twitter.com/ApolloEcho to relive…
Read More »Erasing a drive that shows as "Healthy (GPT Protective Partition)"
I’ve recently pulled a drive out of Windows Server 2003 and tried to use it in Windows XP. When connected, it shows up as “Healthy (GPT Protective Partition)”. I can’t assign a drive letter to it, format it…
Read More »Supporting RSS Files in IIS
Microsoft IIS does not support RSS files by default. Here is a step by step guid eto enabling it. If you’re impatient, already know your way around IIS and just want the MIME type details, they are: Extension:…
Read More »Sandisk Cruzer – Making them work like a standard USB stick
I just brought an 8GB Sandisk Cruzer USB stick. Unfortunately whenever you plug it in, it comes up as both an emulated CD-ROM drive and the removable disk. the emulated disk comes up as “U3 System” and it…
Read More »We're back online!
I had to do some maintenance on my server over the weekend as one of the hard drives in the RAID array failed. It should have been a simple and straightforward task however it turned out to be…
Read More »Are you human?
I was recently using stackoverflow.com to solve a technical problem. On the site, if you make too many edits or changes in a set amount of time, the site decides you could be a robot. If this happens,…
Read More »Testing websites with multiple versions of IE
One of the most annoying tasks I have to do when I’m developing a website is to test it in the many different browsers and in some cases, multiple versions of each. Internet Explorer is the most difficult…
Read More »Deleting files based on their Date
If you are perfoming regular automated backups (like you should), You’ll soon find you are running out of space and need to start deleting old backups. Here is a really simple way to delete files that are more…
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