DotNetNuke Install WebResource.axd Error IIS 7
I'm testing an install of DotNetNuke on IIS 7 and ran into an error when trying to start the site.
The WebResource.axd handler must be registered
I tried following some guides online to add the handlers to the >system.webserver> section which is there for IIS in the web.config but I couldn't get them to work so I just switched the application pool to classic mode. I'd rather run in integrated, I hate running something as up to date as DNN on an IIS 7 server in basically IIS 6 mode; but for now this works. So to get around this error just switch your app pool in IIS 7 to classic mode and then restart it. Below is a guide on how to do that.
http://support.gearhost.com/KB/a381/change-managed-pipeline-mode-in-iis-7.aspx
Gluten-Free Bread making Robot for President!
http://mybready.com/index.php/
It's $300 but can you put a price on joy? On deliciousness? No, you can't. This is exactly what I have been looking for and I have to thank my wife for finding it for me. Gluten-free bread is normally frozen and never fresh. Unless you can actually find a restaurant that serves it, like Le Central (more on that later), your gluten-free bread experience will leave something to be desired. Bready, possibly the best robot ever created - yes it's a robot - is going to change that for all of us who live with the gluten-free curse. That is why my vote will be a write-in for Bready. It's also why your vote should be for Bready as well.
Gluten-free Frito-Lay Products
You can find a list of gluten-free Frito-Lay products on their site here. Its actually pretty damn long.I eat plain fritos sometimes when I'm in a pinch and judging from the way I feel and the ingredients on the back I figured they were safe. I just did a quick double check online today and found out I was right, and there are a lot more unhealthy chips I can eat as well. Gonna be tough staying away from all that deliciousness.
http://fritolay.com/your-health/for-special-dietary-needs.html
Just click on product not containing gluten. Here's just a few.
Last updated February 24, 2010
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OMFG! – Progresso Traditional New England Clam Chowder is Gluten Free!
Gluten free deliciousness.
This is the first time I have found out one of my old staples is gluten free. I LOVE clam chowder and now I can eat it again. I don't know if this has always been gluten free. Regardless I know what I'm having for dinner tonight!
Curb check = face laceration and another trip to the ER
I did it again. For some reason I have been incredibly accident prone lately. I took the dog out around 10pm on Saturday night. We usually run for short little sprints. Moya and I never go across Downing towards the country club, but that night I decided I'd take her over there so maybe she'd stop pulling so much every time we get close. She's like me, hates taking the same route twice and loves going to new places. So I bolted with her across Downing. I slipped on a thin clear sheet of ice and slammed my face right into a curb. Fortunately I didn't knock myself out and Moya came bouncing back to see what was wrong. She staid by my side until I figured out where my glasses were. For the 2 or 3 minutes I stood there collecting my senses, glasses, and trying to keep blood in a cab sat maybe 2 feet away. He sat there and watched me but never rolled the window down to ask if I needed help. When I got back to the tower I scared the shit out of some lady taking her dog out. Literally my face and hands were covered in blood. I mumbled it looked worse than it was and then got in the elevator. She never said a word.
When I walked into the apartment I told Grace I broke my glasses again. She said how in an annoyed voice and I walked into the office where she was playing WoW with my hand soaked in blood holding about 50 paper towels to the cut. Of course she freaked out and I told her I wasn't going to the emergency room. My last experience was horrible and they hurt worse than the actual accident. Typical of my bloody injuries I could not look at it without wanting to vomit and then pass out. I knew I just had to wait and my nerves would calm. After about 2 hours of laying on the couch and reading Percy Jackson and the Olympians I took a look at it.
Man did it look cool. I put a huge gash above my left eye. I mean huge as in flesh showing and stuff. What happened was my glasses hit the curb first and then moved above my eye and cut a huge gash. My brand new glasses by the way. Then I bled all over my nice North Face jacket and brand new new balance running shoes. When it rains it pours I guess. I never thought it was that bad because head wounds bleed like crazy. I thought I just made a little scrape, maybe worthy of stitches but if it wasn't that bad I wasn't going to the emergency room to deal with f'n needles and burning saline solution. Unfortunately this was pretty f'n horrible and the bleeding still hadn't stopped. Grace took me in and of course I got stung with a thousand needles and then they burned me with the f'n saline solution when they cleaned it out. At one point the doctor was numbing an area the nurse forgot (that was burning from the cleaning) and his syringe exploded. I'm not kidding. Numbing medication burst everywhere. In my eye, my mouth, my face, Grace, the doc. And he left the needle half stuck in my wound while he scrambled for another. Yes, they have to stick these f'n needles in the actual wound to numb it so they can sow it shut.
Needless to say I'm going to try and be more careful. Today I am incredibly sore and I can't open the eye. I did manage a shower though so at least I'm clean 
*Warning*, the pics below are f'n awesome.
Dell Zino is Mac Mini competition?
Pretty interesting little PC from Dell. If only it came with blu-ray it would make a killer media PC, same with Apple.
The Dell Zino HD sporting options like a dual core AMD CPU, up to 8GB RAM, 1TB hard drive (7200rpm as well) and a Radeon 4330 with 512MB RAM, surely at least WoW capable. This would make an excellent media PC and they start at just $249. Dell should also go with a slot loading DVDRW.
Whereas the Mac Mini here starts at $599, but it does feature slightly better hardware. Intel Core 2 Duo, DDR3, etc. I know the Mac mini is WoW capable because my Macbook is. And that is always important. Apple store reps response when I asked if I could get a blu-ray player for my Macbook "everyone streams everything now." Yes we all stream, but no one streams f'n blu-ray, jesus. I just want to be able to bring my BD's with me on trips, or to school
I wonder what awesome small form factor cases are available. Maybe I can finally make a tiny inconspicuous media PC/Mac. I wonder if my old macbook can handle 720p?
Alton Brown – Chewy Gluten Free Cookies Video
My wife found this youtube video recently. Its a recipe from Alton Brown Good Eats for "chewy" gluten free cookies. Believe me when I say most gluten free cookies are far from chewy. But Alton brown, being the genius that he is, managed to form a recipe that produces gluten free cookies that are both delicious and chewy. Then my wife took it one step further and made them even closer to perfection, she removed the grittiness that you get with some of the flour used. I'm not exactly sure what she did, but her magic works great. The recipe as it stands is great, but there is a slight gritty graininess to the cookies.
Scroll to about 3 minutes to see the gluten free part, the first bit is peanut free. Thank god I can eat peanuts. One of the most interesting piece of info I got from the show was xanthum gum replaces gluten. I didn't know that and always wondered why gf recipes used xanthum gum all the time. now I know. You're supposed to let the cookies cool but I never can. They're just too delicious.
The recipe from Food Network.
http://www.foodnetwork.com/recipes/alton-brown/the-chewy-gluten-free-recipe/index.html
ISAPI Rewrite 3.x with WordPress and IIS 7
I recently moved my site over to a Windows 2008 server running IIS 7 with PHP running in FastCGI. Decent speed improvement but I have some more work to do, more on that later. Maybe I'll even include an install guide for PHP in FastCGI with IIS7. In the move I forgot to setup ISAPI_Rewrite which re-writes my URL's into more friendly and readable text. Great for search engines and people alike. Since I had to setup ISAPI_Rewrite all over again I decided to run through a brand new install. Here is a quick and easy guide to get you started with ISAPI_Rewrite on IIS 7 for Windows Server 2008.
1. Download and install ISAPI_Rewrite from Helicon. http://www.helicontech.com/download-isapi_rewrite3.htm. You can use the lite version but this means your rules will need to be written in the global httpd.conf / .htaccess file, you will not be able to setup per site rules. I suggest buying a license and using the full version with the 45 day trial if you have multiple websites you will be using this with. Download the manual install version since its easiest.
2. After downloading run the installer and extract the files to C:\Objects\ISAPI_Rewrite3. If you purchased a license your license info will go into C:\Objects\ISAPI_Rewrite3\httpd.conf file.
3. Open IIS (Start Menu --> Administrative Tools --> Internet Information Services.
4. Navigate to the site you wish to use ISAPI_Rewrite with and double click on the ISAPI Filters module. Click on add on the upper right hand side.
Filter Name: ISAPI_Rewrite
Executable: C:\Objects\ISAPI_Rewrite_3\ISAPI_Rewrite.dll
5. Now you need to create a .htaccess file in the root of your domain. The root is the content location for the domain, where all of the web files are.
Find the webroot of your site in IIS by clicking on basic settings.
You can easily create a .htaccess file with an FTP client since Windows Explorer doesn't like files without a name. I use Filezilla and so should you. Connect to your site with filezilla and upload a simple text document. Right click on the doc and click on rename. Type in ".htaccess" for the file name.
6. Back on the Windows 2008 server navigate to the root of your website and open the .htaccess file with notepad. Insert the following rules.What this will do is allow you to post a custom permalink as well as make sure that all visitors are directed to "www" dot your domain name. Basic search engine friendly stuff, good for SEO. You can of course customize this to your heart's desire, I am just including the most basic rules right now.
RewriteCond %{HTTPS} (on)?
RewriteCond %{HTTP:Host} ^(?!www\.)(.+)$ [NC]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} (.+)
RewriteRule .? http(?%1s)://www.%2%3 [R=301,L]
RewriteBase /
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule ^(\d+)/[^/]+/?$ index.php?p=$1 [NC,L]
The rules you need to add to the .htaccess file in notepad
7. After you save the file login to your wordpress admin and navigate to Settings --> Permalinks. Click on custom and type in /%postname% this will make all your post URL's look like "http://www.your-domain-name.com/title-of-your-blog-post. You can also add in other custom tags like %post_id% but I like just having my domain name followed by my blog title. Call me a minimalist. Permalink tags here.
Permalinks in your WordPress admin settings
8. Make sure to save your settings and your done. To see this in action click on one of your blogs. Here is an example of mine.
http://www.mikesaysmeh.com/how-to-dump-transaction-log-in-mssql-2008
Notice my domain name includes "www" and the blog title is directly after the domain with dashes. Looks nice huh? Leave a comment with a link to your own blog and begin some track backs. Maybe more on that later ...
How to dump transaction log in MSSQL 2008
The old command "DUMP TRANSACTION [db_name] WITH NO_LOG;" no longer works in SQL 2008 to dump the transaction log. Instead I found a GUI work around. I don't like it as much but it works for now until I find something better. If I do, I'm not a DBA anyway.
1. Open SQL Management Studio and right click on the database you need to dump the trans log and click on properties.
2. Click on option from the left hand side and then click the drop down next to "recovery model" and set it to simple. Click ok.
3. Right click on the database again and go to Tasks --> Shrink --> Database and click ok on the popup window. You can also read it and change some options but the defaults work fine. Do that for files as well (Tasks --> Shrink --> Files).
4. Right click on the database one last time and go to properties then options and set the recovery model back to full. Because if you leave it on simple and your SQL server crashes you would loose any transactions not flushed back into the DB.
Review of Comcast High Speed vs Qwest DSL
Compared with Comcast high speed the download and upload rates of DSL are drastically slower. You don't notice it as much in web page loading but you do when downloading music, games, movies, patches, updates, etc. However it was easy for me to simply time large downloads during the night or at points when I was willing to wait. My only annoyance was when I was updating my mp3 player from Napster and was waiting on the MP3's to download before a bike ride. Poor planning on my part but it took twice as long as with Comcast.
Before making the commitment to Comcast I tested download speed with Qwest and Comcast active at my apartment at the same time. Both times I tested were on the same computer with a wired connection with a test to the same location. Comcast got down speeds around 20Mbs and up at 4Mbs. Qwest was consistently 4Mbs down and less than 1Mbs up. This is obviously a gigantic difference in speed. The higher speed lines from Qwest are unavailable in my area, the plan I have is the 7Mbs. My Comcast plan is the normal one with powerboost.
In more practical testing I tried a download from ati.com which I always get great speeds from. The rate with Comcast was a steady 1MB/s with burst sometimes reaching over 2MB/s. That's MB/s with a capital B meaning Byte instead of bit. I used Internet Explorer for the download which measures bandwidth in Bytes per second. I then tested the same file with Qwest and got a steady download rate of 500KB/s with a burst up to 1MB/s.
Despite the difference in speed Qwest has superior service and is much less expensive. Without special deals Comcast is $70 per month just for the internet. Qwest is $45. Suddenly learning patience and planning downloads at night isn't such a big problem. Add tot hat they offer DirecTV for another $40 per month with a better channel lineup and you have a winner. Except the service at DirecTV is absolutely horrible. SO for a time I even had a combination of Comcast TV and Qwest DSL. It wasn't the best way to spend my money but I was getting what I wanted.
With that said I called Comcast and got a deal. I told them what I could get with Qwest and they basically matched it. Internet + TV for $80 a month and I get HBO (that I never watch). All in all I was very satisfied with Qwest and if it weren't for the deal Comcast gave me I would still be with them. Especially if DirecTV had better customer service.
You can also find some actual test results on my previous blog post.
http://www.mikesaysmeh.com/index.php/2009/10/comcast-vs-qwest-speed-test/
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