Software piracy has been a problem from the earliest days of Microsoft. When they developed Altair BASIC, only about 10% of its users bought the software. The rest pirated it. Bill Gates wrote a letter to the Altair community on February 3, 1976, explaining the need for buying software instead of just copying it. His [...]

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NeatUpload will not work by default when used with Windows 2008 Server. Like many other web applications that you install from earlier Windows servers, you need to make modifications to the web.config file. First of all, you need to make sure that the component is installed properly. This procedure is described in its documentation. Then [...]

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A web site created with Visual Web Developer 2008 Express Edition will not work in Windows 2008 Server. The web.config file needs to be modified in order for the web site to run correctly. For an ASP.NET Web Site (.NET 3.5), make the following changes: In <configSections>, add comments around scriptResourceHandler: <!– <section name="scriptResourceHandler" type="System.Web.Configuration.ScriptingScriptResourceHandlerSection, [...]

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I’ve been trying to view .htaccess files in a web site connected to remotely in Eclipse. These do not appear in file listings so they can’t be opened. I’ve added an .htaccess file type, but that didn’t work. After searching around in the Preferences (found in the Windows pull down menu), I found an option [...]

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The International Organization for Standardization (ISO) will now be in control of Adobe’s Portable Document Format (PDF). The new standard, ISO 32000-1, Document management – Portable document format – Part 1: PDF 1.7, is not only an excessively long name but its also based on version 1.7 of PDF. The PDF format was created in [...]

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