OK. New look and possibly a new focus.
By the way, if you're looking for the DDO Crafting Helper Page, there it is.
After finally having the necessary time to begin and complete the revisions to the back-end I now have a system I'm happy with. The best part is that it's so very easy to extend or alter. Want to add the ability to add articles? BAM! - done. Want to change the content of a post from HTML back to plain text (for whatever reason)? BAM! - done. Since there was no other content here aside from some links, I've deleted everything else.
Still have work to do, but at least the system works better than originally expected.
- Some Rando
When we upgraded to the new Symantec Endpoint Protection 11 security software, we kindof uninstalled everything in the wrong order. Maybe. I didn't read the instructions well enough or I did read them well enough and this was never mentioned, but if you uninstall the centralized management software before removing the software from all the clients and you required an uninstall password, then you'll be unable to uninstall the software from the clients because it's attempting to contact the centralized management server when it no longer exists.
Long sentence short: Through genius design or engineering oversight, this is easily remedied by changing the following registry key, a DWORD, from a "1" to a "0": HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Intel\LANDesk\VirusProtect6\CurrentVersion\
AdministratorOnly\Security\UseVPUninstallPassword. Change that from a one to a zero and retry the uninstall; for me it's worked each of the seven times I've had to use it.
- Some Rando
Just something for you .NET developers real quick. I had this problem where we were getting repeated occurances of a CryptographicException with the Exception.Message value of "padding is invalid and cannot be removed".
We were doing some request redirection to send users to an HTTPS version of their requested URL if they were requesting a secured page (online shopping checkout process) which was apparently also redirecting .NET framework requests for "WebResource.axd" and "ScriptResource.axd".
After about three hours of finding nothing but "Hey! I'm having this problem, too! kthx" on the intarwebs, I had to resort to hardcore investigation. Having realized what the hell we were doing in this code, it suddenly hit me (right in the face). Maybe not so much "hit me" as "What the hump?! System.Web.HttpApplication.BeginRequest events can be trigged by requests to .axd files?!"
Solution: If you are getting mysterious CryptographicExceptions and you're globally redirecting requests, try excluding requests to .axd files from that process.
I hope that's clear enough 'cuz that's about all the time I can spare on elaboration right now.
Good day.
- Some Rando