Archive for the 'Windows' Category

vSphere 4 Client & Windows 7

Friday, November 6th, 2009

This has been fixed as of update 1.
If you’ve tried to install the vSphere client on Windows 7, you’ve undoubtedly come across errors like the following:

Error parsing the server “192.168.2.2″ “clients.xml” file.
Login will continue, contact your system administrator.

and

The type initializer for ‘VirtualInfrastructure.Utils.HttpWebRequestProxy’ threw an exception.

Although Windows 7 is fully released now, nobody seems to [...]

Picasa sucks!

Tuesday, March 31st, 2009

Why don’t they let you download images with anything except picasa?! Isn’t that a feature that the world might like? Why do you have to install picasa to download a friend’s web album?
Google, you’re the worst company ever. You’re the queens of doing 85% of something.
EDIT: Thanks to Scabdates, I now [...]

IIS, FTP Sites, and “Isolation”

Tuesday, September 23rd, 2008

Note to self:  In Windows Server Land, FTP User Isolation does not mean what you think it would.
By default, users are restricted to the FTP Site’s home, and no directories above it, only below.
To get a better idea of what isolation is: Google It!

I’m not creative enough for this, and you can’t help me.