DaVe’s Musings

Xenu is a great “free” program to check your web site for broken links. Check it out at http://home.snafu.de/tilman/xenulink.html

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Ok, so I just found out that the latest version of Adobe Reader has a PDF previewer for Outlook 2007 built in. The Foxit solution I mentioned below loads much faster, but only works on Vista.

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Like many others, I have not been very happy with my Microsoft Vista upgrade. Vista is just not ready for prime time yet. I have frequent crashes, programs that do not work, devices that do not work, etc. In fact I just ordered a new home PC from Dell (with Vista) and my first plan [...]

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Having that annoying problem with IE automatically opening zip files instead of saving them?  Follow these steps to correct this behavior:
Open Windows Explorer.
Go to Tools | Folder Options | File Types.
Scroll down to ZIP and select it.
Click Restore to restore the default settings.
This sets the file type zip back to “Confirm open after download” which you can [...]

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Ever need to check the status code that your server is returning for a certain web page?  Check out this link then:
 http://www.seoconsultants.com/tools/headers.asp
 

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Here is a quick list of URLs to whitelist your permission based email lists:

Yahoo: http://add.yahoo.com/fast/help/us/mail/cgi_bulkmail
AOL: http://postmaster.aol.com/

More soon…

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Here is a great site to check if your web server is sending pages in compressed format:
http://www.gidnetwork.com/tools/gzip-test.php
This is definitely something you want to have turned on as it saves on bandwidth and download times.

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CNET has an interesting article about Hyperic going open source. The Hyperic HQ software monitors what’s happening on company networks and reports events to administrators. This is the type of software that no one who is managing servers should be without, and now the solution is completely open source. Hyperic HQ allows you to:

Auto-Discover all your [...]

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Are the latest four Microsoft security patches not installing for you?  Is KB917537 one of the fixes? Well, it seems that this patch will not install unless you shut down the IIS Admin service and its dependent services manually (thanks Microsoft!).  My suggestion is to uncheck this patch from the list of four new security [...]

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Microsoft just released a neat little utility called Private Folder 1.0. It’s unsupported and will only run on “genuine” Windows XP.  What it does is give you a new folder called “My Private Folder” that is password protected to prevent anyone who may be sharing your computer from accessing the files in that folder.  From [...]

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