Author Archives: bolt

Moving Windows’ Offline File Cache away from C:\

Got a small SSD as your C drive? So do I. Storing your documents on a network drive? Yep. Want to index that network drive, to include it in libraries, searches, etc? You bet. You’ll want to move your offline cache. Create a folder for your offline file cache. Something like D:\Cache From an elevated […]

Handler “PageHandlerFactory-Integrated” has a bad module “ManagedPipelineHandler” in its module list

This error seems to pop up every now and again when I configure a new IIS server, even if I do remember to check the ASP option during the initial role selection. Here’s how to resolve it (run as admin) on a 64-bit system: %windir%\Microsoft.NET\Framework64\v4.0.30319\aspnet_regiis.exe -i ..and on a 32-bit system: %windir%\Microsoft.NET\Framework\v4.0.21006\aspnet_regiis.exe -i

Enabling read_committed_snapshot on an existing MSSQL database

In short, for the database named “internal”: SELECT is_read_committed_snapshot_on,snapshot_isolation_state FROM sys.databases WHERE name=’internal’ ALTER DATABASE [internal] SET allow_snapshot_isolation ON ALTER DATABASE [internal] SET SINGLE_USER WITH ROLLBACK IMMEDIATE ALTER DATABASE [internal] SET read_committed_snapshot ON ALTER DATABASE [internal] SET MULTI_USER SELECT is_read_committed_snapshot_on,snapshot_isolation_state FROM sys.databases WHERE name=’internal’

Removing VMware Player or workstation when the Hyper-V role is active

Blatantly stolen from Jussi Palo’s post here, and archived here. All credit to the original author. Challenge Time to go all in with Windows 8 and migrate development environments to Hyper-V. When you’re migrating from VMware to Hyper-V, and you happen to install Hyper-V before uninstalling VMware Workstation or Player, you will get warning that […]

Make exim4 on Debian respect .forward and /etc/aliases when using a smarthost

When configured to send all mail through a smarthost, exim4 on Debian will not respect your /etc/aliases file, nor will it care about your users’ ~/.forward files. This is due to the numbering, and consequently the sorting, of the files in /etc/exim4/conf.d/router/. If you look at 200_exim4-config_primary, you’ll see it handles smarthost routing in smarthost […]

Resetting an Aeon Labs Z-Stick S2

From the manual: This must be done through the host software which takes control of the Z-Stick USB adapter while the Z-Stick is in SerialAPI-Mode. If you have the Danfoss ZWave PC Controller, previously available here, you can use the “Reset Controller” button to do so. This works fine in VMware Player too, so you […]

Reverse SSHFS mounts (fs push)

sshfs is a neat way of mounting a file system from one machine to another over an encrypted ssh channel. However, for machine CLIENT to access a file system that resides on machine HOST, CLIENT must generally be able to log in to HOST. In addition, CLIENT must be able to connect to HOST in […]