The internet through a developers eyes

Irish host being mean

Posted last year, at the end of November by Dave.
Categories: Internet, Hosting.
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I was on the WikiScanner (a tool that tracks changes to the Wikipedia) the other night and came across the following page http://wikiscanner.virgil.gr/f.php?ip1=83.98.166.31and the user on that IP made the following change

This woman is the most sarcastic person i have ever had to help across the phone. I wish i had recorded it to play back to you all.

It was a comment made about Nell McCafferty. And with a quick search of the Ip address, you will find that the IP range is assigned to Michele Neylon, Blacknight Dedicated Hosting Network. You would think a web host would have better sense and use a proxy to make comments like that.

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Server room during a rain shower

Posted last year, at the end of August by Dave.
Categories: Internet, Servers, Flash Video.
Post Views: 680 Views.

I got an email tonight with a link to this video on Google Videos, very funny.

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Adding .flv MIME type in IIS

Posted last year, mid-April by Dave.
Categories: Web Developement, Servers, Windows, Flash Video.
Post Views: 2,407 Views.

By default Flash video is not in the MIME type list of Windows IIS because of this IIS doesn’t know how to handle it and Flash videos will not work until you do the following.

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Using server side includes in html with IIS

Posted last year, at the start of April by Dave.
Categories: IIS 5.x +, Servers, Windows.
Post Views: 678 Views.

To set Windows Internet Information Services (IIS) to process server side includes (sHTML) in normal html pages is very easy.

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Google Desktop XML back door!

Posted last year, mid-March by Dave.
Categories: Web Developement, IIS 5.x +, Internet, Search, Servers, Platforms, Windows, Google.
Post Views: 902 Views.

Did you know that Google Desktop contains a back door? Would you believe me if I said it was XML? Well next time you do a search on Google Desktop, add the following to the end of the results URL “&format=xml” and you will see your results in XML format.
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Flash Video

Posted last year, mid-March by Dave.
Categories: Web Developement, Servers, Flash, Flash Video, FMS 2.0.
Post Views: 556 Views.

I am just completing a Flash Video tour system for the company I work for. Below is a demo of one of the videos.
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Configuring Windows Vista sidebar RSS

Posted last year, at the end of February by Dave.
Categories: Windows, Windows OS, Vista.
Post Views: 423 Views.

The Vista OS is pretty cool, but one thing I don’t like is not being able to set the RSS feed in the settings for the RSS reader. And after doing a quick search I found out you need to subscribe in Internet Explorer to a feed and it will be displayed in your side bar.

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Grabbing IP Address through GIFs

Posted 2 years ago, at the end of August by Dave.
Categories: Web Developement, IIS 5.x +.
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While logged in MySpace.com I was looking at the hits that my profile got. And with so many people around the world using MySpace.com, 104,540,148 on the Your Network counter, I wanted to know where I was getting hits from. MySpace doesn’t allow JavaScript, so I set about finding a new way of finding where in the world these hits are coming from without using JavaScript. Would you believe GIFs is how I did it!

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