IIS 7.5 not starting web site – Error 0×80070020

By On April 22, 2013 · 1 Comment

So here you are, trying to set up a website in IIS that answers on a secondary IP address since your primary is already used by another service such as Windows Media Services but when you try to start the site you get an error:

“The process cannot access the file because it is being [...]

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ValidateCredentials slow when invalid credentials provided

By On January 30, 2013 · Leave a Comment

So you want to validate local users and Google pointed you towards using ValidateCredentials under PrincipalContext, something like this

using (PrincipalContext pc = new PrincipalContext(ContextType.Machine)) { // validate the credentials if (pc.ValidateCredentials(username, password)) { //CORRECT } else { //INCORRECT } }

And this is working fine when you supply the correct credentials but when you [...]

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Windows 8 Online Users and Samba

By On January 13, 2013 · Leave a Comment

I recently installed Windows 8 on my desktop at home and ran into some problems on my file server with restricted samba shares,  it turned out that the problem was that I was using the new Windows 8 Online Users or Live ID Users or whatever they are called and for them to work you [...]

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Shell Script to install RTorrent and RUTorrent

By On November 25, 2012 · 1 Comment

A friend gave me a script that automated the install of rtorrent/rutorrent the other day when he was showing it to me.  It was a fairly basic script that worked most of the time but didn’t allow for much customization.  I was rather bored during the weekend and saw a great oppurtunity to brush the [...]

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How to force a browser to update javascript files

By On November 22, 2012 · Leave a Comment

Here you are .. making a kick ass new web application and you use Javascript for fancy features like Ajax calls and all is good,  you publish it and people start to use the application and then some bugs creep up in the javascript portion so you update the code but for some reason people [...]

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