Chris

Gaaah.  I'm trying to install this web app that, among other things, uses AJAX with POST to call this .json page for its own nefarious purposes.

The problem: 405 error.

I have added .json to the mappings.  All verbs are allowed.  I've added .json to the mime-type section.  YET NOTHING.

If I change the request to GET, then it works fine.  But POST just fails.

Windows 7 64-bit, IIS7.

GAAAAAAA

What is the command-line regex in Perl for "replace every line that does NOT have $string in it"?

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AH:

http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/archives/000570.html

Alt+Tab in Remote Desktop yay!

Welp, so far, Windows 7 is slower and somehow infinitely more annoying.  So that's terrific.

Windows tip for today:

Say you're copying a bunch of documents from folder1 to folder2, and there are some same-name-plicates.  "This folder already contains a file named 'Your mother.doc'."  There's Yes, Yes To All, No, and Cancel.

To get No To All (so that the same-named files are ignored), hold down the Shift key and click No.

If your Windows computer does those system beeps and you hate it:

* Right-click My Computer and select Manage.
* Expand System Tools and select Device Manager.
* From the View menu, select Show hidden devices.
* Expand Non-Plug and Play Drivers.
* Right-click Beep, and select Disable.
* Reboot.

(Source.)

Notes to future!self.

I can create and save a profile in the scanner/camera wizard in Vista, hooray.  To edit them because Vista is full of cockfleas, go to:
C:\Users\[User]\AppData\Local\Microsoft\UserScanProfiles

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa360097(VS.85).aspx

I have three major reasons why I don't switch to Linux.

1) My Windows machines work, for versions of "work".  I don't have a Windows install disc for the laptop, so if something goes afuckered, I can't easily fix that.  And all my music is on my desktop!  *afeard*

I note that it's likely dirt-easy to fix things.  I furtherly note that I am an anxbot the end.

2) I use VB like a madperson.  I have compatibility concerns for everything (IE, my Shuffle, &c), but VB and I go way back.  I can't give that up.  I can barely handle all the keyboard shortcuts being different in OpenOffice, for heaven's sake.

Buuut if OOo has VBA support now... hm.

3) I forget.  I think it had something to do with how everything involves knowing arcane command-line things and aiee.  However, apparently Ubuntu got wicked easy when I wasn't paying attention.  (I can install things easily, and install IE6, and use the Start key, and Ctrl-K gets to the search box, and eee.)

So clearly, the only thing for me to do is acquire a box and install Ubuntu on it, or set up one or the other as a dual-boot things, or suck it up and convert my (poor slow lumbering) desktop to Ubuntu.

Hmmmm.

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Links/notes repository for myself:

* The iPod Shuffle and Linux
* IEs 4 Linux
* gstreamer0.10-plugins-ugly for mp3 playingness
* Ctrl-K in Firefox is like Ctrl-E in FF on Windows
* sudo apt-get install [package]

* I disabled Windows Update as much as I possibly could.  Why?  Because (a) it popped up in front of me and I hit reboot by accident because augh I was typing elsewhere.  More (b) - Windows Defender comes with Vista, and updates to it are handled by Windows Update.  Which means nearly every day, I get that damn thing bugging me.  Fuck it, I'll deal with it on my own when I goddamn want to.

* I broke down yesterday.  It turns out that while being responsible for four cats (one of whom is sick) is bothersome, doing so while having bronchitis is incredibly exhausting.  I mean, I'm sick so I couldn't clean at all, and Jake is a fucking douchenozzle who keeps knocking things over and dancing in the wreckage, and Peaches scratched me to get away and then was panting for a half hour, and it was midnight and I'm sick, and I just fucking lost it.

Thankfully, as usual, rosefox was there and [c|w]ould help.  Also, bronchitis helped me not flip too much; lots of crying and lots of coughing don't really mix, so any time I felt like I couldn't breathe, I'd sure stop crying.  Gah.  On the bright side, this reminded me that it's been ages since I've cried, and it relieved some pressure.  So, good.

* I think that I'm either temporarily or long-termishly giving up coffee, too.  I kind of stopped while sick, so.

* I CAN HEAR.  I popped my jaw just right, and zam!

In conclusion, read this news article.  I... right.

To enable verbose errors (as versus "Woops, something sucked!") in IIS7:

C:\Windows\System32\inetsrv> appcmd.exe set config -section:asp /scriptErrorSentToBrowser:true