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Scheduled tasks that call a PHP script using Wget.EXE run fine for all sites except those running under SSL on https.

One of our developers uses an HP nx9420 and this was running at up to 100 degrees and shutting down 2 or 3 times a day. The notebook is over 3 years old and has been upgraded to 4Gb RAM to run Windows 7 Pro. Solution Searching the forums we came across a few suggestions…

How we used Helicon ISAPI Rewrite 3 to redirect URLS without www to the correct www URL on IIS 7.5

Problem with large Kayako eSupport database causing FastCGI process to exceed activity timeout doing a Creator/Replier search Problem A customer with a very large Kayako eSupport database reported problems when using the ticket search by Creator/Replier. A search for a common name, such as ‘david’ returned results in a few seconds but searching for a…

A brief overview of the POP3 and IMAP email protocols and how to choose which to use.

The following error “A floating point exception occurred in the user process. Current transaction is canceled.” is generated by SQL Server 2000 when invalid values get into float columns.

The error: “cannot resolve collation conflict for equal to operation” and how we (partially) resolved the issues. Background Some time ago we had to replace a server running SQL Server 2000 after a hardware failure. All databases were restored onto the new server and everything had been running smoothly since. However, an upgrade to our…

Running Adobe Acrobat 8 Pro get this error “cannot use adobe reader to view pdf in your web browser” when opening a PDF in Internet Explorer

Since upgrading to IE8 all SSIDM websites that use AddThis failed to complete loading, showing “1 item remaining” in status bar. Solution AddThis must try to use Flash by default. Adding the following line above any other AddThis script fixes the problem.

Converting from POP3 to IMAP is straightforward if there is no mail held on the mail server but if you have been using the older webmail to store messages it can be more difficult. Problem A customer wants to use the new Ajax-based IceWarp webmail in place of the older webmail and has a number…