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WordPress Permalinks on IIS6

Ben — Mon, 26 Sep 2011 16:03:27 +0000

Not even permalinks

Recently, I had to set up WordPress on an IIS6 machine. Yes, WordPress does work on IIS6, believe it not. The only really tricky bit is getting fancy permalinks to work, so that urls looks like www.foo.com/2011/06/my-awesome-post instead of www.foo.com/index.php?p=6. I used IIRF to get mod_rewrite like functionality, as the supported IIS Rewrite isn’t available until IIS7. It’ll take the same .htaccess configuration as mod_rewrite on Apache, with one very important difference; you have to add a U to the [L] in the final redirect. This passes along a HTTP_X_REWRITE_URL header to PHP, which WordPress uses internally to decide what to show. Your IIRF.ini will end up looking like this:

RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase / #whatever your virtual root is
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule .* /index.php [L,U]

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Google Chrome CR-48 Bugs

Ben — Tue, 18 Jan 2011 13:23:11 +0000

Somehow, I lucked into one of the CR-48 Chrome netbooks that Google is giving away. In the interest of sharing what I’ve learned, I thought I’d put together a list of what I’ve run into and how to fix it or work around it.

Wireless Intermittently Drops Connection

I’ve had this thing for… a month? now and it has one major problem that makes it nearly worthless to me. For some reason, if you do something that takes a little time, like writing up a blog post, the next network operation tends to fail. The wireless indicator goes from having bars, to just a plain x, and then it’ll reacquire an IP and be ok again for a bit.

I put in a call to a Chrome Ninja, which was promptly returned with some suggestions. There’s apparently a known bug with wireless networks that use WPA-PSK-TKIP, an older standard for securing a wireless network. On their advice, I’m now forcing wireless clients to use WPA2-PSK-AES, where as before, the algorithm was decided on by the client. It seems to have helped; I’ve only had one dropout since switching over to the new security protocol last night. Previously I was seeing drops every five minutes or so.

Minecraft ALU

Ben — Thu, 07 Oct 2010 14:39:35 +0000

This is the most insane thing I’ve seen in, well, at least a week. Dude built an ALU inside Minecraft.

Fail Whale?

Ben — Tue, 17 Aug 2010 17:17:57 +0000

Where’s my Fail Whale??

Crack

Happy SysAdmin Day

Ben — Fri, 30 Jul 2010 13:27:56 +0000

I could watch this…

Ben — Mon, 28 Jun 2010 18:17:15 +0000

…all day long.

Droid Incredible First Impressions

Ben — Thu, 03 Jun 2010 01:10:11 +0000

I decided to ditch my iPhone 3G and AT&T for a Droid Incredible on Verizon. The phone showed up today and so far its been wonderful. Google talk and syncing Facebook and Flickr contacts to my address book are my favorite things so far. Just need to figure out how to get it to stop buzzing when I type and it’ll be … incredible.

More thoughts tomorrow.

Who wants a mustache ride?

Ben — Wed, 14 Apr 2010 14:53:37 +0000

Oh how times have changed. (via EdibleApple)

Tax Time @ Amazon

Ben — Sun, 07 Feb 2010 01:27:05 +0000

Amazon is running some sales on common tax software. I like TurboTax, but if you like H&R Block, they’ve got that too. Here’s the schedule:

February 7-13 � Save at least 25% on H&R Block At Home
February 14-27 (2 weeks) � Save at least 25% on TurboTax
March 21-27 � Save at least 25% on H&R Block At Home

Windows 7

Ben — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 14:35:06 +0000

And hot on the heels of Snow Leopard, Windows 7 is out.

And there’s a family pack now. A good cue taken from Apple.