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Saturday, January 28, 2006
Could not create a Disk Cache Sub-directory for the Application Pool
Error: The Template Persistent Cache initialization failed for Application Pool ‘DefaultAppPool’ because of the following error: Could not create a Disk Cache Sub-directory for the Application Pool. The data may have additional error codes..
If you happen to see this error pop up on your Windows Server 2003 system here’s how to fix it.
Basically, the problem is there are two user groups (IIS_WPG and NETWORK SERVICE) that don’t have permissions set on the following three folders:
%systemroot%\Help\IISHelp\Common
%systemroot%\System32\Inetsrv\ASP Compiled Templates
%systemroot%\IIS Temporary Compressed Files
%systemroot% is usually C:\windows or C:\winnt by the way!
For “%systemroot%\Help\IISHelp\Common ” give both groups; Read and Execute, List Folder Contents, and Read permissions.
For “%systemroot%\System32\Inetsrv\ASP Compiled Templates” and “%systemroot%\IIS Temporary Compressed Files” give both groups full control.
then after that you’ll have to restart IIS.
1. Click Start, click Run, type Services.msc, and then click OK.
2. Right-click IIS Admin, and then click Restart.
That should fix that silly problem!
on 01/28/2006 at 12:14 PM
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Thursday, November 10, 2005
Findlay Area .NET User Group (November 30th, 2005)
Just want to pass this on to anyone in the Findlay, Ohio area…
The FANUG website is at http://groups.msn.com/FindlayAreaNETUserGroup
Next Meeting: November 30, 2005
Topic: Applying Architecture and Design Patterns in .NET
Presenter: Martin L. Shoemaker - The Tablet UML Company
Meeting Sponsered by: INETA
Description: Investigate how particular design patterns are represented in a mix of C# and VB.NET code.
Martin L. Shoemaker
Martin L. Shoemaker is a software developer with 17 years experience in the industry. He has worked in the fields of color science, on-line shopping, databases, material handling, medical imaging, and customer relations management.
Martin is also an accomplished speaker, having presented to the Detroit Colour Council, the Ann Arbor Computer Society, the Ann Arbor IT Zone, the Rubi Con security conference in Detroit, the Visual Studio Live/Visual C++ Developers Conference in San Francisco, and the UML World Conference in New York. His most popular presentations are Richard Hale Shaw’s UML BootCamp, written and presented by Martin. He has presented this course both in public settings and for individual clients.
Pizza and pop will be served.
Time: 5:30-7:00 PM
Location: Marathon Findlay Offices, 539 S. Main St., Findlay, OH
Cost: Meeting is Free. Drawing held at end of meeting.
FANUG Purpose: To assist developers with their education in Microsoft’s .NET technology. This group seeks to attract professional software developers and students from Findlay and the surrounding areas. Our meetings will encompass presentations from area experts that will contribute to the learning of each individual. Through our membership in INETA, we hope to attract internationally known speakers on various .NET subjects.
Wednesday, November 09, 2005
Download Visual Studio Express 2005 For Free
Man you have to love those guys at Microsoft.
For the next year, until Nov 2006, they’re going to let you download any of the Visual Studio Express programs (Visual Basic, C#, C++, J# and Web Developer) plus SQL Server Express for free. Normally, these programs go for something like 49.99 I believe.
They aren’t that bad in size. Under 100mb per program so go ahead and download them. You never know when it might come in handy. Burn it to a cd and keep it for future use.
Thanks MS!
Tuesday, November 01, 2005
I'm Digitizing My Brain!
Ok, I’m not really digitizing my brain. He he he!
What I’ve done is install a Wiki on my home server, Monkey1, so that I can keep a knowledge base of information.
I’ve reached a point where I’m doing so much stuff that it’s getting hard to remember what I did. For example, I recently updated my home server which runs Windows Small Business Server 2003 with the SP1 (Software Patch 1) that Microsoft released.
Hopefully, everyone is familiar with the idea of Microsoft SPs but incase not here’s the short on it. Occasionally, Microsoft will take all the individual bug fixes and patches they release for their Operating Systems, be it Windows XP or Windows Server, and roll them into one big patch for that OS. The idea being that if someone has to reinstall their system or whatnot it would be pain in the butt to have to install several hundred individual patches. Instead you can just download and install one ubber-patch and get up to speed.
Now back to my example. I had just installed the patch and shortly after I noticed some error messages showing up in the windows event logs. I spent probably a good 2 hours searching message boards and websites for how to fix the problem. I finally managed to dig up the info and solve it. Hey, everything was good so I forgot all about it.
A few days ago I saw a message board post where someone had a similar problem and I was sure the thing that I did to fix my problem would work for them too. I sort of remember the steps to fix the problem but couldn’t remember exactly what to do. Well, crap to me if I didn’t spent another hour digging around just trying to find the website with the instructions I had used.
After this little incident I sort of started to realize that I need a way to keep track of this info and any other techie info I might want to use in the future.
So, I went out searched for Knowledge Base systems, FAQ systems, etc. Nothing seemed to work exactly how I wanted it to.
The problem is I wanted something very free flowing that I can build not only the information but also the very structure of how this info is organized. Someone suggested I use a Wiki.
Stepping aside again. A Wiki is basically a website that allows anyone to easily create and make changes to the contents of the website. Probabbly the largest and most well known Wiki is Wikipedia.
Again back to my story. I did some searching and came up with OpenWiki as a viable option. I was looking for an ASP based wiki because I don’t have PHP installed on my server and I don’t want to. That is another story in and of itself!
I went and installed OW on my server and so far things have been working well. I’m slowly converting over several folders of text files to the wiki and just dumping in anything else that comes at hand.
Going back to my example from above. I’ve made a wiki page called WindowsErrors. I put on it all the details about what the error you get is and the instructions on how to fix. Now if I ever need to fix that problem again, I can just open up my wiki navigate to the WindowsErrors page and there will be the solution. That’s 30 seconds to find the solution and not 1 or 2 hours of searching the web.
It’s really nice to just click a button and make a new page and add content and then have it there to reference later on. I know this is going to make my life much, much easier!
Wednesday, October 26, 2005
Opera 9.0 (Merlin) Preview 1
Man those boys (and girls) at Opera sure have been busy! Version 8.5 of their browser was released in September and they’re already talking about version 9.
I’m not complaining though. I think it’s great. From the beginning opera was a very nice browser. It’s support for basic features was a bit lacking but in the last 6 months or so they have really cranked it up. 8.5 is very close to being right on par with IE or Mozilla/Firefox.
It’s impressive to see them really pushing hard now to surpass these browsers. Opera has been my browser since well about this time last year when I downloaded version 7.54. It was an extremely small and fast browser and except for problems with a few websites I used it for everything. With version 8.5 I now use opera for all my browsing needs except for one site. This isn’t opera fault though. It’s my stupid bank and their online service. It refuses to run on anything except IE or Netscape (Hey dumbasses Netscape is dead!)
But I digress. Opera 9.0 looks to be an impressive application. Here is just the shortlist of new features:
XSLT 1.0
XPath 1.0
Web Forms 2.0
Web Apps 1.0 CANVAS element
Some CSS3 Selectors
TLS 1.1 and TLS Extensions
Partial SVG Basic 1.1
And that’s just what’s being added to the core engine! Not to mention all the other new features and hopefully *fingers crossed* full ACID2 compliance!
Just a short primer here. ACID2 is a test that the Web Standards Project developed to help browser vendors to verify their browsers to follow, well, web standards. Simply put, ACID2 is a webpage that is designed to use many of the web standards, html, css, etc. If the browser follows the standards then the webpage will look like a smily face! If not then it just looks like garbage.
Surprisingly current browsers fail the test. Most vendors, including opera, are working to correct their problems and properly support the features need for the test to pass.
It’s a good thing trust me. The more vendors work to support standards and in a proper way the easier it will be for web developers to design sites that work for all browsers. As a result it will mean end users like yourself will be able to visit websites and they will look and function correctly for you.
Anyhoo, you can read up on the >full details and while you’re at it check out the blog of Tim Altman. He works at Opera and post a lot about the development of the browser.
Friday, August 12, 2005
Shesh! What a mess!
My uncle dropped off my grandfather and grandmothers computer tonight. My uncle was trying to show my grandfather how to resize pictures or something and the computer keep on locking up.
I said to send it my way and I’ll take a looksy at it. I’ve spent the last few hours cleaning the cruft out of the thing.
Let’s see.
First I did the standard scandisk / defrag. Just want to get the basics out of the way first. Then I fired up the registry editor and checked out what was set to run on start up on the computer (this is windows ME by the way). Whoa! Talk about a lot of useless junk. Well I remove the junk and whip out my handy dandy usb thumb drive. Pop that sucker in and install Adaware and Spybot Search & Destroy. EEP! Even more junk! Between the two apps I manage to find about 20 different pieces of spyware/malware on the system. Well I wiped all that out.
Right now as I write this I’m installing windows updates from the Security Update CD I blogged about last year. It’s outdated sure but it still has important updates that aren’t on the system. I’m on dialup remember so I’m not going to bother downloading more updates. They can just take what I give them.
I’m not sure exactly what type of picture resizing they were doing so I can’t reproduce exactly what they were doing to cause the lockups but tomorrow I’ll see what I can find.
If I didn’t hate doing this so much I should do this for a job. I could make big bucks cleaning peoples computers of the crap they manage to put on them.
Tuesday, August 09, 2005
My brother's new computer
Where has the time gone? My little brother is off to college in another month. So, I get to build him a box. Whoopie! 
Well here’s the specs:
Shuttle SN25B SFF Case (with skt 939 nforce4 based mobo)
AMD Athlon 64 3500+ (Venice core) CPU
1GB (2x512mb) Corsair XMS PC3200 Ram
200Gig Western Digital SATA Drive
Plextor PPX-712SA SATA dual layer DVD Burner
CONNECT3D Radeon X800XL 256M PCIE Video Card
Should be a nice system for college. Plenty fast yet won’t take up a lot of room in a dorm. All the parts should be here in a few days so once I get it tossed together I’ll run a few benchmarks and show off the numbers.
This will be my first real SFF system. My girlfriends system was in a very small case but was still a micro-atx based system. Jamming all that junk in a 8x8x12 inch box sounds like fun!