I saw this on Failblog and a bunch of sites also appear to think its legitimate. However digging deeper you’ll find that Knoxville’s Newspaper has a sister site called Notsville that posts parody news stories and this is one of them
How to disable legacy/unsafe SSL algorithms in Microsoft IIS
One of our servers was recently audited for a certain certification and unfortunately we failed the initial test. For the most part we’re running a basic install of IIS on a Windows Server 2003 R2 Standard x64. To pass the test we had to disable the older algorithms for the…
How to group items in InDesign using VB.Net/C#
First off, give up going the native route. There’s no way that I’ve found that you can convert an array to an InDesign.Objects object. Also, subclassing InDesign.Objects doesn’t appear to work either. What does ultimately work? JavaScript. Don’t worry, you can create JS on the fly and have InDesign execute…
Generate INSERT statements from SQL Server
The original version of this code comes from here. That version, however, didn’t handle NULLs and just inserted empty strings or zeros. In the comments there was an updated version by spider_pat that supported NULL values but had a couple of problems, namely it only had one column to INSERT…
Convert MXF to AVI/MOV/MP4/etc
The only way that I could find to convert a Sony cam MXF file was to use MXFSplit to pull out the raw stream and then use FFMpeg to convert that to something. Step 1: Download and extract MXFLib from FreeMXF.org (OLD LINK, source only now) FreeMXF.org Step 2:Drop to…
Setting a Paragraph’s Absolute Position with iTextSharp
Man, you’d think this would have been easier. The Paragraph object in iTextSharp doesn’t have a position property so you can’t absolutely position it. If you search online they’ll tell you to use a PdfContentByte instead which does not work if you want to handle multiple lines automatically. Also, and…
Cannot access a closed Stream with MemoryStream and StreamWriter
A StreamWriter will close the underlying stream when Dispose is called so if you try the following pattern you’ll receive a “Cannot access a closed Stream” error message. Using MS As New MemoryStream() Using SW As New StreamWriter(MS, System.Text.Encoding.UTF8) SW.Write(“Hello”) End Using Using SR As New StreamReader(MS, System.Text.Encoding.UTF8) Return SR.ReadToEnd()…
Microsoft Entourage 2008 An Error Has Occurred (-17199)
I just setup a laptop for IMAP access, tested the send and receive and everything worked just fine. I later went in and deleted and Exchange account that wasn’t used anymore and suddenly I was getting An Error Has Occurred (-17199). The solution was pretty simple. There was a message…
SQL Server Encryption Overview
I was doing some work that required that some parts of the database were encrypted and couldn’t find an all-in-one location for information. If that’s what you’re looking for, this ain’t it either. I will, however, briefly explain how to create symmetric and asymmetric keys that use passwords. First off,…
iTextSharp SetCMYKColorFillF Values
This took a little while for me to figure out but when calling SetCMYKColorFillF(Single, Single, Single, Single) make sure that your singles are from 0 to 1, not 0 to 100 as normal CMYK values are represented. So for a 78%/18%/18%/6% use: SetCMYKColorFillF(0.78F, 0.18F, 0.18F, 0.06F)