Windows Live Writer Connectivity Issue
I started using Windows Live Writer beta some time back for posting to my weblog and its been working nicely. It connects to many of the different blogging systems, downloads the styles, lets you write in that style, preview it and post it. One of the products from Microsoft which is really really fast to install, its not bloated with any extras, its free and super easy to use.
All of a sudden one day while trying to download the styles from my Word Press 2.x blog, I get this funny connectivity issue.
Windows Live Write can not connect to the blog. xmlrpc.php could not be accessed, ”406, Not Acceptable Error”. Hmm.. after some long debugging and hair pulling finally I figured it was not WLW issue or Word Press issue, it was actually an Apache issue. My hosting provider, all of a sudden decided to install mod_security on the Apache web server. If configured aggressively, it can cause a lot of problems with many web softwares.
Solution: I added following lines to my .htaccess file in the blog’s path:
<IfModule mod_security.c>
SecFilterEngine Off
SecFilterScanPOST Off
</IfModule>
This will remove all the security that mod_security module provides, but otherwise, you need to talk to your hosting provider and ask them to cut down on this security.
From Seoul, South Korea
On my way to India. Finally the vacation has begun. Going to India after three years, really looking forward to landing there. Doing this post from the Seoul airport. Its one good thing that the asian countries are not as cheap as US. Almost all the developed asian countries I have been to, the airports have free internet access. But US ?? No !! Almost at all the airports in US you have to pay to hookup to the wifi network. Talk about technology leadership. Next post from India.
Microsoft Gives !!
Among all the bias against Microsoft’s market dominance and Bill Gates’ wealth, people forget to notice that how much Microsoft contributes to the community. I realized the fact only after working at Microsoft for some time. Microsoft matches dollar to dollar for any employee donation. That is if I donated a dollar to any organization or cause, MS will match it by one dollar and the total money going to the organization would be $2.
This year alone Microsoft US only has collected $64 million for different charity and community services. Microsoft SVC (Silicon Valley) with only 1200 full time employees has donated $1,764,089.00 just this year. In the company meeting we were told that in its life time Microsoft has donated more than $2.6 billion to the community.
Thanks Microsoft for caring.
Want to change the settings for your remote desktop connection on Windows XP?
2. Computer Configuration/Administrative Templates/Windows Components/Terminal Services
Windows desktop Icon color depth?
Try not to go beyond 16 bit, that will be an overkill.
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Control Panel\Desktop\WindowMetrics and look for the key named Shell Icon BPP.
This Rocks !!
“You obviously do not see it then?” she responded.
“You placed me next to a black man. I do not agree to sit next to someone from such a repugnant group. Give me an alternative seat.”
“Be calm please,” the hostess replied. “Almost all the places on this flight are taken. I will go to see if another place is available.”
The Hostess went away and then came back a few minutes later.
“Madam, just as I thought, there are no other available seats in the economy class. I spoke to the captain and he informed me that there is also no seat in the business class. All the same, we still have one place in the first class.”
Before the woman could say anything, the hostess continued, “It is not usual for our company to permit someone from the economy class to sit in the first class. However, given the circumstances,
the captain feels that it would be scandalous to make someone sit next to someone so disgusting.”
She turned to the black man and said “Therefore, Sir, if you would like to, please collect your hand luggage, a seat awaits you in first class.”
At that moment, the other passengers who were shocked by what they had just witnessed stood up and applauded.
Google Local on Palm Treo 650
Here comes the first one:
I wanted to intsall google local on this device, but Google local says it doesn’t support Palm and Brew based phones. But there was a catch, it says it supports the Java based phones. So I installed the IBM’s Java micro edition from Palm’s website, which is free. But then when you try to download the generic google local, it just downloads the link and that too on the card. So whats the trick?
Start the IBM Java application and click on install, type this URL there and you are good to go.
google.com/glm?brand=Generic&model=Advanced+MIDP2&agree=yes