I’ve recently had an experience of setting up Single Sign On (SSO) for an application that we sell in work (Oracle RightNow) which provides a SAML 2.0 interface for authentication and found that there is very little, useful instructions on how to install and especially to configure SAML – hopefully this information will help anyone […]
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I’ve promised a few friends over the years that I’d put up pics of my water cooling rig that I made a few years back – I designed and had built (by my mum’s then partner) an external enclosure; this contained a reservoir, pump, power supply, a radiator from a motorbike and 2 large fans […]
Hi guys, I’ve just updated ThinkTwit to version 1.3.7 with the following changes:
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New Twitter virus
There seems to be a new Twitter virus or phishing scam going around which affected my boss today. He had a couple of messages telling him that he had a virus, they had received the following message: what are you doing on this moviefacebook.com/42219320781811… wow upsetting
I’ve had a small number of reports lately that ThinkTwit has been deleting the index.php file from the root directory. After some investigation and attempts to fix this I’ve decided to remove the offending code temporarily until I can fix it properly. Here’s an explanation of the code:
I’m happy to report that last week I had a very nice surprise when I turned my phone on at the airport after a well deserved trip to Ibiza: I received a notification from PayPal to say that I’d had a donation for ThinkTwit. The donation was kindly given by Martijn Pantlin from Orgone Media […]
I’ve been experiencing a confusing error message on one of our servers recently which seems to be occurring every minute or so. It took me a while to track down the solution so I just wanted to share it in the hope that it may help others. The error itself is: “The application-specific permission settings […]
So two weeks ago I was playing Duke Nukem Forever when my PC crashed – ever since I’ve been unable to boot past the Windows loading screen. After various testing, and eventually getting fed up and passing it over to my mate, I’ve found that the graphics card seems to have fried itself. Although it […]
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IIS 7 Permissions
I’m new to IIS 7 (7.5 to be specific) and have just been struggling with an issue which I’d like to share the solution to – IIS 7.5 no longer uses the IUSR_machine_name account to apply write (or other) permissions to a directory. Instead you have to use IUSR.
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Scan to FTP on Dell 3115cn
It’s been a while since I’ve blogged, and since I created this primarily for making a record of obscure problems that will hopefully help others I thought I’d just post one I experience today: