Okay so I took me a few hours but I finally figured out how to turn on Windows Authentication under IIS7. For some reason, it’s turned off by default and in IIS7 under authentication you’ll only see anonymous.
I have a ASP.NET 1.1 application that requires Windows Authentication and this was the error I was receiving.
“You [...]

Everything is confusing in Windows Vista .. or is it easier?
Here’s how to install IIS on Windows Vista.

Hit the start menu and select settings, control panel.
Look under Programs and Features, and click the option which says “Turn Windows features on or off”
Click on Internet Services
Click OK

Done!

So I scored a new laptop through work and wanted to give Vista a whirl. Step forward 30mins and I found something really, really, really annoying. Microsoft’s new Vista access control, which will prompt you ever time you make changes to the system, either via control panel or when you install new software.
Very annoying if [...]

To save you the grief of a long wait, here is how to reset the password on office scan corp
To reset this, first go to the servers C:\Program Files\Trend\OfficeScan\PCCSRV and edit the ofscan.ini.
- Search “_pwd” and then clear the string of stuff after the = sign.
- Change it to the value “70″
- Save the [...]

For some reason I always get confused which command works on what operating system in order to remove startup scripts under a redhat based distribution.
For Centos use
/sbin/chkconfig –del

For Debian use
update-rc.d