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16 Feb, 2009

Windows Vista Activation 0x800705B4 Error

Posted by: eip In: Tech

I kept getting this error in my Vista Enterprise install.  I tried a bunch of stuff including turning off the firewall, going to a different network, and at the end of it all, the error had nothing to do with “Timeout” — The product key I’ve entered was bad.  Arrgh!           [...]

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10 Feb, 2009

MLLP Blank Messages

Posted by: eip In: Tech

A while back I wrote about a problem I encountered where my client’s system is experiencing “Object not set to a reference of an object” errors in the receive pipeline for one of their client.  After yet another round of experimentation, I FINALLY figured out what caused it! This particular client appear to programmatically connect to the BizTalk [...]

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30 Jan, 2009

Running WCF on GoDaddy

Posted by: eip In: Tech

GoDaddy and many ASP.NET hosting company operate IIS under medium trust.  As such,  you will need to make a number of modifications to your app.config/web.config to make WCF work.  Assuming your WCF service is compiled against the 3.5 framework, the following is a list of errors I encountered along the way and the respective solution. [...]

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08 Jan, 2009

ZipCode Radius

Posted by: eip In: Tech

I am working on a personal project that needed a list of US City, State and Zip and the ability to get a list of nearby Zips by radius. For awhile there, I thought I was going to have to pay for a list of ZipCodes but thank goodness I found Gabe Summer’s blog.  To [...]

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29 Dec, 2008

Google App and 3rd party web host

Posted by: eip In: Tech

In the recent months, anytime I am asked to help a client to set up domain purchase, email and web hosting, I’ve been using a combination of Google App and 3rd party web hosts such as GoDaddy.com. I prefer to register the domain via Google App for $10/yr which include private registration and everything Google [...]

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