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Tag Archives: debugging
Solved: IE encounters ERROR_INTERNET_INCORRECT_HANDLE_STATE when opening a popup window
One of our engineers asked me to take a look at a bizarre problem in an application. When accessing the application using IE8, they would click a link that opens a popup window. Rather than the popup window loading, the … Continue reading
Solved: browser cookies vanish in IE8 when opening a new window to a different sub-domain
I’ve been working with a user at one of our clients who was encountering a most puzzling issue. They would be logged into one of our applications, and then they would invoke some functionality that was hosted off of another … Continue reading
Solved: Windows 7 laptop connects to wireless network but cannot access internet
A few weeks ago, I brought home my work laptop so that I could take care of some tasks over the weekend. I have done this before, so it already knew my wireless network and connected just fine. However, even … Continue reading
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A powershell script for running reverse lookups on many IP addresses at once
I often find myself looking at web logs when researching anomalous traffic on our servers. It’s not uncommon for a poorly written web scraper to come through the system and generate spurious errors, and I start looking at what IP … Continue reading
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Tagged akamai, debugging, DNS, iis, ISP, powershell, routing, tomcat
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Solved: Bug in memcached client library .Net port causes inconsistent key distribution
Memcached is most popularly used in php and java applications, but it’s a great technology that can integrate with anything. For those with programs in the .Net world, there is a .Net memcached client library, which is a port called … Continue reading
Use powershell to run a command against all instances in a memcached cluster
We are in the process of deploying memcached in one of our applications to server as a flexible, lightweight distributed cache. I’ve been familiar with the technology for years, but this was my first time to be able to directly … Continue reading
Until there is iPhone screen sharing, using PhotoPen to mark up screen shots for family tech support
As the family nerd, I am the go-to source for computer tech support. As an iPhone devotee, it also means that I am the person who gets the call when someone’s phone isn’t working (one family member opted to go … Continue reading
Determine a linux server’s public ip address from the command line
We were recently setting up a linux server to integrate with a partner of ours, and we found that it was unable to connect to the remote server. Our first suspicion was that our partner was blocking any ip addresses … Continue reading
Debugging: Use Fiddler and WebProxy to debug HttpWebRequest / HttpWebResponse issues in ASP.NET
We recently found ourselves debugging code that was making web requests to another server. If we hit the server manually in a web browser, it worked fine, but when we ran it through the code simulating the request using HttpWebRequest, … Continue reading
Solved: Printing using CTRL+P stops working in IE8 on Windows 7 after modifying security settings
Many of our customers are large, global organizations with hundreds of thousands of employees and thousands of locations. With such a vast infrastructure, their IT organizations take great pains to keep their computers stable and secure. While in theory only … Continue reading
