Josh Wieder

Blogging tips aren't really the focus of my website. However, I recently signed up for Bing's Webmaster Tools and encountered some difficulty in submitting the sitemap for my Blogger website, joshwieder.blogspot.com. It took me a bit of head banging before I figured out how to resolve it, thanks in no small part to the amount of guides on this issue that are just wrong on their face. So, for regular blog readers, this isn't as advanced as a lot of the articles here are, but it turned out to be such a nuisance and so ill-documented that I felt something had to be done . This guide will assume that you have already added your site to Bing Webmaster Tools and verified domain ownership, both of which work as advertised. At the time of this writing, Blogger primarily uses Atom 1.0 to publish site feeds - Blogger also relies on Atom for a dynamically generated sitemap. For Google's webmaster tools, I registered the following link, which populates an XML file that contains

Seen some more link spam come my way. While I will save an intrepid investigation for later posts, I would like to share some of the keywords I've encountered in todays blast of pork transmission. It is my hope that alien archaeologists of the future uncover these terms thousands of years from now, and use them to imagine a much more colorful existence than was ever wrought by we, the baldest of primates. What is poetry, they will wonder, and what is it to do with kung fu and imaginary girl-criminals? Without further ado, today's glyphs: -The girls channeled their inner-criminal while making their way through a robbery scene -We bring Chin Closer. -Click to see the best Shaolin kung fu, the way they train, and their daily life in Shaolin Temple. This last bit reminded me of my recent viewing of Sonny Chiba's The Street Fighter. As my friends and coworkers know, I watch some disturbing and frequently godawful movies. I like to explain in long winded detail how Roge

Remember BBS? Remember the Well? The first BBS was the Community Memory BBS, and its first post is printed in memoriam below (this was posted in 1973, nearly 40 years ago), entered via a teletype machine stored inside a cardboard box with holes cut out for your hands and stored in the back of a record store. The moniker used by the typist, Dr Benway, is a recurring character in the novels of William S Burroughs - leading some of us to believe (with good humor and high spirits) that since its inception, the network as social medium has always veered a bit subversively. From here we have gone to Twitter and Facebook users coordinating the overthrow of governments, in sudden paroxysms of sweeping change and violence. Perhaps there is a bit of that encoded somewhere in this early missive. ***** IEF XQPRSTQXL SYSPRINT OFFSET INTERRUPT ***** APPLIESTO: ALL BOOGIES, BEANERS, BOLOS & BOZOS ...... DOC BENWAY HERE .......... NURSE, SLIP ME ANOTHER AMPULE OF LAUDANUM ....

I recently worked on a Windows 2003 server that required manual reboots in order to login, whether via console or Remote Desktop. After rebooting, Event ID 1517 was logged repeatedly in Event Viewer (protip: this error could also appear as Event ID 1524 in Windows Server 2003, or as Event 1000 in Windows Server 2000). Microsoft explains this error in better detail than I can in KB article 944984 - essentially, user profile registry hives are kept in limbo after log off, and never completely terminated. Unfortunately, the hotfix described in the KB article didn't help. I don't administrate this server, I was just called in to fix the issue without breaking anything else. At this point, I know the administrator had an application in need of some coding assistance. I didn't have time to review every application's authentication behavior, though, and I am a novice developer at best. As an alternative to reviewing miles of code, I installed the User Profile Hive Cleanup S

I am always looking out for new gimmicks to trick poor innocent souls on the internet into stumbling onto my website, so after countless prompts and notifications, I have finally broke down and activated a Google+ Account. I'm interested in showing authorship in my search results , and now I can be sure that at least the FBI is reading my blog . It's still a work in progress, but I am not sure what the point is after an initial inspection. MySpace was for 12 year old girls and awful bands. Facebook is for stalking your ex and so you in turn can be stalked by your government. Google+ ... what is Google+ for? I found some friends and coworkers and added them to circles. This was okay, and they always have some interesting things to say in the stream, but I found after a while that their comments were pushed underneath a bunch of posts by people I don't know about topics I don't care about. Here are a brief list of some of the random things added to my stream that I ha

I have seen quite a bit of advice on the Internet that is unsound over the years, enough that I thought I am rarely surprised by idiocy. The video above though - this one made me laugh out loud. You know the video is going to be a gem from the title - "Apple Keyboard Secret That Apple Does Not Tell You". Anything with "The Secret That X Doesn't Want You to Know" is usually a window into the mind of a lunatic, and this does not disappoint. Give it a click - its only about 30 seconds long.

A few months ago, I wrote a post about websockets and IIS7 , explaining how some extensive hacking is needed to get websockets working and providing a link to an application that would accomplish just that. That post was very popular - Microsoft developers are obviously looking for ways to implement web sockets, and there is not a lot of documentation out there to assist them yet. With the release of Windows Server 2012, Microsoft is now including native suppor t for WebSockets. Unfortunately the 2008 hack (released by HTML5Labs) is now deprecated, and has been removed from the developer's website. Because there is so much interest, and no longer a fix to implement websockets in IIS7 that I am readily aware of, I am going to start putting together some information for developers here on IIS8. This post will just have the basics, and I will expand on the topic through later posts. To get started, it is necessary to enable the WebSocket Protocol Module. The module is available as a