Josh Wieder

Or, How To Fix the "Unable to place a FastCGI process in a JobObject" / 0x80070005 Error When Applying a CPU Limit to an IIS7 Application Pool Here is our example - you have a website that uses several different programming languages running on an IIS7 server. Perhaps your main site is running .NET, and you are using PHP for the website's blog, or Python for a mailing script. You have installed the FastCGI module to speed things up and have it configured successfully. Unfortunately, CPU utilization is overall fairly high for this site. You want to make sure that it doesn't get *too* high and crash the server, or overwhelm other applications and services you have running on the same server. This article assumes that you already have configured a dedicated application pool for your site, and per the best practices you are running the application pool under a unique application pool identity user, and not the Network Service. It also assumes that you only have one ...

RemoteFX Media Streaming Introduced Over the years I have worked at both Internet Service Providers and server hosting companies. In both environments, customers have found thin client deployment and virtual desktop provisioning stymied by the bandwidth needs of remote desktop when used for day-to-day desktop computing style tasks. I can't remember how many times I have worked with a company whose entire network has failed or flapped because of employees downloading torrents or watching Youtube videos from a remote server. Other times, I have worked on Terminal Services capacity planning projects, and found myself impressed by the difficulty of giving reliable estimates even where good data is available. Many companies have been completely unable to reap the rewards of hosted desktops (fast provisioning and restoring, centralized management, easy hardware replacement) because of the costs of reliable high-throughput internet connections to their office. Data center bandwidth...

Shocking, I know. Barracuda Labs has a good catch up on their blog. Apparently, Facebook and Google save old passwords, and can leak them under certain circumstances during login attempts. Check out their entire post here . Why is this information being saved?

Poochinski is the story of a man who is killed in the line of duty. The TV show never made it to prime-time, but it has been seeing something of a resurgence, having now been featured all over the internet  (including a Facebook petition to finally produce the show ) The story goes that Poochinski's soul is restless - unable to leave behind his wife and children without seeking vengeance first. In desperation, his soul possesses the first body it could find, the body of a small bulldog. Using the body of the bulldog, Poochinski gets to destroy the testicles of his killer while struggling with his own new-found body identity issues as he seeks to move on to the great water hydrant in the sky. It cannot be stressed enough: this show is truly a work of genius. Widely regarded as the best TV show to never be made since the release of its marketing and promotional materials in 1990, Poochinski is the Citizen Cane of talking animal cinema (Citizen Cane faced financial difficu...

For a while I have been just too busy to sit down and kill some serious brain cells with an awesome video game. While I am partially responsible, I blame today's games, too. It seems like games today either involve paying to give myself a very expensive obsessive compulsive disorder (click the red button every second for 5 hours straight, then kill 10 rats, than bring me the rat skin hides after you have skinned them and clicked each one every 3 seconds for 1 1/2 hours straight, etc), or becoming part of a photo realistic murder simulator that leads to my  near instant death from hundreds of yards away by someone (prepubescent) who I never see. While admittedly there have been some amazing games written within the last 5 years, there has been an equal abundance of shitty games available for those who like bad video games from the 80's . So thanks to Xbox Live for releasing Sega Vintage Collection. I am playing Golden Axe and Street of Rage on a 60'' flat scree...

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Amazing. { SPECIAL POOCHINSKI UPDATE:   Due to the overwhelming contacts we have received about Poochinski, I have located the COMPLETE AND UNREDACTED pilot episode of this classic story of a cop, a dog, and another cop who is reincarnated inside the dog.} Check it out :

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 .......