IIS vs. Apache advantages disadvantages local install Browser App
Is there any disadvantage, performance etc. for running Apache instead
of Internet Information Server for a locally installed Browser based
MySQL application (SugarCRM).
I run Windows XP Media Center Edition so I don't think I even have
IIS.
John "J.J." Jackson Tag: Looking for Playback.exe tool Tag: 380949
IIS on Windows Media Center Edition 2004 or 2005?
Do I have or can I get IIS (Internet Information Server) on Windows
Media Center Edition 2004 or 2005?
John "J.J." Jackson Tag: Looking for Playback.exe tool Tag: 380948
Static Compression should *not* increase CPU usage, right?
Howdy -
I've got a single 100K file that I'm hitting as part of a stress test to
investigate IIS tunable parameters.
I've got a thousand virtual users doing a GET on this file.
Without compression, I'm getting something on the order of 6 second response
times, and able to get 115 responses per second, and CPU sits around 5-10%.
With compression, I'm getting 1200 responses/sec (yay!) but CPU goes up to
80% and stays there the whole time.
It's my understanding that IIS would only compress this static file once,
and then would cache it and serve it up over and over again - but that's not
what is happening (or some related thing is pushing the CPU up).
Any ideas? Has anyone seen this?
thanks,
jim p.
...in scott$dale, where it's actually muggy.
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Go Daddy Software
Scott$dale, AZ Tag: Looking for Playback.exe tool Tag: 380946
Webpage don't show up on other intranet computers
eHi All!
Never had a problim like this before. I have 5.1 IIS on a Windows XP SP 2
box. It is on a domain. Can't put this site on a regular server, so I have a
workstation. Corporate reasons for that. When I type in IE on a workstation,
//computername, it looks on the interenet and kicks back MSN search. If I
type http://computername, it says page can not be found. I have the
properties set up for anomoyus. I tried both a local accout and and domain
account in "Account used for anonymous access". I never had a problem like
this when I set up IIS on a server, it just always works.
Any thoughts would be great!!!
TIA!!
Rudy Tag: Looking for Playback.exe tool Tag: 380943
PHP5 and IIS6
When i go to a page on my server that is php it asks me for authentication.
but none of the windows passwords work.
how do i get this off so that people can get to the web page? Tag: Looking for Playback.exe tool Tag: 380935
IIS failover
I have a single W2K server IIS install and I want to use a second server as
a failover server.
I therefore want to completely copy my IIS environment from the existing
live server to my failover.
I don't seem to be able to find any articles on how to do this ... IIS
backup articles all say how IIS backup should _not_ be used to migrate from
one server to another.
Is what I want to do even remotely possible or do I have to build my IIS
environment from scratch?
many thanks,
jON Tag: Looking for Playback.exe tool Tag: 380934
.Net and ISAPI
I am currently coding an ISAPI filter and I would like to use some .Net
functionality within the filter. However, when I include calls to anything
in the framework, it locks the dll and will not release it until I restart
the machine. Even after restarting the W3SVC and removing it from the list
of ISAPI filters, it still has a lock on it. Any ideas why? Tag: Looking for Playback.exe tool Tag: 380932
Error Pages & Bitmaps
I am having some issues displaying images on custom error pages. For
example, I have altered the "Certificate Required" and "SSL Required" error
page to look like our application, but am not able to get images to display.
The page displays but I get "X"s for the images I guess because SSL could
not be established properly.
Is there a way to create custom error messages with images for these types
of messages?
TIA
Mark Tag: Looking for Playback.exe tool Tag: 380927
recycle at set time
I recently configured my application pool to recycle worker processes each
morning at 4:30am. It doesn't seem to be recycling because I'm not seeing
anything in the log that shows me it is. Previously I was recycling every
29 hours which was working but not a good approach for my website. Is
there something I'm missing? Do I need to stop/start IIS to get the new
configuration to take?
Thanks for your help
Tina Tag: Looking for Playback.exe tool Tag: 380924
php 5 post problem
hi all
i have a stupid problem on a php 5 iis w2k installation. if i request a
script in the browsers location bar it works just fine. when i request
the script via a form post i run into a cgi timeout error. even if this
script contains a die("hi there") statement on line 1 it would not
respond with the expected message "hi there" but just ends up in the
timeout.
i found some issues in the php buglist.. they are all related to php 4
though and seem to be solved. one guy sugested to use some tool from
microsoft.. i have this but don't know what to change with it..
http://aspn.activestate.com/ASPN/Mail/Message/php-dev/2498609
any help or hint is apprciated.
cheers ralphie
ps: i have to use iis and php5 because its our customers deceision.. so
a suggestion to switch to apache does not help me Tag: Looking for Playback.exe tool Tag: 380919
Application Pool recycling hangs
Hi,
We are having a few problems with ASP.Net pages hanging during load when an
Application Pool is recycled. To test this we have setup the following
ASP.net page which refreshes every 2 seconds:
<%@ Page language="c#" %>
<%@ Import Namespace="System" %>
<%@ Import Namespace="System.IO" %>
<script runat="server">
void Page_Load(Object sender, System.EventArgs e)
{
Label1.Text = DateTime.Now.ToString();
StreamWriter SW;
SW=File.AppendText("c:/inetpub/wwwroot/log1.txt");
SW.WriteLine(DateTime.Now);
SW.Close();
}
</script>
<html>
<head>
<title>Cache Test</title>
<meta http-equiv="refresh" content="2">
</head>
<body>
<form runat="server">
<asp:label id="Label1" runat="server" />
</form>
</body>
</html>
I've also set the Application Pool that the site runs under in IIS 6.0 to
Recycle every 1 minute (and set the Idle Timeout on the Performance tab to 1
minute).
The page seems to refresh ok for a while in the browser each 2 seconds but
sometimes when the Application Pool recycles the page load hangs for over
one minute and will eventually start going again. On another machine however
it runs continuously without hanging.
Does anyone have an idea as to what the hanging might be caused by?
Thanks - Wayne. Tag: Looking for Playback.exe tool Tag: 380918
HTTP Requests Blocked for non admin users
Hi,
we have an application that is HTTP based hosted on a Windows 2003 Server
(SP1) with IIS 6.0 which has been working fine to date. Authentication to
the websites has been using Windows Integrated security and basic
authentication.
All of a sudden we are now having a serious problem in that it appears that
the server is only allowing HTTP requests to the server where the user
making the request is an administrator on the box. The websites that are
hosted on this server can be accessed when connected as a local admin user
but are rejected with a "HTTP 500 - Internal Internet Server Error" for non
administrative users. When I take the friendly HTTP messages option off the
error is "Unable to contact local security authority".
It appears to me that the server has been changed in some shape or form and
that security has been tightened in some way but I can't find where. We have
additional servers in this environment some of which are also displaying
this behaviour and some of which aren't (the only difference being that the
server that isn't has not been patched recently).
Has anybody out there come across a similar problem ? If so I'd be really
appreciative if you could give me any help on tracking down what is causing
this as it causing us major problems. Are there patches that could be
causing this or could it be another tool causing this (IIS Lockdown, URLScan
etc.).
Any information greatly appreciated.
Derek Tag: Looking for Playback.exe tool Tag: 380916
Webdav design
Hi,
I have a customer that has an FTP solution for their users.
Users log on to ftp.domain.com and specify their network credentials.
This is a Windows 2000 IIS server and the FTP site has been set so that the
home directory points to \\SERVER\SHARE
Under \\SERVER\SHARE we have all the user's home directories and in each
home directory we have a private folder.
Each home directory allows access to IUSR_IISSERVER so that they can publish
web content and other people can surf in to their website.
The private folder is not accessible to IUSR.
On the FTP site the UNCUsername attribute has been removed so that the
authenticated user's credentials are used when connecting to \\SERVER\SHARE
So when they access the FTP site ftp.domain.com and specify their network
creds they get automatically redirected to their own home directory under
\\SERVER\SHARE
I have propsed that we change this solution for one based on webdav using
SSL.
So the architecture would look a little like this:
ISA 2004 (with SSL cert) -------- IIS 6.0 (Webdav Server) ---------- File
Server with home directories
Does anyone know if we can get the redirect to work with web dav?
i.e. A user browses to https://webdav.domain.com and then enters thier
network creds. They then get redirected to their home directory under
\\SERVER\SHARE
Or must we specify https://webdav.domain.com/userid
Thanks in advance for any help
Simon Tag: Looking for Playback.exe tool Tag: 380911
Problem of 'SaveResult' on IIS6
We have IIS6 and FrontPage Extension 2002 installed on Windows2003
Server. The problem is: when trying to visit an asp page with a
'SaveResult' webbot, we found the webbot could not work properly --
precisely no .csv file was created in the right place, nor were any data
saved.
Would anybody know what may be the likely causes, or show us the right
configuring procedure? Thanks so much.
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Hi there Tag: Looking for Playback.exe tool Tag: 380906
Set Named Servers
Lately, I transferred our domain name from a registered company to another.
My question is, if we are hosting our own website and email what we should
put on the name server within the new registered company.
All I know is that the name server settings control how a domain name is
resolved, but I am unsure of what to put in the configuration settings.
Any help is greatly appreciated.
Thanks. Tag: Looking for Playback.exe tool Tag: 380903
setup multiple ftp site with single ip
hello all,
i read many articles about "isloation user mode" ,but still can't setup
"multiple ftp site with single ip" on windows 2003
how someone brief my step by step for this?
currently , i got the error when I login ftp is " home directory is not
accessible"
Thanks in advanced. Tag: Looking for Playback.exe tool Tag: 380901
How to get a client to trust our Servers SSL Certificate?
We have an IIS server that has a SSL certificate installed on the
default webpage. We need our remote clients which are NOT part of the
domain to be able to connect to and trust that server.
Right now they can connect, but every time they do so, it says "This
Security Certificate Was Issued by a Company that You Have Not Chosen
to Trust". Is there a way to manually configure the clients to trust
this domain/server/certificate?
Clients that are within the domain can connect to the server with no
issues at all.
Thanks guys
It's my first form that I am using to get some answers, (make it a
good one)
Zab Tag: Looking for Playback.exe tool Tag: 380894
How do I configure PathInfo?
How do I configure IIS 6 (and 5 for that matter) so that PathInfo works?
For example:
http://www.host.domain/forum/showImage.aspx/m_123-ff328c1.gif
Should go to /forum/showImage.aspx and a call to HttpRequest.PathInfo should
return m_123-ff328c1.gif.
HOWEVER, all I get is a 404 error...
Ideas? Tag: Looking for Playback.exe tool Tag: 380893
w3wp.exe running at 100%
Last night my IIS6 server running on Server 2003 started to lock up when
loading an asp.net page. I'm running MySQL 5 and dotNet 2.0. The CPU usage
was at 100% because of a process called w3wp.exe. I've done some research
but have gotten no definitive answers as to how to take care of the
problem - not being an IIS efficinado. I made no changes to the server
before the problem started. There are 4 virtual directories running in the
default application pool - so I've learned from various posts. I did find
one post on a site the said they had the solution but they wanted my credit
card number and $9.95 a month. I suppose that's not like talking on the
phone for 4.95 a minute but probably better than talking to MS at $250 per
incident. I tried MS web site and nothing specific there either. At any
rate, rather than parting with any money, I thought I'd try the freebee
route. Can anybody point me in the right direction?
Thank,
Jim Tag: Looking for Playback.exe tool Tag: 380890
aspnet_wp.exe stopped unexpectedly and Server Application Unavailable
Configuration:
Windows 2000 Server SP4
.Net Framework 1.1 SP1
Microsoft Site Server 3.0
Problem:
the following error messages start showing up in the EVENT LOG on the
server every once in a while until server becomes un-usable and has to
be rebooted; users see in the browser Server Application Unavailable
message; this seems to happen more less every two weeks
error 1
aspnet_wp.exe could not be started. The error code for the failure is
800705AA. This error can be caused when the worker process account has
insufficient rights to read the .NET Framework files. Please ensure
that the .NET Framework is correctly installed and that the ACLs on the
installation directory allow access to the configured account.
error 2
aspnet_wp.exe (PID: 4856) stopped unexpectedly.
We have tried a bunch of things: re-install .Net Framework, run
aspnet_regiis.exe, created a new user and configured it to be the
worker process user in machine.config (granting that user all
necessarry permissions per MSFT KB article)
We have not tried elevating the permission in machine.config to SYSTEM
in the processModel section (will that even help? I know this is a
security risk). We did not try re-installing IIS.
We are also trying the IIS Diagnostics Toolkit to grab the dump when
IIS crashes. We have not been able to get any data yet.
Does anyone have any clues? Our current BAND-AID fix is to reboot the
servers weekly.
Thanks,
Paul. Tag: Looking for Playback.exe tool Tag: 380886
virtual web authentication method
2003 server (IIS 6.0) in a domain. I have a virtual web site in IIS and I
have "Enable anonymous access" checked as my authentication method, but I
still cannot access the virtual web. It ask for an username/password.
TIA
Troy Tag: Looking for Playback.exe tool Tag: 380885
ASP.NET error on server but not on workstation
I'm developing an ASP.NET v2.0 application that runs fine on my local
workstation IIS (v5.5 on XP I believe). However when I publish it to my
Windows 2k3 server it reports "Object reference not set to an instance of an
object" when button is clicked on the page. The stack track looks like it
finds the button however stops when after it lists the code behind routine
that takes care of the click event.
I'm really at a loss here. I've tried to get remote debugging to work to
see if I can track it down some more however even when I attach to the
process on the server it won't step through my code. That also bothers me.
Both websites are configured identically aside from the normal server versus
personal IIS differences, which really isn't that many. They are using the
same web.config file which ultimately sets up the ASP.NET 2.0 config on their
respective websites.
I'm completely at a loss here. It seems like it just can't find my code
behind in the dll's that are uploaded. Any insights? Tag: Looking for Playback.exe tool Tag: 380884
versioning IIS 6 xml metabase
Are there any guidelines or recommendations for or against versioning xml
configuration as part of SDLC process?
We are thinking about versioning a single xml metabase file in our SCM tool.
This single xml file would be the standard configuration to be used in
multiple environments such as dev, test, and prod. During deployment,
server-specific details such as ip addreses would be set by performing an XSL
transformation on the xml metabase.
The goal would be to
1) version IIS configuration as a single xml file
2) separate server-specifc configuration (ip addresses) from IIS configuration
3) merge server details and IIS configuration at deployment time
Does this seem reasonable, or what are some other ways to version / manage
changes to IIS configuration? Tag: Looking for Playback.exe tool Tag: 380882
Mini-Redirector and WebDAV
Would somebody be able to confirm whether or not mini-redirector on a Windows
client can interact with a WebDAV provider that is not IIS-based?
I have implemented a webdav server using a java servlet running within
WebLogic. I can connect and operate successfully using the older "Web
Folders" provided within the client OS but cannot successfully connect in
mini-redirector mode.
I cannot find any information on what mini-redirector expects during the
"handshake" phase of a connection attempt to something like
http://myServer/myDavConnection
Can this be done or could someone refer me to where I may be able to find
more info on getting redirector working against non-IIS WebDAV providers?
Thanks in advance for any help! Tag: Looking for Playback.exe tool Tag: 380878
Email Alias
I work for a school district and have been trying to research the feasibility of using email aliases for students. The process I'm after is exactly that which SourceForge has for it's members:
"Each user is provided with an email alias in the form username@users.sourceforge.net. This mail alias forwards email to the email address on-file for your user account. This email address is provided during the user account registration process, or through an update via the Account Maintenance page."
For the life of me, I can't find out how to do this or what is required hardware, software, web, etc.
Can someone help me with information on this? The user (student) would register on the website and fill in their real email address and their username would be an alias that will pass email to their real address.
Thanks.
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Problems with Redirecting...
Greetings,
I am running IIS 6 (with Exchange 2003) and want to accomplish the following:
Default web site should take users to a redirected website (I know how to
setup redirect feature) but directories under the default should not redirect
users to another site.
So for instance, if default web site is installed as http://serverA, I want
users to be redirected to http://serverB when they type http://serverA in the
browser but if they type, http://serverA/Exchange, they should stay on
serverA and not be redirected to serverB.
I can get default web site to redirect to ServerB but the problem is that
why I try to get to the directories under the same server, I am redirected to
ServerB as well. When I made the changes for redirection (on default web
site), it did ask me if child nodes (for instance, exchange, public, oma etc)
should inherit (highlight and click ok option) the new settings but I did not
highlight on any directories and just clicked OK (also tried clicking on
cancel which should not be the case).
The problem is that when I even try to manually go into the virtual
directories and change configuration â??no redirect â?? A directory on this
computer..â?? and click ok on it, it does not retain the settings.
Am I missing anything here, any help in this regard would be highly
appreciated.
Thanks,
Feddie Tag: Looking for Playback.exe tool Tag: 380868
Certificate is going to expire
I have an internal certificate on my iis 6.0 server that is going to expire.
How do I renew it? Tag: Looking for Playback.exe tool Tag: 380867
IIS 4.0 and NT 4.0 - Extremely SLOW
Hi all...
I have a problem. My sites running IIS 4.0 and NT 4.0 were running
great but in the last week, they have slowed right down. They don't
crash but it can take up to 20 seconds to load a page. I've checked
the CPU usage and it's fine. Is there a way that I can start trying to
find out what is wrong?
Any help or advice would be great.
Thanks Tag: Looking for Playback.exe tool Tag: 380864
Internal connection fatal error
Hi everybody.
I am experiencing a problem with IIS 5, WebServices and SQL Server 2000. I
have installed a microsoft cluster with Windows 2000 Enterprise Edition. In
the first node I have the IIS 5 installed (Windows 2000 Ent. Ed. SP4). In the
second node, i have SQL Server 2000 Ent. Ed. SP4.
We have some Webservices on node one that access to the dabatabase. Those
webservices writes to a log file some information. I see that many of them
says "Timeout expired. The timeout period elapsed prior to completion of the
operation or the server is not responding." and in some ocasions appears the
message "Internal connection fatal error". I have been searching at Google,
Microsoft, etc. about this problem, but i see nothing concrete.
Please, can anybody help me.
Thanks a lot.... Tag: Looking for Playback.exe tool Tag: 380862
SMTP Relay Error using CDONTS and the .CC property in ASP
Hey, this is a real head scratcher.
The following code works as written:
Set objMail = CreateObject("CDONTS.NewMail")
objMail.From = "test@insidedomain.com"
objMail.To = "test@outsidedomain.com"
objMail.Subject = "SMTP TEST"
objMail.Body = "TESTING"
objMail.Send
Set objMail = Nothing
However if I add the the following code after the .To statement:
objMail.CC = "test@insidedomain.com"
What happens is that the mail gets delivered to the .CC address but a
relay error occurs on the .To address.
Once I take out the .CC statement, the .To address gets the delivery.
Any ideas?
Thanks. Tag: Looking for Playback.exe tool Tag: 380855
Simple software to read IIS logs
Please can anyone recommend a simple program to interpret IIS logs. I
don't want to have to write scripts or code
Many thanks Tag: Looking for Playback.exe tool Tag: 380840
MS hotfix 842130
Hi
http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=842130
We need to apply this hotfix. Can anyone tell me will the server need a
reboot? Article doesn't say one way or the other so I'm guessing not but can
I be sure?
Cheers
Mike Tag: Looking for Playback.exe tool Tag: 380839
Migartion iis 5.0
Hej,
is there a tool to migrate IIS 5.0 (Windows 2000) to IIS 6.0 (Windows2003)
on another host?
IISV5Migration-Utility_x86.exe only migrates to IIS5.0 on another Windows
2000 host
Thanks a lot
Ruth Tag: Looking for Playback.exe tool Tag: 380836
ASP.NET USER MISSES
I
I've an installation of 2003 sbs, iis 6 and framework. Now I need to manage
security over some files and I can't find ASP.NET Group/User. I've already
ran the following command "..\v1.1.4322\aspnet_regiis.exe -i" and return no
errors but still no asp.net.
Has anyone got any clues?
Thanks in advance
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Obrigado! Tag: Looking for Playback.exe tool Tag: 380835
how to get the W3SVC service state
how to program with VC to get the W3SVC service state(Running or stop)
Thanks
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carson Tag: Looking for Playback.exe tool Tag: 380834
Metabase Backup files
Folks,
I'm trying to understand how the IIS Metabase backups work. A metabase
backup will create two files.
"The files that are created are named Name.MD# and Name.SC#, where Name
is the name you specify and # is the version number of the backup set,
starting with zero (0). If you use the same name for subsequent
backups, the version number will be incremented by 1 for each backup
set that uses the same name."
http://www.microsoft.com/technet/prodtechnol/WindowsServer2003/Library/IIS/475fb247-984d-4c65-842a-ae3bdd3e1080.mspx?mfr=true
The when the backup runs the SC file will retain a 'Date Modified' of
when IIS was first installed whilst the MD file will have the 'Date
Modified' of when the Metabase backup actually ran.
What are the purposes of each file?
Regards,
Tostao Tag: Looking for Playback.exe tool Tag: 380833
fck + upload
hi i used fckeditor 2.2 and asp.net
i have a problem with upload picture or anything under upload tag
i have no problem under image pro tab go to server create new files
pictures etc.. and in the upload.html under upload file
but i have problem when upload pic under upload tag how can i solve
this problem thanks.. Tag: Looking for Playback.exe tool Tag: 380832
FP-webs turn into applications after publishing
When publishing a frontpage web with frontpage 2002 to our new Windows
2003-server something strange happens. IIS/FP2002 'upgrades' the folder
to an 'application' with it's own dcom component. Our brand new server
seems to have problems handeling 500 of these applications and
crashes...
This problem doesn't occur when publishing with frontpage 98.
Question:
What can we do to make sure that IIS/FP doesn't make an application of
every frontpage web??? I hope anyone can help us. We have been dealing
with a very instable server for the past few weeks...
Thank you in advance!
Greetings,
Norbert Tag: Looking for Playback.exe tool Tag: 380831
IIS 5.1 documentation
Does anyone know where I can find IIS 5.1 documentation, online or
otherwise.
I have an MSDN subscription.
Thanks for any help. Tag: Looking for Playback.exe tool Tag: 380830
changing iis 5.0 windows service account
I tried to change the service startup account from local system to a user
account.
The server starts but I cant't connect to the webserver using the browser.
The user account in the local administrator group and I am running windows
XP.
Has anyon got any clues? Tag: Looking for Playback.exe tool Tag: 380829
OWA 2003 Password Change
I've setup OWA and users can access. Now, I am trying to allow for password
changing. The virtual directory is setup and each time anyone attempts to
change their password, they get the following message:
"Either the password is too short or password uniqueness restrictions have
not been met."
I checked my policy and it's set for a minimun of 7 characters with nothing
special. I can change a password by loging in directly to the network but
when trying in OWA I get the above message.
Any ideas?
Thanks,
dD Tag: Looking for Playback.exe tool Tag: 380828
HTML Form not posting IIS6
Just set up a new Win2003Server (installed SP1 as well) with IIS6. Still
pretty new to it, and I seem to have a problem I don't understand.....
Created two classic .asp pages, one with a <form> and the second to collect
and process the submitted info. Nothing I haven't done a thousand times
before, but for some reason the Form data doesn't seem to be posting to the
second page.
Form on first page:
<form name="Login" action="page2.asp" method="post">
UserName: <INPUT type="text" id="uname">
Password: <INPUT type="password" id="pword">
<INPUT type="submit" value="Login" id="submit1">
</form>
And on the second page, I put: Response.Write Request.Form, which spits out
all the form info that was posted, but I get absolutely nothing.
Is there some new feature or security setting in IIS6 that prevents/turns
off Form posting? I've never seen this behavior before and trying to Google
this subject is not giving me any usable answers. Any help is greatly
appreciated.
-- Andrew Tag: Looking for Playback.exe tool Tag: 380824
Listing Directories with Anonymous Access Disabled
I'm running an IIS 5.1 web server at home (Windows XP Pro), and what I was
hoping to do is list all of the directories for a web site which have
anonymous access disabled.
Does any one know of an existing tool which could do this?
TIA Tag: Looking for Playback.exe tool Tag: 380819
Any IIS 5.0 export/import tool
I have a lot of websites running on IIS 5.0. I'm worried when if my server
ever gets corrupted, I would have to set all of the sites again from
scratch. I heard that there's a free MS tool for importing and exporting
complete IIS 5.0 settings, can someone direct me to the download area for
this tool?
Thank you. Tag: Looking for Playback.exe tool Tag: 380806
File will not download with IIS 6, even after adding MIME type
I'm using Win Server 2003 SP1, and I'm trying to make a file with the
extension .sitx downloadable from my site (it's a Stuffit archive
format).
I've tried adding the MIME type as described in this article:
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;326965
but it still does not work. I added .sitx, and then
application/octet-stream.
Any ideas?
Thanks,
Dan Tag: Looking for Playback.exe tool Tag: 380803
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Is Welfare Part of Capitalism?
This article is dedicated to:
A man I met, with most of his body heavily burned, simply because he
was a Chinese during the 1998 May Riot in Indonesia.
Lots of capitalists that are slaughtered during the cultural evolution.
Ten thousands of peaceful smugglers that are massacred in Banda island
by the Dutch for conducting peaceful spice trade and all that are
similar to them.
All minority groups and individuals that face discrimination, even
genocide, for economically contributing too much for their society.
All customers that have to pay higher products due to protection of
tariff and trades.
Productive people that are fined with income tax for the victimless
crime of making honest money.
Smart students that are slowed down so not to move too fast.
Industries that do not get subsidy, or even banned to protect
unproductive industry and laborers that earn much less due to such
restrictions.
Poor starving people that could have been rich had their countries
choose to embrace free market.
Women and males that are trapped in unhappy marriage which they have a
hard time getting out.
Women and children that have lots of their best choices taken under the
pretext of protection.
Immigrants and refuges.
Is welfare part of capitalism?
In short, no. In consensually, punishing the productive through income
tax to reward parasitic behavior is the biggest affront against the
principle of free market. In fact, from many governments intervention
in economy, the one that proponents of free market often oppose the
most is welfare.
However, when we look further, capitalism and welfare is not really
total opposites. Most importantly, properly done, a straight forward
welfare program can cause less market distortion, and hence an
efficient replacement to buy votes from losers, than farm subsidies,
public schools, minimum wage, trades restrictions, tariffs, and sex
laws. If it's done by taxing wealth, rather than income, the amount of
market distortion can be minimized further.
Welfare is also cheap. It'll cost $5000/year to a welfare recipient
in USA, for example. However, we need to remember that the
recipients' lifestyle worth only $500. The other $4500 goes to
implicit welfare due to higher living costs. That implicit welfare
includes minimum wage, immigrations laws, and food subsidy, or
protections.
If somehow a straight forward explicit welfare program can replace all
relatively more evil governments' interventions, then capitalists are
probably better of not opposing welfare so much. Even Milton Friedman
supports schemes called guaranteed minimum income, which is like
welfare but with much less market distortion.
That's not where the similarity ends. One of the main creeds of
capitalism is that consent and competition should be preferred over
force. Without that consent, anyone can simply make us choose to make
our self worst of under the pretext that it is for our own good. In
fact, most laws against consensual acts can be traced down to
protection of some disgruntled competitors often done under the pretext
of the consenting parties' own good.
Anti prostitution and anti polygamy laws, for example, is there to
ration females to poor dumb males under the pretext of protecting the
consenting women. Of course, all natural resources tend to be rationed
somewhat proportional to ones' voting power. And that does explain
why democracy and anti polygamy laws go hand in hand too. One man one
vote soon leads to one man one wife.
Well, at least Matt Ridley agrees with me and he's a well known
mainstream scientific researchers. I guess that's also why so many
uncompetitive people want to ensure that evolution theory is not taught
in school. You can also read a famous psikiatrist book, "The road less
traveled," you'll see that life long monogamous marriage is just a trap
to prevent highly desirable people from being available to those who
they want more, and romance is just the lure to that trap.
On the women side, anti pornography laws is really meant to prevent
highly desirable women from advertising her assets and hence protecting
less pretty women from the higher industry standard a public display of
superior desirability might cause. Countries that embrace porn tend to
have prettier women. Where did all the unsexy ones go? They're all
shifting out of the gene pool, and hence are doing their best to oppose
porn preaching religious doctrines that men should judge women based on
any features but beauty, which they can't offer.
Another issue is consent. Welfare program is not consensual; however,
it's relatively more consensual then civil war. In ancient time, when
we have different ideological opinions, we end up killing each other to
proof who are "right." The Catholic would kill the Gnostic, the
Sunni would kill the Shiah. One King would kill the other. A younger
prince will argue that the older prince is demon. Might makes right.
Such differences of opinions are of course solved with war, which is a
very cost inefficient way to know who're "right." However it does
work in some subjective practical sense. If we look in the past and try
to figure out whether the Gnostic or the Catholic is the one that's
heretical or "right" respectively, we need only to see who won. The
Gnostics are slaughtered, so they must be the heretic, or do they? At
least I bet there are way more people in the world that think that way
than the other way around, excluding me actually.
It doesn't matter how many books many institutionalized religions
burned, how much restrictions of freedom of speech and irrationality
they embraced, how many witnesses they snuffed outs and all other
techniques that would not have stand the scrutiny of a peer reviewed
scientific journal, or even a reasonable jury in the court of law. Too
many people don't believe who are right and reasonable, they believe
who are mighty. Right or wrong, the win will always become right
anyway.
Now, under democratic context, we don't kill those who oppose us,
rather we try to persuade enough people to join our cause. How do we
persuade them? By money of course. Welfare program is then a reasonably
cost efficient method to buy votes.
When too many people are on a side, we will sort of know that going to
war will hurt the other side; hence we comply anyway with the whim of
majority avoiding the costly alternatives. While not ideal, this is
indeed how right and wrong is really decided, proper assessments of
each sides' bargaining position and mutually cherished compromised line
of war, plus a bunch of lies covering what's going on to safe each
sides' face.
No matter how noble the purpose, lies and prejudices lead to
misunderstanding, that leads to more war. Hence, the best contribution
is simply to unmask all lies.
All in all, peaceful democracy is indeed a more cost efficient ways to
measure ones' bargaining position. While democracy often lead to
decisions opposites of freedom, like popularly supported victimless
crime, income tax, and welfare, it's indeed relatively more cost
efficient than civil war.
That's not when the coherency end. Various natural laws restrict
various possible political outcomes. We can't expect a stone will fly
to the sky when we drop it as much as we cannot expect a human to be
generally unselfish. If we want to kill our enemies, we'll do well
dropping a big stone on top of our enemies head rather than dropping
the stone on top of our own head expecting the stone to somewhat
magically fly to the enemies head.
The same way, we can't demand market distortion and expect that the
best and brightest among us to still magically be a nice tax payer
rather than dictators and corruptors. In a country where selling porn
or building a good franchise chain is more difficult and less lucrative
than becoming a dictator, guess what the smart would end up doing? Ask
Saddam.
If we want rich and prosperous countries, we must know that it will and
only will happen when we properly align individuals' interests with
productivity.
Such coherency tends to make certain things come in package with
another. We can expect that moving electric field will induce magnetic
field. The same way, in life, we observe similar things. Communism and
socialism, for example, always come in package with dictatorship and
corruptions when smart people realize that being dictators pay more
than building a business empire.
To the opposite capitalistic countries comes in package with softer
deals for losers, such as, guess what, welfare.
We know from our economic classes that free market capitalism brings
prosperity within market mechanism. However, it turns out that the
prosperity that free market brings also profit the less successful
beyond market mechanism. Capitalism and the prosperity that come with
it tend to facilitate ideological changes in ways that benefit the less
successful. One such ideological change is the popular support for
losers' benefits. One such benefit is, guess what, welfare.
The most obvious samples of such ideological shifts the free market
bring are the elimination of slavery in US. What happened? As usual,
the northern part of America is an industrial country. At that time,
steel industries are relatively more modern than the farming industry.
Higher tech industry increase labors' productivity. When labor's
productivity goes up, entrepreneurs will want to hire as many workers
as possible. Hence, labors' salary will go up. This will kill of
industries with less labor's productivity. At the end, the marginal
productivity of labors in the least productive industry will go up.
That value is labors' salary.
Under competitive equilibrium, the more productive and efficient a
person is, the more he benefits everyone in the chain of productivity
except those similar to him. Hence, an entrepreneurs coming up with
ways to improve labors' productivity would benefit everyone,
including workers and consumers, at the expense of other entrepreneurs
and capitalists. Read that Karl Marx!
Then what? When labors' salary goes up, obviously labors will move to
the employers that pay them higher. Hence, farm labors in the south
want to move to the north. They can't do so legally though because
they were slaves. Hence, the northern capitalists in US want to free
slaves so they can hire more workers. And then the southern capitalists
in US want to keep slavery. This then results in war. The bigger the
labors' productivity, the more intensive capitalists have to free
slaves. The more supporters there will be on a cause the more likely
the cause won. Hence, slaves were freed.
Unfortunately, people still want to help losers and buy votes from
those who are too expensive and too stubborn to switch. That explains
why the farms in US gets subsidy.
If losing means not as successful as the other, then there will always
be losers. However, we see how free market shifts the worlds' system
in ways that benefits the losers too. Unlike the commies' propaganda,
capitalism does not cause or even enlarge disparity of wealth.
Capitalism only changes the way such disparity are earned to the
benefits of all.
At the end of the warring states period in China, the king of Chin,
Shih Huang Ti, and his prime minister, Li Si were the winner. Within
one generation they have all their family slaughtered. If that's what
winning means, what did losing means in pre-capitalistic countries? In
ancient time, losing meant having all the males slaughtered, enslaved,
or castrated and all the females raped and winning means risking your
whole family slaughtered by rebels. In socialists countries the rich
are corruptors and dictators that slice each other throats while the
poor are starving.
Now, thanks to the prosperity only free market can bring, losing means
they can leave on welfare, with plenty of chance to climb back and
proof their worth, like J. K. Rowling. Now, slaves are so free and
highly paid thanks to increase in labors' productivity. In fact, when
slave jobs are moving to China under globalization, slaves in US
refused to be emancipated and want to keep their slave jobs in US
rather than evolving into entrepreneurs. So, much for the land of the
free and the place of the brave. Some people don't mind dying for
what they believe in but are too scared to start a business. Evolutions
will fix that I guess.
Free market gives abundances to everyone. The benefits the free market
brings benefit those less capable from being successful not only within
the system but also through non market mechanism, like the ending of
slavery and the start of reverse slavery we call welfare. But how do
those really work? Is there a general principle?
Each of us is greedy and selfish that we want as many as possible for
us. Humans' greed and selfishness is an undisputable scientific
facts, as sure as the sun rise in the east, as sure as a stone will
fall to the ground pulled by gravity. We're not just greedy and
selfish. Greed and selfishness doesn't explain all the war,
suffering, and poverty we face.
In fact, greed is good. Properly aligned, under free market, the
greatest among us shall be the one productively providing the best
service to the most customers. Blessed be the productive because
they'll be rich. This will encourage higher and higher standard of
living that we are currently enjoying.
Free market allows those who serve more to grow richer. To those who
have more profit, to those more capital are given. Even kingdom of
heaven don't mind using this nice positive feedback effect. Who needs
new deals to break up companies?
Also, women prefer the rich. The next time you watch soap opera, make
sure it's made in some country with the highest IQ in the world, like
Hong Kong.
Free sex means richer males will consensually attract and mate with
more women producing more kids. That's the whole point of getting
rich by the way. Duh?
In fact, that's what being a living human male is all about:
1. Gain control ship of as much money or power as possible.
2. Attract or in anyway acquire as many females as possible.
3. Make kids.
4. Use that kids as tools to make grand children.
You bet it's right because it's science. Of course, they don't teach
this important fact in biology class because government interfere in
education.
Hence, when we're free, without genocide, without war, even with
humanitarians aids given to appease enemies, the meek will indeed
inherit the earth.
More than greedy and selfish, some humans are simply not humans because
they embrace the root of all evil, envy. That explains why we have so
many laws against mutually beneficial consensual acts and governments
regulations to protect us from our own choices. The truth is, all those
laws and restrictions are more often not there to protect stupid people
from making mistakes. All such laws are there to prevent the smart from
making the right choices.
That's why, for example, every body has to move equally slowly in
school, to prevent the smart from moving faster. That's why various
reproductive techniques are politically incorrect proportional to the
expected quality of genetic material that will be duplicated. In
particular, life long monogamous marriage, free sex, prostitution,
polygamy, and cloning are sequences that both have increasingly
expected value of genetic quality outcome and politically
incorrectness.
In Europe and China, the smart monks are encouraged not to get married.
When some minority groups don't buy the bullshit and hence greatly
improving their productively earned wealth and genetic quality, such
minority groups somehow become victims of genocide.
Life is like a real time strategy games. That means when we're not at
war, we're in a race. That's simply how we evolve. Morality,
religions, and ideologies, are stuffs created by really smart people to
persuade us to run backward.
Peace means we're in a race. Freedom means we are in a competition.
Some people just don't want to compete. Hence, they craft lies and
prejudices against those who are in front preventing progress to
prosperity.
I'll tell you the scientific truth. It's from the fruit we knows
the tree. Anyone opposing free trades and globalization is more evil
than Hitler or Nazi. If only Japan and German could have acquired
natural resources through consensual peaceful trade, Nazism wouldn't
have been popular there and Hitler wouldn't have risen to power. With
his mass hypnotic skills, he may have ended up as seminar speaker I
guess.
If only those who had wanted to incite the Second World War see all the
miracles and prosperity the free market brings, they would have
repented and embrace free market. Yet, after all the prosperity and
wealth the free market is bringing to all of us, still many people
choose to oppose competition, and hence, miss-properly align our
interests from productivity. That is the cause of all evil in the
world.
All causes opposing free market can be negotiated and appeased.
However, if the very thing that a group of people want to prevent is
the success of the others, then the situation is pretty much kill or be
killed zero sum game.
How does such situation usually end up? What would be our optimum
solutions for such situation?
Under normal circumstances, an optimum solution of any business
decisions is a solution where the marginal revenue equals to the
marginal costs. Hence, in a zero sum game, each party will try to
maximize its benefit to that point. Sometimes, the marginal costs have
a spike. There is a certain point where increasing a resources
allocation beyond a certain point will create adverse costs. For
example, increasing the number of labors will increase revenue.
After a certain point, increasing one additional labor will mean buying
a new machine or building a new factory. We may end up choosing to do
it, we may not. In either case, discretions are the better part of the
valor when it comes to that line.
The same way, in most countries, each of us can increase our profits
using property we own or consensually rent. When we maximize our profit
that way, the public will, ideally and some times truly, not interfere,
and defend us from being prevented to enjoy our "rights" by others.
However, when we start using others' property to maximize our gain,
say by stealing, public opinions may shift from protecting us to
against us.
Hence, the choice whether we should steal or not depends on the extra
costs of crossing the politically correctness line of war. If a person
sees that the potential gain justifies the increase costs of public
support shifts, he'll still steal and make a great career out of it.
Otherwise he'll stop stealing while coming up with a pretext to
justify his cowardly decisions, such as morality.
But what do the people choose their reaction to a specific act like
stealing? They do so based on their sense of fairness, justice, and
right-wrong discernment. How do people get that sense? From ideology.
The ideology, religions, or whatever, then decides the line of war
where the rest of us should consider before crossing. But how does the
line gets drawn? By estimates of bargaining position.
Let's examine an example. Is the King (or Queen?) of England the King
of France? Don't know. How do we know? In the beginning, a ruling
class from France went to England and become king of England. Then they
lost control of France. Hence, king of England wanted to take back the
controls they have lost. Well, such conflicts are solved by war. In
this particular case, the war lasted 100 years.
The British attacked France and successfully route knights with long
bows. Then, the Frances stroke back driving the British back to their
isolated islands. However, the France cannot move further and go all
the way to attack British because of the Strait of Dover separating the
two nations. Finally both sides realized that the straits somehow
became the sacred line of war. It's not auspicious to cross the line
of war for either side. The France, having more army and larger
population would beat up the British on land, and the British being
stronger at sea can always repulsed France sea invasion. Hence, we got
peace.
Such natural separators like straits and mountains explain why
Europeans are divided into many different countries. The Chinese, not
having that natural line of war, end up getting united all the time.
Now, let's get back to the question whether welfare is part of
capitalism. If all of us have just enough food, and some people don't
work, what would we end up doing to those who are not productive?
Humans' basic instincts and preferences lead to gene pool survival.
When food is scarce, such as when the people demand centralized
planning, it would serve ones' gene pool survival to slaughter the
parasites rather than sharing food to them. That's because sharing
food to those who do not earn it means starving ones own self. In fact,
humans will kill each other to literally eat each other when food is
scarce. Such is what happened in China and Rusia when centralized
planning, governments' intervention in economy, and prejudices
against successful capitalists became the norm.
However, when food and money are abundance, such as when the people
embrace free market, fighting the parasites might cause more gene pool
survival lost than feeding them. On the other hand, simply giving and
yielding toward threaten will motivate people to keep pushing us
around. Moreover, giving in to those who can use force against us will
motivate countries to build arms rather than say, better video games.
Hence, one possible strategy to minimize open war while still properly
aligning ones interest with other individuals around them is to give to
those who ask nicely and ask less. As free market brings a lot of
abundance, those who are needy can be appeased much more cheaply than
those who are envy, and hence, we got welfare program.
To be frank, I'd rather see the unproductive people have bigger TV
rather than letting them make more kids. It's more humane, and
cheaper. Guess what? Most people that know they're not very capable
either would rather have that too.
Back to the France vs British. If only both sides have realized the
true bargaining positions of each, they wouldn't have to resort to
such expensive 100 years war right? The thing is, the 100 years war are
the most credible and accurate ways to measure ones' bargaining
position. War shows which one is stronger, and hence leads to a mutual
understanding of where the line of war might be.
If only we can wave our gun and scare the enemies, it'll be great.
However, the only threats that are credible are those actually done.
How do we know a cause's bargaining position? Democracy might give
some light by counting the number of those who are in favor or against
what we consider lesser evil. However, number counting can be
deceiving. We hold this truth with plenty of evidences, that humans are
inherently different.
We have difference capability and preferences, and hence different
choices and outcome. It's useless to lay net in front of anything
with wings. Those who are genetically predestined to be successful will
get rich anyway whether through honest capitalistic means or through
dictatorship.
Those who are small in numbers can hence be quite strong. Preventing
the smart from making money honestly will then turn them into
corruptors and dictators. When the Chileans demand to prosecute their
entrepreneurs, they end up getting a dictator, the way any country that
demand slavery over freedom deserves. Fortunately, Pinochet are
relatively benign compared to others dictator and embrace free market
giving the miraculous prosperity that the Chilean now enjoy.
Now, US government arrested his daughter for a crime of tax evasion. An
act that wouldn't have been a crime if making honest money is free.
The miracle of Chili becomes the model of China's moving to free
market. It also helps to end communism all over the world peacefully.
If capitalists fail to show thanks to Pinochet family, I don't know
what would happen to all of us.
So, beyond number counting, the more accurate ways are then through
skirmishes. When people cross the public's opinion line of war and we
don't strike back, the line of war will shift against the coward by
precedence. By fighting back, we'll then have a more accurate
knowledge of which one the public would agree with.
Hence, it's very important to retaliate to what others do to us,
either good or bad. It's a pleasure to serve my friends, it's also
a pleasure to wipe out envy enemies that are on our ways, should my
friends wish or don't mind.
When a fraudster tricks my brother over $3,900, my main concern is not
to get my money back. My main concern is to get the fraudster to jail
even if that will costs far more money than the $3,900. When a thief
steals my money on 2001, my concern is also not to get my property
back. What's just is to encourage the whole world to post any thieves
conviction records on the net to prevent further larcenies.
It makes me wonder though. Why people consider it cruel to damage a
thief or a fraudster' reputation? The mere acts of making honest
money are punishable by income tax. When Everett O. Lasher makes an
argument in court, the case leads to $5000 fine, and understandably, a
suicide. The mere acts of successfully fending of ones' home from
thieves lead to a life long jail term for Tony Martin. Thousands would
march against WTO demanding harsh laws to punish those exercising
consensual trades. In Iran, the mere acts of switching religions can
lead to death penalty.
In Indonesia, new laws are being drafted giving years in prison for
kissing in public. Of course, public rape during May riot are still far
from being punished.
This while murderers of Vincent Chin went free without jail term.
Thousands would march to end death penalty against murderers. In
Indonesia, religious fundamentalists can come to a house and destroy
properties from houses providing consensual entertainment with polices
watching. Those people often get away or lightly punish.
If consensual productive acts are punished while damaging inconsensual
forces are not, soon, all highly productive people would end up in gas
chamber after the next Cultural Revolution, or what ever. Those who are
left are those smart enough to be dictators enslaving the rest of us.
Prejudices reminds me of an envy old hag that's so determined to ruin
my reputation for being friendly to her and her friends, after her own
friendly communication. I never intended to fraud anyone or steal her
money yet I got my reputation ruined. I am very disappointed to see
that there are people in the world that want to bring me down more than
they want to bring down a thief.
I have tried to resolve the issue privately by suggesting to that thing
that she's really not important enough for anyone to pretend to be her
friend. Moreover, I didn't need her as a friend. All this was just a
damage-less misunderstanding caused by her own friendly communication
which I could simply publicly straighten out. At least, it used to be.
However, that vermin really wished to get the issue public telling lies
that she never communicated with me, possibly to boost that things'
feeling of importance her genes deny her. Well, if she got so mad over
a few friendly introductions, I can only wonder what that thing would
do when it finds out that her true envy natures are revealed to 55000
newsgroups several times. It'll happen again and again whenever I
feel like.
Hence, just look for "envy vermin" on the net to find out what's
really going on including what she said privatedly. Let the public
decide who are more honest, rational, scientific, and straightforward.
Let the market decides which one are worthy and who are worthless.
It's a great mistake to ever consider such thing as a friend, a
mistake no body should do. It's her kind that turns people of from
making money productively.
Hopefully we can undermine public opinions against all form of envy
motivated lies and prejudices. At the end, we'll greatly weaken laws
against victimless crime and easily out compete all envy people out of
the gene pool. That'll ensure that the free fair market competition
would reign over war when all lies and prejudices against those more
successful are gone.
Now that being said, I want to move all jobs that can be done online to
Asia, especially, copy writers. Take advantage of the value difference
and leverage like hell is how we all make money in any system. Who's
with me?
Free market is all merciful and all compassionate. At the end, even
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