There are several ways to do this, we look at the easiest way first. Well, simply copy and past the font files into the Fonts folder in Windows, which typically located in “C:\Windows\Fonts\”

Easy eh?

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It’s frustrating when you are doing your programming and errors keep popping up but you don’t know what’s wrong with your codes because the error messages are too friendly. That’s what happened to me when I tried my ASP program on this new IIS7 which I have just installed. Bloody hell, the error message from one of my ASP page was:

An error occurred on the server when processing the URL. Please contact the system administrator

What the message failed to say was, what should you do if you were the system administrator?

Well, the solution to this is to ask IIS7 to return the exact error to the browser. Don’t return a lame message which tells nothing. To do this, you need to open the IIS Manager.

Navigate to Web Sites > Default Web Site > ASP > Debugging Properties.

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Are you satisfied with your Streamyx connection lately? Stable and no intermittent connection? You have no complaints whatsoever on the speed of Malaysia’s largest broadband company? - If you answered “yes” to all the above, then most likely you are a very light Streamyx user who have not online for the past few days.

(Image from soufulow.com)

Anyway, if you want Tmnet to improve their Streamyx service, then come join anti-Streamyx gang at Streamyx Sucks. As of 30 July 2007, they have more than 800 Streamyx haters in their list, and when they have achieved 1000 haters, they will launch an Anti-Streamyx community. They will also start a Streamyx Sucks T-Shirt Design Competition. Just imagine having thousand of people wearing those t-shirts on the streets! By then only I guess Tmnet will start to listen to its customers!

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I had so much of fun using IIS7 (Internet Information Services) in Windows Vista. You know why? See below and you will understand…

Now, there’s one more solid reason for you to upgrade to Windows Vista. You don’t get this in Windows XP, that’s for sure!

Frankly, I haven’t been using ASP nor program in ASP for quite a long time. Tday I got to code a website project in ASP… ah, why they never upgrade to the newer ASP.NET? Anyway, then I realize my new laptop doesn’t come with IIS (Internet Information Services). By default this resource hungry web service is not installed. Now, being new to Vista, I had to click around quite a bit to find out how to get this IIS to work.

First thing is to install IIS. Here’s how you do it.

1. Go to Start > Control Panel > Programs.
2. Under Programs and Features, click “Turn Windows features on or off”.
3. Check “Internet Information Services”.
4. Click OK.

As you can see above, it takes a few simple steps only, though it’s hidden deep inside the Control Panel.

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