Author Archives: The Amixa Web Guru

Partner at Amixa LLC since 2003. Been developing web sites since 1996. Coded over 10,000,000 lines of code. Fixed 10,000 web site errors. Recovered multiple hacked sites.

DotNetNuke 6 install onto Windows 2008 R2 Server

Here is the proper way to avoid getting the dreaded “System.Security.SecurityException: Request for the permission of type ‘System.Web.AspNetHostingPermission, System, Version=2.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=b77a5c561934e089′ failed.” error while attempting to get DotNetNuke 6.x installed onto Windows Server 2008 R2. download and extract the DNN installer.  In my case, I downloaded DotNetNuke_Community_06.01.03_Install and extracted it into a temporary directory. [...]

iPhone voice memos not syncing in iTunes

I recently came across this issue and it was relatively simple to fix (for me)… Launch iTunes Delete Voice Memos (from the Playlist list on the left side). Unplug your phone Quit iTunes Re-launch iTunes after iTunes is up, connect your iPhone Click SYNC and your voice memos should sync.

NVIDIA Geforce 480 core clock drop to 405mhz v270.61 v275.33 CUDA

We participate in the BOINC CUDA project to use idle CPU and GPU time for scientific research purposes. We recently updated to the newest NVIDIA drivers for Windows 7 x64 which are version 270.61. After doing this we noticed the core clock on our NVIDIA Geforce 480 would drop from a standard or overclocked speed, [...]

ASUS G73 G73jh ATI 5870 GSOD Grey Screen of Death – FIX

One of the computers in our office is an ASUS G73jh which is a powerful laptop we use for testing sites and on-location visits to clients. We usually keep the very latest Windows 7 updates and ATI video card drivers (11.4) on the machine. Recently we noticed the machine locking up after a few minutes [...]

reCAPTCHA in SSL – Changes coming – update your code

Important news for developers using reCAPTCHA on your sites. If you are currently using http://api.recaptcha.net/challenge?k=XXXX and you need to implement reCAPTCHA on an SSL protected page — you need to switch the links to https://www.google.com/recaptcha/api/challenge?k=XXXYYYZZZ.   Per Google, this change went into effect April 2011. For more information, read this page  

The device, \Device\Ide\iaStor0, did not respond within the timeout period

This is a brand new issue that I just came across while working on my new workstation, which has a 120gb OCZ Vertex 3 SATA 6.0 SSD drive as the primary boot drive into port #1 of the SATA 6.0 channel, running on a ASUS Maximus Extreme IV rev B3 motherboard running Windows 7 x64 [...]

IIS WordPress images 500 error

If you are here you probably are having the dreaded “broken images” problem while running WordPress under IIS. You may have found this issue by looking at the IIS logfiles for your site and seeing 500 errors logged when it’s supposed to be pushing out images. I will save you a lot of time. Fixing [...]

Trying to install/run ASPDOTNETSTOREFRONT on W2K8R2 Windows 2008 R2 Server

If you happen to get this message when trying to launch ASPDOTNETSTOREFRONT under Windows 2008 R2 Server: The page you requested has generated an error. Please visit our homepage by clicking this link. The issue is most likely that you are running a 32 bit version of ASPDOTNETSTOREFRONT on a 64 bit server. to fix [...]

Sothink Video Encoder for Adobe Flash under Windows 2008 Server

Need help getting the Sothink Video Encoder for Adobe Flash working under W2K8 or W2K8 R2 server? Here is how to properly configure your server: Install the Sothink Video Encoder for Adobe Flash software and register it using your registration key. In the destination folder for the videos, you will need to grant {machinename}\IUSR full [...]

IIS 7 and IIS 7.5 script map .htm to asp.dll

I recently upgraded a site from a Windows 2003 server to a Windows 2008 R2 Web Server and needed to be able to continue running .htm files through the ASP engine, because many of the pages on the site comingled ASP and HTM. After spending about 3 hours looking into this, I finally worked out [...]