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    That's when I realized, it's not the flash, it's the HOST.

    Ho Ho... I'm the HOST. 

    (A downside of doing your own web-hosting, intimate knowledge of your IIS server is required).

    If you're reading this trying to figure out why flash files aren't be served on a Windows IIS 6 server, read this: http://kb2.adobe.com/cps/194/tn_19439.html or, here, I'll paste it here:

    You basically need to define the MIME type.  Here's how:

    1. On the Windows 2003 server, open the Internet Information Services Manager.
    2. Expand the Local Computer Server.
    3. Right-click the local computer server and select Properties.
    4. Select the MIME Types tab.
    5. Click New and enter the following information:
          • Associated Extension box: .FLV
          • MIME Type box:flv-application/octet-stream
    Click OK.
    Restart the World Wide Web Publishing service.


    Here's a screen shot:

    IIS_Flash_MIME_Type.png

    A good website template shouldn't move, rock, tilt, rattle.  When a user clicks through it's pages, horizontally, the size template should not move. It should be planted stiff and only grow vertically.

    If you experience a hop, like I did, it's because of the browser's scrollbar appearing and disappearing. Here's how to enable a scroll bar at all times:

    html {overflow-y: scroll;}

    Put that in your style sheet and thank me later,

    Enjoy.

    P.s. Thanks to Dmitry and Faramarz for helping me find the problem, write the source code.

    Faramarz and I were baffled, there's a server resource (pearl.exe) hogging the processor on our Windows Server.

    When a server slows down, my first reaction is to launch taskmgr.exe to see who's responsible for this debauchery. I notice Pearl.exe raping the processor to 100% and sucking a large chunk of memory.

    Picture: taskmgr.exe


    Pearl.exe is assigned to our Movable Type websites. We have about 10 of these sites, each share this resource.  Operative word: share. When a website goes crazy on a certain resource like Pearl.exe, the processor works extra-hard and the memory consumption extra-high, unfair to other resources. 

    So what the frack, who's doing this? Each website belongs to a client and their client, impossible to identify the latter, I decide to find the greedy website (our client).

    The plan: Give each website a unique User ID/Password with anonymous privileges. Without anonymous privileges, the user surfing the website from their internet browser won't have access, not without credentials.

    The Method: (IIS, Folder Permissions, Resource Permissions, to inheirit, or not inheirt, creating ID's, Groups)
    If I report the domain, they know there's interest in the domain and they'll snatch it.  Fack, I should I have renewed it on time.

    An ulcer, is what poor domain name management offers me.

    Reputation and SPF Records

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    I'm here to talk to you, you know a lot of people, maybe you can hook me up with someone that can help and contribute to my world.

    I wonder which category is appropriate for my 'editorials'?

    I'll find out soon I guess.

    I want this page to also contribute to my search for clients and projects.

    Whoa... this Zamanta MT plugin is wicked. It's like an assistant on the side following up on ideas that surface in this text field. Love it.  If I mentioned or refer to one of my flickr pictures per se, it asks which picture, and offers me the link!  Crazy smart.

    Work Hard or Work Smart?

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    This entry belongs to the 'work' category.  This category is an inventory of the topics I'm able to speak about with authority.  I will author entries that can contribute to my finances, directly or indirectly, probono or on a pay-up to hear the rest sucker. 

    I'm actually thinking of dedicating Posterous pages for each 'vertical'.  That way, it has the most exposure, easiest to maintain, and the 'details' are seperated from my personal internet life?

    Here are a few topics off the top of my head:

    • Traffic Ticket. How I'm able to maintain a Class-A record with one too many convictions.
    • Digital Signage. Innovations and applications. 
    • Email Deliverability. News, trends, alerts, tips and tricks. 
    • Journalism. (School work)
    • Movable Type. (Building this website, what it took)
    • Work. How to work smart, not hard.

    I think this category will be more text than media, that aggregates my third-party sites, like from Posterous or Tumblr.  I'm going to use a different platform for reach of the items I mentioned above and aggregate them here.  (Did I say that already?)

    That's all for now... that come to mind.

    Knuckle Punch.