My blogging has decreased dramatically - I know! I've a lot to catch up on, but I thought this would be a good tidbit to share with respect to my earlier post about not being able to browse my local IIS on my Vista laptop.
Well, after much digging, I discovered that the issue is related to my IPSec policies - somewhere, there's a conflict in the rules that the corp net pushes down to my machine when I connect to the network.
I "fixed" my problem by stopping the IPSec service. Horrors! Yes, I know. Violating a bazillion policies, but dammit! I want control of my machine! It even held me up from launching my Virtual Server console.
I began to believe it wasn't a firewall issues and more in the IPSec direction after reviewing a few articles online and discovering that I could not ping the loopback adapter (127.0.0.1), but could ping external sites.
Lesson learned - word to the wise. Now, it's a whole other matter on how I'm going to get the IPSec policies rationalized...
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Update: This issue is definitely related to the corp desktop policy - I've noticed that while working at home, disconnected from the corp net, I can browse localhost without issue.
I've recently discovered a really, really, really annoying irritant with Vista Enterprise over the last couple of days. Here's the scenario: For the past while, I've been getting my new laptop configured for development - installing Visual Studio (2008, no problem - 2005 is missing a .CAB - WTF?), Subversion, add-ins, etc.
I also installed a personal wiki to keep track of dev projects, info, etc. Sure, I could use OneNote for this, but it's just not very... developer-ish.
All was well, until yesterday morning when I discovered I could no longer browse http://localhost. I was able to get functionality briefly restored by disabling User Account Control (stops pestering you for elevated access to do routine tasks), but then in about 15 minutes, I was out of luck again.
It appears that I'm not the only one having this issue. Here's what I was able to dig up from the intarwebs:
Steve Schofield - Localhost Connection Issues List
I've tried just about everything. Even removed and re-installed IIS7. This means that I'll probably have a lot of fun getting Virtual Server to run the web admin panel, as well.
My suspicion is that it's somehow tied back to the group policy that IT has set for the laptops. I'll report more when I figure this out...
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Et tu, IE7?
My experiences are similar to Nariman's and indeed a lot of other folks - I have about three to five tabs open, browsing a variety of sites when the browser locks up. I attempt to close down the tabs, which seems to have little effect. Then, the browser suddenly disappears completely.
At first, I thought it could be an issue with WSS v3 synchronization since this seemed to be when the problems would present themselves most frequently. Then it started happening indiscriminantly.
I had quite high hopes for IE7 after following the
dev team's blog for over a year, and it seems certain that everyone on the team has a sincere desire to make a really excellent product. That said, inexplicable crashes seem somewhat sophomoric given the maturity of the platform and that its predecessor was nowhere near this unstable.
I anxiously await the next update/service pack release.
Microsoft Mashups
I certainly hope something meaningful is on the horizon, as I find the approach so far for developers fragmented. Yes, we can now code AJAX apps with UpdatePanels and make seamless XmlHttpRequests to webservices, but try writing a Virtual Earth mashup as quickly as a RubyOnRails developer can with Google Maps. There's still a lot to do to simplify the process.
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I have Notepad2 installed in my /windows folder and I really prefer it over the standard offering since it comes with a whack of useful features (like line numbers, scheme formats, regular expression searches, etc.). Unfortunately, it isn't obvious nor easy to default IE to use it for “View Source” operations on a web page.
So, here's a quick way of doing this. Disclaimer: This involves editing the registry, so be careful, don't hold me responsible, yadda, yadda, yadda.
- Open up regedit from the Start..Run box
- Navigate to HKLM\Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer
- You should see a key in there called View Source Editor; if you don't (like me), add it.
- Within that key, if it doesn't exist, create another key called Editor Name.
- Modify the default value of this key to the fully-qualified-path to your editor of choice. For me, I used “C:\windows\notepad2.exe“.
- Close RegEdt
Changes should take effect immediately. Enjoy!
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