January 2008 Entries

  • Inserting Images into a subtext blog (without LiveWriter)

    It's easy to insert images into a blog. Here's how...

  • Creating a VPN client

    Most of this has been copied from the excellent article by S. Beatty Consulting: To download, see openvpn.net Install OpenVPN (redist can be found in the install directory on PowerSoft server) Copy the gui executable from server bin dir into target bin directory copy the following files into the config directory.    Machine Files ...

  • CLR Error: 8007000b

    Disaster strikes...

  • CLR Error: Day 2

    7:00 I've decided to do a backup before anything else.  So I bring my USB disk in to work and fire up Ghost (which is my backup tool).  Har.  Ghost needs .NET.  So much for that idea.  Time to abort the started removal and subsequent cancel of SEP from yesterday -- it sat all night with a "1 minute to complete" message.  Now it's hung with a "Closing network connections..." message box. 7:30 I reboot the computer in safe mode.  Let's see if that helps. Nope, no difference.  Back to normal mode. 8:00 I could install .NET 1.1 now (after the reboot),...

  • PHSP

    Government definition Allows small companies to pay for health costs of the employees.  Needs a broker. (Actually reading the Government definition again makes me think that a broker is optional -- see subsection 7). For example: Brock Health, they charge a one-time 100$ (tax deduct).  Plus 5% for every health claim.  So if I had a 1000$ dental expense, then my company sends a cheque of $1050.- to the broker, who send a $1000 cheque back to me to cover my expense.  This is a big savings due to the lower tax-rate of the company. Why did my accountant not tell us about...