Windows 11 + Adobe CS4
Can you install Adobe CS4 on Windows 11? It will install but it will break explorer from running with an error in BIB.dll Faulting application name: explorer.exe, version: 10.0.22000.832, time stamp: 0x8947d46cFaulting module name: BIB.dll_unloaded, version: 1.2.1.1551, time stamp: 0x4845e497Exception code: 0xc0000005Fault offset: [...]
Fix HTTP2 Header Errors on Nginx Reverse Proxy
You might get an HTTP2 error from curl and Safari browsers even though the page loads fine on Chrome and Firefox. curl: (92) HTTP/2 stream 0 was not closed cleanly: PROTOCOL_ERROR (err 1) Safari Can't Open the Page Safari can't open the page "https://steve.zazeski.com/". The error is: "cannot parse response" (NSURLErrorDomain:-1017) The [...]
Dot New Urls That I Wish I Knew About Sooner
Officially Google is the operator of the top level domain .new which contains url shortcuts for the fastest way to create a New Google doc but they opened it up to others. It is a TLD (top level domain) that you can purchase for $500/yr but it has rules of what you can do with the domain. whats.new is the overall directory [...]
Reducing WordPress Load from XMLRPC
Every so often my website would get hit with high load but when I looked at the website analytics, I wouldn’t see any traffic that would explain it. It wasn’t until I was analyzing the nginx access logs through splunk that I realized what was causing it. Every couple days the xmlrpc.php file was getting hit hard by a bot. [...]
RAID or ZFS Storage Guide
It’s 2022 and you want to set up some local large disk storage. What should you use? I recommend using ZFS as a good general-purpose storage solution and I want to cover what it does well and what it doesn’t do great at. I’ve been running a small ZFS pool for a few years now and while I seen some issues, still recommend [...]
FlashPrint Opens Off-Screen
If you open FlashPrint and the app appears in your taskbar but not as a window on the screen, it might be due to your monitor setup. The app records what the last window position is and places it back there. If you have a multiple monitor setup and open the app later without a screen you might have a massively negative number [...]