I recently had to connect from Windows to Amazon hosted Ubuntu VPC. Putty for Windows generally does the job but Amazon uses a key file with extension PEM. Putty on the other hand uses key file with extension PPK. To facilitate the connection between Putty and Amazon one must thus create a PPK file and configure Putty accordingly. The […]
Category Archives: Windows
Windows 8 God Mode
I had come across article on Tech Republic which outlines a set of steps that allow you to get to some internal Windows 8 settings normally not visible. Basically you need to first enable hidden files visibility in Windows File Explorer as well as filename extensions. Once you do that you then create a folder […]
HTTP Error 500.21 – Internal Server Error
Handler “PageHandlerFactory-Integrated” has a bad module “ManagedPipelineHandler” in its module list This error message likes to appear when ASP.NET is not installed correctly. To fix it run: aspnet_regiis.exe -i form the appropriate framework directory e.g. in C:\Windows\Microsoft.NET\Framework\v4.0.30319 Seems to fix the problem most of the time!