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Mysterious hidden proxy settings

Jake — Tue, 07 Sep 2010 14:41:42 +0000

Well OK, not mysterious, and not really hidden. And I did cause it, but since I had forgotten what I did, I had a hard time finding it.

Normally, to configure a proxy, you go into Internet Options -> Connections -> LAN settings. At least that’s how you do it on XP; Windows 7 is different.

These settings are stored in the registry thus:

[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Internet Settings]
"MigrateProxy"=dword:00000001
"ProxyEnable"=dword:00000001
"ProxyHttp1.1"=dword:00000000
"ProxyServer"="http://ProxyServername:80"
"ProxyOverride"=""

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/819961

I was trying to find a way to modify these settings from the command line, and include it as part of my “fix_routing” script (which needs a write-up). So I tried some stuff, and it didn’t work, and I gave up and moved on.

This weekend, we set up a SlingBox at a friend’s place, and I found that I couldn’t connect to it. TCPVIEW showed the program trying to connect to a bogus proxy, and I couldn’t find this anywhere in the configuration file. Then I remembered my previous attempts, and had to search around for that information again. Luckily, I found it.

There is another set of settings, stored in the WinHttpSettings key. These settings do not show up anywhere. If TCPVIEW is showing that an application is trying to connect to a proxy, and you can’t find where that is configured, try here.

Note: It appears that the REGEDIT search tool will not search inside a REG_BINARY key, which I suppose makes sense. This was why a search of the registry for the proxy address resulted in no matches.

The only way to modify these settings, is via the PROXYCFG tool in the system32 directory.

C:\Documents and Settings\aujaha>proxycfg
Microsoft (R) WinHTTP Default Proxy Configuration Tool
Copyright (c) Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved.

Current WinHTTP proxy settings under:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\
SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Internet Settings\Connections\
WinHttpSettings :

Proxy Server(s) :  10.10.0.229:8080
Bypass List     :  *.local;*.big.corp;10.10.*;

I zeroed out this key, and things seem to be working again.

First post from the new iPad

Jake — Thu, 02 Sep 2010 06:54:40 +0000

Pretty cool so far. Although I did have to do the “error code 9808″ dance

Blocking content by country is SO LAME

Jake — Thu, 08 Jul 2010 08:42:20 +0000

Sony blocks video on youtube due to copyright

LAME.

I wanted to see the original clip of “Hitler reacts…” and was … BA BOWN … denied. Even when there are like 10²⁷⁸⁹ parodies out there.

Lotus Notes and the case of the hovering Mouse cursor

Jake — Wed, 07 Jul 2010 10:23:45 +0000

Tell me that isn’t annoying.

Hacking ticketmaster

Jake — Wed, 16 Jun 2010 14:59:39 +0000

IEEE Spectrum:

On March 1, four guys behind a Nevada-based start-up, Wiseguy Tickets, were indicted in New Jersey on 43 counts for fraudulently buying and selling over 1.5 million tickets online

To achieve this goal, Wiseguys deployed a nationwide computer network that opened thousands of simultaneous Internet connections from across the United States; impersonated thousands of individual ticket buyers; and defeated online ticket vendors’ security mechanisms.

That may be why their websites suck so badly.

eProductivity and GTD

Jake — Thu, 10 Jun 2010 13:26:43 +0000

Ok, I’ve never been a big fan of Lotus Notes, especially since we were stuck on version 6 for so long. For a couple years, I took an Outlook break, and I’m also hooked on Gmail.

The upgrade to version 8 is a huge relief.

My good friend Toby put me onto the book by David Allen, “Getting Things Done”, which is a productivity system that really seems to work. During my stint with Outlook, I started using the GTD add-in, and loved it so much that the idea of giving it up when I moved back into the Lotus world was a real bummer.

Then I found eProductivity, the GTD solution for Lotus Notes. It is a replacement of the standard mail template. I have installed it on my company laptop, without having any special privileges (or permission), and I have had no problems at all with replication or interaction with other corporate applications. This is a significant statement considering the standard of our IT deparment, and the quality of our internal applications.

Luckily for me, I was an early Beta tester of the 1.x version, and just recently was selected for the 2.x Beta program.

Anyone who is interested should check out the Getting Started Video, and then download the trial template. They have done a very good job of the trial template – it will copy a sample of your inbox, and guide you through the GTD process of emptying it.

When is NaN.NaN.NaN?

Jake — Fri, 04 Jun 2010 08:33:11 +0000

When is NaN.NaN.NaN?

Trying to select the ‹ or › results in the pop-up calender dissapearing, and the curious “Not a Number” date appearing.

Summary: it is not possible to enter a date using the pop-up calender for other than the current month.

The case of the stolen Gizmodo iPhone

Jake — Fri, 04 Jun 2010 07:27:18 +0000

I only have one question.

How the hell do you forget a brand new, super ultra top secret phone, in a bar?

Wouldn’t you be like, totally worried about someone either seeing, seeing you use it, grabbing it?

Hell, I have a POS BB, and I dont let it leave my sight. (Not because it is any good, but because getting it replaced would take forever, and I’m pretty lost without it)

SAP Warning

Jake — Fri, 04 Jun 2010 07:25:28 +0000

Do you want to proceed?

When logging on to do submit some expenses, I was asked about the Transaction CO Through-postings from F1, and about how they were locked.

You better ask yourself, ”Do you want to proceed? Well, do ya? Punk?!

Update: Turns out that this means that month has been closed. It remains to be seen what that means for my expense claim.

The IBM Air Movement Device

Jake — Tue, 01 Jun 2010 08:42:12 +0000

Last night, I tweeted about my dead power supply, and mentioned that the AMD was malfunctioning. This was a reference to what I thought was a folklore story about an IBM computer reporting a faulty AMD, and noone being able to figure out what the fell an AMD was.

This morning, I Googled it, and sure enough, there is such a thing as an IBM AMD.

AKA fan

Usually, an acronym is supposed to save letters, but this time, the saving of letters is only because the original term was made needless complicated.