The etymology of Rock and Roll

Kenneth Williamson, Faroe Islands, 1941:

"The stupid whales […] in water too shallow for swimming they rocked and rolled without control"

Source: Pilot Whaling in the Faroe Islands by Jóan Pauli Joensen. ISBN 978-99918-65-25-6

SharePoint: Alternate Access Mapping explained

The public URL is the base for the URLs generated internally by Sharepoint.

The internal URLs are alternative URLs that are accepted in external links to the SharePoint site.

So I can't help but think that the terms had better be switched.

More meaningful terms for me, would have been Default URL for public URL, and Alias URL for internal URL.

Microsoft's explanation: Configure alternate access mapping

SharePoint: " Cannot uninstall the LanguagePack 0 because it is not deployed"

Strange SharePoint error message:

Update-SPSolution : Cannot uninstall the LanguagePack 0 because it is not deployed.

The workaround seems to be Remove-SPSolution, Add-SPSolution, Install-SPSolution in place of Update-SPSolution.

Decoding: "A specified logon session does not exist. It may already have been terminated"

Got the error A specified logon session does not exist. It may already have been terminated when choosing a certificate for an SLL binding in IIS.

Turns out that the error was that the certificate should have been marked as exportable when importing it into IIS.

I need a better ear for language in this job.

TMG changing protocol in URLs

TMG changing protocol in URLs

The problem isn't really in host headers, but that URLs in content delievered through TMG is changed. HTTP: to HTTPS: and vice versa.

Fix for URLs in Javascript: Splitting the string, so TMG won't recognize it as a URL. Not "https://www.blogger.com" but "htt" + "ps" + "://www.blogger.com"

Update:
There is a tab on the TMG rule called Link Translation. Uncheck Apply link translation to this rule and TMG stops doing that. Can't be much simpler. Except maybe no translation should have been the default?