Conflict Between Comodo Firewall and Cisco VPN Client

There’s a conflict between Comodo Firewall and the built-in firewall in Cisco’s VPN client which can cause blue screens. You’ll see a DRIVER_IRQ_NOT_LESS_OR_EQUAL error caused by inspect.sys or vsdatant.sys. One way to work around it is to install the VPN client without the built-in firewall: msiexec.exe /i vpnclient_setup.msi DONTINSTALLFIREWALL=1 The other way is to remove vsdata.dll, vsinit.dll and vsdatant.sys […]

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How to Build a Template in CMS Made Simple While Maintaining Sanity

I’m not a big fan of CMS Made Simple, but I end up doing a lot of sites in it by request. It’s taken me awhile, but I think I’ve found a way to structure templates that doesn’t make me want to club baby seals out of frustration. First, what I don’t like about it. […]

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Comparing E-mail Address Validating Regular Expressions

I wanted to find a regular expression to validate e-mail addresses, but when I searched I found dozens of slightly different versions of the same expression. Almost all of them had people leaving comments about how it failed to validate or invalidate some rare but completely valid/invalid address syntax. But dispite all the criticism, I […]

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