Windows

So it turns out that Windows Firewall, even in Windows 2008, still can’t accept a range of ports, either in the UI or via command line, most commonly when setting up PASV FTP transfers. The common workaround is to create one entry per port in your range like so: C:> FOR /L %I IN (60000,1,60200) DO netsh firewall add portopening TCP %I "Passive FTP"%I While this does work, it’s slightly annoying that you have to create 200 individual entries in your config. My slightly better workaround is to just stick every port into the text entry field using this simple ruby helper: ...

And furthermore, Peachtree sucks. Last weekend I battled this error thrown by the Peachtree 2008 installer and this weekend I had the great pleasure of upgrading to Peachtree 2010 and being greeted by the very same error. The fix in both cases? Simply copy the contents of the CD to the local harddisk (a network share works just as well) and then run setup.exe from there. Don’t be fooled by the suggested “solutions” from Microsoft or Installshield like I was. ...