I recently come across an article by Datacolor (the company who make the Spyder range of monitor / printer calibrators) which explains how to enable ICC profiles in Firefox 3. It is a very simple boolean (true/false) property which you need to change in the ‘hidden’ Firefox configuration.
In Firefox enter about:config in to the address bad and press enter. A warning message will show up saying “This might void your warranty!” ignore this and click “I’ll be careful, I promise” (don’t worry you don’t have warranty anyway ;-). Next, in the filter bar type in gfx.color_management.enabled. There should now only be one option in the list of configuration options, and it should be set to false by default. Simply double click this option to change it to true (it should now be bold, indicating it is no longer the default value). Restart Firefox and you should be up and running with ICC profiles.
Check out the original post by Datacolor for more information and for two images which will indicate if your browse supports ICC profiles.
Recently I came across the problem where i was occasionally receiving an ‘Access is Denied 0×80070005′ error in the test environment for an ASP.NET application I was developing. After narrowing it down I discovered the error was only ever occurring when a call to the database was being made within the bounds of a TransactionScope(). After a quick search I discovered a thread on the asp.net forums where someone else was having this issue as the MSDTC was not configured correctly.
Applying the same information from the aforementioned thread I soon discovered that the test vs development environments were showing similar results to that mentioned in the thread. In the end the following solution resolved the problem.
Use sc sdshow msdtc on the server to display the current configuration, which should be similar to:
D:(A;;CCLCSWRPLOCRRC;;;S-1–2-0)(A;;CCLCSWRPWPDTLOCRRC;;;SY)(A;;CCDCLCSWRPWPDTLOCRSDRCWDWO;;;BA)(A;;CCLCSWLOCRRC;;;IU)(A;;CCLCSWLOCRRC;;;SU)(A;;CR;;;AU)(A;;CCLCSWRPWPDTLOCRRC;;;PU)(A;;CCLCSWRPLORC;;;NS)S:(AU;FA;CCDCLCSWRPWPDTLOCRSDRCWDWO;;;WD)
Using sc sdset msdtc change the section in red to read as (A;;CCLCSWRPRC;;;WD) e.g:
D:(A;;CCLCSWRPLOCRRC;;;S-1–2-0)(A;;CCLCSWRPWPDTLOCRRC;;;SY)(A;;CCDCLCSWRPWPDTLOCRSDRCWDWO;;;BA)(A;;CCLCSWLOCRRC;;;AU)(A;;CCLCSWRPWPDTLOCRRC;;;PU)(A;;CCLCSWRPRC;;;WD)(A;;CCLCSWRPLORC;;;NS)S:(AU;FA;CCDCLCSWRPWPDTLOCRSDRCWDWO;;;WD)
