Last week I lost my hard drive in my laptop. The everyday laptop that I use for almost everything. It was about 1 month old (new dell D820 laptop). The drive in the laptop is nice a 7200 RPM (SATA) drive, but have seen some failures (Dell forums). The drive completely died, no data recovery. The ironic part of this hard …
I am often asked what sites do I visit. I used to check everything via RSS and I still do, however I often find a few min just to see what is going on so I head to my trusty sites: 1. Digg.com 2. Techcrunch.com 3. lifehacker.com 4. Slashdot.org (used to be number 1, but I don’t frequent it as much) …
This is a great read. A user lost his internet access from Comcast for using too much bandwidth. http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,1895,2111373,00.asp How much bandwidth is too much. In the article comcast actually responded with a great “non answer”. Something to the effect that he was using more than 100,000 times the average user. Well I hate to say it, but I probably …
I use sql express for a lot of things. On my development server and also on some production sites. Some of the things that I have noticed is the lack of a backup solution or automation of a backup solution. I found this article and script to generate a backup that is very close to a Maintenance plan in Standard SQL …
Here are some pics of the original google hardware from 98. http://backrub.tjtech.org/May1998/hardware.htm 2 guys, an idea, and a little hard work. They changed our search style’s, they changed the NYSE, they make a new use for the word google. I’ll never forget the day when my Mom said that she would have to google some information on a topic. It is …
As I progress with using Vista as my primary OS, I am finding some things that need to be addressed. One of the items left out of vista is an SMTP server. In XP and older operating systems you can have this installed with IIS. However, vista does not include an smtp server. You have a few options out there to …
I was reading my news feeds while waiting for my email to sync (lots of email) and could not resist sharing this post. http://consumerist.com/consumer/drm/how-i-became-a-music-pirate-245644.php This individual tried to do the right thing for the love of music. It appears that the music industry let him down. It seems to me that at some point we could come to a technolgy solution …
IISreporter 2.0 is now available. Go and download (www.iisreporter.com/download). The free standalone version allows you to monitor the connections on your local IIS server. You can install on as many servers / machines you would like. A new IISreporter Command center version will be released in the next 2 weeks. I have closed the source code, but the older version v1.7 is …
I have an application that I wrote that uses a web service to provide data back to a central app. I needed a windows sidebar gadget to consume the web service. However I noticed that when using javascript to consume the service I would get errors. I then realized that I had to enable my web service to allow for access …
As of 1:00 EST I was unable to get to my sites (www.iisreporter.com). I contacted my hosting company and they had issues but had resolved them. I then looked at my dns settings (godaddy) and their server was not responding to dns lookups. After a few searches I found others had this issue. Here is an interesting article on DNS and …
Here is a great post regarding MOSS 2007 and pricing (http://blah.winsmarts.com/2007-2-SharePoint_2007_Pricing_-_Made_Simple.aspx?postID=242). I work at technology company and we are doing lots of development with MOSS and installations. One thing that has not been very easy to examine / describe to customers is the Microsoft Pricing for MOSS. This blog post does a great job with examining what each major feature of …
It is a sad day. I just found out that GotDotNet (http://www.gotdotnet.com/) will be shutting down. You can read their reasons on the site. They plan to shut down my favorite section (user samples) on May 22. I have used that site many times as a great place to get code samples or tutorials. I really hate to see it go. …
I often use Microsoft’s VPC to do development and testing. The new version of VPC came out Microsoft VPC 2007. Though my computer has 2 gigs of RAM I still run into performance issues. Here are a few great tips on how to keep your VPC running at top speed. http://www.andrewconnell.com/articles/SqeezePerformanceOutOfVirtualPCs.aspx
I often get questions from .NET developers on where they should host. If they should go with a dedicated server or virtual server. The major issue that developers have is the price. A shared hosting site is much cheaper than a Server. The advantages of the server are due to the ability to modify the settings of IIS and also the …
I have been wanting to put together a list of online tools. Some day I will get around to it. Today I just used one of my favorite tools and discovered another related one. I use www.domaintools.com very frequently. Where a site is hosted, what technology is used. When using domain tools, I ran into http://www.psychicwhois.com/ it is a pretty good …