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Blog posts and ramblings to chronicle my adventures in life. This may contain technology, family, business or products that I enjoy.
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Hi, I’m Jim. A father, husband, business owner, entrepreneur, and a person who loves technology. I semi-often update this blog.
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Feel free to reach out to me with questions, contact, business ideas, projects or just a random Hello. Located in the Mitten state.
Recent Posts
IIS-resources.com
The guys over at IIS-Resources have a link to the IIS reporter tool Link to download – Here If you have not taken the chance to visit iis-resources.com please do, it is now the home of the nt control pannel project which is a cpannel like admin control pannel for…
IIS Reporter Version 1.7 Release
Thank you to everyone for their great ideas and suggestions. I have cleaned up a few memory issues (performance) and also added a few monitoring features. I added a system tray icon and menu info for real time info Updated the system uptime clock – it was polling the sum…
Stuck in a coding block
You have heard of writers block, well I have coding block. I am 90% completed with my next version of IISMonitor – a program what will provide real-time IIS information for multiple IIS web servers. It will consist of a webservice to be installed on each machine to be monitored,…
Visual Studio 2003 and Visual Studio Beta1 on the same machine – Auto-Attach error
I have installed visual studio Beta1 and found some issues when developing in the VS2003 IDE. Specifically when trying to debug or compile. The exact error looks like : “Auto-attach to process ‘aspnet_wp.exe’ on machine failed” After some googling I was able to find my issue. The main problem is…
Community Server RC1 released
I have been waiting for this release, or at lease the next version. The next version of .Text (a dot net weblog system), called community server from TelligentSystems is now available in Community Server RC1. You can read more about it here on the form – http://www.communityserver.org/forums/470013/ShowPost.aspx or you can…
New MSN search
MS released the new msn search today. Including a quick and nice quote from Bill. Search away. I am still a huge fan of google. Google provides plenty of services , in particular if you have not tried Picasa photo organizer you do not know what you are missing. I…
Tax Time – Turbo Tax vs Tax Cut
It is tax time again. I am probably one of the strange ones out there. I like doing my taxes, well I like the challenge of it, not the idea behind it. Don’t get me wrong, I don’t like giving my money to anyone. But, what tax time does for…
Microsoft Active Directory user Export
Once again I had an eye opening experience on how much I really don’t know. I was working with a client and needed to export a list of users from active directory who were all part of an specific organizational group (OU). Now I have done some coding against the…
Extending Disk Volumes with DiskPart
I just found out there is a very useful tool built into XP and Windows 2003, called diskpart.exe. This program will allow you to expand a windows disk volume to larger disks. I had the chance to use this recently to increase a server from three 36 gig drives to…