So my Averatec (Which I hate so much because they refurse to support it) had a 60GB 4200RPM harddrive. I recently ordered and installed a 100GB 5400RPM harddrive w/ an 8MB cache. This made a HUGE jump in performance for my machine (also added some ram which helps). HDTach reported something akin to a 4x [...]
Archive of entries posted on August 2005
GOOGLE TALK RELEASED!
GOOGLE TALK HAS BEEN RELEASED!! It features alot of tie in’s to gmail, one click to compose email, VoIP, and desktop notifier for gmail. Oh what happy joys. Now I must test it!
Managing IIS 6.0 From CLI
For anyone that works with IIS, and needs to build some automation – there is help! I did some searching and I came up with a few useful commands (amazingly from MS itself). First is “HOW TO: Manage Web Sites and Web Virtual Directories by Using Command-Line Scripts in IIS 6.0” – This is great [...]
Busy Busy & Gun Shows
Been super busy at work recently. Trying to jugle server moves, deal with broken servers, and all sorts of other hellish like stuff. On top of that my boss is leaving, which is very very sad (and bad). Now I’ll have two bosses, both of which are 200 miles away, and I’m the soul person [...]
Windows 2003 Service Pack 1 – Hanging on Install
Last night I was trying to install Service Pack 1 for Windows 2003 on our main developement server – it took three (3) hours to finally get it installed. I had the problem where it was hanging on the step “Backing Up Registry”. It did this to me twice, I tried rebooting, shutting down services [...]
Emerson Knives
Well my boss raved about Emerson Knives being something near the best there was. I figured I should get one, but they are expensive. Most of their knives that I looked at were $200+. Though I found a “newer” series called “Hard Wear”, all of which are priced under $100. Its a good price for [...]
Shortify – Cool service
Ok, there is Go.To and alot of other “Link shortening services”. I saw the ad on K5 today for Shortify – so I thought I’d go play with it. Its open source, you can download the software and stuffs like that – but I thought it was generally fun to play with (they have a [...]
Microsoft Free Fridays
I ran across the concept known simply as “Microsoft Free Fridays”. Originally I belive it was written as an apache module, but thats too much work. On the other hand I like mod_rewrite – so I shall use that. So starting from now on most all of my websites will be MSIE Free Fridays. mod_rewrite [...]
SBC blocking port 25
I thought I had posted this before, but I guess not. SBC is evil and blocked port 25, I thought most everyone would have found out about this by now but I guess not. I keep getting calls and sometimes an email from people who’s outlook or thunderbird or (insert other email program here) client [...]
