If you have developed any kind of serious web-based application (or any type of application for that matter), you know the joy of trapping errors for anything that the user might do. Bad password, letters where numbers should be, etc. Not rocket science.
Things have been pretty quiet around here lately, haven’t they? So it would seem.
Thinking of moving away from VMWare? Can Hyper-V provide the functionality that you require to keep your systems available? I can tell you that paying the VMware tax has become a bit tedious.
Tooltips: These little devils pop up at the most annoying times when you are trying to read some important information. Here is how to get rid of them.
SCOM has an option which is called Maintenance Mode. Know it. Use it. Whenever a monitored server will have maintenance, you won’t see any alerts for the server, nor will you availability reports be impacted by “unexpected” downtime. Turning on Maintenance mode for a server in SCOM is pretty straightforward. I’ve outlined the process here. It may look… Read More »
Ever wonder if there is any easy way to find out what your computer is listening for? Want to know where it is connecting to? NetStat can tell you.
Windows 7 gives the you a lot of control when it comes to choosing which system updates you want to install. A good example of updates you can safely ignore are Language Packs. If you are a native english speaker, why do you want to portugese language pack? Or maybe you are from France, why do you want… Read More »
Windows ReadyBoost is a great technology, caching things on USB drives to improve system performance, and works really well for giving your system a little more oomph. But Windows only likes using devices of a certain speed and space. Bypass the requirement with these steps. Windows insists on checking the drives for certain speed requirements before enabling the… Read More »
Internet Explorer has a way for a website to add itself to the list of favorites. It’s a feature Microsoft added so that websites can have a button that says “Bookmark This Site! Just Click Here!”
When you surf the web it is possible to learn information about you even when you don’t want to advertise who you are. This is true even if your system contains no virus or malware software.