Recently, I had occasion to upgrade the RAM in one of my servers from 32 GB to 96 GB. Cool, huh? One minor problem, though. The installed operating system is Windows Server 2008 R2 Standard. What’s the big deal, you say? Win2k8 Standard only supports up to 32 GB. After installing the RAM and booting the machine, I… Read More »
Blade servers are a bit different to work with. There are no keyboards, mice, or monitors (normally) connected to a blade server. Instead, you either need to attach a USB/Keyboard dongle directly to the blade (not available on all models), or you can use the KVM switch built into the blade enclosure.
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.
As technology marches on, needs and wants of users change. As a support engineer, it is my job to make sure my users are getting what they need, in a quick and orderly fashion, in a method that is pleasing to them. Analytics is key in finding what pleases them.
Things have been pretty quiet around here lately, haven’t they? So it would seem.
Another fresh-baked, free CSS template called “The General”.
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 »
This handy little database contains interesting facts and observations for you to present to your site users. This is a backup file, created using MySQL dump 10.13, so you should be able to import this quite easily to your MySQL installation.