To anticipate and prevent
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…
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!
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…
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…
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…
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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…