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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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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…
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…
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…