Viewing Articles with the tag: server
Lost Afternoon
01.Jul.08 | 1 Comment
Lost most of the afternoon today wrestling with the deployment of one of our web applications. Some new “client-specific” code had been developed in our dev environment and it was now time to move it out to QA (quality assurance) and then, hopefully, production.
The dev environment web server is still running Windows 2000 Server. [...]
Dangit Microsoft…
14.Feb.08 | 1 Comment
Well, a successful day is one in which we learn something, right? Today I learned things. Ooooh boy, did I learn things.
Here’s a snippet from my tweets that sums it up (read the bottom one first):
I honestly wish today wasn’t quite so successful.
What happened? I tried to kill two birds with one stone:
Replace the Windows [...]
Remote Desktop: No Console from Vista?
04.Jan.08 | 18 Comments
[May 15, 2008: If you found this article from a search on XP SP3, please see XP Service Pack 3 -- Remote Desktop Change. Regardless, the answer to the following post can be found in the comments: Try /admin instead of /console]
Back in August, I wrote about how you can use Remote Desktop [...]
The File That Wouldn’t Die
07.Dec.07 | 5 Comments
Here’s a little something interesting that showed up yesterday on our dev server at work. Check these two file property dialogs out:
Do you see what’s different between these two PDFs? One has Security and Summary tabs. The other doesn’t!
Result? The one not showing those tabs is totally borked. Can’t open it. Can’t copy it. [...]
Primal Scream
10.Oct.07 | 2 Comments
After 3 hours of flattening my forehead on my desk, I’m just about ready to give vent to a soothing primal scream.
I can not get IIS 5.1’s FTP server to function when behind a firewall, regardless of what sorts of port forwarding I do. I can get close: I could connect and authenticate, but no [...]
