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A client had an issue with their HP server last week. They called HP Support hoping for some major hardware exchanges but first were told (paraphrased), “You are way behind on firmware updates – until you update firmware for System BIOS, RAID adapter and hard drives you get no support from us!” (We’d never even I have spent the past few days working on migrating a bunch of classic ASP web applications from a Windows 2000 server to a Windows 2003 server. A long overdue task, but one who’s time has finally come. The hardware under the Windows 2000 box has been acting up a bit lately and I’m rapidly I need to take my own advice more often. Someone comes to me with a computer issue? First think I’ll ask is, “Did you reboot it yet?” Heck, it is written at the top of the big whiteboard in my office. I don’t care if it is Windows, Mac or Linux. That’s where I always prefer I’m in firewall/router hell. After a long time of pondering, shuffling and avoiding I had to bite the bullet and put a firewall in between our production web servers and database. I started with a Linksys RVS4000 that I already had in the office. Seemed like a good option as it offers 1GB on both sides. The There were a couple of big announcements from Microsoft this week, both of interest to web developers and/or users of the MS web stack. Without further ado… WebsiteSpark (info PDF) If you’re a small firm (less than 10 folks) focused on Web dev and design, you may qualify for a boatload of “free” MS licenses. In return,  September 25th, 2009 |  Tags: deployment, IIS, microsoft, Tech-Ops, web-design, web-developer |  Leave a comment |
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