Been a heckuva week with some some server and software issues. I’m on the downhill side of it now though so thought I’d share the tale and some lessons learned. I’ve been comfortable with ESXi for a while now, but nothing like things going bad to provide the opportunity to … Continue reading
Just a quick note on something I ran into earlier today. Wanted to try out Joomla! on Windows and see how things worked. With the wonders of VMware Workstation I quickly cloned a clean Windows 2003 R2 SP2 server image and then grabbed Microsoft’s Web Platform Installer. The WPI is … Continue reading
A month or two ago, two of my development servers got stuck in a sort of loop. No matter how many times I applied the .NET 2.0 updates they wanted, they’d want the updates again immediately after the install. It became a bit tedious… … seeing the KB974417 and KB976569 … Continue reading
A few months ago I wrote about “The Easy Way to Update ProLiant Firmware” as I had just discovered HP‘s all-in-one firmware updater CD. Great stuff and if you haven’t found that yet, be sure to check that article. There’s a wrinkle with that CD though: It isn’t always the … Continue reading
This morning I was alerted to the fact that one of our clients was having problems with our application last night. Unfortunately, none of their end users had captured any of the error messages. I checked the SQL and Windows Event logs but found nothing helpful. Then I had a … Continue reading
