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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. [...]
Servers and Drives
21.Feb.08 | 2 Comments
A client ordered themselves a Dell server and dropped it off today to have me set it up as their new domain controller and as their development box for our application(s) at their site. Nice little PowerEdge unit that seems beefy ’nuff to do the job.
One major bummer though. It was ordered with a pair [...]
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 [...]
Vista VPN / Firefox / More
13.Feb.08 | Leave a Comment
A grab bag of follow-ups and tidbits for today.
Firefox Update — Made Mine Happier
Last week I was belly-aching about Firefox and other browsers. After writing that post I uninstalled both versions of Firefox that I had installed: beta and 2.0.x.
I then visited:
boot drive:\Documents and Settings\UserName\Application Data
and blew away the Mozilla folder (Firefox is the only [...]
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 [...]
