Firefox 3 and Java
Monday, June 30th, 2008 Posted in Firefox | No Comments »I prefer Firefox over IE. I don't know why, but I can't stand IE. I don't think it's the speed (I don't know that I've noticed a difference). I'm not sure what it is. Anyway, since I've upgraded to Firefox 3, ...
Management Ports Gone Wild
Friday, June 27th, 2008 Posted in IBM | No Comments »Today, I learned a very important lesson. That lesson was that management ports on IBM xSeries server do not provide network connectivity (at least not by default anyway). That's right. Huge news flash, right? Actually, the lesson was to have the ...
Windows Server 2008
Friday, June 20th, 2008 Posted in Server 2008 | No Comments »Today is officially billed as "Laptop Rebuild Day." And today, I will be reloading Windows Server 2008 on my laptop. Rumor (and experience) has it that it performs much better than Vista. So, an article from Mark Wilson on how ...
Run as…
Thursday, June 19th, 2008 Posted in Microsoft | No Comments »Mark Russinovich from Microsoft developed a tool as part of Sysinternals to give you the "Run as..." option when you right click a program in Vista. Without this tool, Vista will allow you to run as Administrator, ...
It’s 4:30AM. Do you know where your System Admin is?
Wednesday, June 18th, 2008 Posted in Work | No Comments »I do. All of us are still up. That's right. One of those cliche all-nighters. What's the cause of all this debauchery you ask? A server in Atlanta decided to shut down - for good. ...
Updating Windows Server 2008 Core
Tuesday, June 17th, 2008 Posted in Server 2008 | 2 Comments »Tonight is "Server Night." A night set aside on the third Tuesday of every month dedicated to drinking a lot of caffeine and causing downtime for the company. The first task of the night: update our Core installations (which includes ...
WDS and PXE
Sunday, June 15th, 2008 Posted in WDS | 2 Comments »A post that I wrote in March for another blog: We've been trying for a day or two to get Windows Deployment Services up and running over PXE to eliminate our need for boot disks to image with, but ran ...
Yet another…
Friday, June 13th, 2008 Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »... That's right. There's another blog on the market. Another thing for you to read. Of course, I'm probably the only one reading any of this. And that's fine - this is more for me than anyone. This will be ...