How Google Routes Around Outages
Wednesday, March 25th, 2009 Posted in Google, Miscellaneous | 1 Comment »No, that's not my title. The folks over at Data Center Knowledge have an interview with Urs Holzle, Google's Datacenter Operations Manager: Making changes to Google’s search infrastructure is akin to “changing the tires on a car while you’re going at ...
Say Thanks
Monday, March 23rd, 2009 Posted in Work | No Comments »I was surfing around the blogosphere today when I came across the Manager Tools Blog. Now, I'm not a manager (nor do I think I'm qualified or would want to be at this point in my life), but I found ...
Error 0x800704C8 in VMM
Monday, March 23rd, 2009 Posted in Forefront, Hyper-V, Microsoft, Security | 2 Comments »I was trying to deploy a new virtual machine today via Virtual Machine Manager, and kept getting this error (names changed to protect the innocent): Error (12700) VMM cannot complete the Hyper-V operation on the [virtualhost.domain.com] server because of the error: '[VIRTUALGUEST]' ...
Nigerian Money Scam
Monday, March 23rd, 2009 Posted in Humor, Security | No Comments »Here's an interesting (and funny) post from Mike Nash (of Online-Armor) on the old "Nigerian Money Scam." Remember, sending money to strangers (especially strangers in another country) is bad. The post. And an excerpt: So, I'm sitting there today working on something for ...
Windows Web Application Gallery
Wednesday, March 18th, 2009 Posted in Microsoft, iis | No Comments »I stumbled across something today I think is pretty cool: the Windows Web Application Gallery. From iis.net: The Windows Web Application Gallery makes it easy to explore, discover and install popular community ASP.Net and PHP applications on Windows. Users can browse ...
Self Signed SSL Certificates
Monday, March 16th, 2009 Posted in Security | No Comments »I've been trying to figure out how to get an SSL certificate on the cheap. I mean, 300+ dollars per year is a little ridiculous to get an encrypted pipe between client and server. You see, I don't really care ...
ActivityTimeout
Thursday, March 12th, 2009 Posted in iis | No Comments »I've been trying to get another website I manage to allow me to upload files (usually around 40MB) via the browser so I don't have to open up FTP. The problem, I've been having is something has been going wrong ...
Wassup
Tuesday, March 10th, 2009 Posted in WordPress | No Comments »So, it seems (after much trial and error) that one of my plugins was the cause of my speed issues. Wassup is a statistics plugin, and was causing major performance issues. I like Wassup because it provides good data, but I'm ...
Speedup WordPress on IIS 7.0
Tuesday, March 10th, 2009 Posted in WordPress, iis | No Comments »Here is a nifty article on speeding up Wordpress. I'm still not terribly thrilled with the performace on IIS. I'm not sure if it's the PHP Engine or the database backend now. I've noticed that php-cgi.exe spikes at 100% when ...
Disable Hibernation
Monday, March 9th, 2009 Posted in Server 2008 | No Comments »If you're in need of disabling hibernation on your 2008 servers (or your Vista desktop, as the case may be), open a command line and type this: powercfg.exe /hibernate off To turn it back on, replace "off" with "on". This will do away ...