The Johnson Blog

A couple times now in the past several months I’ve needed to install or upgrade VMWare Server 2 running on Windows 2003 and ran into a problem that takes a little while to re-discover the solution for.  This is for future reference and to help others that may hit this in the future.
The problem is that [...]

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I recently installed FogBugz 6 on 64-bit Windows Small Business Server 2008, and boy was it interesting.  I’ll first note that I’ve had excellent installations and upgrades of FogBugz in the past, so this really caught me off guard and took a while to figure out what was going wrong.
Second, after finding out what the problems [...]

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Too bad the iPhone makes you get sucked into the world if iTunes - because it sucks.  I knew this going in, but it still isn’t fun when the limitations smack you in the face.
The limitation of which I speak is its inability to detect new files in its directories, automatically update its library database, [...]

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OK, just a few more words about my data backups.
Last week I ordered a few Army Surplus, 30 Caliber Ammo Cans, they arrived today.  What the heck are these for, you ask?

Well I thought they could make a great way to transport and store the hard drives I’m going to be rotating off-site.  So tonight I [...]

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My 2.5 year-long haitus from being connected on-the-go is over.  I finally took the plunge and switched from Sprint to AT&T and bought an iPhone (8GB).  Sprint has provided great service over the past 5+ years, but their phone selection has been lacking.  Sorry, Sprint, the HTC Touch Pro and/or Diamond just don’t compare.

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First, some background.
Last week I received the final pieces of my backup strategy, a pair of 500 GB hard drives that I will be rotating periodically to some undisclosed location that isn’t my house.  Right now, my fileserver makes backups and sticks them on a mirrored RAID array.  These drives are simply to hold extra [...]

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A couple of months ago I purchased a Terk XM6 XM Radio Antenna because the reception I have been getting in the office has been poor and unpredictable.   Due to some procrastination, the new antenna has been sitting in its packaging waiting to be installed ever since.
Until today.  This morning I decided it was time [...]

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Leaving development tools aside (ahem, Visual Studio, ahem), what are your favorite software titles?  You know, the ones you use daily, are truly useful, you couldn’t live without, and are just plain fun.  Here are mine, in no particular order:

Microsoft OneNote 2007 - This is such a little known piece of software, but one that [...]

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