Since rebuilding my machine with a new motherboard and processor, I’ve gotten a few crashes in the middle of the night. I’ve come downstairs to a rebooted PC with an error message indicating the dreaded Blue Screen of Death has visited. So I decided to figure out what’s causing it, and maybe find a fix. [...]
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FogBugz on Windows Small Business Server 2008
February 6th, 2009 · Comments Off · General
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 [...]
Backups and my first foray into PowerShell
November 18th, 2008 · 4 Comments · General
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 [...]
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FTP problems on Windows Vista
October 29th, 2007 · Comments Off · General
This is an addendum to On Windows Vista from a couple months ago. This weekend I’ve been making some modifications to the installation process for Chef, making it so the database engine isn’t packaged with my installer and making it such an enormous installation package. So now I have it so that when Chef is [...]
