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FogBugz on Windows Small Business Server 2008

February 6th, 2009 · Comments Off

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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Backups and my first foray into PowerShell

November 18th, 2008 · 4 Comments

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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FTP problems on Windows Vista

October 29th, 2007 · Comments Off

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 [...]

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