Posts made in October, 2008
Remotely Kill Process on a Windows Server
Ran into a problem today where I needed to kill a process on a server that I didn’t have remote KVM access to and couldn’t RDP into. This particular machine had only VNC and the VNC service was hung. Windows Server includes two commands tasklist and taskkill that allow you to remotely list the processes running on a machine and then kill these processes. Viewing Tasks on Remote...
Read MoreQuickly Configure or Disable ETags in IIS7 or IIS6
With the move of my blog to a new server, so comes a few new tweaks. Fortunately, I’m on an Windows 2008 Hosting account and I have had delegation enabled so I can remotely manage all the features in my IIS7 website with the IIS7 manager (but more on that in a later post). Earlier this year I fired up firebug and the Y!Slow application from Yahoo to really dial in my website’s...
Read MoreMicrosoft releases Hyper-V 2008 Server.
Microsoft released Hyper-V Server 2008 yesterday and it’s now available for FREE download. This is a bare-metal standalone hypervisor, meaning that you don’t install a host OS on the machine before installing this. You just install this and then create your VM’s and install the OS of choice into your VMs. I think the best way to think of this is as Server Core but with only one role:...
Read MoreBarack Obama listens when Jess Coburns speaks er um tweets..
I started this post at the beginning of September and today saw something pretty amazing… I was adding people to follow on Twitter today (I have yet to figure out what to twit about) and after a few adds and tweets I got this email today: Finally, a Presidential Candidate that recognizes my brilliance!! Ahh, it’s nice to have followers Now I just need to find out his...
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