IIS6 has a new feature that allows for logging errors to a seperate file. However, little documentation is immediately available on how to configure this or atleast little know. Anyway, here's a link to a KB article at Microsoft that details what additional properties are available for loggin in the HTTPERR# log files: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/832975
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Microsoft, Dr. Dobbs and O'REILLY are offering Free ASP.net 2.0 training with courses for JSP, PHP and Coldfusion developers looking to migrate over to the dark side. To sweeten the pie you also get a nice pack of freebies, including a copy of Visual Studio 2005 Standard Edition, a 50% discount on a MCP exam
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Microsoft has recently released updated CTPs of their Expression Interactive Design and Graphics Design applications (personally I can't wait to see the Web Design application when it's released or atleast made available via beta). You can get details on what the Expression product line are at: http://www.microsoft.com/products/expression/en/default.mspx The Expression Dev Team has a blog online
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Microsoft has an article available regarding Virtual Server 2005 R2 and iSCSI. I've been digging around on the forums and it seems the only way to really get the performance out of this is by having the iSCSI storage on the actual host machine. I haven't played with it, don't know enough about it but I do know iSCSI
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If it worked there should be a little map up above that displays the geographic locations my visitors come from (so I guess it will just have a big red dot over where my office is since I'm probably the only person that comes here).
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So in the Virtual Server how to on setting up a 2 node cluster there was mention that you should select the SCSI drive emulatored because the IDE emulator was slower than the SCSI one and that this was true even if you were running on IDE disks. Strange, right? Virtual PC Guy recently wrote
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There's 20 or so new community server modules that were released recently you can find details about them here: http://developer.communityserver.org/default.aspx/CS.FirstCSModuleContent One of hte modules uses a little piece of javascript called LightBox that just outright rocks. I'm in the process (when I can find the time) of writing a photo gallery based on it in
I'm a big fan of asterisk and have a couple projects coming along nicely for it. But we use a sangoma T1 card and asterisk@home doesn't realy support it out of the box. Now asterisk@home isn't the only way to setup and install asterisk but for a Windows Dweeb like me, it's probably the easiest
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Server Virtualization is becoming a major item these days and is many companies are adopting it. I've heard storys all over the place from development to production, from guys using it to setup test labs of multiple servers using only a handful of boxes to companies replacing 700 physical servers with less than 350. For the
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Microsoft is clearly making an attempt at promoting opensource applications that use their tools and run on their platform, CommunityServer, DotNetNuke, and the starter kits are clear examples of this. I stumbled on the ASP.net 2.0 commerce starter kit last night and have to say it’s pretty darn nice. It’s the work of http://www.wekeroad.com and
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