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Restarting the VMware ESX Management service

There are times when an ESX server will need the Management Service restarted. Usually this is when the ESX host is grayed out and the guest machines are “disconnected”. To restart the service, log onto the console and execute the following: # service mgmt-vmware stop ...

IE 8 broke my ASP.Net Menu

Last night I upgraded to Internet Explorer 8, thinking that I wanted to be on the “latest and greatest” version of IE. I should have known better. About 10 minutes before a customer demo of a project I have been working on for a while now, I realize that ...

SQL 2008.. Compress them backups

For those SQL admins who have managed their SQL backups using SQL dumps have had to wrestle with file sizes for many years. There are better ways of backing your databases up using things like SQL connectors to a backup software like CommVault or other backup programs but many ...

How to remove non-present devices from VM’s

Many times when you a do a physical to virtual (P2V) migration on a windows machine to a virtual environment like VMware it doesn't pick up and remove all redundant hardware devices. Sometimes this circumstance can lead to performance or stability issues for the virtual machine (VM). Note, this ...

WordPress 2.6.2 Security Release

Time to upgrade your WordPress installation. An exploit has been discovered with the version of Suhosin that is used in the previous versions of WordPress. Stefan Esser recently warned developers of the dangers of SQL Column Truncation and the weakness of mt_rand(). With ...

WordPress 2.61 Available for Download.

If you have been waiting for a “dot one” version release before upgrading WordPress, now is your time. WordPress has made version 2.6.1 available for download. With 2.6.1, WordPress continues their trend of releasing a maintenance update shortly after a major release in order to fix bugs that always ...

So you need to create a new aspnetdb database

If you do any development with ASP.NET you will run into the aspnetdb database. This database is an essential component to the membership and webparts framework. If you are a developer like myself, I find that I add a number of test users (and data) to the database ...

Determine the installation date of Windows

The following command helps you to determine the installation date and time of a Windows XP/2003 computer. It is a command which extracts info from the parent command "systeminfo." Here is how you go about displaying the installation date: Go To Start --->Run ----> Type "cmd" and hit ...

Using Fiddler with Localhost traffic

Fiddler is an indispensable web application development tool. For those who might not know what Fiddler is, it is a tool that allows you to see the complete request and response between your browser and the web server. I am afraid that many developers may dismiss it as ...

Is IIS giving up your private IP address?

Hackers love information about your network. If you are not using Host Headers on your IIS website then IIS could be returning the IP address of the machine in the TCP header of the response. In single server situations where the server is in a DMZ of a firewall, ...