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Goodbye, Blink.

I used to do web development. In Cold Fusion, a lot of the time. Cold Fusion is a language with tags that usually start with CF, like “<cf_query>”. We had a customer who kept asking for the text to be bright red, huge, and blinking. (Not for the...

I am a winner!

I went to the Atlanta PowerShell Users Group tonight.  The topic was tips and tricks.  My trick was this script, which task scheduler reads to me in the morning. Assuming you use Hiveminder–and you should, because it’s awesome–you only have to edit...

Fun with Exchange Management Shell

I’m really digging the Exchange Management Shell.  It’s FUN FOR THE WHOLE FAMILY! Okay, maybe not the whole family.  😉 Short example:  someone wanted to know if I could tell them how many emails someone sent in a specific time period.  Short answer:...

Obituary spam

There is a special circle of hell for people who spam obituaries. As it turns out, I have a modest talent for obituaries.  (Also job references, and for the same reason:  I’m good at finding unique good things about people and saying them.)  Unfortunately, I...

I haz a Goodreads listing nao.

I <3 Goodreads.  I like categorizing my books and tracking them;  it appeals to my unused library degree.  Also, much as they suspect, my friends have similar reading tastes. Here’s my author page on Goodreads.  Most of the stories are available via the...

So, um, I have this friend… *shifty eyes*

So, I have this friend *cough* who had a domain controller that needed a new motherboard. Due to the excitement of the hardware vendor’s tech forgetting to reattach the RAID, then the server no longer recognizing its network cards, and then the tech realizing...

Validation!

Nice! RT @geekg0dd3ss: Was hired to take care of 9TB+ of SQL Server data and wrote a script that’s in the server image of a major bank. — Microsoft Careers (@MicrosoftJobs) December 29, 2012 And how do I feel about...

Generic Backups

I support developers.  In our dev/QA environment, people add, delete, and change the recovery model of databases all the time without telling me.  How do I keep track of which databases need to be backed up? I don’t.  I back up everything. Master has information...

Thanksgiving Gluttony

Yum, Nagios gluttony! I’m donating Nagios monitoring to a couple of nonprofits, and this brings up how Nagios configurations grow.  In short, you learn over time what you need to keep an eye on. For example:  On one nonprofit, someone forgot to renew the domain...

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