Blog Archives 2023 1Password and Broken Certificate Chains Oct 20 2023 Changing certbot validation plugin Sep 28 2023 2019 Stop The Bleed May 19 2019 Raspberry Pi and the dreaded undervoltage notifications Feb 08 2019 2015 Set-DnsServerResourceRecord and OldInputObject not found Oct 23 2015 Powershell and Single vs Double Quotes Sep 08 2015 Replace SSL on Office Web Apps Farm and certificate not found Sep 03 2015 Powershell and Progress Feedback Jun 25 2015 Custom Windows installs, injecting drivers and features Apr 24 2015 vSphere Storage vMotion times out at 32% when crossing SANs Feb 17 2015 2014 Enable-RemoteMailbox - The address is invalid Jun 11 2014 Exchange 2010, 2013, and Office365: Dynamic Distribution List Filters Jun 10 2014 Exchange and The Case of The Missing Counters Jun 04 2014 L vs R and the importance of documentation May 01 2014 Unable to remove Exchange Mailbox Database Apr 29 2014 SolarWinds Application Monitor - Automatically Configuring AppInsight for Exchange Apr 17 2014 Azure VMs and Setting Subnets via PowerShell Feb 24 2014 2013 Joys of a new work environment Dec 04 2013 Lync and Phone Number Normalization Jun 06 2013 Cross domain execution of Lync commands Apr 30 2013 Remote Registry, handle leaks, and objects not found Mar 21 2013 Exchange 2007/2010 and Hiding Mailboxes Feb 11 2013 Octopress and OpenID Feb 07 2013 Adding XML Elements using PowerShell Jan 11 2013 Removing XML Elements using PowerShell Jan 09 2013 Updating iLO firmware using hponcfg and XML Jan 06 2013 Five Saturdays Jan 05 2013 WordPress to Octopress Jan 04 2013 2012 Lync, Federation, and DNS Jul 18 2012 Lync, Exchange Unified Messaging, and TLS Jul 18 2012 DL585, Hardware Monitors, and Progress Jul 17 2012 Move-VM and Explicit Destination Jul 08 2012 Downloading Files with PowerShell Jul 08 2012 DL365 G5 battery location May 31 2012 Still Alive... May 15 2012 PowerShell vs Bash... String processing face off Mar 07 2012 eclipse, TFS Everywhere, and new files Jan 22 2012 Linux Journal, digital editions, and Apple Jan 20 2012 2011 PowerShell and SQLite Nov 27 2011 Android Toys Nov 26 2011 IPv6 WAN Party Nov 07 2011 Windows Update and Error 0x800f0818 Nov 04 2011 The Apple toys Oct 14 2011 VMware VirtualCenter Management Webservices service terminated with service-specific error 0 Aug 21 2011 Bookmarks for July 23rd through August 18th Aug 18 2011 Bookmarks for July 15th through July 22nd Jul 23 2011 Bookmarks for July 13th through July 15th Jul 15 2011 Bookmarks for July 4th through July 13th Jul 13 2011 PowerShell, and MSMQ Jul 04 2011 Bookmarks for June 17th through June 23rd Jun 23 2011 Bookmarks for June 9th through June 15th Jun 16 2011 Failed cluster install and name already exists Jun 07 2011 Bookmarks for June 4th through June 7th Jun 07 2011 Bookmarks for May 9th through June 2nd Jun 03 2011 System Administrators, Automation, and Laziness Apr 28 2011 Using PowerCLI to find a specific guest IP Apr 12 2011 PowerShell, XML, and nested elements Mar 23 2011 Using Nagios to monitor webpages Mar 19 2011 GPS Data, and Photography Mar 16 2011 Adding a new datasource to an RRD database Mar 16 2011 Powershell, and importing XML scheduled tasks Mar 10 2011 Powershell, and exporting Windows Scheduled Tasks Mar 08 2011 Cron, and the failing grand children... Mar 04 2011 Spam Spike, and Google Visualizations... Feb 27 2011 Nagios, web scraping, and PHP as an agent Feb 21 2011 PDQ Deploy, and remote installations Feb 15 2011 Google, 2-factor authentication, and users Feb 13 2011 Things you learn in the heat of an outage... Feb 02 2011 vCenter, SQL Express, and Service Termination Jan 25 2011 SQL Cluster install: Network Binding Order warning Jan 07 2011 Cluster Services, and moving resources... Jan 07 2011 MSI Installer: A system restart from a previous install or update is pending Jan 02 2011 2010 Learning from Maintenance... It is (nearly) always DNS Oct 25 2010 Bookmarks for October 17th through October 20th Oct 20 2010 Bookmarks for October 15th through October 17th Oct 17 2010 Nagios, NRPE, and mixed SSL environments Oct 15 2010 Bookmarks for October 13th through October 15th Oct 15 2010 Nagios Notifications via Twitter Oct 13 2010 Bookmarks for October 13th from 16:22 to 17:05 Oct 13 2010 Bookmarks for October 12th through October 13th Oct 13 2010 SSH Security Oct 12 2010 Bookmarks for October 10th from 18:28 to 19:55 Oct 11 2010 Asimov and Clouds... Oct 11 2010 Bookmarks for October 5th through October 6th Oct 06 2010 Documentation, and why... Oct 04 2010 Backups, and your online life... Oct 04 2010 Cloud costs... Sep 29 2010 Books on Networking... Sep 26 2010 TFS, workspaces, and past employees Sep 20 2010 F5, iRules, and content injection Sep 19 2010 SQL cluster failure, and name changes... Sep 18 2010 5 years on, and looking back... Sep 18 2010 SharePoint, and Security Updates Sep 04 2010 PowerShell: Active Directory, and User Groups Aug 10 2010 Configuration Management (Part III): Managing your configuration Aug 09 2010 F5 and Passive host monitoring Jul 31 2010 Intro to SNMP Jul 18 2010 PowerShell: Loops, ForEach, ForEach-Object, and control functions Jul 13 2010 PowerShell and BITS Jul 08 2010 Windows 2008, and Hibernation Jul 06 2010 Configuration Management (Part II): Setting up SVN Jun 28 2010 Configuration Management (Part I): Introduction Jun 20 2010 Massive Uptimes, or the failure of them... Jun 18 2010 IIS and unknown file types Jun 17 2010 Maintenance Windows, and communicating your times... Jun 14 2010 PowerShell; Calculated values in results Jun 11 2010 Saving the event of the year... Or at least the pictures Jun 08 2010 Cleaning up remote directories with PowerShell May 24 2010 Screenshot sharing... May 17 2010 SQL 2008 and MERGE May 14 2010 Tracking the rogue IP address May 06 2010 Reverting a checkout from another workspace May 06 2010 The importance of up verses alive... Apr 30 2010 Hiding web server information Apr 17 2010 PowerShell: Restart remote services Apr 10 2010 Home Backups Apr 10 2010 Software Patching... Apr 09 2010 PowerShell: Top x Processes using CPU Apr 06 2010 PowerShell: Timing Commands Apr 06 2010 PowerShell: Cleaning up IIS Logs Apr 01 2010 PowerShell: Remote Registry, and fixing an Office 2007 install Mar 29 2010 NTTA giving back... Mar 29 2010 WMDC and Flashed Phones Mar 24 2010 Review: Lowepro CompuRover AW Mar 22 2010 Support Contacts... Mar 17 2010 Expanding myself... Mar 14 2010 An error occurred while validating. HRESULT=80004005 Mar 12 2010 Zoo Trip Mar 08 2010 Gallery2 upgrade and WPG2 Mar 06 2010 IIS7 & AppCmd handyness... Mar 01 2010 Brrr... Record setting weather in Dallas... Feb 11 2010 Site hosting, and quick cheat speedups... Jan 25 2010 Reactive vs Proactive... Jan 25 2010 Irssi Handy Tips... Jan 25 2010 RSS Readers, online vs offline... Jan 24 2010 Networking Cheat Sheets... Jan 24 2010 Living as SA/Root/Domain Admin... Jan 24 2010 Gravity Wells... Jan 24 2010 Moving your RAS server Jan 13 2010 Server Outage... Jan 12 2010 MySQL: Error 127 when reading table Jan 12 2010 Corral those processes... Jan 12 2010 Friday night riddle... Jan 08 2010 2009 PowerShell; Checking a Job Status Dec 21 2009 PowerShell; Changing startup properties of a service Dec 21 2009 PowerShell and signing Dec 21 2009 The Reboot... Dec 02 2009 More BBC funnies... Nov 17 2009 Microsoft Jet DB and x64 platforms Nov 15 2009 Been a while... Nov 15 2009 AT&T Tilt 2 (HTC Touch Pro 2) Nov 15 2009 Symantec DLO, and Office 2007 SP2 Aug 06 2009 Tinkering with Temperature (Part Deux) Aug 01 2009 Microsoft Tag, a semi-geek look Aug 01 2009 Random Mail Stats Jul 20 2009 Tinkering with Temperature Jul 07 2009 Debian Lenny, and tab auto-complete Jun 28 2009 Updated Theme Jun 03 2009 SquirrelMail updates May 23 2009 AD Migrations, and Permissions May 20 2009 Random creativity... Apr 19 2009 Sad Day... Apr 07 2009 Is he listening...? Apr 01 2009 RichCopy Mar 29 2009 YouTube Mobile... Mar 20 2009 It arrived... Mar 19 2009 Cunning support Mar 12 2009 Nagios, and Monitoring WHOIS Mar 09 2009 C# bashing me on the head Mar 08 2009 Twitter Humor Mar 03 2009 Configuring PPTP on multi-NIC Windows server Mar 03 2009 Batch loading data into SQL... SSIS Errors Feb 19 2009 SkyFire, Mobile Browsing, and privacy Feb 16 2009 Motion Sensing Lights Feb 15 2009 Updates to Visual Studio, post service pack install Feb 11 2009 Google Sync, and Windows Mobile Feb 09 2009 Bash One-Liners Feb 04 2009 New Beginnings Jan 24 2009 Creative Urges Jan 24 2009 2008 Spammy Harvesting Dec 14 2008 Oooh upgrady Dec 11 2008 First Problem post upgrade... Dec 11 2008 Garmin MapSource, and auto-upgrades Dec 05 2008 Visual Studio, and annoying checkouts Dec 04 2008 VMware Server 2.x and Windows 2003 Nov 07 2008 MSBuild, and Evaluating ItemGroups Oct 26 2008 Wrapping my head around iCal Oct 11 2008 100+ Reasons to use carry-on Oct 09 2008 Visual Studio Projects, and Multiple Environments Oct 08 2008 Visual Studio, IIS, ASP.NET, and bad ordering Oct 07 2008 Bah... Oct 04 2008 *drool* Sep 18 2008 New Toys... Sep 08 2008 Axe (Lynx) enters the world of Ghost hunting... Sep 08 2008 Days... Sep 07 2008 Chromy Sep 02 2008 Microsoft Virtual PC, and Expanding Virtual Disks Aug 28 2008 Bind, Dynamic Zones, and updates Aug 21 2008 Did you... Jul 25 2008 Catching the domain spam... Jul 21 2008 Pasta Carbonara Jul 20 2008 Things to wreck your weekend... Jul 14 2008 Handy Dandy Photography Videos Jun 26 2008 Scripting Dial-In removal Jun 25 2008 Veritas DLO, and TASKPANE errors Jun 19 2008 Tracking things I want to write about... Jun 18 2008 Blah Jun 18 2008 They're good... May 12 2008 Rise and Fall of procrastination Apr 29 2008 Dark seeded past... Apr 05 2008 Starting from scratch... Mar 31 2008 WP 2.5 Upgrade Mar 29 2008 The Midnight Oil... Mar 18 2008 PAM upgrade, and broken messages Mar 02 2008 Black and White Conversions Feb 25 2008 How Badly... Feb 19 2008 NADA 2008 Feb 11 2008 Metadata Templates for Bridge/Photoshop Feb 11 2008 New Toy... Feb 04 2008 Steak with Mushroom and Red wine Sauce Jan 20 2008 Ice-cream-sphere cloud Jan 20 2008 New Year's resolutions Jan 01 2008 Hehe Jan 01 2008 2007 Wake-On-LAN Dec 23 2007 Flash, and something new... Dec 23 2007 Productivity Tweaks... Dec 21 2007 SquirrelMail 1.4.13 Released Dec 14 2007 Scheduled Jobs... Dec 07 2007 Firefox "security" Dec 06 2007 SquirrelMail 1.4.12 Released Dec 05 2007 Domain Cleanups, and Broken Tasks Dec 05 2007 New Kitchen Toys Dec 03 2007 BBC Headlines... Nov 15 2007 Published... Nov 09 2007 Moving... Nov 04 2007 Looping Directories, and Bad "Encryption" Oct 23 2007 Am I right? Oct 22 2007 Batch Adding AD Users Oct 16 2007 Subtle Reminders... Oct 15 2007 CapitalOne and Fraud Oct 12 2007 GPS Profiling Oct 03 2007 Weee... Sep 30 2007 Bad... Sep 21 2007 Busy bee Sep 19 2007 Points of Observation Sep 17 2007 Hobby Tangents... Sep 17 2007 Got my eye on you... Sep 17 2007 Google Reader Corrupted Me... Aug 30 2007 Music Organization with QMP Aug 29 2007 Zoooooom Aug 27 2007 Mail Relaying in Sendmail Aug 15 2007 Pending Storms... Aug 06 2007 Honesty Aug 06 2007 Hunting IP Conflicts on a Windows Network Jul 26 2007 Minor annoyances with Mozilla Jul 11 2007 Comment of the day Jul 09 2007 Nico Rosberg for the win... Jul 08 2007 Finding Foreign Keys in MS SQL 2000 Jul 05 2007 Phew... Jul 01 2007 Suddenly a perfectionist Jun 28 2007 More Scripting to save your day job... Jun 22 2007 Done... Jun 22 2007 Code Escape... Jun 16 2007 Quick Windows Scripting Jun 15 2007 Square Crop Kittie Jun 14 2007 Mmmm... new toy Jun 14 2007 The real definition of Irony Jun 12 2007 Ever done this... Jun 11 2007 Bork Bork Jun 11 2007 Monty Python Backups Jun 01 2007 Getting Ready... May 29 2007 "You've been shot in the arse mate..." May 22 2007 For Bill... May 22 2007 Bash magic to save you time... May 20 2007 Oups May 18 2007 Headline Catchers May 15 2007 Dallas Arboretum May 15 2007 More Bash Magic... May 10 2007 Bash Magic... May 08 2007 Trackable Progress May 03 2007 Power of the Date format May 01 2007 How much to replace a bulb? Apr 30 2007 Mmmm cookies cake Apr 28 2007 Weather blah... Apr 18 2007 Classics fall on Deaf Ears... Apr 10 2007 Blah... Apr 10 2007 Nifty... Apr 09 2007 Corporate Training... Apr 09 2007 Old ones... are the funny ones... Apr 04 2007 Ewwwie Apr 04 2007 New Theme... Mar 25 2007 Track-It SmartServer issues after server rename Mar 15 2007 Dallas Zoo Mar 14 2007 What a Shocker... Mar 13 2007 DST Rollover... Mar 11 2007 Rant... Mar 07 2007 Corporate Policies, Symantec Firewall, and deploying standard policies Mar 07 2007 Cisco, Dell, and DST Mar 07 2007 Are you secure from the Trojan Horse? Mar 07 2007 The "gotchas" of upgrades Mar 06 2007 Avaya CCC and "Load Report Failed" Mar 05 2007 Cursing Upgrades... Mar 02 2007 SQL Job Monitoring Feb 23 2007 Procrastination Feb 21 2007 Eclipse, CVS, and Windows Feb 21 2007 2007 DST Feb 21 2007 Don't believe me? Feb 13 2007 Upgraded... Feb 11 2007 Blah... Feb 06 2007 Lighter Note Jan 31 2007 I give up... Jan 31 2007 I fear... Jan 30 2007 The Power of Robocopy Jan 26 2007 Sometimes... Jan 24 2007 Straight from the Movies... Jan 17 2007 I don't care... Jan 17 2007 Customer Service... Jan 17 2007 Theft... Jan 09 2007 On Vacation Jan 08 2007 New Goals for the Year Jan 05 2007 +2 Leadership Sword Jan 04 2007 Things that drive me... Jan 03 2007 2006 Office 2007 - Outlook Dec 29 2006 *blink* wha? Dec 28 2006 Upgraded reader... Dec 21 2006 The power of listening Dec 20 2006 IT Improvements held back by maintenance Dec 19 2006 Avaya CCC and "no available licenses" Dec 19 2006 Yummy Dec 18 2006 Woo Dec 18 2006 Wishful... Dec 17 2006 Phew.. Dec 10 2006 IIS6, and SQL Server "Access Denied" Dec 06 2006 Bad Exchange... Dec 01 2006 *Smirks* Nov 30 2006 Sleep... Nov 29 2006 Sitting 'normally' cause of back pain? Nov 29 2006 LaTeX, not the kinky type... Nov 28 2006 Disposable Mail Nov 28 2006 Trying Recipies Nov 24 2006 Work, without Windows Nov 16 2006 SQL Mail and Renaming SQL server 2000 Nov 14 2006 Nagios ping error Nov 07 2006 Funny NPR Nov 07 2006 Behr Color Explorer Nov 07 2006 Normalize that track... Nov 06 2006 Dell Rails Nov 02 2006 Cloning computers Nov 02 2006 WSUS; hint of the day Nov 01 2006 Windows time sync Nov 01 2006 Losing time Nov 01 2006 Possible idea.. Oct 30 2006 On a creativity kick... Oct 29 2006 Mixology Oct 28 2006 Death by Caffeine Oct 28 2006 Track-It and DEP Oct 26 2006 Back to the old ways... and new ways Oct 26 2006 Bad Blogger... Oct 25 2006 Slashdot an overburdened news source? Oct 20 2006 Avaya, Windows 2003, and Data Execution Prevention Oct 16 2006 Simple concepts... great results Oct 11 2006 Windows 2003, security, and VPNs Oct 06 2006 I'm not political but... Oct 06 2006 The Daily Show does it again Oct 04 2006 Max Oct 02 2006 Live Writer Oct 02 2006 Smooth site Oct 01 2006 ScobleShow goes live Sep 26 2006 Looking Back Sep 24 2006 Work, and getting away for a bit Sep 22 2006 Funny 'toon possibility Sep 20 2006 San Antonio Zoo Sep 19 2006 Nikon on Linux Sep 18 2006 Postfix, and anti-spam Sep 17 2006 Sad Day... number 2 Sep 16 2006 Login history Sep 13 2006 Windows cannot find /idlist,:#:#,. Make sure you typed the name correctly and try again. Sep 11 2006 Outlook and cached contacts Sep 11 2006 Odd Dell behaviour Sep 11 2006 End of the world... Sep 07 2006 Forwarded DNS Queries Aug 31 2006 Backups and the home user... Aug 30 2006 Missing out Aug 28 2006 3D Paint Aug 24 2006 Blog Stats, and popularity Aug 23 2006 Well... Aug 08 2006 Reminiscing Aug 06 2006 Backups... Aug 04 2006 Artwork for your mood... Aug 04 2006 Bandwidth... Aug 03 2006 Sad day... Aug 01 2006 Abuse your laptop... go on... Jul 30 2006 Took them a while... Jul 27 2006 Food tips Jul 25 2006 Podcasts and such... Jul 23 2006 Cable and interfaces Jul 23 2006 David Seah, mathematics, and "getting things" Jul 19 2006 Phew Jul 14 2006 Damn servers Jul 12 2006 Microsoft set roadmap for Salesforce competition Jul 11 2006 Tweaking exposure on image parts Jul 10 2006 MS Set to release another 7 security updates Jul 06 2006 mod_auth_ldap and Active Directory Jul 04 2006 Beginning the Cleanup Jul 04 2006 Cisco against the world... Jun 29 2006 Wooo... Jun 28 2006 Exchange and Large Messages Jun 28 2006 The Fall of The IT Control Freak Jun 27 2006 Not a great start... Jun 26 2006 Productivity and blah... Jun 22 2006 Adobe Shockwave to distribute Google Toolbar Jun 22 2006 ip_restrict 0.1 Jun 21 2006 From the files of "wtf?" Jun 20 2006 WTF? Jun 07 2006 Promoting a Windows 2003 server to a domain controller in a 2000 environment Jun 07 2006 [Insert Random Whity Title] Jun 05 2006 More todo bashing.. Jun 03 2006 Busting the TODO Jun 02 2006 Two years later.. Jun 01 2006 Sacrifice to the gods of "Arrrgh" Jun 01 2006 Can't say much... Jun 01 2006 Batwoman returns as lesbian Jun 01 2006 We're all a bunch of pervs May 31 2006 He Haunts me still... May 30 2006 Crap in... Crap out... May 22 2006 May 19 2006 BOFH Words of the Day May 11 2006 Bad day... May 09 2006 Civilization has no common sense Apr 17 2006 Bad internet... bad... Apr 17 2006 On another note... Apr 11 2006 Knew it... Apr 11 2006 Eugh... Apr 11 2006 I love it... Apr 09 2006 Wooo... it's here Mar 28 2006 Tired... Feb 27 2006 Duct Tape... Feb 27 2006 Motivation O`Meter Feb 16 2006 More home grown photography stuff... Feb 16 2006 Corporate and Organization Intelligence... Feb 16 2006 Play and Photography... Jan 18 2006 This says it all.... Jan 16 2006 Upgraded WP... Jan 09 2006 Light Tent Jan 09 2006 Walking in a winter wonder land... Jan 04 2006 2005 Gentoo Emerge, and long delays Dec 11 2005 Snow? Terrible weather? End of the world? Dec 07 2005 Picture Weekend Nov 13 2005 Pointless Projects Nov 11 2005 Argh... table full [1114] Nov 09 2005 Productivity out of work... yay Nov 08 2005 Long Weekend... Nov 07 2005 Microsoft cashing in on a coined name? Oct 27 2005 Lazy Oct 27 2005 Gaming gone too far? Oct 27 2005 So true... Oct 26 2005 Minimum Requirements for Technical Support positions Oct 03 2005 Found my twin Sep 29 2005 Evil... Sep 29 2005 It's here.... Sep 23 2005 AJAX... The new buzz word Sep 23 2005 Photography Sep 18 2005 New Beginnings Sep 18 2005
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