December 4, 2008Whilst doing some project build work recently, I noticed that every time I attempted to build a solution, it’d want to checkout every project, and update it with something. After doing a comparison after it had done it’s update, and before I checked it into TFS, I decided to find out what kept getting [...]
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November 7, 2008After having some performance issues with VMware server 1.x, we decided to upgrade to the 2.x release. It wasn’t long after executing the setup binary that I had issues…
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October 26, 2008As previous mentioned, I’ve been dropped the lovely project of managing, and automating the build processes for all of our application suites. I’m getting to learn some interesting stuff about automated builds, and finding some interesting quirks, such as the evaluation of ItemGroups.
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October 8, 2008I’ve recently been put in control of managing the source control, and deployments in the office. It’s an interesting project, and I’m looking back over some of the stuff we’ve done to get our mass of code to work, build, and roll out to 4 different environments. However, I wanted something more manageable, [...]
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October 7, 2008For a while, I’ve been doing a little bit of development work, build configurations, and the likes. I’ve had everything running inside a Virtual PC instance due to issues (detailed in Expanding Virtual PC Disks). We’re looking to upgrade to Visual Studio 2008 soon, so I decided to pre-jump.
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August 28, 2008I’ve always seem to have some bad luck with Microsoft products. I used to have a rather nice Dell Inspiron 9300, 17″ screen, worked great, until I installed Visual Studio… Then whenever I’d open it, BSOD.
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July 14, 2008I’ve discovered that there are always lots of random things that can wreck a good weekend… For example, getting alarms, and emails at 0700 on a Sunday morning reporting possible power issues, then more alarms at 0900 confirming a power outage.
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June 25, 2008For an upcoming project, we started moving an external vendor off of a Microsoft PPTP VPN tunnel (per user client), to a fixed VPN tunnel using IPSEC, and handled at the gateway. During this migration, it was decided to remove access to the PPTP tunnel to ensure the vendor was using the proper tunnel. [...]
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June 19, 2008We deployed Veritas’ DLO for a manager a few months ago after a laptop rebuild. Mostly because he spent several hours a week making regular backups of his documents folder. A pointless exercise when we have the software to handle backups for him.
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April 29, 2008I’ve been stuck in a rut again, not sure why.
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I'm a full time network administrator, working for a large company in the automotive industry. I enjoy spending time with my family, when I get away from work that is. I also enjoy photography, and computer programming.
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