At work I have been noticing an increase in time it takes to remove a file from a solution. Several weeks ago it took about ten seconds, but recently it has been taking a few minutes. The other day while waiting for a file to be deleted I decided to figure out what was causing [...] [...more]
stsadm.exe is a command driven application that I use very often to administrate a SharePoint server via command line. More specifically, it is very heavily in a PowerShell script I wrote that deploys multiple solutions to SharePoint. The general syntax for stsadm is stsadm -o createsiteinnewdb -url http://sharepointserver More than often I will run into [...] [...more]
Update: Somehow this is a relatively popular post. It was originally intended only for documenting how to renew your IP by scripting, but I have received a few request for simply documenting how to do it manually. Instructions for this are at the end of the article. I’ve been a pretty big fan of the [...] [...more]
Earlier today I thought it would be nice to display a progress meter while copying a directory. After thinking about it for a while I realized that I would need to do something asynchronous, like creating a new thread. Much to my dismay I found no such thing which was quite a shock considering how [...] [...more]
At work I’ve switched from using VNC to lots of Windows Remote Desktop to get into my development boxes. The feature of VNC I missed the most was being able to resize the window to a smaller size and have it shrink the display contents so that there were no scroll bars. I was pretty [...] [...more]
Normally when I think “Hey, it would be nice if I could find out how to do this quicker” I find a way relatively soon. I’ve wanted to do this for two years and simply never got around to it because I thought it would be more difficult. Sometimes I have my monitor hooked up [...] [...more]
Very recently (The past hour an a half) I walked my mother through (via the phone) adding her new computer’s MAC address to the Wireless MAC Filter on her Linksys router. After a while, I thought it would be easiest if I could see the same screens she was. After a few minutes of research [...] [...more]
The first few days after setting up MySQL replication, I noticed that one small error would stop the replication. When this went production, we couldn’t afford to have the replication stop and not know about it. We can’t log into all our servers and check the status of things on a daily basis, we want [...] [...more]
At some point in time I need to clone many of our databases over to another MySQL server. This will require locking all users out of our severs (Apache) so that none of the databases can be updated during the clone. Because this must be preformed in a very timely manner at a very untimely [...] [...more]
Today I set up some MySQL replication for a server that I set up a few weeks ago. This was my first time doing replication and it was quite a learning experience. This was using MySQL 5.0 and CentOS 5.3, but this should work for most semi-recent versions of both. In this setup, transactions are [...] [...more]
