Adding a Second Disk Live in VMware Workstation
I was installing Visual Studio 2013 today in my development environment – which I run inside of VMware Workstation – and it warned me that I didn’t have enough free disk space. No problem – that’s one...
View ArticleConvert a Folder to an Application on a Remote IIS Host
The topic recently came up of the best way to convert a folder to an application on remote shared hosting server. Some hosts may have this built-in to their control panel. I know many (like Cytanium)...
View ArticleSecurely “Wiping” Hard Drives
Being a tech person I know that just deleting a file from within Windows or Linux doesn’t assure that the data isn’t recoverable. Most files when removed using normal operating system delete functions...
View ArticleCloud Server Performance Metrics
It’s hard to really know what you get when buying cloud services today. Depending on the vendor they might sell their services with set amounts of “cores”, or “compute units”, or “vCPUs”. Storage might...
View ArticleGMail’s Send As Feature – SMTP Relaying
Gmail allows you to define multiple “send as” addresses. So if you want to use your GMail account but send email from You@YourCustomDomain.com, this can be supported. But, to support this you need to...
View ArticleExtend Your Linux Disk Space
I was pondering an interesting, and likely fairly common, situation last night so this morning I was up early getting my geek on (aka, playing, testing, and troubleshooting). If someone has a Linux VM...
View ArticleHow do you add an existing user to the sudoers file?
Are you or one of your users getting the following error when trying to execute a sudo command? [username] is not in the sudoers file. This incident will be reported Here is how to fix that problem...
View ArticleTurn Off IE Enhanced Security Configuration
The Internet Explorer Enhanced Security Configuration (IE ESC) that is turned on by default on Windows Server drives me crazy. Being unable to download files, and constantly being prompted to add URLs...
View ArticleWordPress on Win08, Win12, and CentOS+NGINX
So… I’ve been reading a lot about nginx and how awesome it performs. It sounds magical! The Issue My blog (running WordPress) hasn’t been running as fast as I (or Google) would like. The TTFB (time to...
View ArticleLinking spam sent through shared IIS SMTP server to a user
Microsoft’s IIS SMTP service won’t log usernames even when SMTP-AUTH is enabled and clients are all authenticating. So, what happens if someone starts abusing the SMTP service (or you perhaps have a...
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