How Do I Determine Application IOPS?
This is just a note for myself since I often find myself trying to analyze an application to performance tune a server/system. Using Windows Performance Monitoring I use…
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Start Windows 8 in Safe Mode
It's a rather lengthy process to start Windows 8 in safe-mode for diagnostic troubleshooting. I'll show you the Windows way of starting in Safe Mode and then I'll…
Tip: Change DNS Server for a Network Adapter via Command Line in Windows
Just a quick tip/note on changing the DNS server(s) for a network adapter in Windows from the command line. To do this, you need elevated privileges on a…
Smart Size Remote Desktop Client
What is Smart Sizing? Smart-sized mode means that the entire remote desktop is always visible in the client window, with no scrollbars being necessary. In effect, for the…
Free Publisher to PDF Online Conversion Tool
I was recently made aware that there is a free online Pub to PDF conversion tool available. This tool will convert your Microsoft Publisher file to a PDF…
Internet Explorer, Chrome, Firefox and Opera Benchmarks
I'm not a browser war kinda dude but I had some free time and decided to run some benchmarks after installing IE10 today on my Windows 7 workstation. …
IOPS Calculator
Here are some of the links I have for IOPS calculators on my site: https://techish.net/hardware/raid-iops-mbps-and-more-excel-cheat-sheet/ https://techish.net/hardware/iops-calculator-and-raid-calculators-estimators/ Some useful information on some of the graphing I had done with…
End of Availability of VMware ESX 4.x
Dear Valued Customer, VMware is announcing an End of Availability (“EoA”) date for VMware vSphere® ESX hypervisor 4.x and for VMware Management Assistant (“vMA”) versions 1…
Internet Explorer Won't Display PNG Images in Browser
Came across this on a Windows XP machine. It wasn’t file association (assoc .png, ftype pngfile) it was the MIME issue. There’s a registry file fix here: http://www.winhelponline.com/articles/202/1/PNG-images-are-not-displayed-on-Web-sites-in-Internet-Explorer.html
Bulk add TXT DNS Record to Zones in Windows
Had more than a handful of domains I needed to add TXT record for in Windows DNS (2003). I did it using dnscmd from 2003 Toolkit and command…
Free Windows 8 eBook: Introducing Windows 8, an Overview for IT Professionals
Free eBook from Microsoft Press. Introducing Windows 8 An Overview for IT Professionals by Jerry Honeycutt Download Now! (PDF) Continue reading
Samsung Galaxy S3 for $99?
Seems that AliExpress is having a Samsung Galaxy S3 for $99 go up for sale (only 5) in about 11.5 hours. Not sure I can trust this, but…
Lenovo Yoga 13 Fan Noise
[stextbox id=info]Update: This is an update from "Bloo" on the Lenovo forum thread surrounding this issue. tl;dr I've approved an update that contains a new thermal map that…
How To Factory Reset a Cisco PIX 501
A quick note on factory resetting Cisco PIX 501 devices. In enable mode: pix501# config t pix501(config)# configure factory-default
Can't Bind Windows 2008 R2 VM to Interface for DHCP
UPDATE: I had originally thought I had resolved this by removing/re-adding the adapter. Turns out the issue reappeared this morning. After more researching, I found that it was…