Windows Server 2012 Weekend Reading…
Interested in the next Windows Server release? Windows Server 2012 RC is available for download as well as an ebook (PDF) introduction to Windows Server 2012 and a…
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Rich
Just another IT guy.
How to Search PDF Files on Windows 7
Have a lot of PDF files that you wish you could quickly search through for a keyword/phrase directly from Windows? Well, I do -- everything from Guides, Howtos,…
ToolTip: Microsoft Download Manager
The Microsoft Download Manager enables you to download files simply and easily. It also makes downloading large files such as application and multimedia files quick and reliable.
ToolTip: FaxTool – Combine or Split TIFF and PDF Files Free
I was trying to find a quick and easy way to combine or merge multiple TIFF images into one TIFF and found the searching to be quite annoying. …
Parse CSV with Batch Script
Here's a basic method of parsing a CSV file using Microsoft Batch. The following code will allow me to use all the CSV fields. Let's suppose the CSV…
Filter Windows Event Logs for Failed Service Startups
You can do this in 2003 and 2008 as well in XP, Vista, Windows 7 etc. Just set the filter accordingly. [note]Usually I do this when I'm investigating…
SQL Server Optimization Rules of Thumb
This helped me today in troubleshooting and understanding some issues. The performance counter SQL Server Access Methods: Full Scans/sec is very helpful in determining if you have a…
ttyrec Playback using jsttyplay and WordPress
So I spent a little bit of time tonight tinkering on Linux. I got interested in tty recording/playback after seeing some nethack things. I figured if I could…
This Color is BRIGHT!
A pretty damn bright HTML color; probably not web safe. But it is BRIGHT!
IOPS Calculator and RAID Calculators / Estimators
This page contains RAID calculators, IOPS calculators and other estimatior tools to use for raid disks and disk arrays. If you know of other calculators, please leave a comment…
Server 2008 R2 Performance Tuning
Here's some of the things I do to a new Server 2008 R2 install (physical and/or virtual settings are mixed in; (VIRTUAL ONLY) specifies I only do configuration…
MySQL Performance Analysis and Tuning Resources
Came across a few useful websites with miscellaneous MySQL performance/configuration analysis/testing tools. http://www.day32.com/MySQL/ http://hackmysql.com/mysqlsla http://www.maatkit.org/doc/ http://blog.mysqltuner.com/ Continue reading
Cisco IOS ACL for DNSChanger
I added this to my edge router to block DNSChanger trojan. I created a new ACL (101) and then applied it to my fast ethernet interface (Fa0/0) outbound.…
Debian Handbook
I have added the Debian Handbook to my Resources navigation menu. The handbook is available at: https://techish.net/debian-handbook/ You can install it on your Debian system (available in Unstable):…
Defrag SQL MDF, LDF Files on Disk using Contig
Wrote this batch script to search an entire system (all disks) and find MDF/LDFs and then prompt whether or not to defrag. You need to have 'contig' from…