backups
You may notice that commenting is currently disabled, and many old Coding Horror posts are missing images. That's because, sometime early on Friday, the server this blog is hosted on suffered catastrophic data loss. Here's what happened: 1. The server experienced routine hard drive failure. 2.
virtualization
My employer, Vertigo Software, graciously hosted this blog for the last year. But as blog traffic has grown, it has put a noticeable and increasing strain on our bandwidth. Even on an average day, blog traffic consumes a solid 30 percent of our internet connection– and much more if something
virtualization
If you use virtual machines at all, you should have the single most important virtual machine performance tip committed to heart by now: always run your virtual machines from a separate physical hard drive: [the] biggest performance win is to put the virtual hard disks on separate disk spindles from
virtual machines
Now that Virtual PC is finally free, I've become obsessed with producing the smallest possible Windows XP Virtual PC image. It's quite a challenge, because a default XP install can eat up well over a gigabyte. Once you factor in the swapfile and other overhead, you&
security
Virtual machine images typically don’t need much security, so the login prompt is more of a formality than anything else. Plus, if you’re planning to share the VM image with others, you need to communicate the login information along with the image. It’s a pain. I’ve
virtual machines
Lately I’ve been spending more and more time inside virtual machines. Whenever I need to try out a new bit of software, whether it’s a small shell extension, or a giant product like Team System – I tear off a new VM first. I don’t want to junk