hardware
We recently upgraded our database server to 48 GB of memory -- because hardware is cheap, and programmers are expensive. Imagine our surprise, then, when we rebooted the server and saw only 32 GB of memory available in Windows Server 2008. Did we install the memory wrong? No, the BIOS
email security
I have modest email needs, so I use the default SMTP and POP3 services in Windows Server 2003. Although I have email relay disabled, spammers are still managing to send spam through my SMTP service -- via non-delivery reports! In other words, spammers are intentionally sending email messages to nonexistent
remote desktop
Some of my coworkers have an annoying habit of remoting into our Win2k servers and never logging out. They also like to do this in pairs, which means nobody else can remote into the machines due to Microsoft’s default two-user administrative mode Terminal Services limit. Yeah, I could rclient
perl
Writing code all day sort of saps my will to come home and... write more code. With that in mind I set out to find existing blog software rather than rolling my own. Life's just too short, and besides, never write what you can steal – right? I experimented