Is your Apache Server Status wide open for the world to see?
The Apache web server comes with something called Apache Module mod_status installed From the Apache site: http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.0/mod/mod_status.html The Status module allows a server...
View ArticleReview: Worm: The First Digital World War by Mark Bowden
Worm: The First Digital World War by Mark Bowden Do you still remember Conficker, also known as Downup, Downadup and Kido? Conficker infected between 9 million and 15 million PCs Here are just some...
View ArticleWindows 8, Visual Studio 2012 and Windows Server 2012 released to manufacturing
Microsoft just released a press release announcing that Windows 8 has been released to manufacturing (RTM) Here are the important dates for us developers August 15th: Developers will be able to...
View ArticleGetting remote disk information with Windows PowerShell
A couple of weeks ago someone asked me why they should upgrade to MS SQL Server 2012. I named a bunch of reasons and only remembered afterwards that the possibility to use Windows Server Core could...
View ArticleGetting remote SQL Service information with Windows Powershell
Every DBA managing multiple SQL Servers with multiple instances will know the issues with developers, project managers and others that don’t know the importance of the instance name when they request...
View ArticleGetting remote Mount Point information with PowerShell
In a previous post I showed how to get remote disk information with PowerShell. The script works nice until you execute it on a server with Mount Points. When executing the following script on a server...
View ArticleDeveloper, can do new tricks, require good home
The world of development is an interesting one where creativity comes alive through code to produce wonderful programs that do lots of cool stuff. Okay that’s the Wizard of Oz intro over, is it really...
View ArticleEnabling Hyper-V Platform in a Windows 8.1 VM
This weekend I decided to take advantage of the Windows Phone Preview Program for Developers and update my Lumia 920 to Update 3 for WP8. While Update 3 was downloading and installing on my phone, I...
View ArticleWindows 10, how I doth hateth thee mostest
How’s it going folks, thought I’d get another post written up before I switch over to video logs in the future (watch this space). So I don’t really need to do a big introduction to Windows 10, there...
View ArticleNever drag and drop files between servers again!
IT professionals (and amateurs), it’s time we had a chat. It’s time to stop dragging and dropping (or copying and pasting) files between servers and/or workstations. It’s clumsy. It’s childish. It uses...
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