Holy cow! Can you believe that finally the developers of Wireshark have reached 1.0.0 of their product. I have been running 0.9X versions of this software for what seems like forever.
Wireshark for you who haven’t looked for a long time used to be the packet sniffer called Ethereal. This is a great free packet sniffer […]
Ran across something interesting this week. I was looking into performance on some of our webservers and noticed that there would be unexplained CPU spikes every once in a while. No real spikes in traffic, no additional tasks going on.
In the event logs I did find something that correlated with the CPU spikes:
Event ID: 7036
"The […]
So if you are running Windows 2003 with IIS 6 and all of your web applications are running ASP .Net 2.0 you might want to get rid of .Net 1.1.
Well with Windows 2003 it isn’t easy or advisable to completely remove .Net 1.1 but you can unregister is from IIS having the same affect […]
So I posted earlier on splitting up the robots.txt you are showing based on if the bot was connecting on http or https here. I commented at the end that if this is an existing site and Google has already indexed your https content you need to be careful. Once you block Google from reindexing […]
Do you need something to monitor the bandwidth usage on one server? For instance if you have a hosted server that has limited total usage. Well if you want a simple free tool download NetMeter.
You can get real time statistics, totals including day, week and month. It will also project your usage over the […]
One of the big things a lot of people are doing these days is SEO or search engine optimization. I am not planning on going over a comprehensive guide for SEO right now but as I run into them in my own job I will post them here.
One of the more recent tasks I had […]
I have uninstalled Symantec Endpoint Protection from my laptop. The trial was coming to an end and with the findings of the new management console problems I didn’t see a reason to continue.
See previous posts here:
Part I
Part II
Instead I have moved on to BitDefender Total Security 2008. I have just installed it and it seems […]
One problem that anyone who runs a server room or a datacenter has come across is how do I keep it cool. Servers put off a ton of heat, now with the popularity of 1U servers and Blade Servers the heat problem has only gotten worse.
The best way to keep a datacenter cool is to […]
RSS Feed
