Fake Facebook Notifications
It seems that fake notification emails from social networking sites are the #1 way that spammers and virus writers try to lure you to their sites. Here’s an example of …
Can’t Sign Code after Changing Windows Domain
I recently created a new Windows domain for my network with the same name as the old domain. I migrated the profile on my XP development machine using the very …
MS DTC Can’t Connect after Server 2012 Transition
I recently transitioned from SBS 2008 to a clean install of Server 2012 Essentials. Most things went smoothly, but one issue took a lot of work to resolve: on an …
Delete Old Windows Server Backups
A client uses Windows Server Backup to back up a small Hyper-V server running Windows Server 2008 R2. Today free space on the backup drive F: dropped below 100GB of …
Convert a Select Drop-Down Box to an Autocomplete in Rails
I created a nice select drop-down box in Ruby on Rails 3.2.8 using SimpleForm 2.0.2 and Twitter Bootstrap 2.0.3, with authentication from CanCan 1.6.8. Since there are quite a few …
SSD Testing
I was surprised today after installing a Kingston V+200 SSD that the Vista disk benchmark only improved from 5.2 with the spindle disk to 5.9 with the SSD. Called Kingston …
Converting Go Daddy DNS Records for DNS Made Easy
When you export a DNS zone from Go Daddy, there is some unusual formatting. IF you don’t fix it before importing it into DNS Made Easy (and probably other hosts), …
Use DNS Made Easy with BuddyNS as Secondary
After the Go Daddy DNS meltdown earlier this month, and since they do not allow secondary DNS unless you pay them, I’m experimenting with using DNS Made Easy for my …
Postgres Error: Trigger is a System Trigger
All I wanted to do was test a little JavaScript. I’m working on my Ruby on Rails app: Rails 3.2.8, Rspec 2.11.0, Capybara 1.1.2, and Postgres 8.4. I added an …
Go Daddy: Secondary DNS Should be Free
Today’s Go Daddy outage has made it clear that I need to configure secondary DNS servers for the domains I manage. Not only are Go Daddy’s servers vulnerable to hacking, …