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Tuesday, July 01, 2008 11:59 PM

Installing SQL Server 2005 on Windows Server 2008

I am in the process of installing SQL Server 2005 on a new Windows 2008 Server, and ran into the following warning about missing some required components of IIS: - IIS Feature Requirement (Warning) Messages IIS Feature Requirement Microsoft Internet Information
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Thursday, June 19, 2008 7:51 AM

Feeling Blue

If you have used Windows for a few years, you have likely encountered a Blue Screen of Death .  Fortunately, as reliability has increased with each new release of Windows, BSODs have become progressively less common.  What causes these Blue
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Monday, May 19, 2008 4:10 AM

Installing Fedora 9 (Sulphur) in Virtual PC 2007

Fedora 9 was released last week, which you can download here: http://fedoraproject.org/get-fedora.html . What's new? Highlights from the release notes include: GNOME 2.22 . GNOME now includes a webcam photo and video creation utility called Cheese , improved
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Wednesday, February 20, 2008 3:23 PM

Analyzing your Windows Perfmon logs

Great writeup by Daniel Petri : Ever have a performance problem, but don't know what performance counters to collect or how to analyze them? The PAL (Performance Analysis of Logs) tool is a new and powerful tool that reads in a performance monitor counter
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Sunday, December 23, 2007 11:35 PM

Where's My Mail Control Panel?

(or my Quicktime Control Panel, or my Java control panel...) This has been bugging me for a while. I don't know if there is a KB article or not, but I thought I would share the solution. Ever since I have been using Windows Vista, I have not had a Mail
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Wednesday, December 19, 2007 11:59 PM

Network Troubleshooting without NetMon

Troubleshooting networks (as with any computer/system/car/generic problem troubleshooting) is often a case study in logic and common sense. Ned Pyle on the Directory Services team has put together a great post on troubleshooting networks using the built-in
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Saturday, July 21, 2007 7:58 PM

Going Back to Boot Camp

Nearly 10 years ago, I went to Marine Corps Boot Camp at MCRD San Diego . Those were good times... A few weeks ago, I went back to Boot Camp , this time loading up Windows Vista on my new MacBook Pro. The process by-and-large is quite simple, and is documented
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Thursday, May 31, 2007 6:04 AM

Fixing the mouse in Ubuntu 7.04 Feisty Fawn under Virtual PC 2007

The show-stopping " mouse no-workie " issue when loading Ubuntu 7.04 under Virtual PC 2007 now has a workaround! Courtesy of the comments at Arcanecode : Use the RIGHT ALT + V to paste the below lines into Ubuntu. Much easier than typing it out. 1. Reboot
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Monday, May 28, 2007 11:48 PM

Can't read .chm (Compiled Help) on Vista/XP/2003?

In my previous post , I mentioned that TechNet Magazine has their past issues available in HTML Help format (.chm) here . If you navigate to that page (with a fully patched Vista or Windows XP box) and open one of the referenced files from directly within
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