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Introducing “CNB ImageGuide”

Should you save your image as PNG or JPG? ImageGuide is a program which helps you choose the best format.. Web images are usually saved in either .JPG or .PNG format, but unfortunately most people have...

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How to perform a P2V conversion for FreeBSD to run on Hyper-V

One of my big projects with my personal server setup, was to turn my current physical FreeBSD server into a Hyper-V VM. Why would I do this? Don’t ask, because I don’t want to start a religous war...

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A few tips on installing Microsoft Forefront Client Security

We decided to try out Microsoft Forefront Client Security, since we get free licenses, and it’s time to end the hodgepdge of third-party antivirus apps we have. Once again, Microsoft has proven to me...

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“Open Source Strategy” is a red herring

One of the biggest objections I have to the typical VC or IT analyst view of the world is this concept of “open source strategy”. If you talk to an analyst or a VC, there is this conviction that open...

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Fix for 0x80072f0c error (502.3 – Bad Gateway) for reverse proxy to SSL with IIS

I’ve spent most of a week struggling with this error. I set up IIS to reverse proxy to a backend server using the URL Rewrite module and the Application Request Routing (ARR) module. The first problem...

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My Firefox experiment

At the advice of others, I’ve decided to give Firefox a one week trial (I’ve been an IE user since version 3 or 4 took me off of Netscape). I was willing to make the switch simply because IE is really,...

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My experiments with Chrome, Opera

I recently gave Firefox about a week of my life to see how I liked it. While I did not think it was perfect, it showed me that it is definitely worth exploring other browsers. So I decided to give...

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So a SQL Server Transaction Log ate Your Free Space.

This weekend I came across an unusual circumstance that I thought I would share with many of those part-time SQL Server admins. I currently maintain more than a couple of SQL servers. Because SQL...

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TFS 2010 Web Access “Access Denied” error – solved

A few days ago, one of the members of our QA team reported that they couldn’t access any projects in TFS 2010′s Web Access other than one. They were getting an “access denied” error with no...

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Rosetta Stone Launches iPad App

Yesterday Rosetta Stone launched their TOTALe HD app for the iPad device, another platform which Rosetta Stone included in trying to create a total immersion process for learning a new language.  I was...

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