Work has been pretty wild lately. I was talking to my boss today and I said that IT at TACF is probably about as full-on as it has been in about 5 years.
- I’m managing the relaunches of 5+ websites, which as anyone familiar with that process knows, can be a crapload of work. […]
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iPhone working with Microsoft Exchange
Published July 16th, 2008 in IT Industry and Work. 0 CommentsI’m happy to say that we at TACF have our one iPhone updated with version 2.0, and have got it syncing with Exchange 2003.
Apple provide a document that offers a trivial level of assistance in setting things up. If you’re already using ActiveSync for other devices, then you’ll be working already. If you’re not using […]
Another useful query I was in need of, and found, yesterday. This one is care of Pinal Dave (who writes a very useful blog, which has helped me before), though I added the “Order By” line. This query lists all the constraints of a database. Replace AdventureWorks with your DB name.
USE AdventureWorks;
GO
SELECT OBJECT_NAME(OBJECT_ID) AS NameofConstraint,
[…]
We use Microsoft SQL 2005 for our mission critical and web databases. In one instance, we’re able to use SQL Express just fine, but lately I had been keeping an eye on a DB that was approaching the 4GB limit imposed on SQL Express. I had a Google for queries to list the table sizes […]
More reasons to stay away from GoDaddy
Published June 30th, 2008 in IT Industry and Work. 0 CommentsThe first few domains I set up I had hosted with GoDaddy, as they seemed like a decent company. I moved my domains away from GoDaddy a couple of years ago, as I started to feel uneasy about them, but couldn’t put my finger on anything in particular (other than fishy pricing). Over the last […]
How to email FROM specific IPs, using Linux and Postfix
Published May 19th, 2008 in IT Industry and Work. 0 CommentsI was asked recently to find an email solution for a new marketing firm. The solution specifically, was for the problem of outbound IP binding. That is what IP address email is sent from. If you’re providing email outsourcing for multiple clients, it’s important to keep each client on it’s own IP(s) so one being […]
I ran into a problem a few months back where I found non-admin users on Windows Server 2003 couldn’t run batch files in scheduled tasks. I just gave up then as it wasn’t important, but I had to find a solution for the same issue today. Didn’t have to look far, it turned out:
SYMPTOMS
When you […]
Exchange server down all weekend… fixed
Published March 18th, 2008 in IT Industry and Work. 0 CommentsI did some maintenance on our email server on Saturday (backup, chkdsk, defrag) just simple stuff, but somewhere inside the chkdsk things got mangled. I knew there were some file level problems on the machine, and there’d been a general stability problem for a while, so all of this was about due to happen. But […]
In at least 3 ways.
1. Back in Finland. Toronto was great, got a lot of good work done, hung out with *almost* everyone I wanted to, and generally had a productive and fun time. Brought 2 suitcases back of belongings for Maija and I (go Monopoly and Risk!)
2. I foolishly left the power adapter for […]
Half way through our holiday in NZ my laptop started puking out blue screens of death. It’s never done this before… but it started in earnest until the machine became pretty much unusable (over a period of 48 hours). So I spent some time in thought, regarding the fate of my 6 month old laptop […]
