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Melt Mail. It's a simple interface. What I liked most is that you pick up front the length of time the temporary email address should forward mail to you. Your choices are 3,6,12 and 23 hours. Short, sweet, effective." title="Melt Mail – Melts the spam, not your inbox" />Melt Mail – Melts the spam, not your inbox
Posted on January 6, 2009 | No CommentsJust stumbled across another temporary email service called Melt Mail. It's a simple interface. What I liked most is that you pick up front the length of time the temporary email address should forward mail to you. Your choices are 3,6,12 and 23 hours. Short, sweet, effective. -
VMWare ESXi – VM Crashes during failed Snapshot Delete
Posted on November 20, 2008 | No CommentsOkay, I'm really thanking the good Lord right now. He granted us discernment that kept us from losing an entire day's worth of data for my employer. To Him be all the glory. ### The Problem -
KB article from MediaTemple that provide great hope of some performance improvement on our grid service (gs) account. Now I came across this as a result of researching performance optmizations for Drupal on their dedicated virtuals (dv) that some of my clients sites run on.
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MediaTemple Grid Server, Drupal and the Zend Optimizer
Posted on November 19, 2008 | No CommentsToday was a great day. First off, the good Lord gave me another day on Earth to do His work. That's a good start. I also came across a KB article from MediaTemple that provide great hope of some performance improvement on our grid service (gs) account. Now I came across this as a result of researching performance optmizations for Drupal on their dedicated virtuals (dv) that some of my clients sites run on. -
SQL Server 2008 Tips and Tricks – Reporting Services MSDN Webcast Notes
Posted on November 18, 2008 | No CommentsThe MSDN Webcast from September 8, 2008 is the third in a series entitled “SQL Server 2008 Tips & Tricks” focuses on Reporting Services 2008. Presentation and slide content by IT Mentors 1. SSRS 2008 Architecture/Runtime 2. Configuration 3. New Controls a. Tablix b. Gauges and Indicators 4. Deployment ### Benefits of Eliminating IIS from the SSRS Architecture * Easier configuration * IIS settings for other applications impact SSRS * Better resource management -
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Upgrading to SQL Server 2008 Notes
Posted on November 18, 2008 | No CommentsAs we move down this SQL Server 2008 upgrade road I am trying to learn from previous projects of other versions and not take anything for granted. So, I am taking the time to research upgrade paths and issues as we look at moving forward. First I needed to check and see if there is a supported upgrade path from SQL Server 2008 Enterprise Edition Evaluation to the full licensed product. Indeed there is according to this MSDN article. -
GMAP_Location module and Block Caching
Posted on November 17, 2008 | No CommentsWas working on another Drupal 6 site yesterday and worked on addressing a few issues that have crept up for the beta testing. -
Juniper Netscreen Firmware Updates
Posted on November 14, 2008 | No CommentsWe just got done upgrading the firmware on one of our Netscreen devices. Good news, it went flawlessly. Only about 4.5 minutes of downtime.
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SSWUG.org for putting on a great vConf. What's a vConf? You mean you don't know? :)
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SSWUG.org Virtual Conference – Business Intelligence
Posted on November 12, 2008 | No CommentsSo I have a few minutes to decompress and give kudos to the great folks at SSWUG.org for putting on a great vConf. What's a vConf? You mean you don't know? :)
