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Virtualization continues to mature and has become an extremely viable solution for both businesses and individuals to have their own virtual server. Costs of servers have dramatically decreased as the back-end hardware costs are shared across a number of users. With that being said, there are some obscure issues that arise on virtual servers. One of those such issues is
Read more“Help, Dick, Help!” exclaimed Sally. “I lost my password” “Look, Jane, Look,” said Dick. “I emailed you your password.” Jane sees her password. Everybody sees her password. Jane is sad. Dick is sad. Transmitting secret information, such as a password, to a user across the Internet is often mishandled. One common way is to send the password through email. While
Read moreSo you’ve written a new ASP.Net website, tested it locally in your development environment and you deploy it to your IIS server. Now you’re getting the dreaded 500 – Internal server error. What are you to do? As you may know, a HTTP 500 error is a generic error message returned by a web server when it knows something has
Read moreAs a systems administrator you may find yourself spending a significant amount of time in Event Viewer looking for specific events. You will be happy to know that there is a new feature that shipped with Windows 2008 and all versions of Windows Server since then that allows you to attach events to a log file so that you can
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