Posted in Randomness, Windows on Jan 18th, 2012
Arrgghhh!! I’ve been working for over a week to try to get the CA Patch Management software installed so that I can evaluate it. A pre-req for it is CA IT Client Management (ITCM) and I cannot get the frakking software to install. Let me take that back.. I can get it to install, just [...]
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Posted in Randomness on Nov 28th, 2011
Recently discovered an awesome little batch command that’s apparently been around forever and I’ve never heard of it. Have you ever wanted to search a directory from the command line for all files older than a year? Or wanted to search for all txt files newer than a certain date? And wanted to do it [...]
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Posted in Randomness on Sep 20th, 2011
I run into this all the time. You’ve got a complex application that runs across a multitude of servers and users are randomly reporting errors. How do you figure out what’s producing the error? Let’s run through a scenario, then I’ll give you my process on it: Users launch the application through Citrix. The app [...]
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