Implementing and eventually developing Sharepoint 2007 (also known as MOSS) stuff is my next big project at 'work work'. It's been tough finding straightforward information on implementation but I finally did. First, Martin Kearn, an MCS Sharepoint guy based in the UK, wrote an outstanding four page guide (bulleted) …

Someone recently asked why I don't use SQL Mail on my SQL Servers (2000 and below). The answer is: I don't want to install Outlook on my SQL Servers. Sure, there are ways around it but I prefer just using "net send" to alert the Operator (moi) then forwarding those messages on to my inbox and phone. Although …

This issue came up twice in the past week at work, so I decided to post the solutions. Here are a few ways to disable the annoying system beep in older versions of Windows. This works especially well to hush Terminal Services beeping. I ran these commands on client machines, but they may work on the server as well. …

Microsoft Windows Server Update Services 3.0 is now available for download. I updated 4 of my servers from WSUS 2.0 to 3.0 today with no apparent problems - the install was very smooth. The biggest difference so far is the move from WSUS Administration being web-based to being an MMC 3.0 snap-in. If you'd like to …

My beloved 17 year old cat named KITTY II has been with me since I was in middle school and I'm now approaching 30. That's actually more than half of my life. As old as she is, she still looks young, a trait that runs in my family ;). Here's Kitty starring in a poorly Photoshopped (her right eye was too bright) …

I work for a large company that uses Postini for Enterprise spam filtering and it does a fantastic job. It's actually famous for being one of the very few spam filter capable of blocking UCEs from the "Cajun Spam King" (No, Scelson doesn't sound very Cajun to me...). And in researching for this article, I …

Last week, I attended the Web 2.0 Expo at Mascone Center in San Francisco where I watched Steve Souders of Yahoo speak. His workshop was titled High Performance Webpages and has a yet-to-be published O'Reilly book by the same name (though the Rough Cuts version is currently available for download). The basis of his …

I apologize for the duplicate posts that appeared in "all y'all's" RSS readers; I signed up with Feedburner a few days ago and it slightly changed the content of the feeds. I'm surprised I signed up with FeedBurner, honestly. As someone who's hosted my own mail/dns/web/database/everything since 1998, I've …

I recently attended a Longhorn Roadshow in Santa Clara and learned quite a bit about Microsoft's emphasis on virtualization in Longhorn. A lot of companies are going towards virtualizing servers, even those still running NT or Exchange 5.5. The main reasons seem to be saving rackspace and saving electricity (fewer …

The Google Dev Team writes: "Due to the huge amount of interest, we've added spots at the event and opened registration back up." Seats are super limited so sign up while you still can. (Living in the Bay Area rocks)