OK, for forever and a day, as long as I can remember in the Windows world I set-up servers with a system partition and an appropriate slice of separate data…
Here’s another issue I found after porting my sites to Windows 2012. Each page of this site was taking between 2.5 and 6 seconds to load. This turned out to…

Having replaced my home server with Windows 2012, I found despite having the proper keys, I could not activate it. The product would not in fact let me enter my…
Looking for an easy way to add those search sites to your FireFox search box? I was looking for the .UK version of Google. A simple enough request, but something…
Ever wonder if it would be more efficient to save compressed versions of your strings for storage in databases etc? I wanted to check several variations on this recently, so…
Evernote is a great piece of software when it works, which is most of the time. It does have a couple issues I’ve come across. Having just rebuilt both my…
This is a utility I wrote the first version of many years ago. At work we have a need to remove old files from sometimes very deep directory structures. This…
Getting a 500 internal server error when trying to use .net httpwebresponse with asp or aspx? I was when all worked ok via a browser and with other URL’s. Try…
Following on from my Centos updates, I’ve got to update my Ubuntu 10.4 boxes. Given ubuntu say this is bad and will break all sorts of things, I’m installing alongside…