Creating a DAG in Exchange 2013 on Server 2012 R2
If you try and create a Database Availability Group using the EAC – and hope to use that new-fangled feature of creating one without an IP address – you will fail, and neither Microsoft’s documentation nor any of the myriad TechNet blogs will help you one whit.
Install Dropbox on Ubuntu Server 12.04 LTS
I love Dropbox. I’ve previously posted about how it can be used to help back up your files. But what about backing up Dropbox itself?
Help! My cron jobs aren't running!
Ugh. I can’t count how many times this one’s bit me, and frustratingly kept my cron scripts from running – always without error, or notice, or even warning, no matter how many logs I scour!
When Git Bites Back
I love Git. Before I discovered version control, I lived a dangerous cowboy-coder life, and I loved that. But then I was introduced to Subversion, and I saw that this was better. Then, I met Git, and saw that is was better still – best, even!
Remember Me
Short version: Remember Me
Backing up your stories with Scrivener and Dropbox
As I have for the last six years (with one exception owing to being in India for the month), this year I am doing NaNoWriMo. The short version? I’m writing a 50,000-word novel in the 30 days of November.
Using Shorewall to configure a Tor isolating proxy
Tor is great for browsing the internet anonymously. But, it’s not perfect – rogue software on your machine can compromise your identity and reveal who you are by simply sending its own network traffic. If you can isolate your machine, however, and guarantee that all network traffic goes through Tor, you greatly improve your odds of maintaining your anonymity online.
Randomness in Gaming
In my experience, there are two schools of thought when it comes to an element of random chance in strategy games: 1) It’s good. 2) It’s bad.
XCOM: This is why we send the rookie first
This is a post I first wrote on a forum almost a full year ago, about a particularly exciting recent mission in the stellar game XCOM: Enemy Unknown
Plugged in, not charging?
Weird issue. Tonight I noticed that, despite having plugged it in quite a while ago, the little system tray indicator still suggested I had very low battery charge remaining. Hovering over it revealed something even more troubling: