JustHost provided 99.06% uptime for my sites in November

JustHost has struggled to keep ardamis.com online in November, with 34 outages for a total of 6 hours and 45 minutes of downtime.

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Posted on 7 December 2012 and last updated on 25 December 2012 by with tags blogging, WordPress and categorized Nonsense, Web Site Dev, WordPress

Raspberry Pi/Nintendo emulator project

A how-to on setting up a Raspberry Pi to play NES and SNES games via the RetroArch multi-system emulator, with support for an Xbox 360 wired controller, or wireless controller via the USB Xbox 360 Wireless Gaming Receiver for Windows.

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Posted on 6 October 2012 and last updated on 10 February 2013 by with tags raspberry-pi and categorized Hardware, Nonsense, Tutorials

Handy command line utilities for basic troubleshooting in a Windows domain environment

A small collection of command line utilities used for day-to-day basic troubleshooting of Windows, mainly in a domain environment.

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Posted on 23 September 2012 by with tags network, troubleshooting, Windows 7 and categorized IT, Microsoft, Nonsense

Ardamis.com is on the map

The internet map is a graphical representation of the relative traffic to hundreds of sites on the internet, including one by yours truly.

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Posted on 22 September 2012 by and categorized Nonsense

sleep.vbs – a VBScript for delaying a process

A simple VBScript that uses WScript.Sleep to delay a process for a few seconds.

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Posted on 20 September 2012 by with tags coding, Microsoft, Windows 7 and categorized IT, VBScript

White on silver, black on gold

The fall project is to replace the house’s old electrical receptacles that aren’t properly grounded with new, grounded receptacles.

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Posted on 17 September 2012 by and categorized Nonsense

Creating a simple datestamp-timestamp named text file with VBScript

Because it frequently comes in handy, I’m posting a simple VBScript that I use to create a text file with a datestamp and timestamp as part of the file name.

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Posted on 15 September 2012 and last updated on 20 September 2012 by and categorized IT, VBScript

Microsoft’s Orca.exe is a database table editor for MSI and MSP files

Orca.exe is a database table editor for creating and editing Windows Installer packages (MSI) and merge modules (MSP).

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Posted on 8 September 2012 by and categorized IT, Microsoft

Using CertMgr to install a wireless certificate from the command line

My notes on using the Windows CertMgr command line utility to install a wireless certificate from the command line, and exporting/importing a wireless network profile. How to deploy a wireless certificate and network profile from the command line.

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Posted on 31 August 2012 by and categorized IT

My blog attracts the most technical spam

A spam comment on one of my posts is far more technical than the post itself.

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Posted on 30 August 2012 by and categorized Nonsense

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