Automation Adventures

I ran into an interesting problem last week with some Virtual Machines. I’ve set up 3 different machines, each running Windows XP with a different version of Progress (10.0, 10.1, and 10.2), to test how our application works under the various Progress versions and to develop with some of the latest tools (I love the [...]

Recently I switched to Carbonite on two machines at home.  After installing the software and starting the backup, I noticed that frequently something would be accessing the floppy drive (or at least trying). Googling around a little bit revealed that this was one of Carbonite’s “features”. The two suggestions that kept coming up during my [...]

I’ve recently set up Nagios on one of our test servers, and the Windows client for Nagios allows you to monitor services (whether they started, stopped, etc.). However, the name of the service to monitor isn’t always the same as the name in the Services application in Administrative Tools. To find out the name of [...]

Google has released their beta browser Chrome for Windows. It distinguishes itself from other browsers by having a very minimalistic design, and some interesting technological features: The address bar doubles as a search box, history browser and suggestion bar. The tabs can be dragged out of the browser to create a new window, or multiple [...]

Wow, it does take some time to reinstall all your software and documents on a new machine. Here’s the list I had to work through: Software Windows XP Service packs Office 2003 Outlook GTD plugin Outlook Completed Task! Blackberry desktop microTorrent 7Zip Adobe Reader APC PowerChute BOINC CamStudio Citrix client Emergent Task Timer EverNote Firefox [...]