Category Archives: Infrastructure

MAMP apache freezing

Posted on February 6, 2015 by v.

I’ve switched to MacBook Pro Retina in November after repeating frustrations with different WiFi adapters in an HP ProBook 450 G1 on Ubuntu. I always read that MAMP/WAMP/XAMP is for ‘less experienced’ developers, while native installation (via homebrew on Mac) … Continue reading →

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Digitalocean review

Posted on March 15, 2013 by v.

Being a web developer with clear lamp preference, I believe it was a trivial task for ad servers to target digitalocean.com ads at me. Those ads are just all over the net. In my gmail, on my basecamp account, my facebook … Continue reading →

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How to disable automatic upgrades on Ubuntu server?

Posted on March 12, 2012 by v.

One of the common arguments against using open source software in production is that it’s always changing, and you never know when an upgrade will break some feature or dependency. Despite the fact that Ubuntu people are trying to keep … Continue reading →

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Thread was being aborted / IIS Application Pool Idle Time-out (minutes) Setting

Posted on January 31, 2012 by v.

Idle Time-out (minutes) [idleTimeout] Amount of time (in minutes) a worker process will remain idle before it shuts down. A worker process is idle if it is not processing requests and no new requests are received. So, if you are … Continue reading →

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Redmine Email Notifications on Ubuntu 10.04 Server

Posted on August 25, 2011 by v.

Redmine is so cool  issue tracker, that I’ve had to give it a shot. Unfortunately, even on ubuntu server, where apt-get is supposed to make life easy, it’s by no means trivial to setup. I’d like to give a suggestion … Continue reading →

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How to turn on IIS logging in Windows 7?

Posted on June 10, 2011 by v.

OK, this was not intuitive at all. I can quickly find page like this: http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc754631(v=ws.10).aspx And there is nothing linked to it that would give me an idea why I can’t find Logging feature in the place I’m supposed to activate … Continue reading →

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Pushing Virtualization to the Limits

Posted on April 8, 2011 by v.

We have a Windows Server 2008 r2 with Hyper-V on a true server hardware and dozens of VMs on it. I’ve setup an Ubuntu x64 machine on my computer and wanted to consolidate by moving it to the server. Export/import … Continue reading →

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Team Foundation Server 2010 Setup

Posted on March 18, 2011 by v.

Don’t try this at home, OK? I wanted to try out less than Basic TFS setup. I only wanted source control part to start with. I took the following: Existing AD Domain Domain user on local machine with VS 2010 … Continue reading →

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TFS 2010 on cloned 2008 R2 server in AD domain

Posted on March 18, 2011 by v.

For a while I was blaming bad documentation for a number of days spent figuring out what’s wrong, but I finally realized that my case is rather specific. Here are some of requirements that took a while to figure out: … Continue reading →

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Hyper-V can’t connect to a machine

Posted on March 18, 2011 by v.

I’m normally using remote desktop to access my Hyper-V server. Btw, I also use remote desktop to access virtual machines hosted on Hyper-V. So, today I was trying to connect to a virtual machine from Server Manager, and nothing happened. … Continue reading →

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