Connecting to your VNC server over SSH is easily done and you most likely don’t need any special software to do so. Any system that has SSH installed can connect using an SSH Tunnel. I go into more detail about the concept on a separate post about mounting OSX AFS shares over SSH. First you [...]
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Monitor Log Files in Realtime with LogFileMonitor
In order to more easily monitor some web services that we have running, I whipped up a quick .NET app to monitor log files in real-time. I got a little bit carried away and wrote more than I needed, but I think this app will save a lot of time in the long run. The [...]
Create Symbolic Links in Windows XP, Vista and Windows 7
If you’re a *NIX guy/gal you might be tempted to bash Windows for not having symolic links. Windows has actually supported a similar feature called Junctions since Windows 2000. A junction is not exactly like a symlink but it does work for certain types of things. The requirement is that the drive must be formatted [...]
PHP on Windows 2003 IIS 6 Displays 404 Page Not Found
After Installing PHP 5 using the Windows installer on Windows 2003 you may find that IIS displays a “Page Not Found” 404 error for every .php page. This is a perplexing error because is it not actually a real 404 error. The file is really there, but IIS is unable to process it based on [...]
Migrating Windows NT From Legacy Hardware to a Parallels Virtual Machine
I recently had to rescue a legacy application that was running on an old Compaq Proliant server. This custom application is primarily a web application running on MS SQL Server, however there are various services and automated tasks and the application is fairly well embedded onto this hardware. The application has gone through various changes [...]
