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 PHP performance on Windows 2008/IIS7

My discussion forum has been running for more than a month now, and I guessed it was about time to have a look at the performance of the web site. …

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 Using 2 internet links with Juniper screenos Firewalls to separate traffic (pbr) and apply traffic shaping

Scenario : you have 1 Juniper firewall, which has 2 internet connections : an expensive but reliable 4Mbit connection, and a fast, less expensive, …

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 Using OSPF on Juniper Netscreen Firewalls

Introduction to OSPF OSPF is a link-state (dynamic) routing protocol that operates within an autonomous system. OSPF falls within the group of …

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 Windows Live Writer unable to connect to WordPress Blog

Keywords : Invalid response document returned from XmlRpc server - System.Xml.XmlException: Unexpected end of file while parsing Name has occurred -…

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 Free tool - PVE TCP Ping Utility – v1.0.0.1

I wanted to share a small utility that I wrote a while ago, allowing you to run a non-interactive 'ping' to a tcp port (e.g. from within a script). …

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 WMI ADAP was unable to create the object Win32_PerfRawData_ ASPNET_2050727_ASPNETAppsv2050727

Scenario : OpsMgr SP1 (RC, but problem also exists in the RTM version) on Windows Server 2003 SP2 fully patched, OpsMgr agents deployed to various …

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