From time to time I have projects that require digging near the building (installation of fiber circuit, or installation of a backup generator). One of the most important things that needs to be done before digging is to have the utilities located. Utilities include: water, sewer, run-off water, power, natural gas, and phone service. This […]
Archives for November 2014
Unix — How to read and set permissions
From time to time, I have the need to use a Unix box (off-site hosted web server). As a part of this, is knowing how permissions work on a *nix box. Let’s start with a directory listing. This is done by issuing the command: ls -l from a terminal window. Let’s take a look at […]
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Credit Card Processing 101
During the course of my work, we use an integrated credit card solution. Integrated from the view-point, that there are no separate machines that handle credit card processing. One of the first things that is needed is an understanding of the process. I thought I’d take the opportunity to explain the mystery behind credit card […]
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Websites — Why my website is slow
One of the questions that I have received recently was about a website that is hosted by 3rd-party. The website, at times, experiences some slowness. One of the reasons for this is a bandwidth consumption problem from our corporate site. However, this was not the case today. I was asked why our site was slow, […]
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Remote Desktop — Position a session
One of the programs that we use is Microsoft’s “Terminal Server” client — mstsc. On of the problems that we experience is: a user will want the RDP session to open on a specific monitor. Sometimes the rdp client will let the work, others, it won’t. Start the Remote Desktop connection (mstsc). Click on the […]
