Category Archives: IT

SQL Activity Monitor – Debug high CPU Usage for SQL Server

Posted on January 1, 2012 by Stephen

START -> All Programs -> Microsoft SQL Server 2008 R2 -> SQL Server Management Studio Connect as normal and right-click on the SQL Server (top left) and go “Activity Monitor”. The Activity Monitor will show the queries been run, the … Continue reading →

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SEO tweaks using mod_rewrite to prevent duplicate content being crawled

Posted on November 14, 2011 by Stephen

Over the past few years, with the rise in popularity of using no-www there have been some issues where content is getting crawled by a search engines twice, and in some cases getting a negative scoring due to duplicated content. I.E. … Continue reading →

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Remove a Preferred Network from the Dell Wireless Utility

Posted on November 3, 2011 by Stephen

An information sheet on how to remove a Preferred Network from a computer with a Dell Wireless Utility on Windows XP. Link to Document

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Backup with SyncToy

Posted on June 16, 2011 by Stephen

Left to Right (all files are copied from the Folder on the Left, to the Folder on the Right) Synchronize: New and updated files are copied both ways. Renames and deletes in one folder is repeated on the other. Echo: New … Continue reading →

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WordPress: Caching, Internet Bots and Database issues

Posted on May 9, 2011 by Stephen

WP Supercache works very nice and has a lot of config options including a preload to cache all wordpress pages. One of my blogs however recieves average traffic and that coupled with the fact that I use tla, I didn’t … Continue reading →

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