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Do not take Windows Updates lightly

09 January 2012 |

Recently we experienced an odd issue; on an intermittent basis authenticated users would see a non-authenticated view of the page they were on.  A little debugging revealed that each server behaved well in isolation but when the load balancer was in the mix moving requests between servers things got wonky.  Using his mad curl skillz, @andrewmglenn determined that the authentication cookie set from one of our servers was not playing nicely with the others.  This turned out to be a two way street – one server didn’t like the cookies set from the other servers and the others didn’t like...

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posted @ Monday, January 09, 2012 3:00 PM | Feedback (0)

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Win 7: First impressions

24 October 2009 |

One word: nice! The install was easy and everything worked right out of the box – even my Dell Wireless 802.11n card which Vista had numerous problems with.  My Dell Webcam software was actually installed too, which is pretty nice. All in all, I’m happy.  The interface is very clean and much more productive than any other version of Windows. The taskbar has all your open windows.  The image above is the icon for Windows Explorer.  Notice the green on the left hand side?  That’s actually a progress bar – I was copying a...

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posted @ Saturday, October 24, 2009 9:37 PM | Feedback (0)

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