Mmm, software

I recently went to use a BeagleBone Black board on which I'd never booted from the eMMC before (that I could recall) and had been instea...

In my ongoing quest to make my builds less complex and faster, I've been going through my Makefiles and trying to learn as much as possi...

NTP is used to synchronized time between machines. You can read the Ubuntu HOWTO here .

I recently had need to redo an old server that had been running an ancient Gentoo installation for which there was no longer a software upgr...

So, further into my quest to build a control system with the Raspberry Pi, I've been looking around at ways to have simple input from th...

I've recently purchased several Raspberry Pi boards so that I could use them with the RasPlex distribution to run Plex clients and conne...

The Windows SDK comes with a built-in tool for performing this conversion, the details of which you can find here . The command you'll n...

I've found that sometimes I don't exactly get my service configuration right the first time, and this can cause a failure when calli...

I recently encountered the exception in the post title while migrating solutions from Visual Studio 2010 to Visual Studio 2012. Going back a...

I've recently had to go out of town, and only had my personal laptop to take with me. I usually develop in a Windows 7 environment with ...

I recently ran into a problem where I wanted to deploy a new application to the default web site on an old IIS 6 instance via MSDeploy on th...

Recently I've been trying to deploy a new web application to an old machine running Windows Server 2003 (not by choice). When I would st...

TL;WR:  http://news.softpedia.com/news/How-to-Fix-the-Big-and-Ugly-Plymouth-Logo-in-Ubuntu-10-04-140810.shtml If you've had Ubuntu for...

To change the password complexity requirements on Windows Server (2008 at least) (for whatever reason), do the following : Start -> Run ...

This is an annoying and almost entirely useless error. It can be caused by any number of things. However, in my case today, it was caused by...

I've recently had some trouble getting WiX custom actions to work, and after searching around for a while, I found this article . It giv...

I've lately been trying to update my WiX installers to perform custom actions so that I can do some security configuration of my applica...

Due to budget and other constraints, I'm unable to get my hands on the latest and greatest software for running a WCF application I'...

I recently stumbled across an article stating why we shouldn't use the 'using' keyword with WCF services, and I found it rather ...

There are a number of means of authenticating users, and one of the most secure is via a certificate. This article on CodeProject provides ...