Monthly Archives: February 2008


You take the red pill and you stay in Wonderland and I show you how deep the rabbit-hole goes.

First things first – you should know that the item I’m discussing is an add on to existing Windows Storage Server products (NAS boxes) and that to obtain the “real” version customers should speak to the OEM who provider their Window Storage Server product. Some background iSCSI is a protocol that allows clients (called initiators) […]


Further adventures with Dameware NT Utilities

Using the Dameware tools mentioned here – I found some really useful features for example in the TCP Utilities – kicking off a continuous ping to monitor a site, DNS lookups on A MX Cname or NS records, traceroute, MX test and a DNS resolver – all as an option on the context menus you […]


Revenge of the Perf Counters !!

Previously I mentioned The Open Procedure for service “ASP.NET” in DLL “C:WINNTMicrosoft.NETFrameworkv2.0.50727aspnet_perf.dll” failed. Performance data for this service will not be available. Status code returned is data DWORD 0. here and the fact that it can be quite a persistent problem. Some further action may be required … Microsoft offer some info http://support.microsoft.com/kb/299059/