Microsoft Support Finally Solves a Problem
I’ve been a Visual Studio Professional licensee for decades. For almost all those years my license simply autorenewed (although I did have a bit of…
Tightening Postfix/Dovecot
I use postfix and dovecot to provide email capabilities on various blogs I manage. Recently, I noticed a large number of failed postfix login attempts.…
Debian 12 Upgrade Gone Awry
This story involves Debian 12, running on a VPS at Hostwinds.com. I was getting ready to spin up a new WordPress site and was doing…
Stupid Microsoft Documentation, Sql Server Edition
It’s been a while since I played bongos on the (virtual) heads of Microsoft’s documentation staff, but that wasn’t for lack of their continued striving…
Why Not Document What Works?
I recently started trying to use the MSBuild API in a project where I need to be able to parse csproj files and then do…
Why StackOverflow is Toxic, and a Way to Improve It
People ask questions when they don’t know enough to solve a problem on their own. This means, by definition, they are very likely not to…