Finally had some time to really test out my new VFFs! Here are my experiences so far:
I went hiking twice yesterday at different parks, in the morning and late in the afternoon. I have to say that it’s definitely a different experience hiking with the VFFs than with hiking boots. It’s a lot more fun with the VFFs and the hike actually felt easier with these than with hiking boots. It was very …
Just got a pair of these today!
These Vibram Five Fingers “shoes” give you that feeling of walking barefoot while protecting your feet from cuts, scrapes, and burns (when walking on very hot surfaces).
I first found out about these shoes when I went hiking a few weeks ago. There was someone in our group wearing these and he was telling us how comfortable they are and how walking barefoot is good for your feet …
My drive is now formatting, but I could’ve been done with the installation already if only I had the drivers handy so I’m gonna host it here on my website for future reference and hopefully it saves other people some time too from looking. I’ve found websites posting fake drivers and some require you to sign up and pay a membership fee.
Here’s a direct download link to the driver (Note: the entire content may …
My first blog post in a long time!
So I archived some data from our database yesterday and I needed to shrink the database file so I ran the “Shrink Database” task in Management Studio. The database is over 500GB in size and I checked 7 hours later and the database shrink operation is still going. I got a little worried because someone needs to use this database today and I’m not sure if the …
We had to upgrade our mail gateway/anti-spam software on Sunday because one of our vendors requires us to use encryption when exchanging emails with them. The easiest solution is to use opportunistic TLS, where the server will always try to connect to the other server using the TLS protocol. If the other server supports TLS, then traffic is encrypted. If not, then the email is sent using just regular SMTP without encryption.
This is actually …