Monday, December 5, 2016

Oakland with Carlos








Friday, October 28, 2016

Albuquerque with Dino




 













Sunday, October 16, 2016

Wednesday, September 28, 2016

Marina Picnic with Ian & Joy





Tuesday, August 2, 2016

Windows System Report using msinfo32.exe

MSINFO32 displays a comprehensive view of your hardware, system components, and software environment. This article contains an overview of the available switches that can be used with the MSINFO32 command in Windows 7, in Windows Vista, and in Windows XP.

Example output:

OS Name Microsoft Windows Server 2008 R2 Standard
Version 6.1.7601 Service Pack 1 Build 7601
Other OS Description Not Available
OS Manufacturer Microsoft Corporation
System Name VM-APPDB
System Manufacturer VMware, Inc.
System Model VMware Virtual Platform
System Type x64-based PC
Processor Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E5620 @ 2.40GHz, 2394 Mhz, 2 Core(s), 2 Logical Processor(s)
BIOS Version/Date Phoenix Technologies LTD 6.00, 9/30/2014
SMBIOS Version 2.4
Windows Directory C:\Windows
System Directory C:\Windows\system32
Boot Device \Device\HarddiskVolume1
Locale United States
Hardware Abstraction Layer Version = "6.1.7601.17514"
User Name Not Available
Time Zone Pacific Daylight Time
Installed Physical Memory (RAM) 16.0 GB
Total Physical Memory 16.0 GB
Available Physical Memory 2.31 GB
Total Virtual Memory 32.0 GB
Available Virtual Memory 15.6 GB
Page File Space 16.0 GB
Page File C:\pagefile.sys

Monday, July 11, 2016

Windows 2008 Tomcat Housekeeping

A simple Windows 2008 task to restart Apache Tomcat running in Cumulus Web Services. Doing this nightly is recommended to clean up it's cache files for best performance.

STEP 1: Launch Windows Services, then highlight and copy the Service Name.


STEP 2: Write your batch script as follows:

@echo off
tasklist /SVC | find /i "CumulusWebSolutions"

rem ------ do not stop the Scheduler service if it is not running

if %errorlevel% == 1 goto :startwithoutstop
net stop CumulusWebSolutions
:startwithoutstop
net start CumulusWebSolutions
@echo on



STEP 3: In Windows 2008 Server, launch the Task Scheduler application. Create a new task, than set the general options.


STEP 4: Select the trigger tab and set the times you wish your task to run.


STEP 5: Go to the Actions tab, and enter the name of your batch (.bat) file. Then in the "Start in" field include the path to your file. IMPORTANT: This is not optional! You need to paste the correct path here for your task to run.


STEP 6: Finish the task settings and save the task. Enter your Administrator login to confirm.


STEP 7: Once back in your task list, try a test run of your task to monitor the service. If setup correctly, you will see it automatically stop and restart.


Friday, July 1, 2016

Whiskey and Bowling Pictures