I wanted to write a little bit about using the Windows registry from a .NET language.  I’ve been working on a small desktop application and I wanted to store some state information that is used upon starting the application.  The Windows registry made sense in this particular instance.  Naturally, I turned to the Google machine [...]

After installing Windows 7 Ultimate, I tried installing ESRI’s ArcGIS Desktop 9.3.  With less than a minute left in the install, the installer threw an exception and rolled back the installation.  The solution to this problem is to download the latest VC++ 2008 Redistributable package from Microsoft and install it.  ArcGIS should install without any [...]

I just finished upgrading Icinga from 0.8.4 to 1.0RC1 on an Ubuntu server.  The upgrade was straight forward.  I recommend you backup your /usr/local/icinga/etc directory prior to upgrading just in case something goes wrong. Here are the steps I used to complete the upgrade in less than 5 minutes.  Beginning in the directory where you downloaded [...]