ROBERT OWEN — Technology Leader & Musician
Technology leadership, music, and the space where they overlap

Windows 10 – Forget Wireless Network

Long time, no type.  🙂 Like most things on this site, the information is here because I keep forgetting how to do something. I upgraded everything to Windows 10  and think its really pretty good.  But, that’s a conversation for another post.  The reason for this post is the AT&T line coming into my house was struck by lightning a couple … Read more

Powershell to check and start a service

Ok, this one is not funny.  My posts are few and far between these days and they are mostly limited to pictures or something I find funny.  But, I was going through one of my Onenote files tonight and ran across this powershell script I wrote a while back and thought I would share. When I put this script together, I was having … Read more

Increase IIS File Upload Limits

I recently ran into an issue where IIS was returning a 404.13 error when users were trying to upload files.  I did a bit of looking and found that files uploaded fine when they were lower than 30MB.  But once we tried to upload anything larger, IIS would return the 404. With a bit of digging we found that there … Read more

Which CF Instance and jvm config am I using?

This is more of a quick reminder for myself.  Hopefully someone else will find it useful as well… If you have multiple instances of ColdFusion running on a server and one of those starts to runaway with the processor you just need to kill it and move on, right?  But, what if you what to know which instance it was?  If … Read more

Windows 8 wireless Management

Back when I was setting up my Surface pro, I was trying to quickly move some of my wireless connections to the tablet. There aren’t a lot of them but since I didn’t remember their passwords,  why not just export them or at least view them from my laptop and copy the settings? Well, the laptop that I was going to take … Read more

Yes!! Surface Pro for Me! :-)

Ok. After much complaining and whining, I finally got my Surface Pro. My purchase plan had to update a little, but everything seemed to work out nicely.  I had planned to get the whole package from Best Buy but, if you read my previous crazy rant. You know that didn’t work out. I ended up watching the Microsoft Store website like … Read more

No Surface Pro for me :-(

I’ve been looking at getting a Microsoft Surface  and was on the fence until they announced that there was a 128GB Pro version that was capable of running full desktop applications.  When I saw that, I had to have it! I’ve been waiting and watching for the release date of February 9th to come around.  This device in all it’s glory would only … Read more