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		<title>Event Trending and Data Visualization Timelines</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Often our monitoring systems cause so much noise it&#8217;s hard to spot any trends in events. We could be witnessing the gradual downfall of a critical system but we&#8217;re too busy closing off alerts or deleting the notification emails to see the pattern of events and put the pieces together. Service Modelling and traditional threshold style monitoring are [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://gazeek.com/articles/event-trending-data-visualization-timelines/</link>
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		<title>Guide To Service Availability Reporting</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Being able to put a nice round percentage figure on your critical services availability is a very attractive piece of information for management and overall SLA Management. Having all the latest and greatest monitoring tools and technology is great for keeping the lights on, and assuring uptime, but all this technology mumbo jumbo doesn’t translate [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://gazeek.com/articles/guide-service-availability-reporting/</link>
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		<title>T-SQL Remove Space From Records</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I noticed that there was a large subset of data in one of my databases that contained a space at the end of every row, this was screwing up my reporting and the space needed to be removed. Here&#8217;s how: 1 2 UPDATE tableName SET columnName = RTRIM&#40;columnName&#41; WHERE someOtherColumn = 'criteria']]></description>
		<link>http://gazeek.com/tips-and-tricks/t-sql-remove-space-records/</link>
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		<title>.NET &#8211; ToString() vs Convert.ToString()</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Calling ToString() on an object almost seems like second nature, however it can cause errors if the object is null. Calling ToString() on a null object causes the following error Object reference not set to an instance of an object The easiest method around this is to use the Convert.ToString() method instead. This casts the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://gazeek.com/coding/net-tostring-convert-tostring/</link>
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		<title>Dashboard Rotator Utility</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Information The Dashboard Rotator is a tool that is used to cycle through http URL&#8217;s in a full screen browser window. The list of URL&#8217;s can be customized by the end user to display their own specific interests or dashboard pages, these pages can be from any location, including public internet, local intranet etc, anything [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://gazeek.com/software/dashboard-rotator-utility/</link>
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		<title>Debugging A .NET Service With “Attach To Process” In Visual Studio</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The tricky thing about building a Windows service is the debugging.   You cant just hit F5 and debug the app from there,  you need to &#8220;Attach&#8221; to the process. Thankfully its not very difficult, although some of the guides out there aren&#8217;t very clear on this , so follow the following steps and you&#8217;ll be debugging [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://gazeek.com/coding/debugging-a-net-service-with-attach-to-process-visual-studio/</link>
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		<title>Get Logged In User With ASP.Net</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Using the following three ways we can get the User Name using C# 1 2 System.Security.Principal.WindowsPrincipal p = System.Threading.Thread.CurrentPrincipal as System.Security.Principal.WindowsPrincipal; string strName = p.Identity.Name; 1 string strName = HttpContext.Current.User.Identity.Name.ToString&#40;&#41;; 1 2 string strName = Request.ServerVariables&#91;&#34;AUTH_USER&#34;&#93;; //Finding with name string strName = Request.ServerVariables&#91;5&#93;; //Finding with index In Above 3 Cases returning string contains DomainName\WinNTLoggedUserName (for [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://gazeek.com/coding/get-logged-in-user-with-asp-net/</link>
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		<title>C# .Net – Save Text Box Content To TXT File</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A simple way to store the contents of a text box control to a local .txt file 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 //Use StreamWriter class. StreamWriter sw = new StreamWriter&#40;&#34;E:\\test.txt&#34;&#41;; &#160; //Use write method to write the text sw.Write&#40;textBox1.Text&#41;; &#160; //always close your stream sw.Close&#40;&#41;;]]></description>
		<link>http://gazeek.com/coding/c-net-save-text-box-content-to-txt-file/</link>
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		<title>Powershell Method &#8211; No Screen Output</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Do you ever notice that after you run a method in Powershell you often get some screen output that you didn&#8217;t want? Example, calling a StringBuilder&#8217;s .Append() method to simply add more text to the string will echo details of the current capacity and remaining capacity of the StringBuilder object to the screen, which ruins your console [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://gazeek.com/coding/powershell-method-no-screen-output/</link>
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		<title>vBulletin To IP.Board &#8211; A Short Journey</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Cheyne Wallace is a Sydney based Monitoring / Platform Engineer and Availability Manager – http://www.cheynewallace.com http://www.soundpunk.com is the SMF site mentioned in this article to be converted to IPB A long time SMF user , iv been growing a community based on an Simple Machines Forum for many years, and I have to say, its [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://gazeek.com/articles/vbulletin-to-ip-board-a-short-journey/</link>
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		<title>Rotating URL Script – Dashboard Display</title>
		<description><![CDATA[** Edit &#8211; Iv written a new tool that handles this job better than the script does, you can find it here: http://gazeek.com/software/dashboard-rotator-utility/ ** Iv been looking for a tool that will display web pages for a period of time and then cycle through to the next page,  performing a loop for usage on large [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://gazeek.com/coding/rotating-url-script-dashboard-display/</link>
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		<title>Taskkill – Kill All Process’s Of A Certain Name</title>
		<description><![CDATA[So you may have run something thats spawned a whole bunch of processes,  iexplore.exe  or cscript.exe ,  you need to kill them all and fast.   Heres how 1 taskkill /F /IM iexplore.exe]]></description>
		<link>http://gazeek.com/tips-and-tricks/taskkill-kill-all-processs-of-a-certain-name/</link>
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		<title>Useful Windows Run Commands</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A whole bunch of very useful Windows commands To Access… Run Command Accessibility Controls access.cpl Accessibility Wizard accwiz Add Hardware Wizard hdwwiz.cpl Add/Remove Programs appwiz.cpl Administrative Tools control admintools Adobe Acrobat (if installed) acrobat Adobe Designer (if installed) formdesigner Adobe Distiller (if installed) acrodist Adobe ImageReady (if installed) imageready Adobe Photoshop (if installed) photoshop Automatic [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://gazeek.com/tips-and-tricks/useful-windows-run-commands/</link>
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		<title>Task Scheduler – The following error was reported: 2147944309.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This common task scheduler message is cryptic, and means nothing without some digging,  you can see below how we find the true answer to what it means,  but the short answer is: Account Is Locked Out Why? 0n2147944309 = 0x80070775 Facility: 8007 = Win32 (it&#8217;s a &#8220;Win32&#8243; status code) Status: 0x775 = 0n1909 Q:\&#62;net helpmsg [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://gazeek.com/tips-and-tricks/task-scheduler-the-following-error-was-reported-2147944309/</link>
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		<title>T-SQL Setting Date Format</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Occasionally you need to run a DATEDIFF or DATEADD against some dates that are in a reverse format, ie Day:Month:Year instead of Month:Day:Year, theres a simple way to set this in your query without having to string handle it all, using the SET DATEFORMAT parameter. 1 2 SET DATEFORMAT dmy SELECT DATEDIFF&#40;MINUTE,'29-01-2010 09:13:18','29-01-2010 09:18:18'&#41;]]></description>
		<link>http://gazeek.com/coding/t-sql-setting-date-format/</link>
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		<title>Windows Task Scheduler – Corrupt Image Error Fix</title>
		<description><![CDATA[For some reason now with Vista and Windows Server 2008 when ever you seem to create a scheduled task, but close it before saving it, you get a &#8220;Corrupt Image&#8221; error that will not go away unless you remove the &#8220;Corrupt Image&#8221; from the registry. Heres how to fix it Open The Registry (Start &#62; [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://gazeek.com/tips-and-tricks/windows-task-scheduler-corrupt-image-error-fix/</link>
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		<title>Copy your servers PHP.INI</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Occasionally you may need to override your hosts or servers PHP.INI config file.  If you do, you&#8217;ll want a copy of the original PHP.INI as a basis for your modifications. You can make a copy of it to your new directory by running a PHP script with the following 1 &#60; ?php system&#40;&#34;cp /usr/local/php5/lib/php.ini /home/your-new-path/php.ini&#34;&#41;; [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://gazeek.com/coding/copy-your-servers-php-ini/</link>
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		<title>Piracy and R18+ Games</title>
		<description><![CDATA[So another game has been banned from Australia (Aliens vs Predator), and this time the developers are refusing to censor the content. And I don’t blame them. Why spend years developing and testing a game, finally deeming it ready for production only to have some narrow minded Government on the opposite side of the world [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://gazeek.com/articles/piracy-and-r18-games/</link>
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		<title>Ping Host From VB.Net</title>
		<description><![CDATA[1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 ' --- ping the ip adress in the string s_ipaddr, and get '     the response time in the int32 n_response &#160; Imports system.net.networkinformation Dim ping As New System.Net.NetworkInformation.Ping Dim reply As System.Net.NetworkInformation.PingReply reply = ping.Send(s_ipaddr) If reply.Status = IPStatus.Success Then ' [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://gazeek.com/coding/ping-host-from-vb-net/</link>
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		<title>Pinger! – The Mass Host Ping Tool</title>
		<description><![CDATA[PLEASE NOTE: Pinger! Has Found A New Home At TheMonitoringGuy.com, Please Visit  http://themonitoringguy.com/software/pinger-mass-host-ping-tool/ To Download The Latest Version Of Pinger! Pinger! is a tiny ping utility (13KB) that is used to quickly ping a large list of hosts and save the resulting successful and failure host lists into a text file. Why? When developing scripts [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://gazeek.com/coding/pinger-the-mass-host-ping-tool/</link>
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