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

Robert Owen

Technology leader and professional musician with a background in building and operating complex systems. Writes occasionally about leadership, technology, and music.

Powershell to check and start a service

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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

Bones for Homes by Elijah

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This is a Great cause! Take a moment and go buy a T-Shirt to help support the rescuing of Dogs in our area!           Here’s a little info on Bones for Homes: Bones for Homes by Elijah is the dream of seven year old Elijah. He was devastated after learning that some animals in shelters must … Read more

Increase IIS File Upload Limits

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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

Tired Teachers

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As a husband of a Teacher, this is right on. This video is from a recent Knox County School board meeting… A teacher gives her opinion about the new evaluation process for teachers in Tennessee.

Which CF Instance and jvm config am I using?

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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