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Disk Full and Crashing: How to Urgently Recover Windows Disk Space

Wed, 13 May 2026 18:48:14 -0700

Sometimes, you come across Windows machines that are crashing because they’ve run out of disk space. And even after you do the regular cleanup, it either fills up quickly or you need more space. Here’s something to add to your arsenal.

CrowdStrike Outage July 2024 - Technical Summary of What Happened

Wed, 24 Jul 2024 14:35:21 -0700

An update to CrowdStrike Falcon Sensor on 19 July 2024 caused about 8.5 million Windows machines (estimated) to hang and show BSOD (Blue Screen of Death). A fix was pushed out later that day but the machines that went down had to be manually fixed (as of this writing). Here’s a technical summary of what happened based on Dave Plummer’s video below:

How to Develop Locally in Drupal and Host Static Files on your Website

Sun, 14 Apr 2024 18:41:16 -0700

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Say you have an old website on Drupal 7 with plugins that don’t work with the latest versions of Drupal. You now cannot migrate over to Drupal 9 or 10 without doing a lot of manual work and/or losing the functionality of your current plugins. If your requirements are still fulfilled by the old Drupal 7 website, there’s a solution to keep using it.

Install GRAV on WSL based off Ubuntu

Sat, 25 Nov 2023 20:51:24 -0800

Install WSL (powershell command as admin “wsl –login”)

Inside WSL upon installation

install php
download latest version of grav with admin console, expand in your non-root user account
CD to the grav directory
Run “php -S localhost:8000 system/router.php”
Access Grav at localhost:8000/admin on the browser of your windows machine
install any component that Grav complains about (generally PHP libraries)
your site is at localhost:8000