Work
Reboot PC via MSTSC
Care of: http://weblogs.asp.net/whaggard/archive/2006/10/21/Ways-to-shutdown_2F00_restart-your-computer-via-Remote-Desktop_2E00_.aspx
These next two tricks are documented and will continue to work in future versions of Windows:
If you’re a command line person, you can run shutdown.exe, but that program supports only shutdown and restart; it doesn’t do stand-by or hibernate. But the shutdown.exe program has a serious flaw: It requires you to have administrator [...]
MSIE 8 Tabbed Browsing
In order to adjust MSIE 8 behavior to open new windows in tabs instead of in a new window, the following config changes are indicated:
MSIE8 => Tools => Options => Tabs (subsection) => Settings (Button) => Opens Tab Settings Window
Tabs Setting Window => When a pop-up is encountered (subsection) => Always open pop-ups in a [...]
My Windows 7 Experience, Day 3
Windows 7 continued to fuss at me every time I’d boot up about the Tages anti-piracy drivers not being compatible. I deleted the drivers (deleted them from the %systemroot%\system32\drivers directory) without any problems.
Nothing I want on my computer has blown up yet, and I’ve had no real issues. (It helps that I was out of [...]
My Windows 7 Experience, Day 1
I had a rough night last night, so I figured I’d risk making it worse (I’m a risk taker, yup) by upgrading my Windows Vista box to Windows 7. I have the Ultimate version of both. Vista Ultimate includes a bunch of media apps I never had any interest in, including Media Center… but once [...]
Microsoft Terminal Services Client
Keyworks: MSTSC, RDP, Remote Desktop
How to change from window to fullscreen mode:
CTRL-ALT-BREAK
Finding Optimal MTU Size
Start with a high MTU value (say 1500)
ping www.google.com -n 1 -f -l 1500
If the response includes
Packet needs to be fragmented but DF set
then lower the -l value by 10 and re-test. Once you get a reply from your target address, increment the -l value by 1 until you cannot increment -l without receiving the above framentation [...]
Christmas
And another from my history, back when I was a field technician in customer premise telecom (I’m now in remote);
I work in the customer premise equipment telecom industry. The cards that are installed in the phone system have lights on them to indicate an error condition. When the lights are off, everything is fine, when [...]
Project Diary: Xtools (9)
I’ve not made any updates lately because I’ve been learning AJAX coding techniques and I’ve been working instead on the hotfix parser. AJAX has a lot debate on what exactly it is (which is weird), but the definition used in the book that I’m reading (and on Wikipedia) is that it is essentially a client-side [...]
Competitor files for Chapter 11 Bankruptcy Protection
Bloomberg posted an article on my birthday annoucing that NetVersant (one of the competitors in my employers space) filed for Chapter 11 Bankruptcy protection.
Obviously they’re not out for the count, but in this tightening market and continuing recession, this is an opportunity for all of NetVersant’s competitors. To the best of my knowledge, this is the [...]
Where I’ve been
Well, I went to Mexico (a cruise) for a week, and then I was sequester for a week of training and then I spent a week out of town on an install. Next week, I’m doing another install so I’ve not really had a lot of energy at end-of-day to make a blog post.
Hopefully I’ll get [...]
