WebGyver Revisited

WebGyver Receives Honest Scrap Award

Posted by admin on March 12, 2009  |  No Comments

Thank you Sandra Dee for bestowing the much coveted and highly prestigious Honest Scrap Award unto me and my humble blog. Sandra Dee, of course, runs the outstanding AT YOUR SERVICE blog.

Award description and requirements (per Sandra Dee’s blog):

This award is bestowed upon a fellow blogger whose blog’s content or design is, in the giver’s opinion, brilliant.

When accepting this auspicious award, you must write a post bragging about it, including the name of the misguided soul who thinks you deserve such acclaim, and link back to the said person so everyone knows she/he is real.

Choose a minimum of seven (7) blogs that you find brilliant in content or design. Or improvise by including bloggers who have no idea who you are because you don’t have seven friends. Show the seven random victims’ names and links and leave a harassing comment informing them that they were prized with Honest Weblog. Well, there’s no prize, but they can keep the nifty icon.

List at least ten (10) honest things about yourself. Then pass it on!

Choose a minimum of seven (7) blogs that you find brilliant in content or design.

1. Anup Shah – onenaught.com

2. Susannah Gardner – Buzz Marketing With Blogs

3. Mack – The Viral Garden

4. Bea Fields – EDGE!

5. Bridget Ayers – The Get Smart Blog

6. jafagirl – Javabrit’s Art

7. Xacur – Android’s Dungeon

List at least ten (10) honest things about yourself.

1. WebGyver is my alter-ego, based on MacGyver.

2. If it would have somehow worked out, I would have done something else with my alter-ego’s name. Like Magnum P.I.

3. Me and my girls love semi-authentic cheese fondue, from Switzerland.

4. So far, I have seen the original Queen band perform live three times.

5. Actually, I’ve also seen Barclay James Harvest three times live.

6. Unfortunately, I have never seen Electric Light Orchestra perform live.

7. PhotoScape and FastStone Capture are my secret weapons.

8. Once I had to call somebody called Fu-ming Wan at work (no joke).

9. While programming, I listen mostly to Carbon Based Lifeforms and similar music.

10. If I could travel back in time, I would like to meet Danny Kaye, Freddie Mercury, René Descartes and several of my grandparents & great-grandparents.

Configuring Remote Desktop

Posted by admin on March 6, 2009  |  1 Comment

Lately, I’ve been using the Windows utility Remote Desktop (RD) a lot to work on various servers. One annoying thing I’ve noticed, as I moved from one computer to another and did remote work from various locations, was that the resolution and a few other settings seemed to vary. However, there’s a fix for that.

Although it never occurred to me to mess with this, I clicked Options and found a wealth of configuration settings. Best of all, I could even make this thing remember my preferred settings, save those settings to my USB stick and enjoy the rest of my life.

So click Options and let’s take a look under the hood:

For each remote connection, you can enter your user name and password — and RD will remember it, as long as you a) check the “Save my password” box and b) save the custom connection settings as a .rdp file (Save As…).

The thing that was of most interest to me were the Display settings. Holy Batman, that’s where you set up the remoted desktop size and the color depth. I was beginning to think those settings were immovable.

Now how cool is that? Finally, I also customized the Local Resources settings and removed all check marks for the Disk drives, Printers and Serial ports. If you need any of those connections, by all means, leave them checked. In my case, this was an easy way to prevent “siletn” system errors from occurring on one of the servers (especially since it tried to connect to non-existing printers).

That wasn’t so bad, right? And as I said, if you save the .rdp file with your custom connection settings, you only need to do this once.

For more information:
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb457106.aspx

Keywords: Remote Desktop, RDA, configuration, settings, connection, screen resolution, display, color depth, printers, serial ports, disk drives