GTGreg

While recently working on a project, I was annoyed at the fact that the wonderful copy/paste feature on RDP wasn’t working.  After a bit of digging, I found the culprit and thought I’d share.

Whilst connected to the server go to Admin Tools -> Terminal Services -> Terminal Services Configuration, then double-click on RDP-TCP Connections.  Under the Client Settings Tab, uncheck the Clipboard settings if it’s checked.  That’s a list of services to be disabled.

A family member had a computer that was running slow and came to me for help.  After examining it, I found that it had the “Personal Security” virus/spyware on it.

It impersonates anti-spyware so it will block anything that tries to remove it, and that alone makes it quite difficult to remove.   There is, however, a very simple way to uninstall it.

1. Go to C:\Program Files\Common Files\
2. There should be a folder named “PSecurityUninstall”, or something similar.  Open that folder.
3. Click the “Uninstall” link. (Yeah, it’s hid).
4. That’s it.  You should now be able to run your normal anti-virus apps and anti-malware apps (and I highly recommend that you do!)

I hope this helps someone else out there.

If, in the course of your website, you use the Magento Downloader, you receive an error crying, “ERROR: failed to mkdir”, here’s a tip I just figured out.

If you moved your Magento to a new domain, check your path’s in your Downloader PEAR.ini file (/downloader/pearlib/pear.ini).  In my case, when i changed the domain name Plesk changed the saved folder name as well.  You can get an updated path by creating a PHPINFO file and saving it in there and checking the values there.  If the path isn’t the same as what’s in that serialized array, you’ll have to update all the paths in the PEAR.ini file.  Also be sure to update the string length, or PHP will throw another error.

Happy Computing!

Apple has delayed the release date and release time of the iPhone 3.0 software until June 18th…no details or explanation as of yet.

**Update** Turns out an Apple Developer mixed up the nav’s and posted the Singapore delay with the US release…all should be well.  As for a release time?   If I were a betting man (and I am), I’d bet on sometime after 12PM EST.

According to this article at CFN, Matthew Zemek doesn’t think it’s impossible for Georgia Tech to have a run at the national championship. Unlikely (and I agree), but not impossible. Other teams will need strategic losses for us to be in contention, but generally, scenarios when your fate depends on other teams don’t bode well.

Overall, I think we’ll end the season in the top 10…rumors even have us somewhere in the top 15 or 20.  But, I don’t put a lot of faith in preseason polls.  Just ask #3 Michigan losing to Oklahoma State, or the U(sic)GA being preseason #1 last year.  That’s all I’m saying…