So that you know up front: I have neither purchased nor ordered the device yet.  I’m not promoting it.  I am just publishing this because so many people I talked to over the past few years really wanted what this device does and, like me, couldn’t find anything like it. I’ve been repairing my 5-year […]

Lately, I have been noticing a problem with Visual Studio’s local web development server and terminal services.  I use Windows 7 Professional, which works wonderfully.  Often, I will lock the workstation and remotely connect to the workstation via RDP when I am at home. Occasionally, I will have a problem getting to the desktop.  The […]

Lately I have been frustrated in general with forum-based sites, regardless of subject matter. And yet, I don’t blame them for my frustration. The problem is systemic in nature. Forum-based web sites function as an archive of data over long stretches of time, like a traditional library, but are much more dynamically built. Its content […]

Wow !  The mysterious and annoying RDC problem on my laptop took a dangerous turn yesterday.  The problem has to do with the power setting properties sometimes mutating, when I bring my Windows XP Media Center laptop out of hibernation, and connect to it via RDC.  The original problem is described in this post. Apple […]

I have been encountering a really annoying behavior in Windows XP Media Center on my laptop, and the solution is really elusive.  It is arbitrarily changing my power settings for hibernation and standby. The problem occurs intermittently, when I change my point of access between RDC and the laptop’s keyboard.  I normally set the power […]

In my previous post about RDC, I didn’t fully like the batch file I wrote which required me to specify a parameter for swapping connections, versus hibernating.  In fact, my favorite batch file is one where the action can be specified by the operator, or on the command line directly as a parameter. So I […]

I’ve used home/home office based routers since Comcast installed my first cable internet connection.  One of my favorites was the BEFR11S4 from Linksys.  It was a very nice, simple design which had nice features like syslog.  Linksys even provided a utility to capture the syslog packets, which provided not only network management actions, but the […]