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Remote Desktop and Exchange 2010 in Windows Server 2008 R2

Filed Under: OS, Tutorials
Aug.17, 2010

I’m not sure if the problem has been encountered by many, or if this is an unique case, but if you are practicing with the Exchange 2010 and your RDP with a domain account is not working, then read on.

As I installed Exchange 2010 on my non domain controller virtual machine I could not RDP into it with a domain account. (for the really novice RDP = Remote Desktop Protocol, or Remote Desktop)

As any lazy person I looked it up online to try and find a quick fix so I don’t have to fix it my self. In addition I didn’t even got really acquainted with Windows Server 2008 and I did not want to search and find the fix on my own. But eventually I had to find it on my own since it wasn’t posted anywhere. So if you install Exchange 2010 and you can’t RDP into that server with a domain account, try this .

Start -> Administrative tools -> Remote Desktop Services -> Remote Desktop Session Host configuration

After the window opens double-click the RDP-TCP, and in the general tab under security make sure you have next to  Security Layer -> Negotiate and under Encryption Level -> Client Compatible.

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Gmail.com Thank You!

Filed Under: Uncategorized
Aug.12, 2010

I was trying to send an email from Google mail, and in my email body I was informing the recipient that I have attached the documents. As I was in a hurry to send my email out, a pop up message prompted me tat I have no actual attachments.

I haven’t been wowed in a long time but this one has exceeded all my expectations. That is service right there. When the computer checks for the human error. That is why we have computers, to spare us the headaches. And this time the Googlers  understood a necessity and how to implement it, they really did a great job. It is not the first time when I sent an email without attaching the documents. I have to thank the person who had the idea, the person that stood by it, and the people that put the code together.

Thank you!

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The last epidemic in recorded history

Filed Under: There Is No Spoon
Jul.23, 2010

There are a quite a few interesting facts about biological beings. All biological beings are attracted to light this phenomena is called phototaxis. In addition all biological beings are opportunist, or lazy. If you look at ants they immediately capitalize on some spilled sugar or some dead critter. City pigeons who have been decorated in wars for carrying important messages now are just your average city beggar. But yet they maintain a balance.

If we look at us humans we have the same traits as all the other biological beings, if we find an unlimited supply of food, we multiply and don’t analyze the situation to see if it’s going to work, yet we have the largest brain. If we look at Ireland with it great famine, they got the problem with the introduction of the potato. They used monocultures and when a spore landed on its coasts killed all potato cultures. It was short and devastating. It killed the potato cultures which lead to a lot of deaths among the population. It looked exactly as an epidemic. But this was a local epidemic, and very focused. The rest of the human population had no problems. A more wide spread epidemic was the bubonic plague. This wasn’t focused, and it spread throughout Europe and it cut its population in half. If you look at the common cold it is such a small bug perhaps millions of times lighter than the human body but it brings it down by sheer numbers. If we return to the bubonic plague and the entire population of Europe we can see that the population was the organism and the plague was the pathogen. If we look trough history we can find numerous examples of imbalances which keep on occurring. Perhaps it is evolution and that it is how biological beings grow stronger or adapt to their environment. But all organisms are composed of smaller organisms. All of them have a job to do in order for the hole to survive. The imbalance is produced when one of them gets lazy and tries to delegate its job on another. It might work for a while but it usually comes with a catch, the lazier or clever organism ends up destroying the ecosystem, which sometimes is causing its own death. There are numerous examples where parasites never kill their host, because they need to live, not to devour and over-consume. When dolphins hunt and feed they take turns. The entire pack guards the bank of fish keeping them together while only one feeds, and they take turns, they don’t delegate while they have a better job.

We humans have a big problem, we are perhaps the laziest and we indulge the most in easiness, consumerism and delegation. There is a cacophony of laws, departments, governments that all failed or are failing because we’re lazy, greedy and cunning. We have farms and meat processing plants which haven’t met any kind standards in years. We have hospitals on top of hospitals treating food related diseases. We allow patents over some artificial GMOs and we go on which-hunts of organic farmers and destroy them financially. And it’s all shrouded in a cloud a clever legislation that protects this over-expanding parasitical crutch that is slowly killing us, and we just can’t seem to see it.  And yet we still go and buy the food from a store and we want it tender and juicy, to be almost effortlessly to eat. All these will have a price to pay either now or later. Why, because there are no alternatives. Nothing is produced naturally anymore. The USDA is getting sued if it’s trying to enforce any kind of legislature because it causes profit losses. Is like the Wild West, everybody for himself.  Read about Kevin’s law.

The food quality is constantly decreasing, no wonder why cancer, diabetes, and heart disease are the modern day top killers. There are advertisements informing to save this species or that species. And governments are allocating money fill those species with antibiotics. That is just a band aid, the ecosystem is disrupted. Eventually all these band aids will fail if we don’t address the root problem. And the effects will be exactly like Katrina breaking the New Orleans levies, but only at a global level. And instead of water will be a second Great Flood of blood and puss. Exactly like in the artificially overgrown cow’s udder, which has been fed some new genetically modified protein that causes its udder to produce 17 times more milk which you I and newborns drink everyday. The root problems are constant campaigns of public disinformation orchestrated by major interests inside and outside of governments. On the other hand there are the perpetrators which are allowed to produce bad quality food. This requires more and more expensive medicine, which require better medical insurance, which generates more and more profit, and supplies more and more people in key places to keep this cancer alive.  First of all, why are cigarettes still on shelves? They should be outlawed, or perhaps the chemicals within should be outlawed. Why animal farms are still using antibiotics to increase their food production?  Why is there no education in school about candy sugar and its effects? Why aren’t there companies which are humane towards their consumers? Why are mercury fillings allowed? Why are GMOs still legal? Why is FDA in place if I have to ask these questions? The answer is indolence, greed, delegation of responsibilities,  lack of discipline, and lack of empathy on fellow humans.

If we look at the earth as a larger organism and at us as the pest, we are behaving like an epidemic.  We pollute the earth more and more. We are multiplying excessively and we overeat everything. We are the great epidemic; we’re not localized and only attacking one niche. We overfish our oceans and pollute them at the same time, is like we want to make sure there will be nothing left after we’re gone. The same way viruses and bugs multiply and pollute one human body until it brings it in the brink of death. That body either dies, killing the bug with it, or reacts back by increasing its temperature and killing the bug. Isn’t earth increasing its temperature, aren’t we constantly talking about global warming? If you look at the life of the planet and our life it is perhaps the same ratio as the ratio between a human life and the life of an individual virus. What do all epidemics have in common? I think we all know, they end. We are so reliant on our sensory organs that we ignore the most important one. Our brain. Our brain is the only one that can analyze and get the clear picture of our environment. We can’t rely on our eyes, because for the longest time they told us the Earth was flat. Our brain with its mathematical abilities exposed the truth of how our world really works. It would be ironic if a million years of now a super advanced species will look back at our fossils and say how could they miss the mark so badly? Because if we go extinct, we go extinct because of lack of brain usage, yet we have the largest. We are the only species that chooses to put a band aid on its survival instead of doing the right thing, and it is all because of greed, laziness, comfort and things we indulge in.

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The Computer Manual, Computer Repair!

Filed Under: OS, Tutorials
Jul.12, 2010

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Looking for a career change into IT? I know this is the book you need to read first, if you’re a novice with computers. The more novice you are the better fit this book will be. I only wish I had this guide when I started using computers. Want to understand more on how to set up your wireless network and how? you can find this in the book too. Want to share files trough the network or move your old stuff from your old computer to the new one? Get The Computer Manual®. Want to access your files from one computer to another trough the network? Then read the book and practice the lessons described in it. The book contains a comprehensive network troubleshooter which will teach you how to set up your home network and share files between computers. You will get help on TCP/IP and home network routers.

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It is you who has to put the time in to do what the book asks of you. Otherwise this book will not help you 100%. It will still help, because you’ll have to search how to fix certain things. That is how you learn.

This book will not get you certified in anything, but it will give you a solid foundation how to approach PCs and manage them. Perhaps it should get you certified.

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Troubleshooting Drivers with the Device Manager

Filed Under: Tutorials
Jun.11, 2010

Either go to start and press Run or press the windows key and the “R” key on the keyboard to obtain the run dialog box and then type in devmegmt.msc or compmgmt.msc and press Enter.

OR

Go to Start -> right click Computer -> Manage you will obtain the window below. On the left Panel of the window select device manager. When the window in the middle populates look for drivers with the “!” mark on them.  . Then right click on it and select Update driver software. Then Windows will look in its repository and try to install it. Sometimes these require more than one installation to get the device working. So try it until there are no devices with an “!” exclamation mark on them.

Then you might have your device working again. Usually Windows installs drivers automatically but in rare ocasions it happens to get stuck and from then on all drivers have to be manually. Now, I’m not sure if there is a fix for this but a quicker fix would be to do the steps above.

You have two options to install a driver:

The automatic version works only if Windows has the driver in its store. Then you select the automatic process. But if windows doesn’t have the driver then you have to select the manual process. Then you point windows to the location where the driver is.

If the default location is already filled you just select next. Usually this is the last location used, and therefore you installed the same driver / or part of it the last time, then this time you should use the same location. If this is not the location of the driver the click The Browse button.
Usually a drive is a collection of files and is offered for download either as an archive file, which contains all the files and it has to be extracted in a location. That is the location where you need to browse and find your driver.
So if a driver installs multiple devices but Windows has a problem installing the drivers automatically, then you need to manually repeat the process at the beginning of this post.

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Links to troubleshoot further:

http://www.vistaheads.com/forums/microsoft-public-windows-vista-hardware-devices/24657-drivers-wont-install-automatically.html

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IPhone 4, the new and improved Swiss Army Knife

Filed Under: Gadgets
Jun.09, 2010

Or should I say the new Apple army knife?

I’ve been talking about the IPod and it seems to me a bit of a burden to carry around. Regardless of all I said in the past, I still recently acquired an IPod touch. I found the justification in a rebate, and the fact that I could watch training videos on the go. But I quickly realized that an IPod touch is incomplete without the phone, and it is the internet part of the phone that I’m interested in because it will be constantly connected and I wouldn’t’ have to find a hot spot and so on.

Therefore I set my eyes on the new IPhone 4. I was watching a video with all the technologies incorporated in it and I got really excited about this thing. Gadgets haven’t got my attention in years, I haven’t been excited about gadgets since I was 12 or so, but Apple really did it with this IPhone. The pictures I’ve seen from the older IPhone models were always qualitative but I would have a bit of a doubt since they weren’t large enough. Now with 5 mega-pixels it should be enough. Sometime ago I owned a 12 megapixel point and shoot Sony that used to take horrible shots, however the old Sony F707 which had only 5 mp took amazing shots. If the photo sensor in IPhone 4 has similar quality to the other Iphones and F707 then it is just enough for a point and shoot. So I don’t see a reason why anyone that has an IPhone would buy also a point and shoot camera.

The ability for 720p video is great for a phone.  I own a Sanyo Xacti and it was he 1080p at 60fps that attracted me to it, but the 720p is only 30fps and it is has a shutter problem at 30fps, the image gets jittery when panning. Now if the IPhone comes with 30fps at 720p and good image quality then no one will want to buy a camcorder anymore when they get an IPhone. That should be enough for a vacation. We don’t need the zoom and all other stuff that camcorders bring in, unless you want to something semipro or pro. In addition you have IMovie right there for $5 what else can you want? Well there can be quite a few things that would go well with the IPhone I’ll enumerate them at the end.

The retina Display, WOW, that thing is amazing, but you know what would be more amazing? That retina technology in my 30” Cinema display, that thing would be just amazing. Moreover Apple could start making TVs with that technology. If they are going to do it, those TVs are really going to be out of this world. And I bet you that the design will be awesome too. How funny will it be if they actually do make a TV which will become the de-facto standard?

What else would I wish from this IPhone?  I would like this IPhone to have 720p at 60fps and more for slow-motion. In addition I would like it to have the ability to take SD-cards for those vacations where you don’t want to carry the laptop with you in case you overdraw the 32 GB space. In addition it should have the possibility to be directly connected to a USB Hard-Drive and give you the option to dump videos and pictures on it. I would also like the IPod touch with all the features of this phone, but without the phone part, if that makes it cheaper. But I think Apple should just make it a Phone and sell it as an IPod touch, and when you want the phone feature enabled you can just call them up, until then you can use it for VOIP at $30/month.  Anyway I haven’t been excited by a gadget in a very long time, and IPhone 4 changed that. Despite how much I want it I’ll have to wait, because there is no IPod touch like the new IPhone and I have a company phone, no monthly fee takes precedence. But if they decide to come up that IPhone / IPod touch I want or better, then I might just get it. Another hindrance is the AT&T reducing the unlimited data plans…

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Microsoft’s problem, a rant or objective observations

Filed Under: OS
May.10, 2010

I think, I realized Microsoft’s problem.

They want to have a hand in everything, and it seems to have been working, maybe it’s their way of surviving and staying on top. But it seems to have grabbed them in the wrong direction. I am reading some exam questions to pass the exam for windows 7 to get certified. Specifically, the deployment chapter. And do not get me wrong, but for the wizard company that invented the wizard, this process is more complex than building a house piece by piece. You need seventeen million tools to be ran in a succession of garbage sequence in order to get a certain type of a deployment image. All these tools have 17 names and they all have to be ran for specific reasons at specific times. I really don’t understand why isn’t there one single tool with wizards, that simply displays:

We offer these “flavors” of images to be created.

1. Do you want a DVD that you pop in the drive and after a few answers (custom partition) you get the unattended file – click here.

2. You want the completely untouchable (unattended) Image. pop it in and go – click here.

3. Then you want a spanned image on more CDs click here. !Bam!

4.You want a network image deploy-able with WDS? _ make sure your WDS server its working and you are connected to the network and then click here.! Bam!

And then the program runs all things in the required succession, in order to get what we want. Then we don’t have to go through the grueling process of running 7 different tools in some weird idiotic order. At the end of the wizard we get the image. !BIG Bam!

I strongly believe that’s what Microsoft should be focusing on. Servicing their products to the best possible way, because if there are bad programs out there, Microsoft’s are the worst. You would expect them to make the full use of all the knowledge they have of their own system, but it seems that their products are always unfinished, put together by some unknown shop in Romania. Take for example ORCA, a Microsoft product. Is the worst documented thing I ever found, and is the worst program I ever tried to understand. Now we can look at an InstEdit. A bit better, it even adds itself the right click menu, pretty nifty.

The Task Manager- a lot of potential there but again the most important feature, they leave apart. You can actually put on pause a single process if you use PrcessExplorer from Sysinternals, (kudos to Mark Russinovich) and it also tells you where the hell the running process came from, so if you want to delete the damn thing, you can. Well, that is the most important feature I use to put a good damn spyware in check, so I can run my antivirus as free as possible, on the infected machine.

I don’t understand how they leave this important stuff out and for third parties to discover and/ or implement. So instead of focusing on getting into technology like virtual machines and compete with VMware and who knows what else, they should focus their resources on really supporting extremely well their products, and then you would really want to get your hands on a PC. The commercials would not even be necessary. Until then we will stick with Apple since they have begun to show some stability. They too seem to be getting hasty and established, but my suggestion would be to stick conservatively with their main products and test the butter out of them before they release them.

So I’ve concluded it. People are switching slowly to apples and this will drag a demand of server technology to become more necessary, then MS will lose its dominant spot in the computer market. Now if that will happen then the only way for MS to survive is to get back to really supporting their products qualitatively. I just heard of the upgrades from Mac OSX leopard to snow but I never heard “oh my god this OSX Snow is terrible”. Not a single rumor, or single whiz went by me. But with windows, every time they get something right, then they messed it up in the next version. Look at windows Vista, a garbage failure. Look at the obscure windows ME. What, you never heard of it? Well it has the renowned reputation of the worst windows ever, and I made my point too. On top of all this nonsense you have seven, six flavors of these windowses:

This is what you have to remember to pass an exam in windows 7:

Ultimate edition
Enterprise edition
Professional edition
Home Premium Edition
Home Basic Edition
Starter Edition

Gizmodo explains it too, and there is also a picture with the bald headed dude from Microsoft trying to be all cool and hip. I don’t know what is the reason to be hyped up, but it shouldn’t be the case, he’s people that came up with most of the shit are really not imaginative. Who in its right mind allowed whoever else to come with 6 “flavors” of the windows 7. I mean how much is the starter edition $20, cause I don’t see the point of building one.

I mean if they went so far as to making six editions, oops my bad, “flavors” then why not just customize the damn thing. I think this will be the next step: You will get window 8 without IE 8, just with Firefox. How cool would that be? Lets post the perfect “flavor” of windows 8. So no internet explorer, and no messenger. I see in win 7 they removed the messenger. Finally a good idea.

Look, Windows 7 it even managed to kill the HP slate. I am glad it died because that thing was hideous. That was blasphemous to the Ipad, and I don’t own one, yet (apple should gift wrap one for me since I am tooting their horn here a bit). Also all my HP LJ 1020 fans might agree with me on the fact that HP is slacking off too.I have also to rip on Adobe too ’cause their garbage reader it has become very annoying. Now it has like two residing garbage programs in start up, and when you log on, it takes you another 10 minutes before you are presented with a desktop, because of all the junk that is added to your start up. Sometimes I feel these companies should pay us for just the headache we are putting up because of them. Would we actually have a case against them for the frustration they cause? Destroyers of peace of mind.

Returning to the customization part I want a customized windows 8 or 7. So far, no Internet explorer (that should deduct like $20) and no messenger ($3), the rest we’ll see what the others want in a customized operating system. All you avid readers should post your wishes. Perhaps MS should open a site “IWish” to spite Apple, which seems to be on a rampage.

Moreover ripping on Microsoft.

I can’t believe that MS decided within two operating systems (Vista and 7)to keep the same stupid setting to view your programs within the start menu frame. I mean, I have a freaking 30″ apple monitor, hooked on a PC. All you MAC fans calm down, is not blasphemy for an apple monitor to be hooked up with a PC. Its Preference. And when I am looking to start a new program up from the start menu, because I use lots of them, I want to be able to spread my programs on my entire screen because at that moment I am not interested in what’s on the rest of my screen, I am looking to launch an application and the rest of the software or images running in the background are useless at this point in time. I just need the most comfortable way to get to my application. I even looked in the task-bar and start menu proprieties, you can’t switch back to the old way of doing things (It should be there, and if I did not see it, then it’s not placed wisely).

Mind you now the size of the screens has increased dramatically, and we can have more icons in that start menu items, and they just decided to be cool, and cage the freaking start menu in a box of approximately12 square inches when my monitor is at least 15 times larger than that. These MS employees “the imaginations’ enemies” decided to get some coolness by doing the mini start menu. The more steps are in between the more annoying a computer becomes, morons.

I don’t want to slide or scroll before I am able to see my goal or target program icon. For example Sony lost me as a customer when they decided to keep the PSP go with only one thumb stick but they gained the appreciation of the current owners because they will not be forced to upgrade. Microsoft in order to gain more market they decided to add a who knows what crazy innovation that is not even well thought out, just to get a few more people attracted to their default product. I just dislike the feature and I think the logic I am using is pretty solid, at least they could’ve added the option to switch it back to the windows XP style start menu. The current look of the start menu is poorly thought out. This crappy thought out start menu gives me the sensation that I am trying to build a ship in a bottle. It would be cool, but there is usually no art in the labor process, the art lies in the results.

Now you be the judges of these statements, customize your ideal windows, and say what you think.

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