Archive for the ‘Windows’ Category
Posted by jpluimers on 2012/07/30
On the research list (wow, Google Translate is very accurate this time!): Tonido
More and more programs allow users to cut the cord of cloud providers like Google and Dropbox. The Tonido software is suitable for example for users who want to make sensitive customer or patient data accessible on multiple devices without outsourcing it to an external server. “Once you have installed Tonido on your PC and create an account, you can in the local network, but also on the move access to a PC or mobile devices on the complete data set”
Original German text from the mid December 2011 issue of c’t Magazin:
Immer mehr Programme ermöglichen es Anwendern, sich von Cloud-Anbietern wie Google oder Dropbox abzunabeln. Die Software Tonido eignet sich beispielsweise für Nutzer, die sensible Kunden- oder Patientendaten auf mehreren Geräten zugänglich machen wollen – ohne sie auf einen externen Server auszulagern. “Sobald man Tonido auf dem eigenen PC installiert und ein Konto angelegt hat, kann man im lokalen Netz, aber auch von unterwegs mit PC oder Mobilgeräten auf den kompletten Datenbestand zugreifen”
Thanks Noud van Kruysbergen for translating the German c’t article into Dutch.
–jeroen
via: Bei sensiblen Daten lieber eigene Cloud-Lösung – c’t – PresseBox.
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Posted by jpluimers on 2012/07/27
About a month ago, NVidia updated their 296 series of WHQL drivers.
Does anyone know if there is a notification mechanism on new releases?
Version 296.88 current as of writing this blog entry (direct download link)
| Version: |
296.88 WHQL |
| Release Date: |
2012.06.13 |
| Operating System: |
Windows 7 64-bit, Windows Vista 64-bit |
| Language: |
English (U.S.) |
| File Size: |
175 MB |
–jeroen
via: NVIDIA DRIVERS 296.88WHQL.
Posted in Power User, Windows, Windows 7 | Leave a Comment »
Posted by jpluimers on 2012/07/20
It runs on OS X, Windows and Linux:
JAuth is a reference desktop client for the google authenticator. Intended
as an alternative to the iPhone Google Authenticator app and similar.
And it comes with installers in addition to source code.
Interesting.
–jeroen
via: mclamp/JAuth · GitHub.
Posted in *nix, Apple, Google, GoogleAuthenticator, Mac, Mac OS X / OS X / MacOS, Power User, Windows | Leave a Comment »
Posted by jpluimers on 2012/07/16
I love the long lead time between some proposals in the suggestion box and the actual answer. A lot longer than my blog queue (:
I Commenter Adam S wonders why holding the Ctrl key when selecting New Task from Task Manager will open a command prompt.Its a rogue feature.
I didn’t even know this was possible. It seems one of the fastest ways to start the console!
–jeroen
via: Why does holding the Ctrl key when selecting New Task from Task Manager open a command prompt? – The Old New Thing – Site Home – MSDN Blogs.
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Posted by jpluimers on 2012/06/20
Somehow many software vendors seem to make it a sport to make it hard to get download URLs.
So here is a bunch of direct download URLs for the (almost new <g>) Visual Studio 2012 RC (formerly and internally known as Visual Studio 11).
There are both ISO files (big, but convenient for offline installation).
Web installers (depending on the choose install options, the total download can be a lot less than the complete ISO, but your system needs to be online during the full installation process).
You can find similar Windows 8 Release Preview download links here (they were distilled from the official download page, which now gives a 404 because of the atdmt link redirect is broken).
I use the x64 and x86 shortcuts for the x64 and x86 ISO links.
The Windows 8 Release Preview Upgrade Assistant also comes in handy.
The above links give a sustained transfer rate here of at least 3 megabit/second.
–jeroen
Posted in .NET, .NET 4.5, C#, C# 5.0, Development, Power User, Software Development, Visual Studio 11, Visual Studio and tools, Windows, Windows 8 | Leave a Comment »
Posted by jpluimers on 2012/06/07
On Windows, the keyboard shortcut [WayBack] Windows-L will lock your workstation and when [WayBack] Fast User Switching is enabled – and when your (corporate) policies allow it – shows your Switch User screen.
First of all, there is [WayBack] TSDISCON (which I found thanks to [WayBack] this thread). It is meant to disconnect a terminal services session, but when you are logged in on the console, it just locks your workstation.
It is small (about 20 kilobyte) and [WayBack] has been there since Windows 2000.
Then there is the [WayBack] LockWorkStation function that does the same.
Lot’s of people think you can call LockWorkStation using rundll32.exe. As per Raymond Chen: [WayBack] (404) Don’t do that: it has a different parameter count and different calling convention than [Archive.is] rundll32.exe expects (note that in Raymond’s article, the last link is broken).
So now you all go upvote [WayBack] the TSDISCON answer and downvote the ruldll32.exe LockWorkStation answers on this [WayBack] SuperUser.com question.
–jeroen
PS: [WayBack] Rob van der Woude published a list of Terminal Server commands including TSDISCON.
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Posted by jpluimers on 2012/05/14
(Thanks to a “Missed Post” problem on WordPress.com, this one didn’t get posted on the scheduled date. Sorry for any inconvenience)
You need to be administrator to see the output of the “net config server” command.
The inbound/outbound limit is 20:
Running ‘net config server’ at the command-line suggests that Windows 7 can support up to 20 inbound / 20 outbound incomplete connections.
–jeroen
via: Inbound TCP connection limit in Windows 7 – Super User.
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Posted by jpluimers on 2012/05/14
A few tools to prevent your screensaver to run:
Windows (most seem to work with Windows 7 too)
Note: on Windows 7 this will not prevent the inactivity timer on an RDP connection!
Mac OS X
–jeroen
via: windows xp – How to prevent screensaver – Super User.
Note: no need to write it yourself :)
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Posted by jpluimers on 2012/05/11
(Thanks to a “Missed Post” problem on WordPress.com, this one didn’t get posted on the scheduled date. Sorry for any inconvenience)
You can fix the “temporary profile” in Windows 7 if you have access to the registry.
So it totally depends on how tight security at your clients is, and how fast their alternative processes are…
–jeroen
via: How to Fix Temporary Profile in Windows 7.
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Posted by jpluimers on 2012/05/11
The “route print” command in Windows will show you some “On-link” entries in the gateway column. This is from Windows Vista and up. Before that, you would see “127.0.0.1”.
While creating Windows Vista and Windows Server 2008, Microsoft built a “Next Generation TCP/IP Stack” (Wikipedia link) that – apart from adding IPv6 – added many new features and performance improvements.
Since traffic routable through the local machine can have multiple IPv4 and IPv6 addresses, it is not called ” 127.0.0.1″ any more, but “On-link” as the answers to the windows 7 – What does “On-link” mean on the result of “rout print” command? on SuperUser nicely point out:
They are addresses that can be resolved locally. They don’t need a gateway because they dont need to be routed.
and this:
Yep, the other three answers are correct: it’s just a route thats directly reachable the NIC is in direct contact with it; on the same subnet. To explain a little further though: by contrast, the routes that have a gateway IP listed must be contacted through that gateway.
Note that sometimes the new TCP/IP stack needs some arm wrestling in order to have it do what you want (for instance to have it honour TCP metrics).
Note that the “default gateway” line is also missing, as it is in the 0.0.0.0 network destination.
A few examples of what route print shows: Read the rest of this entry »
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