Overview Remote desktop is one of my favorite Windows features. That’s one of the reasons why I only use Windows with professional+ edition. Everyone who have used remote desktop knows that the host will be locked after the remote session is logged out. Sometimes this characteristic is not convenient to us. I found [...]
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Overview I’ve heard of REST, or Representational State Transfer many times. My impression is on the SEO Url like http://bookstore.com/books/isdn/978-0-596-52926-0. Actually REST is much more than that, it can applies on HTTP and many other protocols. And by learning REST, we can design/develope better web sites. Below are some good sites about REST, [...]
Overview Here are the two major problems I always face when storing videos taken by my DC: Convert video from MOV to other format (and keeping good video/audio quality) Rotate video from landscape to portrait (as the video is taken vertically) I want [...]
Overview We all know that Windows 7 and Vista (except Home Basic) have a snipping tool that let you do screen capture more easily. However, due to many reasons there are many XP guys (including me …) who are stilling using Windows XP in year 2010. So how to make screen cap easier? I [...]
Overview I’ve been using Visual Studio 2003/2005/2008 and Eclipse 3.0+ heavily in my day-to-day work. Now I mostly use IBM Rational (Eclipse 3.0). Among those IDEs I’ve used, I like Visual Stuio most. One of the best feature of Visual Studio is intellisense, which also support JavaScript and jQuery! Now I have to [...]
Overview It is important for Developers to understand the concept of Date, Time and Time Zone. Especially when making applications that support localization (it is not just multi languages). When looking for materials on this topics, I come across a great articles at www.odi.ch. And I would like to summarize on what I [...]
Overview Sysprep is a tool to prepare a system for system cloning. One of the common use is to clone a base VPC for testing/development. The benefit of sysprep is that it make every newly cloned VPC to have unique SID and/or computer name, so that SID conflict will not happen after the cloning [...]
Overview I think most of the Windows users have seen the screen saying that “Cannot delete XXX: It is being used by another person or program”. This is quite annoying as you don’t have a clue what is actually locking the file. Now I would like to share some of the programs I used [...]
Overview I installed a 64-bit Windows 2003 R2 Enterprise SP2 on one of my Hyper-V VPC, and add a Legacy Network Adaptor to it. However the network adapter is not automatically installed in the x64 win 2k3 because its driver is not available. With some Googling I found that 64-bit version of win [...]
Overview When I want to share a file with others in the same network, I move the file to my shared folder. However, sometimes I receive complains from my colleagues saying that they don’t have permission to read the shared files. At the end, I found that a copied file can inherit the [...]
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