Here is how to remove the “Send Feedback” button that shows up on all windows in Windows 7 beta.
Open Regedit
Navigate to HKEY_Current_User\Control Panel\Desktop
Find the FeedbackTool-Enabled key
Double click the value and change the data to 0
Log off and on again.
No more “Send Feedback!”
(Found in CPU Computer Power User magazine)
What I’ve been doing for 3 days now.
Boy I need to get out and take some pictures! I’m so ready for the weather to warm up. I’m just not a go out in the cold and take pictures kinda guy!
I installed a fresh copy of Fedora 10 (which I’m thinking is my favorite Linux distro so far) on my laptop and have been seeing what all I can and can’t do that I normally do on a regular basis. Right away I wanted to use Remote Desktop to connect to my Windows Server 2008 box. Well, I coulnd’t find a Remote Desktop client. I jumped on Google and found mention of RDesktop. I managed to get that installed and it worked, but I had to launch a terminal prompt and type rdesktop [ServerName].
I poked around some more and found mention of TSClient. I had gone to the Add/Remove Software tool and searched for remote desktop and rdp and a number of other things, but hadn’t thought to search for TSClient. It makes sense now that I think about it since remote desktop is also called Terminal Services.
Anyways, to get a GUI based Remote Desktop client search for TSClient and install that. As a bonus it also installs a VNC viewer as well, which is another tool I use.
In my quest to learn more operating systems and just show more of my geekiness I’ve been playing with installing OS X on a regular PC and on my laptop. Clearly they made OS X to work with a small subset of hardware and had no intention on letting anyone experience the Mac OS outside of their hardware.
One of the first annoyances was that Apple hides all system files and doesn’t have an easy way to turn them back on. Here is a command to make all files visible in the Finder application:
(From the terminal)
defaults write com.apple.finder AppleShowAllFiles TRUE
(This next command kills all instances of Finder to make the change effective)
killall Finder
Re-open Finder and you’ll be able to see all system files now.
Command to mount a Windows share to a folder in Linux:
mount -t cifs //[ServerName]/[SharedFolder] /[MountFolder] -o username=[ServerName]/[Username],password=[Password]
For the mount folder I created a folder under /home/[MyUsername] using MKDir /home/[MyUsername]/Videos
Remove the brackets from Servername etc. Also make sure there’s no spaces between the = and the username or password.
Troubleshooting Audio problems:
Open Suse has a great audio troubleshooting page found here.
One of the little girls in our party at the Olive Garden decided to dance with our waiter.
Sometimes moments happen and you just don’t have time to get your camera out in time. Or when you do get it out the lens you have on doesn’t give you enough of the scene. And then the moment is gone. I still like how this turned out, but I wish I had time to get it a bit better. She started spinning and dancing while we were eating at Olive Garden and I thought oh, that would make a good shot. By the time I was prepared she decided she’d done enough. She did decide to dance with our waiter as you’ll see tomorrow.