Connect to VMware Server Console Over SSH

Has this ever happened to you? Rather than driving back home I decided to find a solution. And there you are… logged onto your console.

October 10, 2007 · 1 min · 25 words · Rebecca Baird

Enable Mapping to //Hostname/C$ Share on Windows 7 or Vista

By default Vista doesn’t allow UAC elevation over the web link with a local user account. To remove this tweak you might set the value to 0 or just delete the key.

October 10, 2007 · 1 min · 32 words · Kaitlyn Gonzalez

How to Debug a Windows Vista Sidebar Gadget With Visual Studio

Open up the main javascript file in Visual Studio. Attach to Sidebar Process Next we’ll need to attach to the specific sidebar process for your gadget. Now comes the critical step… click to set a breakpoint just to the left of the white area… Important Notes Happy debugging!

October 9, 2007 · 1 min · 48 words · Michael Randolph

Why is Task Manager Disabled?

After a bit of research his problem was solved, and now I’m sharing the solution with everybody. In many cases the problem is related to spyware, so you should also scan your machine. The change should take place immediately.

October 9, 2007 · 1 min · 39 words · Elizabeth Garcia

Backup Your Windows Live Writer Settings

If you’ve ever tried to move your Windows Live Writer prefs from one computer to another you’ll know what a royal pain that can turn out to be. Sure, you might backup the registry and all the files in your utility data directory, but it just turns out to be a mess. Scott Lovegrove has solved this problem for everybody by creating the Windows Live Writer Backup Utility, which can even be run with command line arguments for automating backups....

October 8, 2007 · 1 min · 154 words · Heather Miller

Show the List of Installed Packages on Ubuntu or Debian

While working on the instructions forcompiling MonoDevelop from source, I relied heavily on the dpkg and apt-cache commands to tell me what was already installed vs what packages were available in the repository. After completing that article it occurred to me that I should explain how to show what packages are currently installed… so here we are. The command we need to use is dpkg –get-selections, which will give us a list of all the currently installed packages....

October 8, 2007 · 1 min · 213 words · Michael Gomez

Installing MonoDevelop from Source on Ubuntu

This will take quite a long time, especially the monodoc installation. If you try this on a different release you’ll want to check that to install that as well. it’s possible for you to launch it with Alt+F2 by entering monodevelop into the run box. The most notable missing feature is the lack of integrated debugger… Tested on a clean Feisty install.Download MonoDevelop from monodevelop.com

October 7, 2007 · 1 min · 65 words · Jose Pennington

Force Open/Save Dialogs to Use Details Mode in Windows XP

(you’re able to kill the icon in the setting panel’s Preferences tab). Clicking the “Test Current options” button will show you that the details mode is selected. c’mon note that some applications don’t use the common dialogs and instead build their own. This will not work for those.Download OpenWide from lingo.atspace.com

October 6, 2007 · 1 min · 51 words · Christopher Ayers

A Few Things I've Learned from Writing at How-To Geek

The most important rule to follow is that the readers should come first. If you are writing articles for a search engine instead of for your readers - you will fail. I think it’s much more important to get to the point and write about something worthwhile. That’s why this article will fade into the woodwork and you will never read it again. That’s apparently all I’ve learned. Just remember that focusing on good content is the best rule....

October 5, 2007 · 1 min · 79 words · Jessica Fisher

Add Simple POP3 Mail Client and Notifier to Firefox

The Simple Mail extension gives you this functionality, and true to the name it’s very simple. you’ve got the option to choose to delete the individual message through the right-click menu. The new or reply options bring up the new email dialog, which is also really simple.

October 5, 2007 · 1 min · 47 words · Steven Sanders

Security Tip: Disable Root SSH Login on Linux

The location will sometimes be different, but it’s usually in /etc/ssh/. fire up the file up while logged on as root. vi /etc/ssh/sshd_config Find this section in the file, containing the line with “PermitRootLogin” in it.

October 5, 2007 · 1 min · 36 words · Susan Hernandez MD

Integrate Twitter With Microsoft Outlook

Sending messages is about as simple as it gets… just pop in and hit the enter key. You might notice the option to use tinyurl to shorten the URLs, also very useful.

October 4, 2007 · 1 min · 32 words · Veronica Lane

Using a MySQL Performance Tuning Analyzer Script

Unfortunately, for most of us that aren’t normally database administrators this can be a difficult proposition. I set it to only 8MB but it’s cleaning out the cache far too often.

October 4, 2007 · 1 min · 31 words · Joseph Brown