Enable concurrent remote desktop connections in windows 7
Jan 11th
We have 1 main pc in our house which holds all the data and applications. A number of older laptops and desktops then use Remote Desktop Connection to connect to the main pc. The problem of course is that windows xp, vista and 7 have only allowed 1 user to be connected to a pc at once. This sucks and in light of Linux competition should have been fixed by now. To get this sort of functionality in windows you need to use a server edition.
However, this can be patched to allow as many people as you like to connect to different user account on the same PC at the same time… hence Concurrent RDP.
To achieve this download this file which will work with Windows 7 Professional.
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Photostory 3 and Windows Movie Maker in Windows 7
Nov 25th
If you have just discovered that these two applications are no longer working or availabe in the Windows 7 world DONT PANIC. These tools are very important in the education arena as they are great concept developers for helping people to move on to more powerful software. Photostory is an educators dream bit of software and Windows movie maker is a great intro to track based editing and can also be used for animation. The new Windows Essential Movie maker is a dumbed down bit of rubbish.
With the advent of Windows 7 the Vista download of Photostory no longer works.. the solution? Look for the XP version.
or click here
The same trick works for Movie Maker as the 2.1 version for XP is still available…
UPDATE
As you can see from the comments there appears to be some issues around this and some people are reporting problems. After some playing with different setups I think that this trick WORKS with Windows 7 x64 but does NOT WORK with x32 bit versions of Windows 7. If anyone can confirm or deny this let me know.
An alternative installation of Photostory involved the use of XP mode and again this does work but you need to at least have Windows 7 Professional or above.
UPDATE 2
It looks like the OS check has now been dropped on the latest version I down loaded.
Useful WordPress plugins for Content Management – CMS
Sep 4th
WordPress is God. Except better… as it is real 
I run a lot of websites and frequently use wordpress as the basis of these sites. It is often quicker and easier to install WordPress than to fire up Dreamweaver. The power in WordPress is the ability of 3rd party plugins to transform the humble blogging platform in a tool for every occasion. Here are some of my favourite Plugins More >
refill toner on magicolor 2350 printer and reset cartridge
Aug 4th
it was damned hard work finding this information so for anyone else trying to find it… here you go..
This information and information for a whole lot of other makes and models was eventually found here
Backup your MySQL databases automatically with AutoMySQLBackup
Jul 18th
Found this great script for automatically backing up local mysql databases to local backup storage. Details can be found in this post
The scripts itself lives here:
http://sourceforge.net/projects/automysqlbackup/files/
Useful Global Website Speed Test
Jul 7th
http://www.freespeedtest.com/
very handy for convincing your hosting company that there really is a problem.
place spam in a junk folder in plesk
Mar 21st
First, make sure procmail is installed on your server, and change to this directory:
/var/qmail/mailnames/yourdomain.com/yourusername/
Inside that directory, drop in a .procmailrc file which contains the following:
MAILDIR=/var/qmail/mailnames/yourdomain.com/yourusername/Maildir
DEFAULT=${MAILDIR}/
SPAMDIR=${MAILDIR}/.Junk/
:0
* ^X-Spam-Status: Yes.*
${SPAMDIR}
Once that file is in place, move the .qmail file out of the way, and replace it with this:
| /usr/local/psa/bin/psa-spamc accept
|preline /usr/bin/procmail -m -o .procmailrc
Any changes you or your users make in plesk will over write this!
To get around this change the file attributes to immutable:
# chattr +i .qmail .procmailrc
Credit for this trick goes to Russ Wittmann.
Upgrade all modules in magento from ssh
Mar 4th
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./pear upgrade-all
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rm -rf downloader/pearlib/cache/* downloader/pearlib/download/*
