Microsoft's Terminal Server needs improvement
News ·Saturday July 28, 2007 @ 23:16 EDT (link)
20070723: WA 673 VMY red Chevrolet Camaro cut me off near the Avondale and WA-520E—not coming from the exit as often happens, but changing from the right to left lane.
20070524: Played croquet (morale event). I volunteered to set up and referee, which was a lot of fun.
20070530: Things to do.
20070614: Started reading the Vanishing American blog.
20070628: From the aforementioned blog:
And as for the WSJ's arrogant assertion that the growth in the Hispanic population will continue regardless of what happens with immigration from now on: I am afraid that they may be right. I am not sure where that leaves those of us who do not want to live in a Spanish-speaking banana republic, but I see little to inspire loyalty in the country the WSJ and the Senate elitists are preparing for us. And it looks like they have declared war on us, by their own words and actions.
20070711: Windows command-line needs to understand about interrupts so I don't have to wait for the drunken gnomes to stop writing before I can kill a runaway console application. Take a hint from Unix already! (you weren't shy about stealing anything from it in the past).
20070714: Frequently when I'm terminal served into one of my work machines, it gets stuck thinking that the Windows key is down, which I don't discover until I've typed a few characters. Depending on what I'm typing, I might minimize all my windows, open a few Explorer windows, and lock the computer.
20070728: (Somewhat similar to the Windows key issue:) Microsoft's Terminal Server has a real problem with control sequences when it gets bogged down—e.g. save is usually "Control + S", now it's "hold down Control, wait, press S". Typing in mixed-case passwords is a lot of fun, since it's necessary to pause for a second when changing the shift state to let the remote machine catch up (broadband, not dialup!)
20070724: scheduledirect.org is the MythTV and open source community response to Zap2It's announcement that they'll stop providing TV guide data to MythTV users in September (because of abuses from companies building systems hardcoded to use one login; they want people to create their own (free) login and renew every 3 months, occasionally taking a survey, which is a small price to pay for the data).
20070727: Office Friday Fest (food and drink on the playing fields, and some games like mini-golf and a rock wall). No T-shirts this time. Working on checking in.
20070728: Garage sales again! 2 ties, 1 (level!) wooden stool, DVD (Pirates of the Caribbean), 2 puzzles, 1 book, 4 wine glasses, total $15.50.
