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August 21st, 2010 — windows
At work, I had just received a new Dell desktop computer pre-installed with Windows 7. First thing I did was to ‘join’ the computer into our internal Active Directory domain. That was all good and I was able login to my desktop using my domain user id. Then I started installing software and ‘personalizing’ my windows 7. At some point, for some stupid reasons, I somehow removed my user profile folder (C:\Users\{myuserid}) … oops
From that point on, I wasn’t able to persistently store any personalization. Everytime I logged off and re-logged in, a new ‘temporary’ profile is created. On every logged in, windows would present me with a ‘warning’ message that in essence said it was not able to find my ‘profile’. I did a few things to try to fix this issue, including:
- manually adding C:\Users\myuserid folder
- removing/re-adding my domain user to the desktop
- detaching/re-joining the desktop to the domain
None helped.
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October 1st, 2009 — mac, unix, windows
My job requires that I maintain a lot of ssh sessions to various servers for a long time. It is very annoying when you leave a session idle for 5 minutes or so and come back to find that the sessions is dead because it has timed out. The time out is controlled by the server itself or firewall. The time out value can vary. If you are lucky, you ssh session can stay up for hours but if you are unlucky, you can get booted out every 5 minutes. The bottom line, you need a mechanism to beat that unpredictable time out.
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February 2nd, 2009 — windows
One of the default MS Outlook behavior that I really don’t like is its automatic marking of email item as ‘read’ after a certain time (5 seconds default) and when selection changes. When we converted to Outlook 2007, I had a lot of problems figuring out how to change that behavior. Last week, my Vista guest OS on my macbook’s vmware fusion had to be rebuilt and thus I had to reinstall outlook. Afterward, again, it took sometimes for me to figure out how to configure/disable this feature.
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