I rec’d a copy of Windows 7 Ultimate by attending the “New Efficiency” conference last week. I’m planning to install it on my new laptop. As much as I love to have it’s 64bit version, the one I got is 32bit. I’m gonna wait till someone releases the 64bit ISO and activate it with my key.

Microsoft did a great job on this release, it is the best version of Windows I’ve ever used. During the conference, I’ve learned a lot of new features, though they have to be implemented on the Server 2008 and IPV6 architecture. A lot of works to be done in the coming years for the IT team!

When a user connects to Windows XP desktops through Terminal Service {RDP, Citrix Xen}. By default, they are able to disconnect from the desktop. By disconnect, the terminal session remains open on the terminal host. This issue is driving me nuts at work, because when users try to connect again, Xen DDC doesn’t seem to deliver their last (opened) session. Instead, it trys to give them a new one.

It makes me want to cry, because we’ve specifically told users to log off instead of disconnect.

Sure, there are a few group policies you can modify to kill disconnected sessions. But I want to let users know, I don’t want them to disconnect! Period…

Disable the Disconnect button should do it, this policy is under Administrative Template > Windows Component > Terminal Services. It can be applied in the Group Policy on the VHD itself, or through the GPO on your domain controller. Enough said… I hate id10t users.

The Javascript:

The HTML Form :

word:

The server side script (simple-ajax-example.cgi) :

#!/usr/bin/perl -w

use CGI;

$query = new CGI;

$secretword = $query->param('w');

$remotehost = $query->remote_host();

print $query->header;

print "

The secret word is $secretword and your IP is $remotehost.

";

This was some time in July. I haven’t logged onto my blog for a while.

Hawaii was fun, beautiful weather and women, everyday and everywhere. Though nobody offered to apply sun block on my back, and I got burnt pretty bad. I got about 160 pix uploaded to flickr, click on Read More to see 100 of them. Or click here to see all of them on flickr’s site.

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