Terminal Services clipboard
Good info on the Terminal Services clipboard
Windows Server 2008 on VMware Server
I received a copy of Windows Server 2008 at a recent Microsoft Heroes Happen event. I successfully installed it on VMware Server 1.0.5 but couldn’t get it on the network. I found in the VMware forums that you have to add this line to the .vmx file of the virtual machine:
ethernet0.virtualDev = “e1000″
Rebooted the virtual machine and the VM was on the network right away. Tricky.
On a side note, all attendees received a licensed copy of Vista Ultimate at the Microsoft Event. Was worth going just for that.
Urban Decay
Built St. Louis is a great site about urban decay, specifically about St. Louis of course, which I’ve read for years now. I just found this site via the current issue of Harper’s which has a photo series on some urban decay in Detroit.
What Have We Learned, If Anything?
NY Review of Books link
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Bicycle Trails in Huntsville
Two Men and a Truck
We recently used Two Men and a Truck for our recent move (about 5 miles) across town. I can’t recommend them enough. They charge $95 an hour which includes labor, truck and all. They actually sent three guys for our move. They did the move in less than 2 1/2 hours, which I thought was really fast, with a total bill of around $230. I tipped them also.
Furniture moved included:
Diring room table and four chairs, couch, love seat, TV stands, roll top desk, full size bed, queen size bed, 5 drawer chest, large dresser, washer, dryer, another big TV stand, coffee table, gas grill, misc other furniture pieces and about 10 good sized and heavy boxes.
El Dorado
El Dorado Mex Grill on Weatherly is very good. Better than the other big Mexican cuisine restaurants in Huntsville. Prices are reasonable also. I had the steak fajitas, which were excellent, for $10.95 and a house margarita for $5.50. Best margarita I’ve ever had and it comes in a large glass. Recommended. They are located here.
Mike Wallace Interviews 1957 – 1958
Link here. I’m not used to seeing Mike Wallace that young or the blatant cig commercials on TV. The “man sized”, unfiltered cigarettes…
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Yoo
Quote from this Harper’s article:
“In the end, this whole affair is about political hack lawyers behaving badly and doing so with impunity: the arrival of a culture of alcoholic frat boys chortling as they turn coathangers into branding irons, come now to middle age. When the scandal erupted, Rumsfeld and his crew turned to a standard “soldiers are cannon fodder” response–let’s scapegoat some grunts, and then it’ll all die out, they reasoned. And some two dozen low-level soldiers were court-martialed. Serious officers, and more to the point, the political hacks who crafted the torture system and hammered it through faced no accountability in any form. They depart with a big party and go off to take in six-figure salaries as oil company executives, it seems. The heroic figures in uniform who stood against the criminality are intimidated, hounded, denied promotions, forced out of the service. It’s all like some dark parallel universe–not the America I thought I grew up in.”
Republicans hacked the Justice Department
The Don Siegelman prosecution is mentioned half way down this Harper’s article:
“Later that year, however, as the Mobile Press-Register was publishing a poll that showed Siegelman trouncing Riley in a rematch, the Department of Justice finally took action. It launched an investigation of Siegelman.”
Reserve your Smart car
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Comcast’s HD
Comcast’s HD degradation was my primary motivation for switching to Knology recently. Yesterday NYT has an article on Comcast’s HD. The degradation was especially noticeable watching sports, particularly football.
See my earlier post on Knology’s internet service.
