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Enable Remote Desktop Remotely

June 22, 2009 by danielheth

If you need to remote access a Windows XP professional workstation and the computer Remote Desktop is not enabled you may have an option to enable Remote Desktop remotely by using regedit.

To enabling Remote Desktop using regedit, follow these steps:

Run REGEDIT from Start>Run
Click on File, then select Connect Network Registry
Type the remote computer IP or host name in the Enter the object name to select and the click OK.

4. If you don’t have permission to access the remote computer, the logon screen will show up. Type the username and password for the remote computer. Then click OK.

5. Now, the remote computer is listed in the Registry Editor.

6. Browse to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Terminal Server, in the right panel, select fDenyTSConnections (REG_DWORD). Change the value data from 1 (Remote Desktop disabled) to 0 (Remote Desktop enabled).

7. Close the regedit.

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Microsoft Store Display’s Box Art

June 8, 2009 by danielheth

Here it is… Microsoft has added the Windows 7 boxes and space-holder to their Store site.

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Conan O’Brian’s new Late Show Background

June 8, 2009 by danielheth

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Post to your Twitter Account using VB.net

June 7, 2009 by danielheth

That’s right guys and gals, you can very easily and quickly post to your twitter account using Visual Basic.net. The function below is a fully functional VB.net 2008 Twitter Posting function.

Simply call the function below as follows:

PostonTwitter(“username”,”password”,”what i want to post”)


Public Sub PostonTwitter(ByVal userName As String, ByVal password As String, ByVal updateMessage As String)
Dim wc As Net.WebClient = New Net.WebClient()
wc.Credentials = New Net.NetworkCredential(userName, password)
Net.ServicePointManager.Expect100Continue = False
Dim updateMessageBytes As Byte() = System.Text.Encoding.UTF8.GetBytes("status=" + updateMessage)
'Use UTF8 to get it properly encoded if you use characters like ç ã etc...
wc.UploadData("http://twitter.com/statuses/update.xml", updateMessageBytes)
End Sub

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iPhone 3rd-Generation Pic

June 7, 2009 by danielheth

Here it is… the 3rd generation of Apple’s iPhone is almost here.

Notice the matte black casing and no chrome border. Also know that this will include the iPhone OS 3.0

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Magnum P.I. and Hon Solo P.I.

June 6, 2009 by danielheth

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Cellular Broadband on your HP Mini 1000 running Windows 7

May 17, 2009 by danielheth

So, you’d like to use that fancy new broadband modem you ordered with your HP NetBook. Only problem is your so ahead of the curve with technology that you’ve taken advantage of the free year-long Windows 7 RC. That is the dilemma… how to get your Qualcomm un2400 broadband modem to work on your fancy new operating system. This problem took me a while to figure out. Finally thought it just started working… and the first post I’m making is this one

Here are the pre-reqs you’ll need:

HP Mini 1000 NetBook with WWAN Modem, Windows 7, HP Wireless Assistant*, HP Connection Manager version 2, HP Multi-WWAN Drivers

* The Wireless Assistant isn’t listed as one of the downloads for the HP Mini 1000, so I was forced to browse Google till i found a different hp laptop that had it for download. Only requirement I needed for it was that it run on Vista.

If you have all of the pre-requisites then it’s time to get started

1. Install Windows 7 onto your netbook. You can follow my instructions on another post to learn how to install it via a bootable USB thumb-drive…

2. Now install the HP Multi-WWAN Drivers, this is the latest drivers and I had no problems with the installation or it’s appearance in device manager.

3. Install the HP Wireless Assistant*. This will help the connection manager control the power’d state of your WWAN PCI-e card.

4. Lastly, install the HP Connection Manager version 2. They just released this software back on 3/19/09. This is a welcome release. Before when i was running Windows 7 Beta, I was forced to use version 1 which required administrative permissions to execute. I was able to get cellular broadband to work with BETA… but this solution here is far better!!!

That’s it, your done. Now it’s time to configure the HP connection profile you will use to connect to the internet. Open the HP Connection Manager version 2 and go to Tools->Profile Manager. Edit the profile in the list, then edit your WWAN properties. Adjust your settings to what I have to the right…

Save all that and your ready to test your connection.

double click the “HP Connection Manager 2” shortcut that was added to your desktop from step 4. you should then see the below screen:

Click the “Power On” button and you’ll see this appear in the bottom right of your screen:

Once your wwan card is online and active you’ll see this screen:

Hit the “Connect” button and you should then be online and active… just as the following screen shows:

That’s it. Your now online and active… enjoy those 3G speeds!!!

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Installing Windows 7 on your Netbook without a CD Drive

May 13, 2009 by danielheth

I ran into a little problem with getting a “fresh” Windows 7 installed on to my net book. After a bit of research I found the following procedure… and it worked perfectly!!!

Without further ado… here are the Vista instructions for how you can create a bootable USB drive to install Windows 7 on your system.

1. Format USB flash drive to NTFS format

For Vista users can directly format the USB drive to NTFS format

2. Disk-Part the Drive

On the Start menu, navigate to the command prompt entry. Right-click and select Run as administrator.

Type

diskpart

list disk

Record the disk number of your USB flash drive.

Select the USB disk.

select disk X (X is the drive number of the USB flash drive)

List the current partition. Record the partition number.

list partition

Select the current partition and make it active.

select partition Y (Y is the partition number of the USB flash drive)

active

3. Prepare the OS files

Download Windows 7 file to your desktop.

Download and install PowerISO from http://poweriso.com/.

Right-click on the Windows 7 iso file and select Extract files. Extract the files to a folder (you can name the folder any name you want, but for illustration purpose, I name it win-7) in your desktop.

In your command prompt, cd to the windows 7 folder.

cd Desktop/win-7 (Change the destination to the folder that you have extracted)

cd boot

bootsect /nt60 X: (X is the drive latter of your USB drive )

Now, copy all the files from the Windows 7 folder to the USB flash drive.

Reboot the computer. Remember to change the first boot device to your USB drive in the BIOS.

You should be able to install Windows 7 from your USB flash drive now.

Posted in HP Mini 1000, Microsoft | Tagged NetBook, Windows 7 | 3 Comments »

BITrac Remote Services

May 8, 2009 by danielheth

is the name of my new company. I have partnered up with 4 other engineers in my industry to provide the easiest way to support our customers. Using our BITrac Agent software, we are able to run audits on your computers that keep you informed on the latest developments with your computer network.

We have an engineer standing by 24×7 to help you remotely or in-person. With our remote services, we can log into your computer and we can share your desktop with you. Give you the ability to see what we’re doing; combining this with a conference call we can tell you what we’re doing along with showing you. Thus you become trained in the in’s and out’s of your computer system.

We make it easy and we hide nothing. We are way more than happy to explain any aspect of what we’re doing to get your computer system running again.

We are waiting to help… call 479-935-9801

Oh and did I mention you can also get remote access into any of your computers. Yes, you can also gain access to the same great remote-software we use to help you. By going to http://remote.bitrac.com and entering the username/password we provided you ahead of time you can gain access to creating trouble-tickets for your computer as well as gaining access to the desktop.

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Internet Cameras… We’re talking Enemy of the State stuff…

May 5, 2009 by danielheth

If I told you that there are literally thousands of publicly accessible cameras that you could pull up on your computer right now… would you believe me?

A little Google search, inurl:/view/index.shtml, shows us only one brand of public IP Cameras.

I tell you this because of my current project that i have recently had a lot of success with. My goal is to setup cameras through out my apartment in order to monitor what goes on within it.

What I’m wanting is three very basic things. It took me a few days of research to verify that they were possible. The first thing I wanted for my camera project was the ability to use my web-cam along with network IP cameras I will purchase over time. I wanted to be able to access all of the cameras the same way… which meant that I needed a computer software to turn my USB web-cam into an IP Camera, or at least act like one. The second thing I wanted was to have a software package that will display the video feeds from all my cameras on one 20” LCD I have in my office. This LCD will work exclusively to display the security system. The system itself, using this software would act much like a DVR and record the video feeds to a file on it’s hard drive. Lastly I wanted the ability to view the cameras remotely on my iPhone.

I was very happy to find that all of this was possible with two pieces of software. One is called IP Vision Pro, and is an iPhone app available through the iTunes App Store for only $24.99. This application gives me the ability to watch and control IP Network Cameras which are publicly available over the internet.

The second software package I would need is called WebCamXP. I will be using the Pro license because it has the ability to have unlimited number of cameras, among other very useful features.

This software not only connects to IP Network Cameras like the IP Vision Pro software, but will also turn my USB web-cam into an IP Network Camera as well.

WebCamXP also has the advanced features of those expensive monitoring programs like DVR functionality.

Now that the software is out of the way, I can focus on cameras. When I have additional camera research I’ll be sure to post it here…

Posted in Cameras, Security | Tagged network cameras, surveilance | Leave a Comment »

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