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How NOT to remove electro-magnetic interference from your GSM phone
I was searching the google a few days ago on how to minimize electro-magnetic interference from my iPhone and it looked like I was not alone. Most of the solutions were telling me to foil the back of my phone. Uhmm, don't think so. Another idea was to put the iPhone inside an anti-static bag. Having one of these bags handy I said: "What the hell. Let's try it. After all, everyone said that it worked great for them without any signal loss.".
Well, I did try it and I will show you a few photos of the results. Pictures are worth 1000 words.
Before going into the bag  In the bag  In the bag again  Out of the bag
 
What worked for me was a pair of ferrite cores from RadioShack.
Install or uninstall .Net services
To register the service:
%windir%\Microsoft.NET\Framework\v2.0.50727\InstallUtil.exe ServiceName.exe
To unregister it:
%windir%\Microsoft.NET\Framework\v2.0.50727\InstallUtil.exe /U ServiceName.exe
 
If using x64 platform change Framework to Framework64
 
Installation is done in a transactioned way: If one of the assemblies fails to install, the installations of all other assemblies are rolled back. Uninstall is not transactioned.
Remotely logout a user from Remote Desktop Connection RDC

Have you ever tried to log into a 2003 Server and RDC said that: "The terminal server has exceeded the maximum number of allowed connections."? The solution is to log in under console and boot someone. But if you can't log in under console? Well than you have to open up your console and use the query session and reset session commands.

To find out who is logged into ther server you issue:

>query session /server:myserver
To log someone off the server you issue:
>reset session 1 /server:myserver
number 1 is the session ID that person was using.

Commands above assume that you have Administrative priviledges. myserver is the machine name that I am using as an example. Replace that with your own machine name.
Reset menu bar on Leopard Mac OS X

Items in bold are command line entries.

I added CPU.menu from /System/Library/CoreServices/Menu Extras and wanted to get rid of it and no way to do it. After CPU.menu started iStat menus would not start anymore and the way to get menu bar back to normal is to run the commands below. After I ran the commands below I was able to start iStat again

Reset menu bar to only have Airport, Volume, Battery and Clock

defaults write com.apple.systemuiserver menuExtras\
'( "/System/Library/CoreServices/Menu Extras/AirPort.menu",
"/System/Library/CoreServices/Menu Extras/Volume.menu",
"/System/Library/CoreServices/Menu Extras/Battery.menu",
"/System/Library/CoreServices/Menu Extras/Clock.menu")'

Restart UI Server
killall -HUP SystemUIServer
If SystemUIServer is not running, open terminal and run /System/Library/CoreServices/SystemUIServer.app
 
Windows XP running with minimal services
Find instructions here. Windows XP Pro is now consuming under 100MB or ram. Pretty nice!
Why I hate Philadelphia (part 2)

Adding on to what I was saying before about hating Philadelphia,Travel and Leisure ran a survey about best looking cities in US and Philadelphia came dead last. We are the fattest and now the ugliest city. We can't catch a break. Survey results can be found at Travel and Leisure. This Reuters article has a good photo of what Philadelphians really look like.

Update 9/23/2008: We finally have something going for ourselves; we are the best tippers

Connect to Cisco VPN using VPNC in Ubuntu
I have tested this on Ubuntu 7.04 Feisty Fawn. The best tutorial I could find is located here and the only thing that's left out of that tutorial is the example of using a token provided by your IT team.
After finishing section 2.1 you will need to remove Xauth password line from your config file that way when you run sudo vpnc myconf it will ask you for the password.
After all said and done your config file should only contain:
    IPSec gateway gateway.to.use
    IPSec ID groupname
    IPSec secret passwordforgroup
    Xauth username myusername
Why I hate Philadelphia

Why does it take the City of Philadelphia 4 days to get rid of a car that's blocking half of the road?

        

Photosynth and Seadragon Preview

A demo of Seadragon and Photosynth  This is by far the coolest thing I have seen in a while.

Went and looked at the car yesterday

Holly shit! Seeing the car in person for the first time was scary and I mean scary. Looking at the car and thinking that I was damn lucky to have made it out alive and how my head rest probably saved me from having a completely broken neck. There are two pictures that I think explain a lot about the condition of the car and what happened. More photos can be found here

Front View     Driver sit view
Remembered some more about ...

… the accident. I was in the shower washing my hair and all the sudden I heard these voices like someone was crying/screaming from pain. At times it looked like he was gagging from blood or whatever he had in his mouth. I got a feeling of being in the ambulance but no visual and the other person that was in the accident with me was in the ambulance too. I wasn’t screaming. I wasn’t able to move and I remember shaking either because I was cold or because I was nervous.

Coming back to the office today I thought that it could had been something that I had seen on Gray's Anatomy or some similar show but when I remembered that I was shaking and that I couldn't move that made me sure that it was me.

Accident

Just a few days after the accident and I feel like shit. My left eye has started to get black and blue and it has swollen quite a bit. I still can't remember what happened at all. will continue to write a litle more. Too tired to continue right now.....

 This is what I wrote after I got home on Friday...

Reggie Bush gets owned by Sheldon Brown
Sharp Aquos 108-inch LCD HDTV unvailed at CES 2007

WOW, this thing is huge. With today's prices a 45-inch is about $2'500; I wonder how much this will cost?!

 

read article on MSN tech and Engadget

What a way to get dumped

Damn, I feel sorry for the guy! Listen to this.

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