I thought I’d give the new WordPress Upgrade to 3.0.1 (from 2.7.x) a try and it worked flawlessly. No issues what-so-ever. After I test it out a little further, I’ll have to upgrade my sister’s site.
Now I’m going to upgrade my theme as I wasn’t completely happy with it. The Twenty-Ten theme seems clean and basic. Here’s to another busy weekend!
Ever find it slightly annoying when you copy and paste text in the new versions of Skype and you get an unwanted Name and Timestamp “image” included in your sentence, rather than just plain text?
Notice the fancy (unwanted) image that got pasted into my conversation, rather than just the letters “brb”? Luckily, there’s an option to turn it off.
I’m using the Skype 5 beta. Your version of Skype may be slightly different. Go into your Tools->Options and look for the IM & SMS Tab. Should look something like this:
Click on the IM & SMS button/tab and you’ll should see this default screen in the right hand side:
There’s nothing much to look at until you show the Advanced Options. That’s where all the magic is kept.
Now you’ll see what we’re looking for. What you want to modify is the “Pressing Ctrl+V will” setting (that’s the equivalent of “Paste” for all you users who don’t know keyboard shortcuts). Change that option to “Paste message as plain text“. That should be all you need.
Now you’ll notice that, while the Name and Timestamp information is still there, that ugly image is gone. It seems that there is a bug in Skype where, if you copy/paste a subset of text in a sentence, you won’t get that timestamp information at all. Unfortunately, for this example, the entire sentence was “brb” and the timestamp occurs.
They said it couldn’t be done! Well, Steve Jobs said something during the Q&A session last week, that users shouldn’t have to ever worry about killing tasks (aka Task Manager).
Well, it looks like this functionality IS indeed built into the OS, and it’s quite easy. Just open up the Multitasking Window by double-clicking the Home button, hold down the Application you want to stop, and press the Delete icon.
Sweet! I just got a text message on my Rogers phone indicating:
“On May 4/10 tethering will be included at no extra charge as part of ur data plan on eligible devices.”
Here’s a link to their site:
If this is true, I can finally work remotely without having to always rely on a wireless connection – with having to pay extra. I also forgot that the iPhone allows tethering over bluetooth, which will be interesting to finally test out.
I just read this long article on Georges St. Pierre (GSP) and thought I should share it with the rest of you martial arts fans…
I was surprised, just like many others, to hear his coach telling him to NOT pass the guard… stressing this several rounds. This strategy definitely sounds like it worked, but is this how GSP really wants to fight? Who knows, but I do respect the fact that he listens well (for the most part) to his coach.
I also respect GSP for not ripping Dan Hardy’s arm off… Some say he just couldn’t finish him off (which I suppose is what happened) but I’m sure he didn’t go 100%.
So, who’s next? Is he moving up to the next weight division? How many more months do we have to wait for the next GSP fight?
I can’t believe I didn’t think of this sooner – checking Google seems to have a solution for almost anything. Once in a while, the copy-and-paste between computers when using Remote Desktop in Windows fails. This is essential if I’m working on a Remote computer and want to paste some text into the host computer.
Confirming you have the problem
The first test to confirm if this is broken is to Copy some text in the remote computer, any text really, and then pasting into Notepad. You can play around in Notepad and you’ll see that Copy/Cut/Paste should work. If it doesn’t, it can still be fixed.
Now, let’s see if you can bring that text over to your Host computer. Again, open up Notepad, and simply try pasting. Logically, if you copied it in the Remote computer, there should be something to paste. If nothing shows up, you have a problem. In that same session, type some random text, cut it and paste it. That should work. Go to your Remote Desktop session, and again in Notepad, try to paste that text. Nothing happens? Here’s the solution.
The Solution
In your Remote computer, open up the Windows Task Manager. Look for the “rdpclip.exe” process. If it exists, kill it. Then in a command window, start it up again (by typing “rdpclip.exe” at your DOS prompt). That should do the trick. You can also try it in your Host computer if you want to be safe.
Code
Use the code below to kill and restart the process in one step:
taskkill.exe /im rdpclip.exe & rdpclip.exe
Resources
For further (technical) reading, check out Remote Desktop Services (Terminal Services) Team Blog at: http://blogs.msdn.com/rds/comments/1089729.aspx
After about 6 months of inactivity, I think it’s time to get back on the blogging bandwagon. The Vancouver 2010 Winter Olympics are over, and I have a lot of material I want to share with my friends…
First, I thought I’d pay tribute to the song and music video that haunted me throughout Europe – I heard this song on the radio while driving the rainy streets of Monaco and couldn’t figure out what I was listening to… it sounded like “Ayo Technology” – but it was acoutic and wasn’t rap! I heard it several more times and got hooked. Milo perform’s 50 Cent’s “Ayo Technology”, and it’s arguably better than the original!
