Category Archives: windows

How Long Are You Willing to Wait for that UAC Prompt to Appear?

Posted on December 15, 2006 by Brian Jepson

Anyone who’s talked to me about Vista in the past couple of months knows that I’m impressed with it. And I’ve even been known to say kind things about how Microsoft cleaned up the User Access Control (UAC) prompts in … Continue reading →

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Unison and Custom Folder Icons in Windows

Posted on January 15, 2006 by Brian Jepson

One thing I love about my Mac is the ability to set the color of a folder. I’m in the habit of naming folders for various stages of my workflow: CE (copyedit), QC1 (first set of galleys), and QC2 (second … Continue reading →

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After the Keynotes

Posted on January 13, 2006 by Brian Jepson

After all the news coming out of Macworld and CES, I find I’m thinking less about MacBooks than I am about dual core Intel chips. Over the past few months, my computers have been taking on very specific roles: My … Continue reading →

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The Sync Solution that I Like

Posted on September 11, 2005 by Brian Jepson

I’m increasingly switching between my Mac and PC these days, and I like to keep everything in sync. I think I’ve come up with a pretty good solution, so I’m writing it down in case I do what I did … Continue reading →

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A Couple Weeks without a Mac

Posted on April 29, 2005 by Brian Jepson

I’m in the middle of selling my 15″ PowerBook so I can switch to a 12″. This is taking longer than I expected because PayPal, for reasons they are not articulating well, is taking forever to give me their money. … Continue reading →

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Setting up RADIUS on Win2000 Server

Posted on January 5, 2004 by Brian Jepson

Continuing my theme of running a RADIUS server on different operating systems today, I tried to set up Windows 2000 Server’s Internet Authentication Services as the RADIUS authentication for a D-Link DWL-900AP+ (a cheap Wi-Fi access point that does 802.1x). … Continue reading →

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Windows Server 2003/Virtual PC Tips

Posted on October 4, 2003 by Brian Jepson

I just grabbed the 180-day trial of Windows Server 2003 (180 days should be plenty for the mucking around I need to do), and here are some tips that I found useful (most of these can be found somewhere in … Continue reading →

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Connecting to a Console Session with Remote Desktop

Posted on May 20, 2003 by Brian Jepson

Incessant Ramblings: “Ever wanted to connect to the console session of a Win2k3 box via RDP?”

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