Archive for January, 2008

The Remote Desktop client on Vista gives a REALLY annoying warning message every time you connect to a preVista computer such as a server running Windows 2003. The warning message looks like the one in the picture below:

You can get rid of this warning message by editing the registry or configuring a setting in the [...]

In Windows XP you could install an enhancement (Power Toy) which would display a menu option named “Open Command Window Here” whenever you right-clicked on a folder icon. This would allow you to launch a shell already changed to the folder you right-clicked on. This feature is built into Vista. Just hold down the SHIFT [...]

Changing the MAC address of your network interface card can be useful for a number of things. Here is how you change it in both Tiger and Leopard:
For Tiger (10.4.x) open up the Terminal application and run the command:
sudo ifconfig en0 ether 00:00:00:00:00:00
where en0 is the network interface you wish to change the MAC address [...]

The installer application in Leopard has a pleasant sound effect when an installation completes. I thought it would make a good sound effect for cell phones or something else. Here is the sound effect in multiple formats:

Windows Audio Format (.wav)
MP3 Audio (.mp3)
Quicktime 7 (.mov)
Windows Media Audio V9 (.wma)

To download, right-click over the version of [...]


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