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	<description>My name is Rob. Here are the things I find useful or amusing. Enjoy.</description>
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		<title>Dynamically compiled VNC binary with repeater #2</title>
		<link>http://www.robplatt.com/index.php/2010/07/13/dynamically-compiled-vnc-binary-repeater-2/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 13 Jul 2010 18:07:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>robplatt</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Utilities]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Awhile back, we discussed generating UltraVNC viewer and single-click executables on the fly: http://www.robplatt.com/index.php/2010/03/02/dynamically-compiled-vnc-binary-repeater/ A missing feature that was requested, was the ability to add encryption to the connection. Sorry it took so long, but here you go! Please note, all changes are in reference to my original post and those files. Download the latest MSRC4Plugin.dsm: http://home.comcast.net/~msrc4plugin/msrc4plugin.html Place MSRC4Plugin.dsm in [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Awhile back, we discussed generating UltraVNC viewer and single-click executables on the fly: <a href="http://www.robplatt.com/index.php/2010/03/02/dynamically-compiled-vnc-binary-repeater/">http://www.robplatt.com/index.php/2010/03/02/dynamically-compiled-vnc-binary-repeater/</a></p>
<p>A missing feature that was requested, was the ability to add encryption to the connection. Sorry it took so long, but here you go!</p>
<p>Please note, all changes are in reference to my original post and those files.</p>
<ol>
<li>Download the latest MSRC4Plugin.dsm: <a href="http://home.comcast.net/~msrc4plugin/msrc4plugin.html">http://home.comcast.net/~msrc4plugin/msrc4plugin.html</a></li>
<li>Place MSRC4Plugin.dsm in \client</li>
<li>Place a copy of MSRC4Plugin.dsm, renamed to MSRC4Plugin_NoReg.dsm in \host</li>
<li>Download or generate rc4.key. Place in both \client and \host</li>
<li>For the client exe, change line 6 in the helpdesk.txt file to &#8220;-id $ID -plugin -connect $IP::$PORT -noregistry&#8221;</li>
<li>For the host exe, add MSRC4Plugin.dsm and rc4.key to vncviewer.7z</li>
<li>For the host exe, change line 4 to &#8220;RunProgram=&#8221;vncviewer.exe -dsmplugin MSRC4Plugin_NoReg.dsm -autoreconnect 5 $RESTRICTED -noauto -64colors -encoding tight -proxy $IP::$PORT ID:$ID&#8221;"</li>
<li>Edit support.aspx, change line 44 to &#8220;&#8221;..\7zr a sc.7z ..\winvnc.exe ..\schook.dll ..\vnchooks.dll helpdesk.txt ..\MSRC4Plugin.dsm ..\rc4.key ..\icon1.ico ..\icon2.ico&#8221; &amp; vbcrlf &amp; _&#8221;</li>
<li>That should do it!</li>
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<p>As always, I&#8217;ve included the changes for you. (You may want to generate a new rc4.key, this one is the one included from UltraVNC)</p>
<p><a href="http://www.robplatt.com/downloads/remote_support_files_encrypted.rar">Download</a></p>
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		<title>Android vs iPhone</title>
		<link>http://www.robplatt.com/index.php/2010/06/29/android-iphone/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 29 Jun 2010 21:53:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>robplatt</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The guys over at Droid-Life have been a riot today. I had to post these&#8230; &#8220;Steve&#8230; Can you hear me now?&#8221; &#8220;No&#8230; You&#8217;re still holding it wrong.&#8221; &#8211;EC8CH There once was a man named Steve &#8220;Magical&#8221; status his phone did achieve Then a Droid set us free Apps approved no Third Degree On a network [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>The guys over at <a href="http://www.droid-life.com/">Droid-Life</a> have been a riot today. I had to post these&#8230;</p>
<blockquote><p>&#8220;Steve&#8230; Can you hear me now?&#8221;</p>
<p>&#8220;No&#8230; You&#8217;re still holding it wrong.&#8221;</p>
<p>&#8211;EC8CH</p></blockquote>
<blockquote><p>There once was a man named Steve<br />
&#8220;Magical&#8221; status his phone did achieve<br />
Then a Droid set us free<br />
Apps approved no Third Degree<br />
On a network that&#8217;s NOT AT&amp;T&#8217;s</p>
<p>&#8211;EC8CH</p></blockquote>
<blockquote><p>If your iPhone is letting you down<br />
Dropped calls are making you frown<br />
Then give Android a try<br />
Get a deal at Wirefly<br />
Their prices will truely astound</p>
<p>&#8211;EC8CH</p></blockquote>
<blockquote><p>There was an old man named Jobs<br />
His shiny phones were perfect for snobs<br />
Then a Droid came along<br />
Mulitasking all day long<br />
With a glowing eye that pulses and throbs</p>
<p>&#8211;EC8CH</p></blockquote>
<blockquote><p>There once was a phone from Cupertino<br />
It&#8217;s screen a grid of blocks like in Keno<br />
But then Android arrived<br />
Running Widgets in stride<br />
Now the Iphone looks dated as Devo</p>
<p>&#8211;EC8CH</p></blockquote>
<blockquote><p>In a black turtleneck &amp; blue jeans<br />
He says &#8220;check out the res of my screens&#8221;<br />
But we are Droids &amp; of course<br />
We prefer opensource<br />
And avoid his walled garden by all means</p>
<p>&#8211;EC8CH</p></blockquote>
<blockquote><p>I actually tried out an iphone 4 the other day while perusing things I won&#8217;t buy at the mall (well, I did end up getting a burger and fries). It was the first iphone I&#8217;ve ever used.</p>
<p>My impressions? Nice screen, but not any tangibly nicer than my Droid&#8217;s. The hardware itself looks nice enough; sleek, compact, and all that. But the real meat and taters was the UI. I have to say, it was, well . . . crap. Sure, it scrolls and such nicely, but it&#8217;s just a bunch of screens with apps! I asked my buddy who was with me (a devout Apple acolyte) how I could access the apps, and he was like, &#8220;you just scroll through the screens and they&#8217;re all there.&#8221;</p>
<p>For serious? This is the vaunted UI that all the Apple fanbois go ga-ga over? It&#8217;s a freakin&#8217; app drawer! Here&#8217;s how to make your Android device an iphone: open the app drawer whenever you start up. Don&#8217;t use widgets, live wallpaper, shortcuts, etc. Do everything from your app drawer. Done. You&#8217;ll be all like, &#8220;OMG it&#8217;s so teh fastar! Scrolling is sooo smooth! Bestest UI EVAR!!!!1&#8243;</p>
<p>Sorry for the rant; I&#8217;m just a bit less than whelmed after hearing so much about how iphone&#8217;s UI is sooo much better than Android&#8217;s. Believe it or not, I entered into the demo with an open mind and the expectation to be truly impressed. All that was really impressed upon me, though, is that the blinders on Apple fanbois are more like eyepatches with pinholes. &#8211;Droidzilla</p></blockquote>
<p>Thanks guys&#8230; That made my day =)</p>
<p><strong>Source:</strong> <a href="http://www.droid-life.com/2010/06/29/rumor-verizon-will-carry-iphone-in-january/">Droid-Life</a></p>
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		<title>untrack files in git</title>
		<link>http://www.robplatt.com/index.php/2010/06/28/untrack-files-git/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 28 Jun 2010 21:36:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>robplatt</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I accidentally added files to a git project that I didn&#8217;t want to. git rm &#8211;cached filename or git rm &#8211;cached directory -r cleared me right up. (please note, that is two dashes in front of cached)]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I accidentally added files to a git project that I didn&#8217;t want to.</p>
<p>git rm &#8211;cached filename</p>
<p>or</p>
<p>git rm &#8211;cached directory -r</p>
<p>cleared me right up.</p>
<p>(please note, that is two dashes in front of cached)</p>
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		<title>Google Viewer</title>
		<link>http://www.robplatt.com/index.php/2010/06/28/google-viewer/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 28 Jun 2010 18:34:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>robplatt</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Fixes]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[We used to use Adobe FlashPaper to embed pdfs into our site. This made viewing a pdf  easy, most people have flash installed, right? No&#8230; and chances are, if they don&#8217;t have adobe reader, they probably don&#8217;t have flash. A better/free solution would be Google Docs Viewer. Use Google Docs to quickly view documents online [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>We used to use <a href="http://www.adobe.com/products/flashpaper/">Adobe FlashPaper</a> to embed pdfs into our site. This made viewing a pdf  easy, most people have flash installed, right?</p>
<p>No&#8230; and chances are, if they don&#8217;t have adobe reader, they probably don&#8217;t have flash.</p>
<p>A better/free solution would be <a href="http://docs.google.com/viewer">Google Docs Viewer</a>.</p>
<blockquote><p>Use Google Docs to quickly view documents online without leaving your browser.</p></blockquote>
<p>Embedding Docs Viewer into your page, gives you the same usability as FlashPaper, but without Flash needing to be installed. Now we can give our users the ability to view our pdfs, directly in our browser, without any third-party dependencies. (You may also provide a non-embedded url, to open in full screen)</p>
<p>We did run into one problem. We received this error on one of our pdfs:</p>
<blockquote><p>Sorry we are unable to generate a view of the document at this time</p></blockquote>
<p>Replacing the spaces in the filename with %2520 solved the issue. %20 and + did not.</p>
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		<title>ASP.Net SessionState in SQL</title>
		<link>http://www.robplatt.com/index.php/2010/06/21/aspnet-sessionstate-sql/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 21 Jun 2010 22:36:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>robplatt</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Using SQL Server to store ASP.Net session state has it&#8217;s advantages. It was time for us to switch from InProc to SQL, but we ran into some problems getting the configuration right. The SELECT permission was denied on the object &#8216;sysobjects&#8217;, database &#8216;mssqlsystemresource&#8217;, schema &#8216;sys&#8217;.] Unable to use SQL Server because ASP.NET version 2.0 Session [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Using SQL Server to store ASP.Net session state has it&#8217;s advantages. It was time for us to switch from InProc to SQL, but we ran into some problems getting the configuration right.</p>
<p><strong>The SELECT permission was denied on the object &#8216;sysobjects&#8217;, database &#8216;mssqlsystemresource&#8217;, schema &#8216;sys&#8217;.]</strong></p>
<p><strong>Unable to use SQL Server because ASP.NET version 2.0 Session State is not installed on the SQL server. Please install ASP.NET Session State SQL Server version 2.0 or above.</strong></p>
<p>These two pages got me going in the end.</p>
<p><a href="http://idunno.org/articles/277.aspx">http://idunno.org/articles/277.aspx</a></p>
<p><a href="http://cherupally.blogspot.com/2009/08/problems-in-configuring-sql-server-for.html">http://cherupally.blogspot.com/2009/08/problems-in-configuring-sql-server-for.html</a></p>
<p>Now watch your session states survive an iisreset, or even server reboot! You can also load balance your requests over multiple web servers now too.</p>
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		<title>.Net Packer</title>
		<link>http://www.robplatt.com/index.php/2010/06/18/net-packer/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 18 Jun 2010 17:25:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>robplatt</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[UPX does a fantastic job at compressing executables. However, it does not support .NET. MPRESS does. MPRESS makes programs and libraries smaller, and decrease start time when the application loaded from a slow removable media or from the network. It uses in-place decompression technique, which allows to decompress the executable without memory overhead or other drawbacks; [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://upx.sourceforge.net/">UPX</a> does a fantastic job at compressing executables. However, it does not support .NET.</p>
<p>MPRESS does.</p>
<blockquote><p>MPRESS makes programs and libraries smaller, and decrease start time when the application loaded from a slow removable media or from the network. It uses in-place decompression technique, which allows to decompress the executable without memory overhead or other drawbacks; it also protects programs against reverse engineering by non-professional hackers. Programs compressed with MPRESS run exactly as before, with no runtime performance penalties.<br />
<strong>MPRESS is absolutely free of charge software.</strong></p></blockquote>
<p>I&#8217;ve been using this for awhile now, and have to say its great. Many of my .NET apps are cut down by 50% or more.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.matcode.com/mpress.htm">Check it out!</a></p>
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		<title>TAB Key In Command Prompt Doesn&#8217;t Auto Complete</title>
		<link>http://www.robplatt.com/index.php/2010/06/18/tab-key-command-prompt-auto-complete/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 18 Jun 2010 16:30:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>robplatt</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[For some reason, I lost the ability to auto-complete in the command prompt, using the TAB key. Setting the following registry key to 0&#215;9 solved the problem. How it got changed in the first place is beyond me. [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Command Processor] &#8220;CompletionChar&#8221;=0&#215;9]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>For some reason, I lost the ability to auto-complete in the command prompt, using the TAB key.</p>
<p>Setting the following registry key to 0&#215;9 solved the problem. How it got changed in the first place is beyond me.</p>
<p>[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Command Processor]<br />
&#8220;CompletionChar&#8221;=0&#215;9</p>
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		<title>Incredimail Export That Works</title>
		<link>http://www.robplatt.com/index.php/2010/06/17/incredimail-export-works/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 18 Jun 2010 00:50:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>robplatt</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I had a client that accidentally installed Incredimail. After awhile of using it, he decided he didn&#8217;t like it. Who can blame him right? I looked around online for various ways to export his mail out of Incredimail, so he could use it in Outlook, Outlook Express, or now, Windows Live Mail. No such luck. He didn&#8217;t [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I had a client that accidentally installed Incredimail. After awhile of using it, he decided he didn&#8217;t like it. Who can blame him right?</p>
<p>I looked around online for various ways to export his mail out of Incredimail, so he could use it in Outlook, Outlook Express, or now, Windows Live Mail. No such luck. He didn&#8217;t think it was right to have the shell out money for products that may or may not work, the free options didn&#8217;t work on the newer version of Incredimail, and of course &#8211; Incredimail won&#8217;t give you that option. So he stuck with it in hopes that some way would surface&#8230; He didn&#8217;t want to lose the email that had built up in the client.</p>
<p>This has been an on going problem for almost a year. Every few months we&#8217;ve checked to see if someone came up with a solution. Finally, someone did.</p>
<p>Thank you <a href="http://code.google.com/u/ReynardWare/">ReynardWare </a>for making <a href="http://code.google.com/p/incredimail-converter-reynardware/">incredimail-converter</a>!</p>
<p>Running the converter couldn&#8217;t be easier. It took about 20 minutes to export all of his email and attachments from Incredimail, into the Microsoft .eml format. Which we simply drug into Windows Live Mail.</p>
<p><a href="http://reynardware.blogspot.com/">Visit his blog and show him support!</a></p>
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		<title>Multiple connections to a server or shared resource by the same user, using more than one user name, are not allowed.</title>
		<link>http://www.robplatt.com/index.php/2010/06/15/multiple-connections-server-shared-resource-user-user-allowed/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 16 Jun 2010 02:12:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>robplatt</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Had this happen at a clients today&#8230; Multiple connections to a server or shared resource by the same user, using more than one user name, are not allowed. I tried &#8220;net use * /d&#8221;&#8230; I checked DNS settings&#8230; that didn&#8217;t help. In my case, my client had the same administrator:password login, both on the local machine, [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Had this happen at a clients today&#8230;</p>
<blockquote><p>Multiple connections to a server or shared resource by the same user, using more than one user name, are not allowed.</p></blockquote>
<p>I tried &#8220;net use * /d&#8221;&#8230; I checked DNS settings&#8230; that didn&#8217;t help.</p>
<p>In my case, my client had the same administrator:password login, both on the local machine, and as the domain account. So, even while the computer was disjoined from the domain, the local admin account had rights to the server. This defeated using the server credentials when trying to add the computer to the domain. Changing the local administrator password to something else solved the problem.</p>
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		<title>Wireless Windows Domain Login</title>
		<link>http://www.robplatt.com/index.php/2010/06/15/wireless-windows-domain-login/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 16 Jun 2010 02:08:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>robplatt</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Having trouble logging into a new account, from XP, over wireless? Did you make sure the wireless zero config was controlling the wireless connection? Can you ping the computer from a remote desktop while it&#8217;s at the login screen? Try this&#8230; Log on with an already trusted account. Lock the computer. Try to unlock the [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Having trouble logging into a new account, from XP, over wireless? Did you make sure the wireless zero config was controlling the wireless connection? Can you ping the computer from a remote desktop while it&#8217;s at the login screen?</p>
<p>Try this&#8230;</p>
<p>Log on with an already trusted account. Lock the computer. Try to unlock the computer with the new account. It should cache the login credentials and let you log in. <a href="http://forums.wi-fiplanet.com/showthread.php?t=3924">Read on for more help with this problem</a>.</p>
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