I tried mapping a network drive to a share on my server, using the UNC path \\filer.win.sturmnet.org\sturm. Then I hit the “different user name” link — all this looks exactly like it used to under Windows XP. But it works differently: as soon as I log off and on again, the details about the user name and password to use are lost. The solution was simple: the User Accounts applet in the Control Panel still allows to configure network passwords for an account, but the information I had entered …
After I had installed a number of applications on my Vista system, I had to restart at some point and when the system came back up, a notification popped up telling me there had been some startup applications that had not been run because of missing permissions. Clicking the prompt brought up this window:
Now, for the life of me I can’t figure out what the applications are that are supposedly problemat …
When Word 2007 is in reading mode, there’s a special menu titled “View Options” in the top right corner of the screen. In this menu there are entries to increase and decrease the text size — pretty useful for me, because I like to lean back and relax while reading stuff on screen, rendering the default font size a bit too small for comfort on my machine’s 1680x1024 resolution. The problem is that the increase in font size for each click to the menu entry is not very large, so I like to select …
On Unix the behavior of the kill command is a result of the operating system’s signal handling — the command simply sends a signal to a running process. In the absence of other parameters, the TERM signal is used, and while the option -9 is pretty common (sends the KILL signal to terminate unconditionally), it is also possible to send any other signal number to a process. There are loads of other semi-standardized ones, but an application can “listen” to any signal it wants.
The main intere …
I found some baffling behavior in my OneNote 2007 recently. I’m using the excellent new functionality that lets me store notebooks on my file server and open them on more than one machine. OneNote 2007 keeps automatic offline copies of these notebooks in this case, synchronizing offline changes back into the server side versions when the connection to the file server becomes available again. Really great stuff.
Problem is, it has stopped working. Well, not completely — it just started behavin …
As you probably know if you’ve been trying out Office 2007 beta 2 yourself, there’s an updated engine of Microsoft’s Windows Desktop Search engine available for use with the beta, which enables better search functionality in Outlook and OneNote. This engine has been working fine for me in Outlook (well, after the initialization in the beginning, and if I skip the facts that the data files take up more than 1GB of space on my laptop and apparently need to be maintained regularly at the cost of a …
Here’s great news — I had just wondered about it earlier today, and now there’s actually a quick way to get some feedback to Microsoft about the Office 2007 beta. This blog post explains it nicely, and here’s the download in case the MSDN blogs are inaccessible (which they sometimes seem to be). …
Can’t say if this is really specific to PowerPoint, but I just noticed that PowerPoint 2007 regularly uses the clipboard internally. I’ve been using ClipMate for a few years now, which is a really fantastic clipboard monitor/archiver tool with a lot of functionality around clipboard use. ClipMate also has a setting to produce a sound when the content of the clipboard changes, and that’s what made me notice that clipboard content was regularly changed while I was creating and editing slides in P …