Archive for February, 2008

Re: The Oscars

Sunday, February 24th, 2008

If “Falling Slowly” from Once doesn’t win for “Best Original Song”, it’ll be a shame

As for the rest of the categories, I can’t complain. I’ve seen all the “Best Picture” nominations except for “Atonement” and “Michael Clayton”. And as I understand it, both are fine movies that I don’t hate. Yep, not a “Crash” in the bunch.

Bonus Youtube Link: I’ll never get tired of the phrase “I Drink Your Milkshake”

Keith Olbermann uses it every so often on Countdown and it’s always entertaining. Long even has, what I think, a decent Daniel Plainview impersonation.

Oh Vista, You Don’t Always Have To Protect Me

Sunday, February 17th, 2008

I can take care of myself.

Problem: Trying to burn a DVD over Remote Desktop

Error Message: If you are running Nero burning software via Windows Remote Login, you might not be able to access your drives for burning. This is a security restriction from Windows

Nero Error Message

Solution: Taken From Here. I noticed when I was searching to the solution to this problem, not a lot of people had the answer. And the only site that I found – wasn’t in English. I was surprised Nero didn’t have it as a FAQ on their site.

Start Group Policy Editor – Go to the Start menu and type in, gpedit.msc

In the left pane of Group Policy Editor, navigate to Computer Configuration -> Administrative Templates -> System -> Removable Storage Access.

In the right pane of Group Policy Editor, change the value of the Setting, All Removable Storage: Allow direct access in remote sessions, to Enabled.

Exit Group Policy Editor and you should be able to burn a DVD over Remote Desktop now

Slow Flash Getting You Down?

Saturday, February 2nd, 2008

Here’s a tip for if you have an old G4 Mac.

As you know, for some reason Flash on MacOS is slower than Flash on anything else. And having a G4 certainly doesn’t help things. I dread going to sites with a heavy Flash interface. Frankly it’s a bit disappointing mixed in with a smidgen of depressing.

But hey, it’s Saturday. Time to get some work done. You set your awesome 12″ Powerbook (perhaps the greatest laptop Apple ever built) besides you and you head over to Hulu to catch up on Friday Night Lights/Chuck/House/Psych/Terminator while you work on work work. But oh no, the video are in Flash. And Flash is a dog.

Here’s my recommendation. Use Camino. Camino for whatever reason, handles Flash better than Safari and Firefox. Not a tiny bit better, but a lot better.

Give it a try, you’ll thank me.

Another Picture of My Desk