Augusto Alvarez

Ok, for several weeks now I’ve been a twitter user. It started when I saw a little sketch about the evolution of blogs.

Sounds like a discuss topic isn’t? This "twittering world" is something that got me thinking: why it does exist and why so many people us it?. I’m sure that can be a lot of answers about it, from twitter lovers and twitter haters.

I’m pretty sure that can be hundreds of examples where people only twitters for no reason other that to twitter (and to get other people’s attention). But what about if it’s more than that? What about if you also want to share experiences, knowledge, information? It would take something like a geek twitter to do that… but be certain that there are million of those from whom you can learn a lot of things.

And what about if you it’s not a geek twitter? I think this is still a great social experiment where you can learn a lot of things, like start to knowing other persons on their normal (not in a geek way) life. I’m a believer that smallest and simplest aspects on people’s life is what defines a person. Why not twitter can be a tiny way to understand all that?.

Don’t want to make a whole deal of philosophical discussion about it; so I want to share with you my experience and some of the people that I usually follow:

My user: @augustoalvarez
 Angel "Java" Lopez: @ajlopez
 Johnny Halife: @johnnyhalife
 Martin Salias: @martinsalias
 Paulo Arancibia: @parancibia
 Gabriel Szlechtman: @gabrielsz
 Ezequiel Morito: @ezequielm
 Federico Boerr: @federicoboerr
 Miguel Saez: @masaez
 Matias Woloski: @woloski
 Ezequiel Jadib: @ejadib
 Juan Manuel Moyano: @jmmoyano
 Edgardo Rossetto: @erossetto
 Christian Linacre: @linacre
 Alejandro Ponicke (not so much a twitter fan so far): @ponicke

Oh and if you ask, twhirl is my preferred twittering tool

Cheers everyone!

Recently I found that there was a list of all hotfixes of Windows Vista, prior to the SP1 (that it’s going to be release any moment now). I also found out in that site that there’s an Autopatcher that includes many of these security updates for Windows Vista.

If you don’t have implemented in your organization WSUS, you probably know about the sacrifice that could be that in every operating system clean installation what means to download and install all the updates over again.

Also you’ll find in that site the autopatcher versions for Windows 2000 SP4, Windows XP SP2 and Windows 2003.

The Vista Autopatcher it’s compatible with both: 32bit and 64bits versions.

Cheers!

 For those who are not comfortable with the size of Vista icons on your desktop, there's a little trick that I'm sure you'll enjoy.

 On your desktop holding CTRL key and scrolling your mousewheel you can set at your placer the icons size.

 This one also works on the Explorer window when you are navigating any hard drive or folder.

 Enjoy

As you may remember, the code name for Windows Vista (as for Windows Server 2008) was Longhorn. It was a time when no beta were available for the public, but I can remember that you could find in those years that some people shared in P2P programs an XP version adducing that was the Longhorn version, with the only difference with XP was the “starting” logo, changed by “Longhorn 2006”.

Well in the firsts Betas for Windows Vista, Microsoft announced that this new operating system will include many things that are not in this final version, for example: WinFS (the new file system specially for indexing files). Because of this, the Vista final version it turned out very different from what Microsoft said it would be on the first betas.

The Joejoe Group took on of the first Vista betas, the 4074 build, and start to build their own betas from there. These versions are, of course, unofficial and unsupported from Microsoft.

In the group site you can find a downloadable version for the last build. We may assume that wouldn’t be available for long time if any legally issues with Microsoft appear. But don’t say that you are not interested in taking a look to this version!!… Adding the WinFS twist, you also will find with other visual features that were the first versions for Vista’s Aero.

Cheers!

For those, like me, who uses several times a day and for different connections the Terminal Services and Remote Desktop knows that is a must having a nice and simple way to manage all the connections. That’s why you probably use the “Remote Desktops” snap-in. This is how I use it in Windows Vista:

What if I tell you that you can manage all the connections that you want in your Internet Explorer? And if you’re using Mozilla Firefox or IE7 all the connections can be in you different tabs? Probably have the same functionality as this one, but it’s always good to know the option is there right?.

This is really simple and easy. Works with Windows Server 2003 and XP:

Using “Add or Remove Programs”, select “Add/Remove Components” and in “Application Server” select “Details”. You will find another list and in “Internet Information Services” select “Details” again and check “Remote Desktop Web Connection”.

When the installation starts you’ll be prompted to insert the Windows Server 2003 CD. After the installation is complete you are ready to use your Remote Desktop Connection in the default direction established in IIS: http://localhost/tsweb/

As a best practice, is always recommended that you set your permissions in IIS to not allow anonymous authentication, any other will be fine; and use HTTPS for the communication.

Cheers!!