Using local drives with Remote Desktop

Victor knew how to set up the remote desktop to allow access on the remote machine to the drives on the local machine (very handy for transferring files back and forth. Undoubtably insecure). It is not obvious how to set this up though. It's hidden in the startup prompt for connecting to the remote host; you have to hit "options" and then under the "Local Resources" tab hit "More". This article explained it with crystal clarity, and for my new OS no less:

http://www.howtogeek.com/wiki/Using_Local_Drives_In_Remote_Desktop_Connections

Accessing a shared calendar using Outlook Web Access

They set up a lovely shared calendar for our group to use on my project, but the invite request was cryptic, and the calendar didn't seem to appear on my own OWA login. Eventually I figured out that things are ten times harder with OWA rather than using Outlook directly, and there was an additional problem in that the owner of the calendar had to access it first through OWA to fix a stupid M$ software problem.

Here is something about the invite (to fix this it prescribes steps which involve Outlook directly, no help for me).

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/912265

This one seems to describe a version of OWA that I don't use, and talks about sharing a calendar of my own:

http://www.ehow.com/how_6509738_share-calendar-microsoft-outlook-access.html

It turns out that the answer is to use a fancy URL to access the calendar, so that I do it as me but access the other calendar (the calendar has its own email address!)

http://exchangeshare.wordpress.com/2009/06/15/how-to-open-shared-calendar-in-owa/

All of which didn't make sense until I read the following page:

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb936726(EXCHG.80).aspx

So, I started to play around with putting in other email addresses. I tried my own, I tried my friends'. For my own, it got in, for others I was blocked as expected. It seemed to be a permissions issue to access the group calendar.

This page seemed to hint that there has to be a sysadmin involved:

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa998830(EXCHG.80).aspx

But my boss came back and said that he'd set it up, and sure enough the screen that came up from the direct URL was different now. Now it said "To view this content, you must first use Outlook Web Access to select the language to display it in." with a single link. When I clicked the link, it came to a very OWA-ish page that demanded that I select a language and a time zone. However, when I did that, I got a different access denied message. Finally I found the below link, which indicated that the solution is for the *owner* to go through the same series of links, set the time zone, and boom it would work for me. And that's exactly what happened to get it all finally working.

http://forums.msexchange.org/m_1800468925/tm.htm

Also, my collegues who view the shared calendar with firefox don't get the buttons that allow you to switch between hourly, weekly, and monthly views.

The old kitchen faucet

It's gone now, but in case I needed any info about our old kitchen faucet, here is what I found the last time:

How to detach the faucet: It was a nut on the tube sticking out of the bottom of the cartridge, as shown here:

http://www.moen.com/consumer-support/installation-help/tutorial?id=moen0101

This post showed the full installation procecess for that crazy transparent cartridge:

http://www.familyhandyman.com/DIY-Projects/Home-Repair/Faucet-Repair/how-to-repair-a-kitchen-faucet/Step-By-Step

samsung juke all sounds off mode selected

I went through a period of time where my phone didn't ring, vibrate, or anything. When I was finally scrolling through my ringtones trying to get one to play, I got the popup message "All Sounds Off Mode Selected". WTF? So, I somehow got into this mode. With the help of a googled forum post, I found that when that popup was visible, if I fiddled with the volume buttons I would get a control that allowed me to select a variety of modes, from all off to vibrate only to some others that I haven't yet tried yet. Not sure how I got in that mode, but it's clearly not accessable through the tools menu! Here's the link, which isn't exactly clear on exactly what mode this works in, but it was enough info to stumble into the solution:

http://www.fixya.com/support/t1425040-turn_samsung_juke_all_sounds_off_mode