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Windows XP SP2c Release to Add New Product Keys

More product keys are needed to support the continued availability of Windows XP Professional through the scheduled system builder channel end-of-life date of January 31, 2009. Service Pack 2c (SP2c) will be released to provide system builders with a new, extended range of product keys. System builders who use imaging must create new Windows XP Professional images with SP2c when shipping product keys; otherwise end users will not be able to complete installation.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/6954397.stm

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In no particular order, this is the first gripe of many about Vista (shouldofbeen named Manana or hasta like Hasta la… well you know), I’ll be posting fixes for the issues i come across. Most of the time this will be the relentless pursuit of knowledge (via Google , cause the other search engine still suck!) for the weirdest of Microsoft bugs that haven’t been documented.

I have 6 intel/AMD machines at home. I build every single one - Too cheap to spend the premium buck on a Best BUY(or… insert crappy store chain here) PC. I have had XP running fine on all of them but like many of us I want to upgrade. So I did ! I have many stories about upgrading 6 machine with different Motherboard,svideo cards etc. This particular issue is after i had upgraded and stabilized all my machine on Vista and I started doing a little networking. Oh, forgot to mention that all the machine are running Vista Home Premium!

I standardized all the machines with the same Users and password. Good form just for starters. Then I proceed to access the other PCs via UNC. No problem until my i tried to access my laptop (\\machinename\c$) and i got the dreaded logon access dialog box. Did my usual testing and checking of services, programs you name it - Nothing – couldn’t access it. So I proceeded to Google !!! And low and behold someone had had the same problem - So this is a repost from http://www.jimmah.com/vista/Networking/filtertoken.aspx

Why can’t I access the administrative shares or remote administrative functions from a remote computer?

Windows Vista prevents local administrators from using their administrator powers over the network. This results in the inability to remotely administer a computer using filesharing and tools that use similar technology (such as the computer manager MMC snap-in and the administrative shares, such as C$). However, this DOES NOT affect Remote Desktop in any way.

To allow administrators local to a computer to use their administrator powers when accessing the Vista computer remotely, please follow these steps:

CAUTION: Improperly modifying the registry can harm your system.

1.             Click start

2.             Type: regedit

3.             Press enter

4.             In the left, browse to the following folder: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\system\

5.             Right-click a blank area in the right pane

6.             Click New

7.             Click DWORD Value

8.             Type: LocalAccountTokenFilterPolicy

9.             Double-click the item you just created

10.          Type 1 into the box

11.          Click OK

12.          Restart your computer

Just a quick note - I am dropping the ecto blogging client for many reasons - one main one is that the wordpress internal editor seems to be sufficiant for now. Plus I didnt feel that the product is complete and refined and lacked a few things. So on to the next product.

I started using Apple computers back in the day - more preciously the early 80’s (I’m not that old, just started early). The new iMacs are out and I went to the local Apple store to play around with them. I’m not going to comment on the OS (BSD NEXT UNIX). 

The box itself is thin - 2 versions; 20 and 24 inch screens. The attention to detail is good - Style wise: I like it - nothing extraordinary. I would say’ Clean’ ( that seems to be Apple’s core style anyway.) The Machine is quick - it has enough external connections. Resolution and screen quality are good - the glossy aspect to the screen might be annoying - the keyboard is, again, clean and minimalistic.clearly here, the design of the keyboard won over the feel and functionality. I could get used to it but I am a big fan of the Logitech DiNovo Edge keyboard. The macbook book and the iMac are the consumer/casual Macs,  so to keep them similar they took the keyboard style from the Macbook  – I’m not a fan !

The new iMacs are all around good machines – they do a good job at being a digital hub for the family and even have enough horsepower to run some more robust apps. Price is good – not great.

If I was asked ‘would I buy a PC similarly equipped or an iMac’, I would lean towards the new  iMac. 

Just downloaded the ecto desktop blogging client. This post is a test to see if it makes my blogging easier or if it adds an extra layer of complexity. It this tool worth the 18 bucks. So far so good! Downloaded quickly, installed easily and the setup was straight forward - One beef already the spell check doesn’t know the word Blogging. it’s a minor beef but i guarantee you someone said “ah the spell checker as it is should be OK” - Already starting Sam I am.

3 o’clock in the morning - on a blissful 90 degree night here in central Florida  - I’ve just got my Website up with WordPress- A no brain-er! Really - thou my hosting company provided me with a boat load of nifty little tools to install most blogging and CMS apps. So now the next step is to customize the site, the look and create a direction for the blog.

 Typically the theme of the site will be technology but won’t be limited to just that! I am leaning towards the idea of most everything is made or is just OK. And I have a huge gripe with just OK or the idea of that most everything reaches a point (specifically engineering) and then someone declared “Should be OK” – I can’t begin to tell you how that feeling of using a product or a services that is sub standard – So, I’ll be adding my 2 cents to the world of opinions.

 Also, since I am heavily rooted in Tech, I’ll be working on documenting the products I use as well as solutions to many of my issues I come across – Forums seem the best way to document the crap I fix over and over again and can’t remember all of them.

Hopefully I’ll be able to inject some humor, sarcasm, disdain, contempt (nope I didn’t use the Microsoft Word thesaurus) into the stuff I write about!