Unto the pure, all things are pure

I have been looking for a good (and cheap) RDP client for my Android phone. I was about to pay $25 for Xtralogic's software when I saw the one from Jump Desktop for only $0.99. Having tested both, I find the Jump Desktop one better than the much more expensive one. Jump Desktop's price for Apple is $14.99. Better grab Jump Desktop for your Android before the price goes up. Jump Desktop's RDP client has the following useful and better features: It is both RDP and VNC. But I have not used VNC myself. It is a standard RDP client, but at the same time, if your host is on an internal network and you don't know its external IP address, you can configure Jump Desktop to go via Google for connectivity instead. I haven't tried it myself, but I think the host contacts "Google's servers" (according to the FAQ), your client contacts Google, and Google makes the connection. Neat if it works. It has two "cursors", making use on a small phone ...

I didn't want to describe my computer until I read this: http://tratt.net/laurie/tech_articles/articles/good_programmers_are_good_sysadmins_are_good_programmers. First, what I do.  I write code, some of it, everyday.  I administer networks and servers too. I develop Windows apps, about a hundred thousand lines of C# code so far.  I do ASP.NET apps, more than twenty operational but small web sites.  I do Silverlight too, a LOB one used by two thousand  users.  I have an unmanageable number of Powershell scripts, doing all sorts of funny things which most people would have written a console or Windows app to do, and this is possible because Powershell has full access to the complete .NET Framework class library.  I administer several PCs and about ten servers currently.  I install OS'es with my own two hands from a floppy/CD/DVD/thumbdrive, ie SYSPREP images strictly prohibited, in well over 100 machine instances from DOS 1.1 to Windows Server ...

Do you know of anyone who has an iPad but not another personal computer? Do you know of anyone who has an iPad but not a mobile phone? I think the answers are overwhelmingly no for both questions. Managing three devices is crazy, cloud services notwithstanding.  You spend more time managing the devices than using them.  It's not about enthusiasm.  It is just plain showing off. A tablet computer is a great, probably the greatest, computing device for the situations when you can't be sitting down.  When you are not sitting down, you cannot do serious work.  Hence, an iPad is just that, for not serious work.  It is an expensive toy, just like those expensive hand bags with names you can't pronounce. But what the heck, we need spenders like that to keep any economy functioning. Today's iOS or Android is essentially a single tasking system.  If you are reading a document, you can't be looking at another document to compare the two.  If you ...

Military Technology 2011-07-16 The Network Storm is here There you have it!  This is a reproduction mock-up of the attack software from the Electrical Engineering University of the People's Liberation Army: Distributed DOS Ctrl-D Select Attack Target IP Address of Attack Target FalungGong Network List: Falung DaFa Locations in North America: Alabama xx Region Falung Falung DaFa Network Minghui Network FalungGong Testimony Site (I) FalungGong Testimony Site (II) Attack     Cancel Watch the original video:  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L_Wu1HlZbBk

A good teacher or an expert is someone who, after listening to you for five seconds, knows : what you know , what you don't know , what you want to know , and what you need to know in order to achieve what you want to know . Otherwise both of you will be spending unproductive hours going around each other repeatedly.  I am sure you have see this only too often, where two parties confuse each other on different frequencies. Hence, if you are offering advice, do take a step back and spend five seconds to figure out what the other person knows, does not know, and wants to know, so as to offer what he needs to know.

The gigantic difference between today and say, twenty, years ago, has got to be Google Search. Before there was airplane travel, there were restrictions to what we can do to impact people far away.  It was worse before there was long distance telephone.  But with the near death of distance from cheap calls and fast jets, there was a boom in work that got done. With computers came software.  The difference in speeds between today's toy computer and the first super computer is often forgotten, but it is a mind boggling three orders of magnitude , in favor of the toy computer.  The same improvements to automobiles would mean doing 50,000mph instead of 50mph today.  Imagine every granny having such a car. Software on speedy computers is a super enabler.  But the super enabler is idling in waste 99% of the time while we think of things to make it do.  The limitations now, instead of being caused by vast distances, are caused by the smallness of the...

I use the quality of Windows Messenger as a barometer of Microsoft. In 2000, it was MSN Messenger.  It came after Yahoo Messenger, but surpassed it immediately.  The features were really convenient.  Those pleasant audio notifications when your friends come online or send you a message became the standard noises in the office.   Remote Assistance worked, and I used it to help troubleshoot the PCs of many friends located far away.  There was even a real telco connection and you could dial to real phones .   File transfer worked if the firewall wasn't too strict.   PC to PC voice was excellent. In 2003, MSN Messenger was the largest network, eclipsing AIM and Yahoo Messenger, with 30 million customers I think. The ability to make any animated GIF into an animated emoticon was priceless.  Pressing F2 you could use it like a walkie-talkie .  File transfer worked all the time.  So did handwriting , which was absolutely critical when ...