Hacking Windows XP to allow multiple Remote Desktop Connections

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http://profiles.indesolutions.com/paul/tech/archives/000064.html

It went down and I couldn’t find it the other day… thought I’d salvage it.

One gotcha from what I remember… you need SP2 on XP…

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Posted by paul at January 26, 2005 07:18 PM

Some say that you need a ‘Server’ version of Windows (e.g. Windows 2000, 2003 Server w/ Terminal Services) to allow more than one Remote Desktop Connection session to run at the same time.

My wife and I have a new computer. I bought it because it’s fast and can do everything I’ve thought of trying so far. It backs up a single 700mb CD in under 2 mins. It pulls in DV from my Sony Handycam. It burns DVDs in about 20 mins. And it runs faster than my thought processes (that’s fast, believe me, I develop software using at least two computers all day long).

So why can’t Windows XP Professional allow me to remote in and use my computer WHILE my wife uses it when she stays home? We should both be able to use it at the same time. It’s fast enough, however Windows XP is shipped with the limit of ONE Windows login session at a time.

Psh. Not neccessarily true.

So enough about my personal life. Here’s how to get Windows XP to accept multiple Remote Desktop Connections at one time.

THESE INSTRUCTIONS REQUIRE ADVANCED KNOWLEDGE OF THE WINDOWS REGISTRY AND ARE PROVIDED AS IS, WITHOUT RESPONSIBILITY OF DATA LOSS OR TECHNICAL PROBLEMS. DO NOT APPLY THE FOLLOWING SETTINGS TO SERVERS, COMPUTERS IN A PRODUCTION ENVIRONMENT, OR COMPUTERS WITHOUT FIREWALL PROTECTION.

Adding Recent Docs and Apps and Spaces to the Mac Doc

run this from the Terminal twice

defaults write com.apple.dock persistent-others -array-add ‘{ “tile-data” = { “list-type” = 1; }; “tile-type” = “recents-tile”; }’

defaults write com.apple.dock persistent-others -array-add ‘{ “tile-data” = { “list-type” = 1; }; “tile-type” = “recents-tile”; }’

then

killall Dock

when the Doc restarts right click one of the new folders on the right side of the doc and select “Recent Documents”

You should now see a “Recent Applications” and a “Recent Documents” icons in the Dock.

http://www.macosxhints.com/article.php?story=20071101055329470

To add spaces to the mac doc run this command…

defaults write com.apple.dock persistent-apps -array-add ‘{tile-data={}; tile-type=”spacer-tile”;}’

http://www.macosxhints.com/article.php?story=20071115133729552&query=mac%2Bdoc%2Bseparator

MXML-G – An XML abstraction of the Flash Player drawing API (and then some)

In Deepa’s talk @ 360 in Atlanta she also goes over MXML-G… which is really just a beautiful abstraction of Flash’s drawing API using XML.

It’s very cool. Very handy for rapid prototyping and skinning.

Thermo is essentially an eclipse plugin that heavily leverages MXML – G.

Update: I talked to Deepa… she mentioned that it actually includes “more” than the drawing API currently offers…

Flex for Mobile Announced @ 360Flex in Atlanta

This is a awesome news… !!

Today at 360 Flex Deepa Subramaniam announced that Adobe is working on a mobile version of Flex.  They are taking into account the ramifications of creating a mobile framework for Flex 4.  This does not mean that it will be released at the same time as Flex 4 but they are accounting for it in the planning as they are for Thermo which is scheduled to be released on the same timeline as the Flex 4 release.

The items that Deepa said they were going to implement were…

•  Eclipse based
• ActionScript MXML / AS3 Editor
• Debugger
• Profiler
• Support for lower memory devices as well as higher memory devices

This is HUGE news for Flex developers to be able to create applications for Mobile Devices….

Next is AIR for Mobile??

3D Perspective Transforms for the next version of Flash Player “Astro” announced @ 360Flex in Atlanta

Deepa also just announced that the next version of the Flash Player will support 3d transformations.

Right now 3D frameworks such as Papervision, and Sandy “fake” perspective transformations using ActionScript3. This will give them the ability to run that type of logic in C in the flash player whith significant performance enhancements