June 2004 - Posts

• Stupid Remote Desktop tricks

  Stupid Remote Desktop trick #1 Connect to a remote machine using Remote Desktop. In device manager, right-click on your network card and choose “Disable“. Kick yourself for being so stupid, go to the machine's console (hopefully it's within Read More... Posted Sunday, June 27, 2004 6:25 PM by TribalLibrarian | 6 Comments

• The Case of the Disappearing Taskbar Notification Icons

  Let's begin with a simple experiment that you can perform on your own computer: Count the number of icons in your Taskbar Notification Area, including any rarely used icons that Windows XP may have hidden under the little blue less-than button. The Taskbar Read More... Posted Friday, June 25, 2004 2:01 PM by TribalLibrarian | 4 Comments

• Wanted: tribal knowledge

  Tribal Librarian? What on earth does that mean?! To understand where I got such a strange name for my blog, we first need to understand “tribal knowledge”. iSixSigma.com defines tribal knowledge as “any unwritten information that is Read More... Posted Thursday, June 17, 2004 12:30 AM by TribalLibrarian | 2 Comments