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Beep – beep – boop?! Cannot get classic mode to stick for editing my existing WordPress.com pages

2014/08/26 Leave a comment

Looks like I can get classic mode to stick by clicking on “classic mode” in the upper right of edit mode, for creating new posts.

Looks like I cannot for editing existing posts – what gives?

Best advice seems currently to edit through the “dashboard” – unacceptable to me, I often need to revise/refine posts when I browse them.

UPDATE: Well, the test-“Edit” to refine after publishing this post gave me the classic mode of editing – does it remember something? Currently, the behavior seems more like hit or miss…

UPDATE2: The edit for an old post still gets me “Beep – beep – boop” edit mode. Is it possible that the choice of “classic mode” affects only new posts after choosing?!

Update3: OK, looks like my choice of the old-style editor is being remembered now. Not sure that I did something to achieve that.

 

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Windows XP user profiles copy to greyed out ?

2014/08/22 Leave a comment
  1. Problem:
    1. For all profiles, not only for the logged in profile… Not likely a permissions problem? I can delete
    2. 201202-copy-testuser-final
  2. Solution:
    1. “if you’ve ever been logged into a profile without rebooting you won’t be able to copy that profile either. So you might have to restart before you can copy the profile.”
    2. or use shutdown /r when connecting via MSTSC.
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A list of Windows XP accessibility features and related keyboard shortcuts

2014/08/22 Leave a comment

FILTERKEYS

Contains information about the FilterKeys accessibility feature, which enables a user with disabilities to set the keyboard repeat rate (RepeatKeys), acceptance delay (SlowKeys), and bounce rate (BounceKeys).

HIGHCONTRAST

Contains information about the high contrast accessibility feature.

MOUSEKEYS

Contains information about the MouseKeys accessibility feature. When the MouseKeys feature is active, the user can use the numeric keypad to control the mouse pointer, and to click, double-click, drag, and drop. By pressing NUMLOCK, the user can toggle the numeric keypad between mouse control mode and normal operation.

SERIALKEYS

Contains information about the SerialKeys accessibility feature, which interprets data from a communication aid attached to a serial port as commands causing the system to simulate keyboard and mouse input.

SOUNDSENTRY

Contains information about the SoundSentry accessibility feature. When the SoundSentry feature is on, the computer displays a visual indication only when a sound is generated.

STICKYKEYS

Contains information about the StickyKeys accessibility feature. When the StickyKeys feature is on, the user can press a modifier key (SHIFT, CTRL, or ALT) and then another key in sequence rather than at the same time, to enter shifted (modified) characters and other key combinations.

TOGGLEKEYS

Contains information about the ToggleKeys accessibility feature. When the ToggleKeys feature is on, the computer emits a high-pitched tone whenever the user turns on the CAPS LOCK, NUM LOCK, or SCROLL LOCK key, and a low-pitched tone whenever the user turns off one of those keys.

 

Pasted from <http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/desktop/dd317974(v=vs.85).aspx>

 

 

Watch these keys:

  • Right Shift for eight seconds (Switch FilterKeys on or off)
  • Left Alt+left Shift+Print Screen (Switch High Contrast on or off)
  • Left Alt+left Shift+Num Lock (Switch the MouseKeys on or off)
  • Shift five times (Switch the StickyKeys on or off)
  • Num Lock for five seconds (Switch the ToggleKeys on or off)
  • Windows Logo +U (Open Utility Manager)

Pasted from <http://support.microsoft.com/kb/301583#method4>

In addition, this article shows and explains all the settings dialogues for accessibility options in Windows XP.

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Request to download the digital audio lab classroom audio configuration on the fly, program and source for Windows XP

2014/08/22 Leave a comment

UPDATE: A Windows7 (and Vista) version is in the works, check back for a new post here.

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How to use Remote Desktop Connection Manager for computer lab access instead of having to manage faculty computers

2014/08/22 Leave a comment
  1. We have conflicting needs for a language technology software environment: diversity, simplicity, quality, manageability. We use of software configuration management tools like TEM. However, we are sitting between an extremely diverse user base (supporting 17 languages) in our unit and a central IT support with a diverse base of units to support.
  2. Enter MSTSC, facilitated by Remote Desktop Connection Manager: image. If your LRC allows for MSTSC access, consider providing faculty access to a LRC computers via Remote Desktop.
  3. this is for us a great time saver, compared with maintaining subsets of software on subsets of faculty computers that are as similar to the configuration of the subset software on LRC computers as possible,
  4. while for faculty at the same time a realistic test bed what it will be like to operate LRC computers  during class.
  5. We provide access to a subset (which is easily set and edited in the RDG file loaded into Remote Desktop Connection Manager, which is stored on a shared network drive so that we can update the connection files without disruption of faculty access should  there be network changes) since we teach faculty  not to log out currently logged in users when they try to connect, but rather choose another computer from the subset that is free to not. We exclude computers   used in classes where we frequently have high-stakes exams. We also have high-stakes assignments (using Respondus Lockdown browser)
  6. we put a shortcut to the Remote Desktop Connection Manager on the start menu or desktop.
  7. Our computer numbering scheme is simple enough for faculty to navigate – besides, since we connect only to the uniform LRC PC environment, it does not matter. image
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Solved: Cannot remote desktop into 2nd Microsoft account on Windows 8

2014/08/22 Leave a comment
  1. MSTSC’ing from the remote computer simply fails with a non-descriptive error message.
  2. However, if you get as far as the remote computer login screen, you get a valuable hint: Your 2nd Microsoft account has not been added to the Remote Desktop Users Group (presumably this happens by default when you create your first Microsoft account). 20130326_222112
  3. To fix this, log in as admin on your Windows 8 machine (either locally or remotely with  an account which is in the Remote Desktop Users Group), windows key+f, “users”, click on “settings”, and  use the direct shortcut to “remote desktop users group” to add the user in question (with the Microsoft account email) to the permitted users group.
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  4. Adding what I believed was the local account equivalent  of the 2nd Microsoft account via desktop / windows-ley x/ “computer management” / “users and groups” to the “remote desktop users group” did not work.
Categories: e-infrastructure, os Tags: ,

How to remote desktop from a vertical dual-monitor config on MS-Vista (and up) to MS-Vista (and up)

2014/08/22 Leave a comment

Just let mstsc figure it out: mstsc /span /v:<servername>

Trying to feed the resolution /v and /h commandline parameters did fail.

The new span dual monitor support in the MS-Vista  MSTSC does not only support horizontal monitor configurations (mine are 2*w:1050*H:1680), seems a tad slow, though).

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How to get dkRandomdata to run on 64-bit Excel

2014/08/22 Leave a comment
  1. Dick Kusleika made this very useful random data generator for Excel (more random data sources I plan to list here).
  2. To get this to run on 64-bit Excel 2013, I need to make a few quick changes in the source (which will break on 32-bit Excel):
    1. First, the usual “must be updated for use on 64-bit systems”: , fixed by this (but note the 1st line): 
      Private mlParentPtr As LongPtr 'trp:Long

       

      #If VBA7 Then

       

      Private Declare PtrSafe Sub CopyMemory Lib "kernel32" Alias "RtlMoveMemory" _ 
	(dest As Any, Source As Any, ByVal bytes As Long)

       

      #Else

       

      Private Declare Sub CopyMemory Lib "kernel32" Alias "RtlMoveMemory" _
(dest As Any, Source As Any, ByVal bytes As Long)

       

      #End If
    2. Then, to fix the various “Type mismatch” errors , e.g. at , change Lomg into PtrLong: in these locations: 
      1. above: Private mlParentPtr As LongPtr 'trp:Long 
      2. Private Function ObjFromPtr(ByVal pObj As LongPtr) As Object 
'trp Private Function ObjFromPtr(ByVal pObj As Long) As Object
  3. Then I am finally getting to the xmlDoc As MSXML2.DOMDocument error on Windows 8.1, but that has been solved in the comments here earlier this year (also for Windows 8.1, but apparently with Excel 32-bit): I changed MSXML2.DOMDocument to MSXML2.DOMDocument60 where I could: 
    1. Dim xmlDoc As MSXML2.DOMDocument60 'trp: Dim xmlDoc As MSXML2.DOMDocument 
    2. WriteToFile: 



        



      1. 


        Dim xmlDoc As MSXML2.DOMDocument60 
'here it is already fixed? Dim xmlDoc As MSXML2.DOMDocument6 
        

      2. 

        Dim xmlStyle As MSXML2.DOMDocument60 
        

      3. 

        Dim xmlOutput As MSXML2.DOMDocument60 
        

        4. 

      

      

    3. LoadFromFile(): Dim xmlDoc As MSXML2.DOMDocument60 
'trp: Dim xmlDoc As MSXML2.DOMDocument 
    4. testxml() (looks like the XML issue has been worked on since the comments): 



        



      1. 


        Dim xmlDoc As MSXML2.DOMDocument60 
	'trp: Dim xmlDoc As MSXML2.DOMDocument 
        

      2. 

        Set xmlDoc = New MSXML2.DOMDocument60 
	'trp: New MSXML2.DOMDocument 
        

        3. 

      

      

    5. test_writetofile(): 



        



      1. 


        Set xmlDoc = New MSXML2.DOMDocument60 
'here it is already fixed, and here 
        

      2. 

        Set xmlStyle = New MSXML2.DOMDocument60 
        

      3. 

        Set xmlOutput = New MSXML2.DOMDocument60 
        

        4.
  4. Finally, if you have trouble getting the add-in buttons to show in Excel 2013 ribbon, close all workbooks, and you may (but I did not) have to restart Excel (KB2761240):
    1. image
    2. Viola. And I sure like me some Seinfeld references in my sample data…. Smiley 
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