Technogearophilia

Windows computer systems without Terminal Services licensing can only accept two (2) concurrent Remote Desktop (RDP). Sessions. This can occasionally cause Windows Administrators and Tech Support personnel problems since users often do not properly close their RDP sessions. This prevents the Admin or Support personnel from opening sessions of their own in order to work on issues.

There is actually a simple, if not widely publicized, fix for this problem.

If you’re using MSTSC version 5.x, installed by default on Windows XP, Windows Server 2003, and Windows Vista SP1 systems, enter the following from either RUN or CMD:


mstsc.exe /console


If you’re using MSTSC version 6.x, installed by default on Windows Server 2008, Windows Vista SP2, and Windows 7 systems and upgradeable to from Windows XP, enter the following from either RUN or CMD:


mstsc.exe /admin


In either situation using mstsc.exe with the appropriate switch – /console or /admin – will connect you to Session 0 on the remote system, bumping off another connection in order to do so if necessary. Then you can do whatever work that you need to do.

In the Western World, especially America, it is an old adage that a bit of warm milk in the evening will help one get to sleep. Somehow I don’t think the images below depict exactly what most people meant by “warm milk.”

Admittedly though, these images more closely resemble “Hot Milk” than mere “warm milk.”

While not being especially useful help for getting to sleep, the digitally manipulated photo set above by Andrey Razoomovsky is beautiful, erotic and highly creative. It is also one of the most stunning examples of digital imagery I ever seen. The combination of photos of beautiful women with computer generated graphics in these photos is so well-blended that it’s incredible.

Is it just me, or are you wishing you had some cookies right now? Either Nabisco or the California Milk Processor Board – of “Got Milk?” fame – needs to hire this guy.

Andrey Razoomovsky received a bronze medal and worldwide recognition in “Colour slides & Digital images” category on 16th Trierenberg Super Circuit photo exhibition in Austria during 2007. Trierenberg Super Circuit annually defines photo perfection standards. His work is varied but consistently amazing in both form and content.

Well, we all know the fantasy that nerds and Hollywood put forward as truth in regards to Hacking, Information Security, and such like. To listen to them, it’s all about technology skills and crafty, intuitive intellect. Below is a hilarious – to me at least – cartoon that puts paid to that fantasy.

Cartoon courtesy of xkcd

Trust me, in the world of Information Warfare, advanced technology is neither the most effective means of stealing someone’s information nor the most commonly used methodology. Social Engineering has always been more cost effective and “brute force attacks” are more often the use of actual force than one might expect.