EDID stands for Extended display identification data and is what many computer monitors and televisions with a VGA/HDMI use to tell the PC what resolution they support. Which, in theory at least, is great.
However what I recently found out is that many LCD and Plasma televisions do not broadcast the correct 16:9 resolution via EDID, and [...]
Category Archives: Windows
What I recently learned about EDID, Windows 7 and nVidia 2
How To Reset Windows XP, Vista, Windows 7 Passwords with Ubuntu 9.10 Live Image and a USB Drive 2
I put this together for a project in a class I am taking, and thought it would be handy for others as well. The goal is to access a Windows filesystem and reset the password for a user, for example if someone forgot the Administrator password or the account is locked out from too many [...]
Categories: Software, System Administration, Tech, Ubuntu, Windows
Convert Windows or DOS Encoded Files to Unix/Linux. (ANSI to UTF-8) 0
Windows files and Unix files (Redhat, Ubuntu, etc) are encoded in different ways. Namely, the end of line that is a part of most files created in Windows is not compatible with Unix. You can usually see this because there is a ‘weird character’ at the end of each line. ‘cat’ does not show it, [...]
Categories: Linux, Shell, System Administration, Windows
Tagged: character encoding, dos2unix, end of line, recode
Remote Desktop from Windows XP to Windows Server 2008 or Windows Vista 2
The Remote Desktop connection settings for Windows Server 2008, and I believe Windows Vista, includes 3 levels of service:
Don’t allow connections to this computer
Allow connections from computers running any version of Remote Desktop (less secure)
Allow connections only from computers running Remote Desktop with Network Level Authentication (more secure)
At first blush, you would probably choose the [...]
Categories: Configurations, Security, System Administration, Windows
Tagged: credssp, network level authentication, nla, remote desktop, Security
Automatically Rip DVD using Handbrake and Autoplay (XP) 3
I am currently copying my DVD collection to my PC for use in my media center downstairs. I have an generic process down, that works very well, but it requires a bunch of clicks to do. While figuring out how to Autoplay a DVD using ZoomPlayer rather than the built in Windows Media Player, I [...]
Categories: System Administration, Windows
