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Windows features dialog box

Did you know that Windows Vista doesn’t install a telnet client by default?  Me either, but the steps to enabling it are pretty simple.

1. From the Start Menu, click on Control Panel.
2. Click on Programs and Features.
3. Click on Turn Windows features on or off. (see image)
4. Select the Telnet Client option.
5. Click OK.

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Open a command prompt, From the Start Menu, type CMD in the “Start Search” box.
Type Telnet, and you’re off to the races.

It’s probably old news to quite a few, but Staples carries David Allen’s Getting Things Done line of products made by At-A-Glance.  I stumbled upon an aisle display and snagged a set of the system file folders and the gear bag.

Aisle Display for GTD Products at Staples.

The system file folders comes with 9 durable poly folders, 5 are imprinted with: In, To Home, To Office, Read/Review, and Action Support.  The other 4 are blank.  All in all, they are pretty sharp looking for $9.99.

GTD Tools - System File Folders

The gear bag is mesh with dual zippered pockets.  The large one perfect for files, the smaller side one for pens & the such.  Priced at $8.99.

GTD Tools - Gear Bag

What do I do for fun on a Saturday night?  Well, after steam vacuuming the carpets, I like to install new operating systems on small computers.  Seriously though…I’ve got Windows 7 Beta up and running on my ASUS Eee PC 900.

How does it work?  Here’s a crappy video, see for yourself.

Honestly, it shouldn’t have been as hard as it turned out to be.  Normally you can map to a webdav location and select “Reconnect at logon” and you’ll be fine. 

For whatever reason, when you reboot Vista it cannot reconnect to your iDisk.  There are a few posts and complaints out on the interwebs about this topic, but I found a post at macrumors that was particularly helpful.  I’ve modified the steps to work for me and allow me to reconnect automatically so that my sync schedule won’t be interrupted. 

Use at your own risk, as you’ll be putting your password in the path. 

Steps

1. Right Click on your desktop, select New, Shortcut
2. In the “Type the location of the item:” box enter this,
3. net use m: \\idisk.me.com@ssl\username password /USER:username@me.com
4. Edit the username & password & username@me.com to reflect your account info.

   

5. Click Next
6. Name your shortcut, in my case, I chose iDisk
7. Click Finish
8. Click Start, go to All Programs (at the bottom left)
9. Navigate to the Startup folder and right click, select Explore
10. Drag your iDisk shortcut from your desktop to your startup folder

Notes: The persistent parameter doesn’t work, so no need to add that.  You can change the drive letter to whatever you want.  I already had “i:” mapped, so I chose “m:” .  It’s the parameter right after net use.

There are probably several ways to accomplish what I did above, but it was easiest for me.  If you’ve found another way, let me know in the comments.

This is a test of iBlogger, a blogging app for the iPhone. This app is currently on sale for .99 cents in the app store, so it’s a bargain right now.

I like that I can add my current location, links and photos. If only the iPhone had copy and paste, I’d be happy.