1. Open user account properties in AD, and click on the Security tab.
2. Select the “Terminal Server License Servers” group from the list, and check the “Allow” checkbox next to the properties “Read Terminal Server License Server” and “Write Terminal Server License Server” attributes.  Click Apply to save.

In our Domain this group was already added for 2 ’special’ properties on the user accounts, but not this attribute.  I discovered the difference, because new user accounts created were working without the error, and they in fact were created with the above permissions already granted on them.

Pete & Claire Wedding

On February 29th our friends Peter and Claire got married at a touching, simple ceremony right up the street from their house. There was lots of people dancing to keep warm on that cold leap-day night, not to mention a roaring fire in the stone fireplace.

Katie Graduated

In May, Shawn’s sister Katie graduated from RIT with a BS in Bio-Medical Photography. A nice sunny warm day to walk across the stage was enjoyed by all. She is however still searching for a Co-Op to complete the official requirements to get her degree.

Carolyn & Tom Wedding

A few days later we attended the wedding of Sue’s cousin Carolyn to Tom. The beautiful ceremony at Asbury First church was followed by a very nice reception at Red Fedele’s Brook House.

Trevor Graduation

June brought another graduation event as we attended the graduation of Sue’s cousin Trevor from High School. The ceremony was followed by a very rainy party back at his house where friends and family gathered to celebrate the accomplishment. He’s now attending St. John Fisher College, and is on their Basketball team.

Campsite @ Stony Brook

In July Shawn’s Cousins from Minnesota the Edges came to NY and spent a few days camping at Stony Brook State Park. It was a big group spanning generations with the 6 Edge family members, along with Shawn’s Mother, Sister, Grandmother, and Uncle John.

Stony Brook State Park

We joined them last-minute for part of their stay, and although we spent the night in a local area hotel; we had a great time around the campfire for dinner, and enjoyed the experience of “day camping” with family. We walked along the water down past multiple falls, and very much enjoyed the time spent with the family.

Sideways Car

In August, there were some game-nights with my friends, which occasionally ended in a prank. Such as this one where my car ended up sideways in my garage!

In November, Shawn had to travel to help setup an office in Rhode Island. Sue came along for a cheap last-minute Vacation. We spent 4 days in RI, Sue occupied herself while Shawn was working by shopping at local malls taking advantage of the lack of a State Sales Tax on Clothing.

Marble House Entrance

She spent one of the days making the short drive over to Newport to visit the Newport Mansions http://www.newportmansions.org/ These lavish houses were constructed by the Rich and Powerful of the 19th Century. Although cameras were not allowed inside, Sue snapped a number of photos of the grounds of the three houses she visited: Marble House, The Breakers, and The Elms.

It looks like I’m diving!

After Shawn completed work in RI, we drove up to Boston for a few days to round out the trip. We stayed in a great little hotel 1 block from Quincy Market and the Aquarium. So our first stop when we arrived was the Aquarium. They had a nice exhibit on Jellyfish going on, and as always all the exciting fish in the Giant Tank. Another big photo opportunity. The other days of our trip we visited Quincy Market, The Harvard Natural History Museum, the Boston Museum of Fine Arts, and the Prudential building for some towering views over Boston.

Pictures for all the events from 2008 can be found under the 2008 photos section of our Photo Gallery. And if your searching for the perfect gift for us, your invited to browse our Online Wishlist.

iPod Shuffle Work Area Overview

Today, I tried to take it apart and see if the headphone connector could be repaired, or if it was bent or something. I followed some instructions online to disassemble the little iPod.  It is quite solidly put together and as mine seemed to have much more glue on it than others’ report, it took quite a bit of effort!   Finally I was able to start sliding the innards out of the casing.  Once I got the insides out of the outer shell, I noticed a tiny bit of black tape, had fallen off onto the desk.

This part is supposed to be attached up there…

I looked closer at the tape and a tiny speck of metal was stuck to it!  At this point my heart started to beat a bit faster.  ”Why was this tiny bit of metal on this tape?  What was a tiny bit of metal doing in my iPod?” I looked back at some disassembly photos on my computer.  There was the black piece of tape…but what was normally underneath it?  I did some more searching, and found a picture of the exposed circuit board, I compared it to mine.  ”Uh Oh”.  There seemed to be a tiny part missing.  And there, there’s 4 little pins… I closely examined the bit of metal, and saw on it’s shiny side, there it had 4 little marks…just matching to those pins…  My hopes sank.  Frantically I pushed the ‘power status’ button on the iPod…nothing happened.  No happy little green LED; just darkness.

Scale picture of broken iPod Component

The amazing thing, is after much trial and error, I was able to get the ipod to turn on for just an instant by lining up the broken bit of metal with it’s former contacts in the proper orientation.  Unfortunately, I don’t have a way to hold it in place, and it’s so incredibly tiny that even getting it lined up with tweezers takes an incredible amount of effort, patience, and breath-holding.Whatever this tiny square bit does, it makes the iPod turn on and play audio.  I re-examined the headphone connector, and it seems to be undamaged.  My theory is that this metal bit was already ‘loose’ but held generally in place by the tape and case.  This seems to likely be the cause of the loss of 1/2 the audio signal.  I connected the iPod back to the USB port on my computer and it comes on, and mounts just fine.  So it will still work as a USB Flash Drive at least…but I don’t think it will ever play any songs again.

Add in your system environment variables (Setting in User Environment variables worked for me too) the variable:
DEVMGR_SHOW_NONPRESENT_DEVICES
set it’s value to: 1
reboot your machine (A logout was all I needed…)
goto your device manager
show all hidden devices (menu)
Now you can see all devices you ever installed including the ones that still have drives installed but are no longer in use. So dont be surprised if you see multiple monitors or haddrives and so. Just simply delete the network card you no longer have and you are done.
Without this environment variable you will not see the devices that are no longerpresent.

More information on setting the DNS Suffix Search list can be found in this MS KB Article: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/275553

HouseDecember07

Merry Christmas and a Happy Holidays to all our friends and family. We’ve had a busy year with lots of events, family and friends.

Chistmas Tree

We hope your year has been as enjoyable and eventful as ours. Below you’ll find a few of the things we did this year, along with some pictures.
We’d also like to invite you to browse through our entire year of pictures in the Photo Gallery for 2007.

In the beginning of this year, with the Birth of Kenney Heath, Sue became an Aunt:

kenny 2-24-07

In the Spring we opened our pool, which took Shawn just over a month to complete, as it had been closed up for 2 or 3 years by the previous owners:

Pool Before

Pool After

We went to both the Hickey’s and the Burke’s weddings:

Bride & Groom

Holding

We made a little progress in the house:

Almost down

Master Bedroom

Future Computer Room

In October we went on a trip to Washington DC where we first stopped to see Shawn’s Cousins on the drive down, and then spent a week visiting all sorts of tourist spots, including the Smithsonian Zoo:

Washington Monument

Whitehouse

Great Panda Approaches

and finally to wrap things up in December, Sue got a brand new car! A 2008 Toyota Matrix:

Stock Photo of Sue’s new Car

But that’s not the point of this post. I wanted to highlight some of the problems I had with the new Leopard firewall. I wanted to highlight some of the problems I had with the new Leopard firewall, since I hadn’t seen a discussion about it here yet.

First off it seems the new firewall isn’t based on ipfw like the one in Tiger was. And it seems much more feature limited. This has been documented elsewhere already… ( Leopard’s firewall a ‘mess’ & Investigating the leopard firewall ).

One thing those articles mention is the ’signing’ of applications when you enable the firewall’s “Set access for specific services and applications”. This digital signature gets created and embeded in the application, so obviously when an app is upgraded it will prompt again. That doesn’t bug me much…However, the real problem is in programs that check themselves (for whatever reason). The above article mention Skype, but my personal issue was with Starcraft (1). It refuses to run after ‘allowing’ it through the firewall, saying that it couldn’t verify the application version, and maybe a virus has modified it. Of course without allowing it through the firewall, you can’t play the game online… I’m assuming battle.net makes a checksum of the application binary to assure it’s ‘valid’ before allowing you online to play. This is likely a key part of their efforts to stop cheaters from playing with hacked copies of the program, as well as prevent piracy. I haven’t done extensive testing, but I can only assume that other programs, especially games, will have similar problems, not just Skype. Anyone else who runs into this issue can ‘fix’ it (at least for starcraft) by re-downloading the latest update files from blizzard, and replacing the ‘modified’ application with the ‘original’ one.

For now, my only option has been to turn the new firewall off (Allow All) and rely solely on my router.

Here’s the CSS I added to the wpg2.css file. Interesting bits include the “#gsImageView:hover” part, which displays images wider than the theme layout when moused-over. This allows viewing of larger images in browser windows while minimally impacting navigation of the page.

#gallery { /* Overrides theme.css (line 198) */
padding-left: 13px;
background-image: url('/wordpress/wp-content/plugins/wpg2/css/dual_content_bg.png');
font-size: 100%;
}

#gallery td.SMLgiAlbumInfoCell { /* Overrides theme.css (line 166) */
max-width: 100%;
width: auto;
}

#gallery td.tree ul { /* Overrides theme.css (line 176) */
margin: 0 0 20px 8px;
}

#gsSidebarCol { /* Overrides theme.css (line 145) */
width: 100%;
}

#gsSidebar {/* Overrides theme.css (line 140) */
width: 215px;
}

#gallery h2 { /*Overrides theme.css (line 265) */
font-size: 1.8em;
}

.giTitle { /*Overrides theme.css (line 265) */
font-size: 1em;
}

.gbBlock { /* Overrides theme.css (line 40) */
width: 535px;
}

.gcBorder1 { /* Overrides theme.css (line 218) */
border: medium none;
}

.gcBackground1 { /* Overrides theme.css (line 209) */
background-color: transparent;
}

.gcBackground2 { /* Overrides theme.css (line 213) */
background-color: transparent;
}

#gsImageView {
margin: 0px;
overflow: hidden;
width: 524px;
}

#gsImageView:hover {
margin: 0px -10%;
overflow: visible;
position: relative;
z-index: 1;
}

.gbEven { /* Overrides theme.css (line 353) */
background-color: #F5F5F5;
}

.gbOdd { /* Overrides theme.css (line 361) */
background-color: #F9F9F9;
}

.entry-content img { /* Overrides style.css (line 714) */
margin: 0pt 0px;
padding: 0px;
}

Almost everything from the old site is on this one. At least most things that mattered.

Our New House

Florida Trip

Niagara Falls

We’ve got lots of Photos up from the year, and years past as well, if you’ve never had a chance to browse through them! Just click the ‘Photo Gallery’ link up at the top of the page.