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From http://www.howtonetworking.com/casestudy/tstimelimit1.htm

To set time limits for automatically disconnecting or logging-off a user from a remote desktop session:

1. Open group Policy by running gpedit.msc.
2. Select Administrative Templates > Windows Components > Terminal Services > Sessions.
   In Windows 2008: Computer Configuration > Administrative Templates > Windows Components > Remote Desktop Services > Remote Desktop Session Host > Session Time Limits.
3. Right-click on Set time limit for disconnected sessions.
4. Select Properties.
5. Check Enable and select time you want under End a disconnected session.

I just started using Selenium 2 for some site testing. I used Selenium IDE for Selenium 1, but things are a bit different without that crutch. I am trying to use XPath selectors since I am using Webforms, and I am not real familiar with XPath. I found a great post on using Firebug to check your XPath. Now I can tet out my XPath and make sure it actually selects the proper page element before I run my test and bang my head against the wall!

MIX11
Lots of great talks on the latest and the coolest stuff coming out of Redmond.

Modernizr
Modernizr is a small and simple JavaScript library that helps you take advantage of emerging web technologies (CSS3, HTML 5) while still maintaining a fine level of control over older browsers that may not yet support these new technologies.

NCover
NCover Explorer reveals what code you haven’t tested with your tests.

NSPEC
This is the software that will assist .Net developers in using BDD on their projects.

Google Web Fonts
This is super cool stuff. I saw it a while back, but obviously I haven’t been blogging my tech finds for quite some time, so here it is. This basically brings typography to the web as a first-class citizen. I think I’ll have to go fine a cool font to use for my headlines…

I have been going back and listening to old skool Hanselminutes.com podcasts. Show#8 points out some free tools that may still be somewhat useful:

• TeamViewer
  TeamViewer connects to any PC or server around the world within a few seconds. You can remote control your partner’s PC as if you were sitting right in front of it.
• cr-documentor
  DXCore plugin for rendering real-time XML documentation comment previews.

Here are a couple stitched panorama shots. MS Research’s ICE was used to do the stiching, and it is pretty cool and easy.

Photo: 11MB

Photo: 18MB

PLEASE NOTE: These panoramas are big. The files may take a bit to show in the lightbox pop-up, and they may still be tough to see. It may be best to just “right-click, save as” or “right-click, open in new tab” to view them.

The first panorama is 7 individual shots stitched together. The second is 13 stitched. ICE lets you drag and drop the photos and it figures out how to do all the stitching for you. Pretty amazing stuff.

I recently found out from a friend about MS Research’s Pex. There is some pretty cool stuff you can do with Pex, and the addition of Moles looks like it could be a pretty awesome testing suite. I have only scratched the surface of these tools.

Another cool new toy is NuGet. NuGet offers Gems-like package management for .Net. Cooler still is it is integrated into Visual Studio. You get a Powershell experience within VS to manage your packages. There is a brief intro video from Phil Haack, but I preferred David Ebbo’s extended tutorial.

Well, the Oxite MVC blog test failed. It was difficult to work with and they are changing it so drastically and there is so little documentation, I just decided to scrap it. I tried to go for a .NET engine, but in the end I went with the tried and true. If it ain’t broke I guess.

I am going to slowly manually convert each old Oxite post over to the new blog. Here goes nothing….

[EDIT: Thank you, Google cache. I did not have many posts anyway, so I was able to copy/paste them from the cached versions. Of course, the other content was not accessible, but I have it all on my laptop anyway. I'll get that all transferred over sometime in the near future. Some links may not work until then. Sorry...]