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New Currency For Space

Scientists have devised a new currency to be used in space. The Quid 'coins' are made from a polymer which unlike credit cards or regular coins, have no sharp edges which could damage space suits. The current exchange rate is about 1 Quid to £6.25... :-)

Web Data Add-In For Excel 2007

"The Excel 2007 Web Data Add-In provides an intuitive user interface for importing textual data from any given webpage via auser’sselections of interest, such as stock quotes, weather temperature, ect, into a spreadsheet and keeping that data“up-to-date”.That is, if the webpage data changes, the spreadsheet can be updated by a click of the data “Refresh” button. Also note that theadd-incan automatically learn from a user’s selection and optionally select similar items to help save time."

http://research.microsoft.com/research/downloads/details/db5286b6-0bb0-4668-9ebc-c3e9b43a0683/details.aspx

Out of Terminal Service Connections?

MicroSoft Terminal Service Commands (MSTSC) which allows us to initiate a remote terminal service to connect to a remote computer or to a terminal server. As the remote terminal sessions are limited (most of the cases 2) we can make use of console session of the server using the following command.

MSTSC -Console | MSTSC /Console

If we are running out of sessions which may be inactive but connected to the server, its hardly possible to kill the inactive connection from the client. We need to kill the connections by logging in physically (Correct me if im wrong). At this juncture, Logging into the console comes handy to the Admin. (Note:- user must be admin to connect to the console). i have posted innumerous requested in tech blogs asking for a solutions. At last i found this option in its own help [MSTSC /?]

 Note:- We cannot use Mstsc/CONSOLE to connect to a console session on a Windows 2000 Server-based computer

VISTA TIP:- Natural Language Searching

Suppose, If, you have taken pictures from the Cam to ur PC few days/weeks back and you want to find them, sure you can select the criteria from certain dates of the week, but with natural language enabled, you can search for “photos taken last week” and they’ll come up. To enable this:

1. Go to Computer, and in the menu bar select Tools then Folder Options.
2. Select the Search tab at the top.
3. In the “How to search” part, make sure the “Use natural language search” box is ticked.
4. Apply then OK.

We can search for other types like:

• Email to Bharani about hosting
• Music rated *****
• Movies downloaded yesterday
• Card games