• I: 64 bit setup support
• I: Config is now written to ProgramData\RemoteDesktopManager or All Users\Application Data\RemoteDesktopManager folder, this is needed for windows Vista/7 UAC
• I: Multimonitor spanning support (stretch RDP session over multiple monitors)
• I: Removed pre 1.0 upgrade support (first upgrade to 1.5 if you have an old version)
• I: Added option to edit RDP files using native Remote Desktop Connection client

The new release can be downloaded at Sourceforge.

This is not going to be a in depth review on the eSlick or E-Ink in general (just do some Googling for that) but more a quick user experience oriented post.

First Impressions

Yeb, it really looks like printed paper. Not printed with a state of the art high resolution laser or inktjet printer, but more like printed with a couple of years old inktjet or early days laser. It reminded me of the erasable drawing board (not sure how it is actually called) I had as a kid. The ones where you create you drawings with a fake pen and then erase it by traversing over it with a wiper kinda thing.

The readability of the text is not bothered by the sun at all (just as with normal paper). There is no flickering (low refresh rate, not that much of an issue with modern screens though) at all of the screen.

Refresh of a page (for example when navigating to the next page) is terribly slow (demo). And then I mean really slow. Of course I already read about this in reviews, but you don’t realize how slow it is until you experience it.

Is it usable?

It depends. One of the reasons I bought it was to use it to store lot’s of technical (reference) e-books. The ones I now read as PDF on my laptop. Unfortunately I don’t think I will be able to really use it for that. Loading of complex pages is slow (could be an issue of the hardware of the reader and not the E-Ink and display processor). Technical (computer) books are usually bigger then pockets (which is about the size of the screen) and thus text, tables and images get really small. Quickly skipping pages till you find (back) what you are looking for will not work (takes a second to refresh a page).

On the other hand if you like to read novels or novelles it is ok. You can put a lot of books on it (about 450MB internal memory and up to 4GB on a SD Card), charge it via USB and it does not weight a lot. Perfect to replace the pile of books you normally would take when going on a holiday.

I am not much of a reader and don’t go on holiday that often (not to say never) so I will write this one off on my gadget budget

To buy or not to buy that is the question?

If you read a lot of novels or novelles and you can get the ones you like in digital form (if it’s not PDF it’s best to first make it a PDF) it’s a good deal. If Amazon ever makes the Kindle with online bookstore (what the appstore is for the iPhone) that might be worth spending some extra money.

For other uses I think E-Ink is not yet mature enough. Progress is being made but it will probably take a couple of years before I would think of buying a new e-reader. But that’s just my 0.02 cents.

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EXEC [Growl].[spQueueNotification]
   @Application = N'Test App',
   @Type = N'Executed',
   @Title = N'Test Title',
   @Message = N'Test message\nline two' -- use \n for newline

Other parameters:

-- set to 1 to clear cached Growl objects
--
@ClearCachedObjects = 0

-- The service will look for the icon in Icons folder of
-- installed service and append .png to the name
--
@Icon = 'name'

-- usually only needed if notification has to be
-- forwarded to other Growl instance
--
@Password = 'password'

-- if you want the notification to be forwarded to
-- another Growl instance, it's preferred to setup
-- forwarding in Growl itself
--
@Host = 'hostname'

-- In the rare situation that Growl is not listening on the default
-- port, you can specify the port
--
@Port = '23053'

I decided to host the project on GitHub for two reasons. a) to play around with Git and b) because it is hip
Here is the setup: Sql2Growl_1.1.zip
And here is the git repository url: sql2growl

As soon as the project is in a state I am happy with I will post more information.

The full releasenotes:

• B: On Show click in tray menu, RDM was sent to front if already visible
• B: If no domain is set a \ was added in front of username in MSTSC connect dialog
• I: Improved netmask (read: will use the actual ip netmask) handling for RDP Discovery.

The new release can be downloaded at Sourceforge

One of the changes they made is that /console is no longer there, instead /admin has to be used now to connect to the console session of a Windows 2003 or 2008 server.

The new RDM is compatible with the new RDC tool (as well as the older versions of course).

The full releasenotes:

• I: RDP 6.1 compatibility (Vista SP1, Windows XP SP3, Windows 2008 Server).
• I: Upgraded solution to Visual Studio 2008 Express Edition (build target set to .NET 2.0).
• B: RDP Discovered hosts with multiple IP addresses (but resolving to the same name) are only added once.

The release can be downloaded at: Sourceforge.

Oh and btw, I did not skip versions 1.2 and 1.3 I just did not write a blog post about it.

Well I had that problem and decided to make a tool to manage all servers from within one tool. It is sort of a cheap-ass version of Virtual Center (you didn’t pay for VMWare Server why pay for the management tool).

The tool does require you have installed the Management Interface add-on (on Linux this is a separate installation, on windows server you need to have IIS installed).

Feature list:

1. easily configure list of vmware servers (use same login/password for all if you want)
2. print the server overview
3. list diskusage (not in the standard Management Interface)
4. open console from overview
5. start/suspend/stop images from overview
6. for the developer: great sample to see how webbrowsercontrol can be used.

Note that this version is NOT compatible with the upcoming 2.0 release.

Download setup: VMWareControl 0.2.1 setup
Download source: VMWareControl 0.2.1 src

•  -start flag, if set image will be started after copy (has no effect if image was stopped by vmcopy tool).
• NOOP thread. Will send the NOOP command to the FTP server every 5 minutes. This prevents server disconnects on long (e.g. writing directory XML) inactivity.

New version can be downloaded here: VMWareCopy 0.3

1. Stop the image before copy and resume it afterwards (uses VMWare VIX).
2. Write vmware image directory structure to file including file permissions.
3. Calculate file hashes/checksums of type MD5 and SHA1.
4. Verify the hash of an uploaded file (need support for SITE HASH command, currently available for Gene6 and SimpleFTP).
5. Option to skip copy if none of the files has the Archive bit set.

Just run VMWareCopy without arguments to see all the command line options.Download exe, scripts and source: VMWareCopy 0.2