Archive for March, 2008

The good folks over at Matias send us their Matias Folding Keyboard. When it is unfolded you have yourself a full sized keyboard at your disposal. Its full size is 18 x 5 inches. When you decide to fold and store the keyboard it shrinks to a 10 x 5 inch size.

I really liked its form factor and weight but I was unable to use it in my lap like I had hoped for (without hacking it a little). You see she kept folding up on me when I tried to type. So I added a make shift latch to the bottom that keeps it locked in place.

It is the right size for the job but it needs to be tweaked a little. What do you guys think? Do you use your laptop keyboard? Do you have other similar gadgets that you like?

Overall it is a good idea not VERY expensive at $60.00 and I know a few people that will be very happy by its existence but guys for $70 couldn’t you have thrown in a track pad? That would definitely make it worth $70 and maybe even $85! Hey how do you get a patent anyway…

_TheMobileAdmiN_

The rules of the Administrator account changed in Vista. Did you hear?

What do you mean you didn’t get the memo?

It was in between TPS reports and all.

Before Vista, the Administrator account was not hidden out of the box and most users used an Admin account for their every day work. Vista did away with this and disabled the Admin account by default.

Did you know this super special account doesn’t get UAC prompts?

Before going further TAKE NOTE: Microsoft does not recommend doing this and feels The UAC is their way of protecting you from shooting yourself in the foot.

With that being said do WE really need this extra layer of protection? …

(Mind you I have see someone use group policy to lock everyone out of every app on a production server. )

But if you are game lets turn this account on by following these steps:

First, open an elevated command prompt by typing cmd into the Search box on the Start menu, right-clicking the command prompt icon that appears at the top of the Start menu, then selecting Run as administrator — or just use the shortcut you created in the previous hack.

Then enter this command and press Enter:

Net user administrator /active:yes

From now on, the Administrator account will appear as an option on the Welcome screen, along with any user accounts you may have set up. Use it like any other account. Be aware that it won’t have a password yet, so it’s a good idea to set a password for it.If you want to disable the account and hide it, enter this command at an elevated command prompt and press Enter:

Net user administrator /active:no

[Via ComputerWorld]

Alright back to being slightly less secure and making our lives slightly less repetitive!

_TheSecretAdmiN_