How To Enable the sa Login for MS SQL Server on AWS AMI

Author: , January 8th, 2013

To change security authentication mode: In SQL Server Management Studio Object Explorer, right-click the server, and then click Properties. On the Security page, under Server authentication, select the new server authentication mode (Windows and SQL auth), and then click OK. In the SQL Server Management Studio dialog box, click OK to acknowledge the requirement to […]

Another day, another dollar

Author: , December 24th, 2009

Went to bed very early last night because both of us were just done. Will be visiting my trader client at 11am to try to fix his Ninja Trader application on WinBlows. Need to stop at bank and cleaners and Amish market. Hope the roads aren’t too crazy today. Since it is a whopping 14 […]

How to kill a program on MS Terminal Server

Author: , November 24th, 2009

Control-alt-insert or right click on the task bar for the task manager.

How to fix broken CD/DVD drives in WinBlows

Author: , October 7th, 2009

I ran into this craziness today and learned this trick from Dean at Dell support: In regedit, navigate to the following hive: [code] * HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE * SYSTEM * CurrentControlSet * Control * Class * {4D36E965-E325-11CE-BFC1-08002BE10318} [/code] This folder is the DVD/CD-ROM Drive Class Description in the registry. Look for any of the following names in […]