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December 17, 2013 - The Old New Thing

Tales from "The Box": A survey of crackpots in physics

December 17, 2013 Dec 17, 2013 12/17/13
Raymond Chen
David Dixon, assistant professor of physics at Saddleback College, gave a presentation while he was at California Polytechnic State University titled Tales from "The Box", in which he presents selected contents of The Box, an archive of what is charitably describe as "unsolicited materials", but which is in more plain language "stuff sent to...

Why doesn't the New Folder command work in the root of a redirected drive resource in a Remote Desktop session?

December 17, 2013 Dec 17, 2013 12/17/13
Raymond Chen
When you connect to another computer via Remote Desktop, you have the option of injecting your local drives into the remote computer, known as Device and Resource Redirection. These injected drives are available under the UNC where X is a drive letter on the local machine. The name combines a bunch of internal technical terminology, so it ...