August 26, 2011

A photo slideshow set to a reggae tune.

Windows 7 (and Server 2008) allows you to change the background of the logon screen. With some creativity you can have your own pictures to be the background for your logon screen. Your picture will also be used when the screen is locked.

Serving 9.x AND 10.x licenses  arcgis.com

Verizon Brings Free Wi-Fi to Millions of Broadband Customers ... well not exaclty. No Wi-Fi for non-Windows users.

Current verdict:

Export power scheme.

Lets say for example, you do all that work to customize the power scheme on your laptop. You might even write down some of the advanced settings to tweaked. Why not export it to use the next time you need it.

Quick System Info: ( Business Analyst 9.3.1 w/ ArcGIS Desktop 9.3.1 ArcEditor Single Use )

Starting Business Analyst, was asked to reinstall.
"The feature you are trying to use is on a network resource that is unavailable."
When opening Business Analyst after updating, received the following error message:

"Could not validate application directory: C:\ArcGIS\Bin\GxImageConnect.dll
Current ImageConnect loaded from C:\Program Files\ArcGIS\Bin\GxImageConnect.dll"

Whats needed:

1. ESRI ArcGIS software
2. BGInfo from Microsoft/Sysinternals http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/bb897557.aspx

This is a quick desciption of using your Linux box to make floppy disk IMG files. Once you have the IMG files, you can load them into your virtual machines or load them as a read-only block device to get to the info. Just what you need for that vintage computing feel.

The existing map history for ArcMap 9.3.x (and possibly other versions) is stored in the user's registry.

This is the dialog box that is shown be default when a user starts ArcMap.