So I’m working away on Windows XP, and suddenly everything starts shutting down. Hitting “Cancel” on a save\/don’t save\/cancel dialog doesn’t cancel, but closes the application. Without any warning, I’m logged out. What the?..<\/p>\n
It turns out that the other Dave in the office has mistakenly logged into my PC via remote desktop, rather than the department “Terminal Sever” – and Windows just kicked me out with no warning or explanation, and then locked me out!<\/p>\n
I’m not happy – asides from losing the work from that save\/don’t save\/cancel dialog, it was so rude<\/em>. It warned Dave that he was going to log me out, but didn’t give me the same courtesy…<\/p>\n In brighter news, the new Ubuntu release (Hardy Heron) apparently has some support for incorporating Ubuntu desktops as members of a Windows domain (i.e. logging in using Active Directory), using a program called Likewise<\/em>. If I can get that working, I’ll definitely try using Ubuntu as my primary desktop.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" So I’m working away on Windows XP, and suddenly everything starts shutting down. Hitting “Cancel” on a save\/don’t save\/cancel dialog doesn’t cancel, but closes the application. Without any warning, I’m logged out. What the?.. It turns out that the other … Continue reading