I am a feminist

I realise that Straight White Male is the lowest difficulty setting there is  and you should read the article there.  Go and do it!  Right now.  I'll wait.  Done, good.  Now read the follow up articles.

Okay, so, I am not opposing women who attack men.  I am opposing women who attack women for not being feminist.  If a woman chooses to be the person at the braai who prepares the salad, if a woman chooses to have children and (given the means) stay at home and look after them, if a woman chooses to take a traditional role in life, what is the harm in that?

What proportion of Fortune 500s CEO's are women? I don't care, there are, by definition, 500 of them which is 0.00000007% of the population, and while it shows symptoms of a much broader underlying problem, that's not the place to start fixing it.  Why aren't you equally concerned with Height Discrimination?

What I'm trying to say, is, according to me, you should be a feminist (man or woman).  You don't have to be an activist but if you are, thank you for being a better person than me.  If you are an activist, do things that matter.  Don't waste time and energy at a social function telling a woman who has chosen to do the cooking that she shouldn't.  I say that because you are wrong.  It is her choice not yours.

My remote desktop setup

A problem I've had with remote desktop is wanting to resize the remote window and still have a pleasant experience.  This enables smart sizing and sends windows key combinations to the remote machine.

Remote desktop experience

Fixup the Default remote desktop settings

First of all start mstsc and show all options.  Ensure the following is set:

• Display tab
• Display Configuration: Full screen
• Local resources 
• Apply windows key combinations: On the remote computer

Go back to the General tab and click Save As...

In your My Documents folder, save it as Default.rdp.  This is a hidden file with the default settings for your system.  There should be a popup box bleating about overwriting.

Enable smart sizing

Edit the Default.rdp file mentioned above and add the following to the end of it.

smart sizing:i:1

This enables smart sizing.

Remote to multiple machines

I regularly remote into multiple machines.  This is how I've setup my systems to make life easy.

• Create a folder called RDP for storing the remote desktop property files
• I store mine in Dropbox so it's shared across multiple machines
• Right click a blank area in your taskbar
• Toolbars -> New Toolbar
• Select the RDP folder
• You now have quick way of accessing your RDP saves

• Start mstsc and click Show Options
• Enter the computer name and user name to store
• Click Save As and save the RDP file in your RDP folder