I have a 1920×1080 desktop at work but when I use remote desktop to connect to home, it automatically resizes to my compact 1024*768 desktop. Most programs don’t seem to have a problem but I was working on Weka KnowledgeFlow and one of my flows, originally designed on the higher resolution, never showed a horizontal scroll. It might just be a java thing. In short, I had to look for a method to remote using a higher resolution than that of the local machine. Luckily, you can specify a custom resolution for the RDC using a command line switch ( more here ). The command line below gave be enough space to fix the flow. I hope this helps someone out there.

mstsc /w:1280 /h:1024

The picture above is my office machine when i was trying a horizontal flip. It works when you have many consoles open but the bottom part gets for browsing/coding, it’s not that great.

If your Shiro modem (that pathetically unstable thing given by the wise folks at PTCL) restarts whenever there is a slight voltage fluctuation (or when the voltage goes low), get a new 9V 1A power adapter. I got one from Hafeez Center today for 200/- and it does wonders to my totally unstable modem when load shedding causes the UPS to kick in. (And no, I will NOT clean my modem!)

This picture was taken while trying to install XP and Xubuntu on my machine without a CD. It’s quite clear how the data storage media has shrunk with the passage of time. The biggest disk here has a 2GB limit and was taken from an old dell laptop. The CF Card is 2GB as well, taken from a relatively newer Canon camera. The 1GB SD card is from my XDA and the teeny weeny micro SD is from my brother’s new ASUS EEPC. According to Kryder’s Law, the storage density of the magnetic media doubles every year. This probably means we would be able to  fit a whole book at the tip of out pens real soon (and may be come up with an ‘auto-write’ pen which can just copy paste the text when we want).