So you miss your old 80’s retro gaming device like “Donkey Kong” or what not? Well some crazy people have actually turned these into flash games, so now you can enjoy many of these old dreadful games on your pc 🙂 Nostalgic for sure but damn if I get how we could actually spend hours on these games during the 80’s.
Play here; http://www.pica-pic.comI have twice seen this issue, you try to log on to a Windows 2003 server remote via RDP and get a black screen with black text – now you can still log on but you can’t read what you write on the logon screen.
The issue appear to be rather trivial to resolve, yet I am still puzzled as to what causes the issue in the first place. A colleague of mine Anuphol Urailat actually found a MS article on this http://support.microsoft.com/kb/906510/en
The problem is that the “Color” section under “Control Panel” in “.Default user” in the registry is set to “0 0 0” (Black) for everything, you simply export a clean “Color” section from another Windows 2003 box and viola everything is back to working condition. You can even do the import via Remote Registry edit, so it is rather trivial to resolve.
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So if you are looking into what to do during your vacation then here is a tip for you, you should buy and read; Zero Day by Mark Russinovich
Yes you may recognize the name from Sysinternals 🙂 he’s one of those clever guys from the good old sysinternals days. I have not read it yet, but as it come with high praises I have ordered my copy – it should be a VERY chilling factual Techno Thriller very well suited for people that like the details to be accurate.
Can be bought via Amazon.