Some Notes on the Machines

An interesting article:

https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/magazine/2008.08.database.aspx

The most accessable I’ve found is here:

https://pypi.python.org/pypi/py-jack/0.5.2

First do this:

sudo mkdir -pv /etc/systemd/system/getty@tty1.service.d
sudo nano /etc/systemd/system/getty@tty1.service.d/autologin.conf

This will edit a new file autologin.conf. Here is the text for it:

[Service]
ExecStart=
ExecStart=-/sbin/agetty --autologin $username --noclear %I 38400 linux

Make sure you replace “$username” with the username with which you want login to occur.

If, peradventure, you would like X to automatically start up after the above autologin to text, add the following to ~/.profile:

[[ -z $DISPLAY && $XDG_VTNR -eq 1 ]] && exec startx

You will also have to remove the desktop manager which is running, e.g., lightdm.

Try this:

http://vectormagic.com

and this:

http://www.roitsystems.com/cgi-bin/autotrace/tracer.pl

and this:

http://potrace.sourceforge.net/

and this:

http://autotrace.sourceforge.net/

A new tool which accepts touchpad gestures from Logitech and Microsoft touchpads:

http://www.betterdesktoptool.com/features.html

And a tool which will divide one large screen into multiple smaller ones:

http://www.actualtools.com/multiplemonitors/features/multi_monitor_desktop_divider/

There is a group policy available which can do this:

http://social.technet.microsoft.com/wiki/contents/articles/5927.how-to-disable-ipv6-through-group-policy.aspx

The page says disable, but an option within the GP is to simply prefer IPv4, which can solve a lot of problems straightforwardly.

Here is the canonical source:

http://www.internic.net/zones/named.root

These can be very helpful:

*.microsoftonline.com
*.microsoftonline-p.com
*.sharepoint.com
*.outlook.com
*.lync.com
*.microsoft.com
*.office.com
*.office365.com

One reference among many: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2637629

Here are a number of relevant tools:

Network packet studies, including TCP window scaling and much more

• Microsoft Netmon
• WireShark
• TCPDump
• Microsoft Message Analyzer

Round-trip performance and path tracing

• PSPING on Windows, paping on Linux
• TraceTCP on Windows, tcptraceroute on Linux
• tracert on Windows, traceroute on Linux

Application-level data study

• HTTPWatch
• Fiddler
• Outlook Connection Status

Some info:

http://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/forum/windows_7-windows_update/windows-update-error-0×80070057/acf27e3e-0b8d-4418-b470-132e6001f1f5