Thank you bandom rastard for the solution, and Weyland (dot be) for publishing it somewhere I could find it!

To summarise (and slightly clarify) the solution…

If (like me), you run an XP box and after upgrading to nVidia WHQL 175.16 drivers (or in my case 175.19) your attempts to RDP to this box fail, this may help you too:

1. Open regedit
2. Go to the node: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Session Manager\Memory Management
3. Add a new DWORD Value, name it SessionImageSize
4. Modify this DWORD, change the Value data (from the default 0) to 20
5. Restart your PC and you should now be able to RDP to it again

Note: My assumption is that this fix will outlast future driver upgrades, but if the problem re-occurs in future, you may need to repeat this process, and maybe even increase the size (try 30).

Disclaimer: I provide this fix because it worked for me. You should carry it out at your own discretion because I will not accept any responsibility for what happens afterwards. Unless it works, in which case: No worries, any time.

Update (14/09/2008): The Latest development version uses Ariel Flesler’s scrollTo plugin to achieve some nice transitions. The interaction is coming along, also now supports more than one instance per page. Having problems with browser jumping when URL hash is updated, Chrome copes with this fine, all other browsers fail… hmmm…

Always on the lookout for new ways to cram more information into less space and maintain a good user experience.

Here’s a new take on a common (steam-inspired) approach, still under development under development.

I say a new take because I’m putting it together, but I’m sure there are other solutions like it around.

This solution will feature: Semantic markup and content unobtrusively transformed into a compact display with navigation to access each panel.

Obviously, there’s still work to be done, improvements to accessibility and a pausable automatic slideshow function. But the basic functionality is there

Didn’t take very long to put together so far, thank you jQuery.

The idea is to eventually combine this functionality with the existing compact sections script so that any of three display modes can be easily chosen (even switched between) for the compact presentation of sections of content.

• Clicking the links in the error summary block now focuses the user on the relevant input (as well as updating the fragment identifier in the URL)
• A new configuration variable (positionOfInlineAlerts) allows the inline error messages to be displayed either in the input’s label or after the form control itself (after the indicator icon).
• Tabbing into a control no longer triggers validation.
• Required fields are only validated after the user leaves the control, so they are not confronted by an error message if they clear the contents of a control to start over.
• A container element for each form control is updated after validation with the addition of a valid or invalid class so that the elements related to the control can be styled based on the outcome of the validation.
• The ability to display confirmation messages has been added. This allows the validation functions to confirm with the user how their input is being parsed. This is useful for complex data types like dates.

See the example page for a demonstration of the new features.

XUI Validation is based on jQuery and provides a simple mechanism for adding new custom validations that will apply via unobtrusive semantic hooks to any form.

Why another unobtrusive validation framework? Because the other OSS validation frameworks I have come across are not as easily extensible, or provide the ability to display a summary of errors a the top of the form (on submit).

Check out the demonstration page demonstration page, or download the package the package to see what I mean.

Thoughts, ideas, feedback? Leave me a comment.

Not consciously at first. While browsing and searching online I just had this strange feeling in my gut, like something wasn’t quite right with the world.

Now that I realise what’s changed I can recognise it for what it truly is… the first sign (ggg?) of the coming apocalypse.