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Silent gratitude isn’t much use to anyone

Friday, September 26th, 2008

After reading several thousand “me too” posts on various forums, finally a solution to the nVidia ate my RDP problem.

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.

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Cram it in

Saturday, September 13th, 2008

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.

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