I have done it before and here I am doing it again. Every time I sort of promise to myself that it will be the last time but somehow I always manage to let time go and leave my blog unattended. I hate it!
I’ve been thinking a little bit about it and I think I have come up with a couple of reasons for this most recent lapse. One reason is that I am at the end of the school semester and I have a presentation due on April 27th to get ready for. I know what my weekend plans will be, other than a couple of engagements we already have. Once school is over, I will have to concentrate on my capstone project but I should have more time available then to dedicate to this site.
The second reason I have identified is because I am tired of the site. A friend brought up the other day that I’ve had the same look and structure since day one and I needed a change. I could not agree more! When I started the site in its current form, it was a fun project. Little things had to be done to bring it all together, it was fun. I need to bring that fun back octavioheredia.com and I have a few ideas of what I want. However, time is a limited commodity right now and my site has to take a back seat for the time being although it won’t be too long.
I know the couple of you who continue to visit will understand where I am coming from, I thank you in advance for your patience. I am not giving up on my site, I am just letting you know what is going on.
We have several users at the office who do not have administrator rights to their computers (this is for several reasons) but once in a while we have to make some changes which require an administrator-level account. Up to this point we follow the same routine, they log off, I log on using an admin account, make the changes, log off and let the user log back to their machine. Pretty disruptive routine if you ask me.
I asked a couple of colleagues who are deeply involved with managing Windows systems for a solution to this problem. There has to be a way to invoke the control panel applications, or any part of the Windows operating system, with the appropriate permissions — just like if I was logged in with the appropriate account. Of course there is a solution, after all I am not the only doing this kind of thing.
The solution is the runas command which allows you to invoke a program or process using the credentials of a different account. I attempted to run the control panel from the command line runas /u:admin_account "control" however that did not work as I expected it, I could not launch the control panel this way.
Shortly there after, I received another email from one of our tech guys who is also a MS MVP and he had the solution to my problem. I have to launch a command line window with the admin rights first, then I can use this console to launch the appropriate control panel applet. To launch the console window with admin rights I execute this command: runas /u:admin_account cmd and enter the appropriate password when prompted. I can execute the control applets under the admin account.
Here is an entry from the MS knowledgebase which describes some more of the control applets and their filenames. Now, we don’t have to do the whole log off – log on dance every time we need to make a configuration change to these machines. Thanks guys for the help.
Chivas consiguió una hazaña en el Morumbí, quitandole al Sao Paulo un invicto de 30 partidos internacionales sin perder como local. La ultima vez que perdio en su estadio fue en 1987. Con el triunfo, el Rebaño Sagrado se consolida como el mejor equipo del grupo 1 y ya tienen un pie en los cuartos de final de la Copa Libertadores 2006.
For my fellow english-speaking and futbol fans, this entry is about the surprising win that Guadalajara accomplished while visiting the Brazilian team Sao Paulo last night. Surprising because Sao Paulo had been undefeated at home since 1987 in international games. Use the link above to read more about the game.
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