This tool should be a part of any self-respecting SysAdmin’s toolkit. mRemote is “a full-featured, open source, multi-tab remote connections manager”.
What does this mean?, you say. It means you’ve got one neat console where you can manage all your remote connections in one place. mRemote currently supports these protocols:
I haven’t set it up fully yet, but it will be really handy to have all my web-based admin areas and SSH to Linux boxes in there too.
A side note, it uses the same rendering engine as Firefox, so some web-based admin pages may not display properly. This, however is no fault of mRemote or Firefox’s.
I recently figured out a better way to get MYOB Premier to deploy via MSI that the previous method that I posted. This method basically stops the MSI from checking if it’s been run by a bootstrapper (Setup.exe). I’ve tested this with Premier 11 and 12 and it deploys fine on XP and Vista.
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Published at 28 August, 2008
in CakePHP.
This code goes in {ModelName}::beforeSave:
foreach ($this->data[$this->name] as $key => $value) {
if (!set::classicExtract($this->data,$this->name . '.' . $key)) {
$this->data = set::remove($this->data,$this->name . '.' . $key);
}
}
I use it where the DB may be expecting values for certain fields that are optional in the UI, and therefore may be returned empty by the controller.
Published at 20 August, 2008
in Personal.
The (Built on) Asus Z71V was released in 2005, so it’s not a Vista "certified" notebook. 
That aside, I replaced my "in need of a rebuild" XP Pro install with a fresh Vista install. Audio and Video drivers didn’t work out of the box. For video, you can just select the out-of-the-box Nvidia 6600 driver.
For audio, I downloaded the driver directly from the Realtek website. All the drivers you need, however, are linked from this page: NotebookReview.com – Asus Vista 32/64 Drivers
Surprisingly, the ATK driver, OSD and hotkey utilities work nicely. They’re certainly fancier than the old XP version that came with the Z71 from the factory.
When I bought this notebook I specced it up to the max, so it’s not surprising that it runs Vista reasonably well. Keeping in mind that this is a fresh rebuild, I’m now logged on and looking at the desktop (and able to click the Start menu) only 1 minute after powering up.
I’m a little suspicious that something fishy is going on with my CPU clock speed. I’ve set Power4Gear (and Vista’s power management before that) to use maximum CPU speed, and it sits at 1600MHz, even though it’s a 2100MHz CPU. I’ve tried my registered version of Notebook Hardware Control, but that had some bugs.
This gives me a Vista performance score of 3.4, with the limiting factor being the CPU. It’s still a decent score, but I believe it should be higher.
Read my update: http://daniel.streefkerkonline.com/update-deploying-myob-premier-via-msi/
After many attempts over the years to get MYOB Premier deployed via AD GPO, I stumbled across a method this morning using only free tools.
These two tools are an essential part of my MSI toolkit, keeping in mind that i’m not some sort of MSI guru like the guys at appdeploy.com
1. Orca
2. WinInstall LE 2003 (WinInstall LE 2003 used to be distributed for free, but now you have to trawl around the net to find it)
The steps are as follows. I used this method for Premier 11, so that’s what i’ll use below.
- Import Premier’s MSI into WinInstall, making sure you tick the option to copy the source files
- In WinInstall, turn off components you don’t need installed. I did this over creating a transform file, as that’s overly complicated for my needs
- Close WinInstall and open Orca
- Delete CustomAction->ISVerifyScriptingRuntime
- Change Directory->ISYourProductDir to “PREMIE~1|Premier 11″
- Change Directory->ISYourCompanyDir to “MYOB|MYOB”
- Change Directory->KEY_NAME_SC to “MYOB|MYOB Premier 11″
- Save the MSI file and close Orca
This worked for me, so good luck.
