SGD Cleartype

I sometimes connect to my own Windows XP workstation using Sun SGD (Sun Secure Global Desktop (Soon to be Oracle SGD). I was thinking about cleartype.

This isn't something new that I'm claiming, mostly just a way to document what I'd found for the next time I need it.

I remembered that there was some cleartype hack, and managed to re-find the following ClearType in Remote Desktop with XP - and wondered if it would work with SGD (considering that it uses a different RDP client internally).

So, using regedit, in the following location

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINESYSTEMCurrentControlSetControlTerminalServerWinStations

I added the key

AllowFontAntiAlias

that has a dword value of

00000001 (1)

Now the site I took this from says Windows XP SP3 - and that's what I'm using. A quick reboot and then everything is better.

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The screenshot above was taken via SGD AFTER cleartype enabled, here showing it zoomed-in:

...which looks about right from here.

This should work just as well with a virtual Windows XP instance in a VDI environment.

Igloo

It's been a bit chilly here - not that bad, but bad enough.

Some folks down the road have built an igloo:

School Privacy

I'm entertained/worried by the issues relating to parents photographing/videoing their own and other peoples children at school events.

In respect for other people I haven't posted any pictures of any other children taking part in Linus's school nativity.

I am however less concerned about posting pictures of their parents taking pictures.

My/our position on the posting of normal family pictures on the internet is fairly obvious, but I'm interested in what other people think.

Hyderabad Hotel Pano

This is mostly a work-avoidance strategy, but I just got a really poor-quality panoramic picture from my hotel room window.

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This would seem to be starting to be a recurring theme, so see also Bocham

Maybe later I'll see if I can get to the roof and do something better from there (and/or blag a better camera).

Also, see Where is Bob.

My Three Boys

It is a rare occasion that we get a nice picture of the three boys sitting mostly nicely - but somehow Claire managed to take this: