Solving tech problems

Copy-Paste Stopped Working on Remote Desktop Connection

System Administration

This happened few times and is annoying when you can not Copy-Paste among Remote Server and your Local Machine How to fix when clipboard stops working at RDP? Open RDP to your server and login Open Task Manager (right click Taskbar and select Task Manager) Go to the Processes Tab Find rdpclip.exe Click End Process Go to the Application Tab Click New Process Type rdpclip Click Ok After that, Copy and Paste should work normally again. How do you fix this permanently? There is no cure for permanent fix but…read more

25.06.2013

Product oriented companies and why marketing matters

Learning

I was involved in one Cloud oriented startup that earns money by selling monthly and yearly subscriptions. Whole team with CEO included were devoted to create technically superior product for their current and new customers but none of them liked to work on promoting benefits of their product, so marketing tasks were not on the priority list. They are all aware that this is the bad thing but none of them was willing to do marketing tasks, so, apparently they needed to hire one good marketeer. Product grew organically but…read more

20.06.2013
11.06.2013

Is Apple iOS7 copying Windows Phone Metro Design?

Products and Services

Looks like, on the first view, that Apple, in the newest iOS7 update, made the icons simpler, more 2D, abandoned skeuomorphism and they look now more like colourful Windows Phone Metro icons. It is a risky move and regarding that iPhone is their main business (by revenue) so Tim Cook will maybe copy Gil Amelio saying: “Apple is like a ship with holes in the bottom leaking water. My job is to get that ship pointed in the right direction.”) It is really amazing how one man can make such…read more