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Randy Pausch, a computer science professor whose "last lecture" about facing terminal cancer became an internet sensation and a best-selling book has passed away at 47. Pausch was diagnosed with incurable pancreatic cancer in September 2006. His popular last lecture at Carnegie Mellon University in September 2007 garnered international attention and was viewed by millions on the internet. Here is a link to his last lecture at CMU on Youtube.

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 This Wednesday July 16th is Ride To Work Day.  Like I need to tell you a reason to get on your bike and ride but…well….be sure to ride!!

There are only 2 users allowed for administration so occasionally both are used up and you can’t access the server.  This may happen if two people are legitimately using the servers or if someone forgot to log off.

You would think this would be as easy as connecting to the remote server by adding the Terminal Services Manager snap-in to a MMC console or remotely stopping and starting the service (in a pinch).  Strangely, these obvious solutions aren’t available.  Terminal Services Manager doesn’t exist as a snap-in to connect to a remote machine and because the TermService service is a core system service, you can’t even stop it on the local machine, let alone a remote one.

Fortunately there is an easy solution.  Windows 2000+  (includes Windows XP and 2003) have two command-line tools called qwinsta and rwinsta that can query and reset a remote session.

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