Understanding the Dream

I work with Windows Server a lot in my job, particularly setting up new servers for clients and getting them initialy configurred. There is a security feature of Windows which I find *extremely* annoying. The IE Enhanced Security feature. Now, don't get me wrong, I understand Microsoft's reasoning behind this. Many server compromises originate from malicious web sites that people visit while they are surfing the web. The IE Enhanced Security is intended to help protect users from these threats by limiting the sites that a user can visit.

As compotent system administrators, it is fairly easy for this "feature" to simply get in the way and give us grief when we're trying to do our job. So... for us compotent administrators, here is how you can disable the IE Enhanced Security feature and get on with business.

Start by Opening the "Server Manager" if it's not already open. It's added by default to your task bar.

Now make sure that the very top menu item "Server Manager (NAME)", is selected.

With the top menu item selected, you should see a link on the right side of the main screen titled "Configure IE ESC". Click that.

Now disable IE ESC for server administrators. I leave it on for users, but that's just me.

After that, no more stinking prompts!

Hope this helps!

Recently I bought a second monitor for my home system. I installed the second monitor and booted into ubuntu only to find that the OS was only displaying on one screen. In order to fix this, I needed to run:

System -> Administration -> NVIDIA X Server Settings

... since I'm running with the NVidia propriatary drivers on my system. I found that I could configure the second monitor easily enough under "X Server Display Configuration" settings, but in order to make the changes *LIVE*, you have to hit the "Save to XX Configuration File".

This didn't work for me. Instead I got a "Can't Save to /etc/X11/xorg.conf" error message. I thought this might be a problem with permissions, but running the following:

"gksudo /usr/bin/nvidia-settings"

... got me the same results. After that I assumed it must be a parsing problem, and I found that I could have the NVIDIA driver re-write the xorg.conf file using the following command:

"sudo /usr/bin/nvidia-xconfig"

Then the driver re-wrote my xorg.conf, and I was able to run the "gksudo /usr/bin/nvidia-settings", and SAVE with no problems.

Hope this helps!