Tips #1

Changing your password while in a Remote Desktop session

When your password is about to expire on a remote network which you access via remote desktop then how do you change your password?

Never fear. All is not lost. Try “Ctrl-Alt-End” and, surprise, surprise, the screen you want on the remote machine appears and you can now change your pesky password.

Starting Eclipse w/ Specific Workspace

Is there a way to start an instance of eclipse, passing it some sort of parameter telling it to use a specific workspace?

From Running Eclipse on Eclipse documentation (Indigo):

Use the following command-line argument:

-data your_workspace_location

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