Somehow I missed this product from google. It gives you a nice front end for doing map related stuff (draw areas, pins, import data etc).
https://mapsengine.google.com/map/
The API looks pretty good too, I’m going to need to check it out.
Windows 8.1 Everything is blurry and sized too large
I made the mistake of installing Windows 8.1 with the hope that it would fix some of the things I hate about Win8. Foolish on my part.
Just about everything looked like shit after installation. Things were sized wrong, text was blurry etc.
After mucking around for a few hours I finally found a fix. Go to Control Panel->Appearance and Personalization->Display and select “Let me choose one scaling level for all my displays”.
Then, on the next screen, select Smaller – 100%
One more reboot and things (at least for me) looked back to normal.
Manliest of blogs
URLai.com will take any blog an analyze the posts to try to figure out info about the writer.
According to them, I have the 2nd most manly blog of the week! To 1/2 of 1% overall! Hell yes! I’m coming for you webmonkey.com! Football! Cars! Guns! Meat produts! Tools and wood working! Cigars and fighting!
Getting to the bottom of SVCHost.exe CPU utilization
It’s a common situation. One of the many SVCHost.exe instances is pegging your CPU. Here is how you can figure out what service is the culprit.
First, add the Process ID (PID) to the task manager:
This will give you a ID that you can match up with this next part.
Open a command prompt and run:
tasklist /svc /fi “imagename eq svchost.exe”
This will give you a starting point. Match up the PID of the offending instance of SVCHost with the list of services. If it isn’t clear what the actual service is from the short name listed under Services, you can find the full names at this registry key:
HKLM\System\CurrentControlSet\Control\Services
From here, you can run Services.msc from a command prompt to get the services management form. If there are multiple services you need to check, just go through process of elimination by stopping services.
Filtering with Wireshark and parsing logs with Log Parse Lizard
Recently one of my clients had one of their servers attacked. The intrusion detection caught it, and I believe a lot of the malicious stuff they were trying were correctly filtered out by asp.net as dangerous requests, but in order to understand more about what was/is going on, I worked with 2 tools to help look at the situation a little deeper.
First, I wanted to look at the live requests coming to the server and see the payloads they contained. To do this, I installed WireShark on the server, and started to capture traffic.
Wireshark as 2 types of filters: capture filters and display filters. From the capture side of things, you can really cut down on the noise if you filter out the stuff you don’t care about. So I used a capture filter of tcp port 80 or tcp port 443
Then, while the capture is running you can type in a display filter so that you can tell if you are getting the specific type of request you are interested in during the current trace. In this case, I was only interested in http POSTs, so I could use this filter http.request.method == “POST”
This way you can let the trace run until you see records start to come through that match both filters.
The other thing I wanted to do was to look at log files to see how the traffic to the site changed over time. To do this I installed MS Log Parser and the Log Parser Lizard. With these two tools it allows for a nice UI and SQL queries against the data. As you can see below, the requests/attacks started at 5:52.
My Interview on .Net Rocks
Recently I was interviewed on .Net Rocks by Carl Franklin and Richard Campbell about my experiences with writing software for Google Glass.
I had given a talk to the developers at That Conference on the same topic and they thought it would make for a good discussion.
Here is the episode:
Writing apps for Google Glass
Here is my presentation on development with the Mirror API and Google Glass at That Conference.
http://prezi.com/j1etahq-op-v/?utm_campaign=share&utm_medium=copy&rc=ex0share
Unique Index with SQL Server
If you need a unique constraint on a column, but you also plan on doing lookups and filters based on the value in that column, you might want to use a Unique Index instead. It looks like this:
CREATE UNIQUE NONCLUSTERED INDEX ConstraintName ON dbo.TableName ( ColumnName ) ON [PRIMARY]
Timezone Dropdown
Here is a timezone dropdown that uses the Olson names and groups by region. I’m in the process of doing a bunch of timezone work for localizing training times for a large international company and at the least I need to provide a list of timezones (for browsers that support it, there will be a graphical map to select your location).
Still some work to be done.
<label for="timezone">Timezone</label>
<select name="timezone" id="timezone">
<optgroup label="Africa">
<option value="Africa/Abidjan" label="Abidjan">Abidjan</option>
<option value="Africa/Accra" label="Accra">Accra</option>
<option value="Africa/Addis_Ababa" label="Addis Ababa">Addis Ababa</option>
<option value="Africa/Algiers" label="Algiers">Algiers</option>
<option value="Africa/Asmara" label="Asmara">Asmara</option>
<option value="Africa/Asmera" label="Asmera">Asmera</option>
<option value="Africa/Bamako" label="Bamako">Bamako</option>
<option value="Africa/Bangui" label="Bangui">Bangui</option>
<option value="Africa/Banjul" label="Banjul">Banjul</option>
<option value="Africa/Bissau" label="Bissau">Bissau</option>
<option value="Africa/Blantyre" label="Blantyre">Blantyre</option>
<option value="Africa/Brazzaville" label="Brazzaville">Brazzaville</option>
<option value="Africa/Bujumbura" label="Bujumbura">Bujumbura</option>
<option value="Africa/Cairo" label="Cairo">Cairo</option>
<option value="Africa/Casablanca" label="Casablanca">Casablanca</option>
<option value="Africa/Ceuta" label="Ceuta">Ceuta</option>
<option value="Africa/Conakry" label="Conakry">Conakry</option>
<option value="Africa/Dakar" label="Dakar">Dakar</option>
<option value="Africa/Dar_es_Salaam" label="Dar es Salaam">Dar es Salaam</option>
<option value="Africa/Djibouti" label="Djibouti">Djibouti</option>
<option value="Africa/Douala" label="Douala">Douala</option>
<option value="Africa/El_Aaiun" label="El Aaiun">El Aaiun</option>
<option value="Africa/Freetown" label="Freetown">Freetown</option>
<option value="Africa/Gaborone" label="Gaborone">Gaborone</option>
<option value="Africa/Harare" label="Harare">Harare</option>
<option value="Africa/Johannesburg" label="Johannesburg">Johannesburg</option>
<option value="Africa/Kampala" label="Kampala">Kampala</option>
<option value="Africa/Khartoum" label="Khartoum">Khartoum</option>
<option value="Africa/Kigali" label="Kigali">Kigali</option>
<option value="Africa/Kinshasa" label="Kinshasa">Kinshasa</option>
<option value="Africa/Lagos" label="Lagos">Lagos</option>
<option value="Africa/Libreville" label="Libreville">Libreville</option>
<option value="Africa/Lome" label="Lome">Lome</option>
<option value="Africa/Luanda" label="Luanda">Luanda</option>
<option value="Africa/Lubumbashi" label="Lubumbashi">Lubumbashi</option>
<option value="Africa/Lusaka" label="Lusaka">Lusaka</option>
<option value="Africa/Malabo" label="Malabo">Malabo</option>
<option value="Africa/Maputo" label="Maputo">Maputo</option>
<option value="Africa/Maseru" label="Maseru">Maseru</option>
<option value="Africa/Mbabane" label="Mbabane">Mbabane</option>
<option value="Africa/Mogadishu" label="Mogadishu">Mogadishu</option>
<option value="Africa/Monrovia" label="Monrovia">Monrovia</option>
<option value="Africa/Nairobi" label="Nairobi">Nairobi</option>
<option value="Africa/Ndjamena" label="Ndjamena">Ndjamena</option>
<option value="Africa/Niamey" label="Niamey">Niamey</option>
<option value="Africa/Nouakchott" label="Nouakchott">Nouakchott</option>
<option value="Africa/Ouagadougou" label="Ouagadougou">Ouagadougou</option>
<option value="Africa/Porto-Novo" label="Porto-Novo">Porto-Novo</option>
<option value="Africa/Sao_Tome" label="Sao Tome">Sao Tome</option>
<option value="Africa/Timbuktu" label="Timbuktu">Timbuktu</option>
<option value="Africa/Tripoli" label="Tripoli">Tripoli</option>
<option value="Africa/Tunis" label="Tunis">Tunis</option>
<option value="Africa/Windhoek" label="Windhoek">Windhoek</option>
</optgroup>
<optgroup label="America">
<option value="America/Adak" label="Adak">Adak</option>
<option value="America/Anchorage" label="Anchorage">Anchorage</option>
<option value="America/Anguilla" label="Anguilla">Anguilla</option>
<option value="America/Antigua" label="Antigua">Antigua</option>
<option value="America/Araguaina" label="Araguaina">Araguaina</option>
<option value="America/Argentina/Buenos_Aires" label="Argentina (Buenos Aires)">Argentina (Buenos Aires)</option>
<option value="America/Argentina/Catamarca" label="Argentina (Catamarca)">Argentina (Catamarca)</option>
<option value="America/Argentina/ComodRivadavia" label="Argentina (ComodRivadavia)">Argentina (ComodRivadavia)</option>
<option value="America/Argentina/Cordoba" label="Argentina (Cordoba)">Argentina (Cordoba)</option>
<option value="America/Argentina/Jujuy" label="Argentina (Jujuy)">Argentina (Jujuy)</option>
<option value="America/Argentina/La_Rioja" label="Argentina (La Rioja)">Argentina (La Rioja)</option>
<option value="America/Argentina/Mendoza" label="Argentina (Mendoza)">Argentina (Mendoza)</option>
<option value="America/Argentina/Rio_Gallegos" label="Argentina (Rio Gallegos)">Argentina (Rio Gallegos)</option>
<option value="America/Argentina/Salta" label="Argentina (Salta)">Argentina (Salta)</option>
<option value="America/Argentina/San_Juan" label="Argentina (San Juan)">Argentina (San Juan)</option>
<option value="America/Argentina/San_Luis" label="Argentina (San Luis)">Argentina (San Luis)</option>
<option value="America/Argentina/Tucuman" label="Argentina (Tucuman)">Argentina (Tucuman)</option>
<option value="America/Argentina/Ushuaia" label="Argentina (Ushuaia)">Argentina (Ushuaia)</option>
<option value="America/Aruba" label="Aruba">Aruba</option>
<option value="America/Asuncion" label="Asuncion">Asuncion</option>
<option value="America/Atikokan" label="Atikokan">Atikokan</option>
<option value="America/Atka" label="Atka">Atka</option>
<option value="America/Bahia" label="Bahia">Bahia</option>
<option value="America/Barbados" label="Barbados">Barbados</option>
<option value="America/Belem" label="Belem">Belem</option>
<option value="America/Belize" label="Belize">Belize</option>
<option value="America/Blanc-Sablon" label="Blanc-Sablon">Blanc-Sablon</option>
<option value="America/Boa_Vista" label="Boa Vista">Boa Vista</option>
<option value="America/Bogota" label="Bogota">Bogota</option>
<option value="America/Boise" label="Boise">Boise</option>
<option value="America/Buenos_Aires" label="Buenos Aires">Buenos Aires</option>
<option value="America/Cambridge_Bay" label="Cambridge Bay">Cambridge Bay</option>
<option value="America/Campo_Grande" label="Campo Grande">Campo Grande</option>
<option value="America/Cancun" label="Cancun">Cancun</option>
<option value="America/Caracas" label="Caracas">Caracas</option>
<option value="America/Catamarca" label="Catamarca">Catamarca</option>
<option value="America/Cayenne" label="Cayenne">Cayenne</option>
<option value="America/Cayman" label="Cayman">Cayman</option>
<option value="America/Chicago" label="Chicago">Chicago</option>
<option value="America/Chihuahua" label="Chihuahua">Chihuahua</option>
<option value="America/Coral_Harbour" label="Coral Harbour">Coral Harbour</option>
<option value="America/Cordoba" label="Cordoba">Cordoba</option>
<option value="America/Costa_Rica" label="Costa Rica">Costa Rica</option>
<option value="America/Cuiaba" label="Cuiaba">Cuiaba</option>
<option value="America/Curacao" label="Curacao">Curacao</option>
<option value="America/Danmarkshavn" label="Danmarkshavn">Danmarkshavn</option>
<option value="America/Dawson" label="Dawson">Dawson</option>
<option value="America/Dawson_Creek" label="Dawson Creek">Dawson Creek</option>
<option value="America/Denver" label="Denver">Denver</option>
<option value="America/Detroit" label="Detroit">Detroit</option>
<option value="America/Dominica" label="Dominica">Dominica</option>
<option value="America/Edmonton" label="Edmonton">Edmonton</option>
<option value="America/Eirunepe" label="Eirunepe">Eirunepe</option>
<option value="America/El_Salvador" label="El Salvador">El Salvador</option>
<option value="America/Ensenada" label="Ensenada">Ensenada</option>
<option value="America/Fort_Wayne" label="Fort Wayne">Fort Wayne</option>
<option value="America/Fortaleza" label="Fortaleza">Fortaleza</option>
<option value="America/Glace_Bay" label="Glace Bay">Glace Bay</option>
<option value="America/Godthab" label="Godthab">Godthab</option>
<option value="America/Goose_Bay" label="Goose Bay">Goose Bay</option>
<option value="America/Grand_Turk" label="Grand Turk">Grand Turk</option>
<option value="America/Grenada" label="Grenada">Grenada</option>
<option value="America/Guadeloupe" label="Guadeloupe">Guadeloupe</option>
<option value="America/Guatemala" label="Guatemala">Guatemala</option>
<option value="America/Guayaquil" label="Guayaquil">Guayaquil</option>
<option value="America/Guyana" label="Guyana">Guyana</option>
<option value="America/Halifax" label="Halifax">Halifax</option>
<option value="America/Havana" label="Havana">Havana</option>
<option value="America/Hermosillo" label="Hermosillo">Hermosillo</option>
<option value="America/Indiana/Indianapolis" label="Indiana (Indianapolis)">Indiana (Indianapolis)</option>
<option value="America/Indiana/Knox" label="Indiana (Knox)">Indiana (Knox)</option>
<option value="America/Indiana/Marengo" label="Indiana (Marengo)">Indiana (Marengo)</option>
<option value="America/Indiana/Petersburg" label="Indiana (Petersburg)">Indiana (Petersburg)</option>
<option value="America/Indiana/Tell_City" label="Indiana (Tell City)">Indiana (Tell City)</option>
<option value="America/Indiana/Vevay" label="Indiana (Vevay)">Indiana (Vevay)</option>
<option value="America/Indiana/Vincennes" label="Indiana (Vincennes)">Indiana (Vincennes)</option>
<option value="America/Indiana/Winamac" label="Indiana (Winamac)">Indiana (Winamac)</option>
<option value="America/Indianapolis" label="Indianapolis">Indianapolis</option>
<option value="America/Inuvik" label="Inuvik">Inuvik</option>
<option value="America/Iqaluit" label="Iqaluit">Iqaluit</option>
<option value="America/Jamaica" label="Jamaica">Jamaica</option>
<option value="America/Jujuy" label="Jujuy">Jujuy</option>
<option value="America/Juneau" label="Juneau">Juneau</option>
<option value="America/Kentucky/Louisville" label="Kentucky (Louisville)">Kentucky (Louisville)</option>
<option value="America/Kentucky/Monticello" label="Kentucky (Monticello)">Kentucky (Monticello)</option>
<option value="America/Knox_IN" label="Knox IN">Knox IN</option>
<option value="America/La_Paz" label="La Paz">La Paz</option>
<option value="America/Lima" label="Lima">Lima</option>
<option value="America/Los_Angeles" label="Los Angeles">Los Angeles</option>
<option value="America/Louisville" label="Louisville">Louisville</option>
<option value="America/Maceio" label="Maceio">Maceio</option>
<option value="America/Managua" label="Managua">Managua</option>
<option value="America/Manaus" label="Manaus">Manaus</option>
<option value="America/Marigot" label="Marigot">Marigot</option>
<option value="America/Martinique" label="Martinique">Martinique</option>
<option value="America/Mazatlan" label="Mazatlan">Mazatlan</option>
<option value="America/Mendoza" label="Mendoza">Mendoza</option>
<option value="America/Menominee" label="Menominee">Menominee</option>
<option value="America/Merida" label="Merida">Merida</option>
<option value="America/Mexico_City" label="Mexico City">Mexico City</option>
<option value="America/Miquelon" label="Miquelon">Miquelon</option>
<option value="America/Moncton" label="Moncton">Moncton</option>
<option value="America/Monterrey" label="Monterrey">Monterrey</option>
<option value="America/Montevideo" label="Montevideo">Montevideo</option>
<option value="America/Montreal" label="Montreal">Montreal</option>
<option value="America/Montserrat" label="Montserrat">Montserrat</option>
<option value="America/Nassau" label="Nassau">Nassau</option>
<option value="America/New_York" label="New York">New York</option>
<option value="America/Nipigon" label="Nipigon">Nipigon</option>
<option value="America/Nome" label="Nome">Nome</option>
<option value="America/Noronha" label="Noronha">Noronha</option>
<option value="America/North_Dakota/Center" label="North Dakota (Center)">North Dakota (Center)</option>
<option value="America/North_Dakota/New_Salem" label="North Dakota (New Salem)">North Dakota (New Salem)</option>
<option value="America/Panama" label="Panama">Panama</option>
<option value="America/Pangnirtung" label="Pangnirtung">Pangnirtung</option>
<option value="America/Paramaribo" label="Paramaribo">Paramaribo</option>
<option value="America/Phoenix" label="Phoenix">Phoenix</option>
<option value="America/Port-au-Prince" label="Port-au-Prince">Port-au-Prince</option>
<option value="America/Port_of_Spain" label="Port of Spain">Port of Spain</option>
<option value="America/Porto_Acre" label="Porto Acre">Porto Acre</option>
<option value="America/Porto_Velho" label="Porto Velho">Porto Velho</option>
<option value="America/Puerto_Rico" label="Puerto Rico">Puerto Rico</option>
<option value="America/Rainy_River" label="Rainy River">Rainy River</option>
<option value="America/Rankin_Inlet" label="Rankin Inlet">Rankin Inlet</option>
<option value="America/Recife" label="Recife">Recife</option>
<option value="America/Regina" label="Regina">Regina</option>
<option value="America/Resolute" label="Resolute">Resolute</option>
<option value="America/Rio_Branco" label="Rio Branco">Rio Branco</option>
<option value="America/Rosario" label="Rosario">Rosario</option>
<option value="America/Santarem" label="Santarem">Santarem</option>
<option value="America/Santiago" label="Santiago">Santiago</option>
<option value="America/Santo_Domingo" label="Santo Domingo">Santo Domingo</option>
<option value="America/Sao_Paulo" label="Sao Paulo">Sao Paulo</option>
<option value="America/Scoresbysund" label="Scoresbysund">Scoresbysund</option>
<option value="America/Shiprock" label="Shiprock">Shiprock</option>
<option value="America/St_Barthelemy" label="St Barthelemy">St Barthelemy</option>
<option value="America/St_Johns" label="St Johns">St Johns</option>
<option value="America/St_Kitts" label="St Kitts">St Kitts</option>
<option value="America/St_Lucia" label="St Lucia">St Lucia</option>
<option value="America/St_Thomas" label="St Thomas">St Thomas</option>
<option value="America/St_Vincent" label="St Vincent">St Vincent</option>
<option value="America/Swift_Current" label="Swift Current">Swift Current</option>
<option value="America/Tegucigalpa" label="Tegucigalpa">Tegucigalpa</option>
<option value="America/Thule" label="Thule">Thule</option>
<option value="America/Thunder_Bay" label="Thunder Bay">Thunder Bay</option>
<option value="America/Tijuana" label="Tijuana">Tijuana</option>
<option value="America/Toronto" label="Toronto">Toronto</option>
<option value="America/Tortola" label="Tortola">Tortola</option>
<option value="America/Vancouver" label="Vancouver">Vancouver</option>
<option value="America/Virgin" label="Virgin">Virgin</option>
<option value="America/Whitehorse" label="Whitehorse">Whitehorse</option>
<option value="America/Winnipeg" label="Winnipeg">Winnipeg</option>
<option value="America/Yakutat" label="Yakutat">Yakutat</option>
<option value="America/Yellowknife" label="Yellowknife">Yellowknife</option>
</optgroup>
<optgroup label="Antarctica">
<option value="Antarctica/Casey" label="Casey">Casey</option>
<option value="Antarctica/Davis" label="Davis">Davis</option>
<option value="Antarctica/DumontDUrville" label="DumontDUrville">DumontDUrville</option>
<option value="Antarctica/Mawson" label="Mawson">Mawson</option>
<option value="Antarctica/McMurdo" label="McMurdo">McMurdo</option>
<option value="Antarctica/Palmer" label="Palmer">Palmer</option>
<option value="Antarctica/Rothera" label="Rothera">Rothera</option>
<option value="Antarctica/South_Pole" label="South Pole">South Pole</option>
<option value="Antarctica/Syowa" label="Syowa">Syowa</option>
<option value="Antarctica/Vostok" label="Vostok">Vostok</option>
</optgroup>
<optgroup label="Arctic">
<option value="Arctic/Longyearbyen" label="Longyearbyen">Longyearbyen</option>
</optgroup>
<optgroup label="Asia">
<option value="Asia/Aden" label="Aden">Aden</option>
<option value="Asia/Almaty" label="Almaty">Almaty</option>
<option value="Asia/Amman" label="Amman">Amman</option>
<option value="Asia/Anadyr" label="Anadyr">Anadyr</option>
<option value="Asia/Aqtau" label="Aqtau">Aqtau</option>
<option value="Asia/Aqtobe" label="Aqtobe">Aqtobe</option>
<option value="Asia/Ashgabat" label="Ashgabat">Ashgabat</option>
<option value="Asia/Ashkhabad" label="Ashkhabad">Ashkhabad</option>
<option value="Asia/Baghdad" label="Baghdad">Baghdad</option>
<option value="Asia/Bahrain" label="Bahrain">Bahrain</option>
<option value="Asia/Baku" label="Baku">Baku</option>
<option value="Asia/Bangkok" label="Bangkok">Bangkok</option>
<option value="Asia/Beirut" label="Beirut">Beirut</option>
<option value="Asia/Bishkek" label="Bishkek">Bishkek</option>
<option value="Asia/Brunei" label="Brunei">Brunei</option>
<option value="Asia/Calcutta" label="Calcutta">Calcutta</option>
<option value="Asia/Choibalsan" label="Choibalsan">Choibalsan</option>
<option value="Asia/Chongqing" label="Chongqing">Chongqing</option>
<option value="Asia/Chungking" label="Chungking">Chungking</option>
<option value="Asia/Colombo" label="Colombo">Colombo</option>
<option value="Asia/Dacca" label="Dacca">Dacca</option>
<option value="Asia/Damascus" label="Damascus">Damascus</option>
<option value="Asia/Dhaka" label="Dhaka">Dhaka</option>
<option value="Asia/Dili" label="Dili">Dili</option>
<option value="Asia/Dubai" label="Dubai">Dubai</option>
<option value="Asia/Dushanbe" label="Dushanbe">Dushanbe</option>
<option value="Asia/Gaza" label="Gaza">Gaza</option>
<option value="Asia/Harbin" label="Harbin">Harbin</option>
<option value="Asia/Ho_Chi_Minh" label="Ho Chi Minh">Ho Chi Minh</option>
<option value="Asia/Hong_Kong" label="Hong Kong">Hong Kong</option>
<option value="Asia/Hovd" label="Hovd">Hovd</option>
<option value="Asia/Irkutsk" label="Irkutsk">Irkutsk</option>
<option value="Asia/Istanbul" label="Istanbul">Istanbul</option>
<option value="Asia/Jakarta" label="Jakarta">Jakarta</option>
<option value="Asia/Jayapura" label="Jayapura">Jayapura</option>
<option value="Asia/Jerusalem" label="Jerusalem">Jerusalem</option>
<option value="Asia/Kabul" label="Kabul">Kabul</option>
<option value="Asia/Kamchatka" label="Kamchatka">Kamchatka</option>
<option value="Asia/Karachi" label="Karachi">Karachi</option>
<option value="Asia/Kashgar" label="Kashgar">Kashgar</option>
<option value="Asia/Kathmandu" label="Kathmandu">Kathmandu</option>
<option value="Asia/Katmandu" label="Katmandu">Katmandu</option>
<option value="Asia/Kolkata" label="Kolkata">Kolkata</option>
<option value="Asia/Krasnoyarsk" label="Krasnoyarsk">Krasnoyarsk</option>
<option value="Asia/Kuala_Lumpur" label="Kuala Lumpur">Kuala Lumpur</option>
<option value="Asia/Kuching" label="Kuching">Kuching</option>
<option value="Asia/Kuwait" label="Kuwait">Kuwait</option>
<option value="Asia/Macao" label="Macao">Macao</option>
<option value="Asia/Macau" label="Macau">Macau</option>
<option value="Asia/Magadan" label="Magadan">Magadan</option>
<option value="Asia/Makassar" label="Makassar">Makassar</option>
<option value="Asia/Manila" label="Manila">Manila</option>
<option value="Asia/Muscat" label="Muscat">Muscat</option>
<option value="Asia/Nicosia" label="Nicosia">Nicosia</option>
<option value="Asia/Novosibirsk" label="Novosibirsk">Novosibirsk</option>
<option value="Asia/Omsk" label="Omsk">Omsk</option>
<option value="Asia/Oral" label="Oral">Oral</option>
<option value="Asia/Phnom_Penh" label="Phnom Penh">Phnom Penh</option>
<option value="Asia/Pontianak" label="Pontianak">Pontianak</option>
<option value="Asia/Pyongyang" label="Pyongyang">Pyongyang</option>
<option value="Asia/Qatar" label="Qatar">Qatar</option>
<option value="Asia/Qyzylorda" label="Qyzylorda">Qyzylorda</option>
<option value="Asia/Rangoon" label="Rangoon">Rangoon</option>
<option value="Asia/Riyadh" label="Riyadh">Riyadh</option>
<option value="Asia/Saigon" label="Saigon">Saigon</option>
<option value="Asia/Sakhalin" label="Sakhalin">Sakhalin</option>
<option value="Asia/Samarkand" label="Samarkand">Samarkand</option>
<option value="Asia/Seoul" label="Seoul">Seoul</option>
<option value="Asia/Shanghai" label="Shanghai">Shanghai</option>
<option value="Asia/Singapore" label="Singapore">Singapore</option>
<option value="Asia/Taipei" label="Taipei">Taipei</option>
<option value="Asia/Tashkent" label="Tashkent">Tashkent</option>
<option value="Asia/Tbilisi" label="Tbilisi">Tbilisi</option>
<option value="Asia/Tehran" label="Tehran">Tehran</option>
<option value="Asia/Tel_Aviv" label="Tel Aviv">Tel Aviv</option>
<option value="Asia/Thimbu" label="Thimbu">Thimbu</option>
<option value="Asia/Thimphu" label="Thimphu">Thimphu</option>
<option value="Asia/Tokyo" label="Tokyo">Tokyo</option>
<option value="Asia/Ujung_Pandang" label="Ujung Pandang">Ujung Pandang</option>
<option value="Asia/Ulaanbaatar" label="Ulaanbaatar">Ulaanbaatar</option>
<option value="Asia/Ulan_Bator" label="Ulan Bator">Ulan Bator</option>
<option value="Asia/Urumqi" label="Urumqi">Urumqi</option>
<option value="Asia/Vientiane" label="Vientiane">Vientiane</option>
<option value="Asia/Vladivostok" label="Vladivostok">Vladivostok</option>
<option value="Asia/Yakutsk" label="Yakutsk">Yakutsk</option>
<option value="Asia/Yekaterinburg" label="Yekaterinburg">Yekaterinburg</option>
<option value="Asia/Yerevan" label="Yerevan">Yerevan</option>
</optgroup>
<optgroup label="Atlantic">
<option value="Atlantic/Azores" label="Azores">Azores</option>
<option value="Atlantic/Bermuda" label="Bermuda">Bermuda</option>
<option value="Atlantic/Canary" label="Canary">Canary</option>
<option value="Atlantic/Cape_Verde" label="Cape Verde">Cape Verde</option>
<option value="Atlantic/Faeroe" label="Faeroe">Faeroe</option>
<option value="Atlantic/Faroe" label="Faroe">Faroe</option>
<option value="Atlantic/Jan_Mayen" label="Jan Mayen">Jan Mayen</option>
<option value="Atlantic/Madeira" label="Madeira">Madeira</option>
<option value="Atlantic/Reykjavik" label="Reykjavik">Reykjavik</option>
<option value="Atlantic/South_Georgia" label="South Georgia">South Georgia</option>
<option value="Atlantic/St_Helena" label="St Helena">St Helena</option>
<option value="Atlantic/Stanley" label="Stanley">Stanley</option>
</optgroup>
<optgroup label="Australia">
<option value="Australia/ACT" label="ACT">ACT</option>
<option value="Australia/Adelaide" label="Adelaide">Adelaide</option>
<option value="Australia/Brisbane" label="Brisbane">Brisbane</option>
<option value="Australia/Broken_Hill" label="Broken Hill">Broken Hill</option>
<option value="Australia/Canberra" label="Canberra">Canberra</option>
<option value="Australia/Currie" label="Currie">Currie</option>
<option value="Australia/Darwin" label="Darwin">Darwin</option>
<option value="Australia/Eucla" label="Eucla">Eucla</option>
<option value="Australia/Hobart" label="Hobart">Hobart</option>
<option value="Australia/LHI" label="LHI">LHI</option>
<option value="Australia/Lindeman" label="Lindeman">Lindeman</option>
<option value="Australia/Lord_Howe" label="Lord Howe">Lord Howe</option>
<option value="Australia/Melbourne" label="Melbourne">Melbourne</option>
<option value="Australia/North" label="North">North</option>
<option value="Australia/NSW" label="NSW">NSW</option>
<option value="Australia/Perth" label="Perth">Perth</option>
<option value="Australia/Queensland" label="Queensland">Queensland</option>
<option value="Australia/South" label="South">South</option>
<option value="Australia/Sydney" label="Sydney">Sydney</option>
<option value="Australia/Tasmania" label="Tasmania">Tasmania</option>
<option value="Australia/Victoria" label="Victoria">Victoria</option>
<option value="Australia/West" label="West">West</option>
<option value="Australia/Yancowinna" label="Yancowinna">Yancowinna</option>
</optgroup>
<optgroup label="Europe">
<option value="Europe/Amsterdam" label="Amsterdam">Amsterdam</option>
<option value="Europe/Andorra" label="Andorra">Andorra</option>
<option value="Europe/Athens" label="Athens">Athens</option>
<option value="Europe/Belfast" label="Belfast">Belfast</option>
<option value="Europe/Belgrade" label="Belgrade">Belgrade</option>
<option value="Europe/Berlin" label="Berlin">Berlin</option>
<option value="Europe/Bratislava" label="Bratislava">Bratislava</option>
<option value="Europe/Brussels" label="Brussels">Brussels</option>
<option value="Europe/Bucharest" label="Bucharest">Bucharest</option>
<option value="Europe/Budapest" label="Budapest">Budapest</option>
<option value="Europe/Chisinau" label="Chisinau">Chisinau</option>
<option value="Europe/Copenhagen" label="Copenhagen">Copenhagen</option>
<option value="Europe/Dublin" label="Dublin">Dublin</option>
<option value="Europe/Gibraltar" label="Gibraltar">Gibraltar</option>
<option value="Europe/Guernsey" label="Guernsey">Guernsey</option>
<option value="Europe/Helsinki" label="Helsinki">Helsinki</option>
<option value="Europe/Isle_of_Man" label="Isle of Man">Isle of Man</option>
<option value="Europe/Istanbul" label="Istanbul">Istanbul</option>
<option value="Europe/Jersey" label="Jersey">Jersey</option>
<option value="Europe/Kaliningrad" label="Kaliningrad">Kaliningrad</option>
<option value="Europe/Kiev" label="Kiev">Kiev</option>
<option value="Europe/Lisbon" label="Lisbon">Lisbon</option>
<option value="Europe/Ljubljana" label="Ljubljana">Ljubljana</option>
<option value="Europe/London" label="London" selected="selected">London</option>
<option value="Europe/Luxembourg" label="Luxembourg">Luxembourg</option>
<option value="Europe/Madrid" label="Madrid">Madrid</option>
<option value="Europe/Malta" label="Malta">Malta</option>
<option value="Europe/Mariehamn" label="Mariehamn">Mariehamn</option>
<option value="Europe/Minsk" label="Minsk">Minsk</option>
<option value="Europe/Monaco" label="Monaco">Monaco</option>
<option value="Europe/Moscow" label="Moscow">Moscow</option>
<option value="Europe/Nicosia" label="Nicosia">Nicosia</option>
<option value="Europe/Oslo" label="Oslo">Oslo</option>
<option value="Europe/Paris" label="Paris">Paris</option>
<option value="Europe/Podgorica" label="Podgorica">Podgorica</option>
<option value="Europe/Prague" label="Prague">Prague</option>
<option value="Europe/Riga" label="Riga">Riga</option>
<option value="Europe/Rome" label="Rome">Rome</option>
<option value="Europe/Samara" label="Samara">Samara</option>
<option value="Europe/San_Marino" label="San Marino">San Marino</option>
<option value="Europe/Sarajevo" label="Sarajevo">Sarajevo</option>
<option value="Europe/Simferopol" label="Simferopol">Simferopol</option>
<option value="Europe/Skopje" label="Skopje">Skopje</option>
<option value="Europe/Sofia" label="Sofia">Sofia</option>
<option value="Europe/Stockholm" label="Stockholm">Stockholm</option>
<option value="Europe/Tallinn" label="Tallinn">Tallinn</option>
<option value="Europe/Tirane" label="Tirane">Tirane</option>
<option value="Europe/Tiraspol" label="Tiraspol">Tiraspol</option>
<option value="Europe/Uzhgorod" label="Uzhgorod">Uzhgorod</option>
<option value="Europe/Vaduz" label="Vaduz">Vaduz</option>
<option value="Europe/Vatican" label="Vatican">Vatican</option>
<option value="Europe/Vienna" label="Vienna">Vienna</option>
<option value="Europe/Vilnius" label="Vilnius">Vilnius</option>
<option value="Europe/Volgograd" label="Volgograd">Volgograd</option>
<option value="Europe/Warsaw" label="Warsaw">Warsaw</option>
<option value="Europe/Zagreb" label="Zagreb">Zagreb</option>
<option value="Europe/Zaporozhye" label="Zaporozhye">Zaporozhye</option>
<option value="Europe/Zurich" label="Zurich">Zurich</option>
</optgroup>
<optgroup label="Indian">
<option value="Indian/Antananarivo" label="Antananarivo">Antananarivo</option>
<option value="Indian/Chagos" label="Chagos">Chagos</option>
<option value="Indian/Christmas" label="Christmas">Christmas</option>
<option value="Indian/Cocos" label="Cocos">Cocos</option>
<option value="Indian/Comoro" label="Comoro">Comoro</option>
<option value="Indian/Kerguelen" label="Kerguelen">Kerguelen</option>
<option value="Indian/Mahe" label="Mahe">Mahe</option>
<option value="Indian/Maldives" label="Maldives">Maldives</option>
<option value="Indian/Mauritius" label="Mauritius">Mauritius</option>
<option value="Indian/Mayotte" label="Mayotte">Mayotte</option>
<option value="Indian/Reunion" label="Reunion">Reunion</option>
</optgroup>
<optgroup label="Pacific">
<option value="Pacific/Apia" label="Apia">Apia</option>
<option value="Pacific/Auckland" label="Auckland">Auckland</option>
<option value="Pacific/Chatham" label="Chatham">Chatham</option>
<option value="Pacific/Easter" label="Easter">Easter</option>
<option value="Pacific/Efate" label="Efate">Efate</option>
<option value="Pacific/Enderbury" label="Enderbury">Enderbury</option>
<option value="Pacific/Fakaofo" label="Fakaofo">Fakaofo</option>
<option value="Pacific/Fiji" label="Fiji">Fiji</option>
<option value="Pacific/Funafuti" label="Funafuti">Funafuti</option>
<option value="Pacific/Galapagos" label="Galapagos">Galapagos</option>
<option value="Pacific/Gambier" label="Gambier">Gambier</option>
<option value="Pacific/Guadalcanal" label="Guadalcanal">Guadalcanal</option>
<option value="Pacific/Guam" label="Guam">Guam</option>
<option value="Pacific/Honolulu" label="Honolulu">Honolulu</option>
<option value="Pacific/Johnston" label="Johnston">Johnston</option>
<option value="Pacific/Kiritimati" label="Kiritimati">Kiritimati</option>
<option value="Pacific/Kosrae" label="Kosrae">Kosrae</option>
<option value="Pacific/Kwajalein" label="Kwajalein">Kwajalein</option>
<option value="Pacific/Majuro" label="Majuro">Majuro</option>
<option value="Pacific/Marquesas" label="Marquesas">Marquesas</option>
<option value="Pacific/Midway" label="Midway">Midway</option>
<option value="Pacific/Nauru" label="Nauru">Nauru</option>
<option value="Pacific/Niue" label="Niue">Niue</option>
<option value="Pacific/Norfolk" label="Norfolk">Norfolk</option>
<option value="Pacific/Noumea" label="Noumea">Noumea</option>
<option value="Pacific/Pago_Pago" label="Pago Pago">Pago Pago</option>
<option value="Pacific/Palau" label="Palau">Palau</option>
<option value="Pacific/Pitcairn" label="Pitcairn">Pitcairn</option>
<option value="Pacific/Ponape" label="Ponape">Ponape</option>
<option value="Pacific/Port_Moresby" label="Port Moresby">Port Moresby</option>
<option value="Pacific/Rarotonga" label="Rarotonga">Rarotonga</option>
<option value="Pacific/Saipan" label="Saipan">Saipan</option>
<option value="Pacific/Samoa" label="Samoa">Samoa</option>
<option value="Pacific/Tahiti" label="Tahiti">Tahiti</option>
<option value="Pacific/Tarawa" label="Tarawa">Tarawa</option>
<option value="Pacific/Tongatapu" label="Tongatapu">Tongatapu</option>
<option value="Pacific/Truk" label="Truk">Truk</option>
<option value="Pacific/Wake" label="Wake">Wake</option>
<option value="Pacific/Wallis" label="Wallis">Wallis</option>
<option value="Pacific/Yap" label="Yap">Yap</option>
</optgroup>
</select>
Remote Desktop Black Screen
Every now and then I’ve had the experience where I remote into a server using RDP and after logging in I get a black screen.
After some searching I came across something that worked for me: use control+alt+end, then close the RDP session and launch another one. This 2nd time connecting I got my desktop back.
Rob Kraft was the one who came up with this, so credit to him: http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/winserverTS/thread/31b681c5-3658-45a5-8158-a0a0f967c4a2/
Chris May 