We helped to plan a Christmas party for our youth at church, which was held last Wednesday night. Here are all their happy, smiling faces. And no, they are not the reason we don’t have any kids yet, as one of them asked the other day.

This post combines two things that Melodie likes: Pride and Prejudice and Relient K.
She found it on youtube a week ago and I thought I would post it here for her to see any time she wants to watch it.

I’m not going to lie to you–it is with some trepidation that I write this first post. I haven’t quite figured out the source of my anxiety, but it feels like I’m entering new territory. Kind of like the first day at a new school…minus the upset stomach which I seemed to experience at new schools. Kyle has already turned this site into a nerd blog, so I feel like I need to contribute something girlie to shift the nature of the content here, or at least something interesting, to keep our readership entertained. No wonder I have butterflies.

So, here’s to a simple blog–what you read is what you get. No expectations. And if you don’t find it worth your while, be kind and keep those thoughts to yourselves. (There’s some good advice that more people should have learned at a young age.)

Stay tuned…

I’ve been working with a remote support tool VNC SC that seems very promising. I customized the icons and config files but ran into trouble trying to get the encryption to work with it.
After some searching on UltraVNC’s forum I finally found something that helped. I’ve include the important parts here in case anyone else is having the problem.

1. Download MSRC4Plugin118.zip from http://home.comcast.net/~msrc4plugin/.
2. Download UltraVNC from http://www.uvnc.com/ and choose “viewer only” as install option.
3. Copy file MSRC4Plugin_NoReg.dsm from MSRC4Plugin118.zip to directory where UltraVNC Viewer was installed (default is C:\program
   files\ultravnc).
4. Start UltraVNC Viewer, select MSRC4Plugin_NoReg.dsm in the dropdown list and check “Use DSM Plugin". Click the
   config button and then Click the “Gen Key” button, close the viewer. A file named new_rc4.key should be created in the directory where UltraVNC Viewer is installed. Rename this file to rc4.key.
5. Download the custom.zip from http://sc.uvnc.com/index.php?section=13 (How to create my own version?). Extract it to a directory and copy MSRC4Plugin_NoReg.dsm and rc4.key to this directory. Rename MSRC4Plugin_NoReg.dsm to MSRC4Plugin.dsm. Follow the instructions to customize your version and upload it using http://sc.uvnc.com/index.php?section=19 (creator).
6. Launch the viewer with commandline vncviewer -dsmplugin MSRC4Plugin_NoReg.dsm -listen (not possible yet to start in listen mode from gui).
7. The remote server client and the local viewer should now be able to talk.

Link to forum post

The initial benefits of this tool will be home use but I easily see it playing a purpose for some special home user support needs at work and it could lead to VNC replacing a more costly tool currently used at work for internal support.

Link to VNC SC