Wednesday, April 4, 2012

Copy Paste not working inside Windows RDP?

You know the solution to the problem! You remote into the Windows server and paste the script, excited. Then you paste it again and then one more time only to find out nothing is getting transferred. Then you go back and try it again. It is frustrating isn't it. Especially since at the same time everyone else is having no issues doing the same thing. Well, next time you face this problem, launch the Task Manager and look for a process called "rdpclip.exe" running under your user id. Kill it and then restart it using the Run prompt. Things should magically start working.

You should know that this process only runs if someone else is logged onto your computer using remote desktop. It is a server side process. This process has some known issues as well like sometimes it can eat up too much memory and CPU. When you exit out of a remote desktop session with something stuck in your clipboard then you run the chance of confusing this process. In any case it is safe to kill at the end of the remote session before logging off.

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An interesting quote from John Tukey, who was an American mathematician (1915-2000) -

An approximate answer to the right problem is worth a good deal more than an exact answer to an approximate problem.

Today maths and statistics form the basis of how software is developed and used around us.

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I have over 20 years of experience in healthcare, communications and AI.

I have a passion for defining innovative applications, creating product/technology strategy and solving challenging problems. My product mindset is helpful to any company to find patterns, reduce costs, and gain efficiencies.

I was the VP of Engineering at Vibrent Health, where I led the web, mobile, API and data products that supported one of the largest NIH programs - All of Us Research Program. Our system enrolled almost a million users and collected data from EHRs, surveys and wearables. Before that, I worked at hCentive, a pioneer in health exchanges.

As the CTO of 3CLogic, I helped create the first PC and web-only contact center solution that implemented PBX and CRM functionality as an affordable SaaS solution. As the Chief Architect of NexTone, I was instrumental in the development of SIP and SIP based products. SIP and associated protocols form the basis of modern WebRTC APIs.

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