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dd has a progress report function that is accessible when it is passed a USR1 signal.  While your dd job is running, run kill -USR1 <dd PID> and that should provide how far and how fast dd is running.

If you have a Windows XP machine that belongs to the domain and you attempt to set a Firewall rule to allow Remote Desktop through, don’t use the default subnet setting if you wish to accept those connections from your subnet.

I’ve had consistently rejected connections when using this setting and connecting from the same subnet.  Instead, I found that manually specifying the subnet as a custom rule setting works consistently.

Oddly, this is only an issue on the Princeton domain, and is likely the result of a Group Policy trickle-down.

The style file posted below allows you to embed a .MOV file in a PDF file.  This is useful if presentations are composed in LaTeX.  Paired with the hyperref package which accepts the syntax \href{run:external-command}, one can create very powerful, multimedia rich presentations that can automatically trigger events at the presenter’s command.

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 After a recent Windows Update a number of my VB/WMI scripts stopped working.  They would launch and immediately report the error “Library not Found”.  Unfortunately they failed to report precisely what library was failing to load, so after some general Google searching with regsrv32 in the query I discovered wbemdisp.dll was necessary.  Reloading the library via “regsrv32 wbemdisp.dll”restored them to their working order, although I’m still a little unclear about which update caused the library failure in the first place.