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This is to relate some gotchas I encountered while trying to deploy a site developed in Microsoft Visual Web Developer Express.

The Visual Developer ships with a website administration tool which handles things like logging of users and registering new ones. However, by default, it assumes that the database that will store this user info will be on the local machine. This works fine if you are just testing your site on on the local machine but when it comes to deployment, typically, the SQL Server  you will be using will be on a remote site.

I have successfully used Tramp for remote editing of files over scp using XEmacs on Windows XP.

Put this in your ~/.xemacs/init.el

(require 'tramp)
(setq tramp-default-method "scp")

Then open a remote file using:

C-x C-f  /[scp/yourname@yourmachine]/file.name

Of course you want to set up passwordless login over ssh for convenience 

Authorizing access for remote access via ssh

To allow access to a system for a given identity place the public key in your ~/.ssh/authorized_keys file on that system. All keys listed in that file are allowed access.

  cd ~/.ssh
  cp id_rsa.pub authorized_keys 

You could now copy the ~/.ssh/authorized_keys file to other systems to allow access from the local system.

I like to run for half an hour every day if the weather permits. For some time now, I have been noticing some pain in my shins after running. The pain is of a dull kind and persists for the day. It does not bother me so much by itself but what I was worried about was whether it was a precursor to some more serious kind of injury. So I started to research a little bit and find out what I could do. I found some good info searching for "shin injuries" on the internet.

Dragon NaturallySpeaking:

I bought a basic version of Dragon NaturallySpeaking 9 just to try it out.  I am quite happy with it.  First I was wondering if it would be able to understand my Indian accent, but it does not seem to be a problem.  I can get quite impressive accuracy.