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If you allow telnet access and your RDP sessions are all locked up (from pesky admins disconnecting and not logging out), there are a few tools that you can use from the CLI. One tool is called query, this tool allows you to see who is all logged in. The usage is 'query session' and you will get the output of who is logged in and what ID's they are using.

Another command is tsdiscon and you pass it in the session_id of the person you want to disconnect. Mind you though using this command sometimes doesn't disconnect the user because the connection could be hung up.

If that is the case then there is the ever so wonderful 'tsshutdn /reboot', which (provided you give it a few minutes) will restart the terminal services client.

All of these work really well over a connection that uses SSH (such as FreeSSHd or Cygwin).

More information can be found at http://technet2.microsoft.com/windowsserver/en/library/2b82a2b9-e226-40e0-bacc-cb564bd4c1c11033.mspx?mfr=true and http://support.microsoft.com/kb/320188

While working on a school project using wxPython and XML I was intrigued by the way that Python wants you to handle XML. You have three options, 1) expat, 2) SAX or 3) DOM. All three methods happen to be very disgusting to implement. I decided that it would be worth time spent to find a good way to convert XML to an extensible object structure. I actually found that method at this URL http://aspn.activestate.com/ASPN/Cookbook/Python/Recipe/149368. The best part of this snippet is that you can call an elements name, get their child, get the name of the child, get an attribute all really fast (because the author used expat).  

for child in element.children :
	if child.name == "Panel" : 
		pnl = wxPanel(frame, pos=(child.getAttribute("x"), child.getAttribute("y")), size=(child.getAttribute("width"), child.getAttribute("height"))) 
		for control in child.children : 
			self.setControl(pnl, control) panels.append(pnl) 
		else : 
			self.setControl(frame, child)

Every time I go deeper into the BlogEngine code base I am caught off guard at how well thought out the abstraction layers are. The ExtensionManager is another layer that helps people who build Extensions have a place to administrate their extension. If you don't want to use the default Settings class holder, you can use a custom administration page.

http://rtur.net/blog/post/2008/01/Documentation-on-Extension-Manager.aspx

I am going to have to put this to good use with my RandomQuotes extension that I am trying to make work.