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If you use the Gregorian Calendar, Happy New Year to you.
I am celebrating the new year by tiling the pet room. Actually I started Thursday and it has been going a bit slow. I hope to have the last of it grouted by this evening. I originally had wanted to tile it but was overruled [...]

Previously I mentioned I was looking at the Deltech homes which are these prefab Round houses. I got their literature and a video from them and am even more interested.
The more I think about it though, the more I think I want to move most of the house underground to take advantage of [...]

ADAM SP1 is now up on the MS downloads site. This is the same ADAM as the one released with Windows Server 2003 R2 with a different license agreement. Lots of updates, you want to get this and use it instead of the older ADAM version. x86 and x64 versions available.
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=9688F8B9-1034-4EF6-A3E5-2A2A57B5C8E4&displaylang=en

Wow, how cool is this job perk
“Engineers can devote 20 percent of their time to projects of their choice.”
That is seriously cool and a great way, IMO, to have your employees come up with cool new ideas for your company. In many companies, the only time cool new ideas are brought forth is when [...]

Ok as you know I am playing around with my new Borland compiler which I am really liking quite a bit. I start thinking of some new stuff I would like to write and what should I do next, I have some cool ADAM ideas etc. Then I think, man, I really should add SSL [...]

I chased down the reason for the extended size of the executable as mentioned in http://blog.joeware.net/2005/12/23/182/.
The issue was expansion of inline functions, I don’t use inlines nor do I have anything that should be inlined by default but obviously something I am including does so the OBJ bloated right up which bloated the EXE.
Now the [...]

Sounds like it is about $150,000 usd…
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,11069-1957697,00.html
The assassin industry could change. Yes maam, $50 and we will rub out your husband but we keep the body…
Sort of like the cell phone industry. $50 gets you a phone if you sign up for one year of monthly payments for service….

I loaded up BDS yesterday and today I imported my ADFIND project into it to compile and see if anything would break.
Amazingly nothing broke!
However, the release version of the EXE has swollen up from 900K to 2600K. That is a pretty serious bloat. I will have to do some testing to see if I can [...]

Let’s say you want to set some environment variables for a user as they log on… how do you do it?
Well a logon script of course.
But then…. you figure out, it isn’t working right… The script is running, you are sure of it. But the user can’t use the variables because they [...]

You want to know something that is as useful as Snow Skis in Florida? 4GB of RAM on an ASUS P4C800 Deluxe.
As per my previous post on the subject you know I was trying to work through the issue of getting 4GB to post after installing it into a machine with a P4C800 Deluxe [...]

You are like WTF joe!!! You just released a new version of ADFIND yesterday!
Why yes, yes I did.
Today I am releasing another version. So there.
Basically I was sitting there minding my own business and one of my MCS friends IM’ed me out of the blue asking why he couldn’t do -up *. I [...]

Version V01.28.00 was uploaded to the website as of 9PM EST 12/21/2005.
This version fixes three bugs
1. Bug in the object counting when using the -incldn switch.
2. Bug in how usage is displayed during certain error conditions.
3. Bug in STATS parsing. This was a niggling problem that has been around for a while. It primarily impacted [...]

Do you have an ASUS P4C800 motherboard?
Does it have more 3GB or more of RAM installed?
Does it POST more than 2943MB? Email me or please comment. If you have that configuration and you noticed it didn’t POST the RAM properly either also email or comment.
When I bought memory for my new laptop I also [...]

’nuff said. ;o)
Well maybe not…
Target $16.99
Best Buy $17.99
Circuit City $17.99
Amazon $16.98

Judge rules against Intelligent Design
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/10545387/
The ruling in PDF format - http://msnbcmedia.msn.com/i/msnbc/sections/news/051220_kitzmiller_342.pdf

Serenity DVD is available tomorrow (Tuesday 12/20/2005) all of you FireFly fans…
I, for one, hope that someone says, we need to bring that back as a series… If you didn’t watch the series, you should, even if you didn’t like the movie. The movie had a different flavor than the series. It was sort of [...]

I recently got an email about a KB that was written up by an MVP about one of my tools - ADFIND. Actually I have never gotten so much email about something someone else has written that people want me to help them with. Serves me for putting my email address in my program banner [...]

Yes I watch reality TV, it always makes me chuckle with how unrealistic a lot of it is and the producers visions of reality. I commented before on The Apprentice, time to do so again…
Anyway, saw The Apprentice finale last night. I have to say I liked Randall from the first show but in the [...]

As I have mentioned previously, I live in Michigan. It is a generally good state, there are things that really bother me about it such as the months of December through February inclusive, the city of Detroit in its entirety, the ultra conservative folks of western Michigan (Grand Rapids primarily), the preponderance of obese people [...]

The hypothalamus is one of the most important parts of the brain, involved in many kinds of motivation, among other functions. The hypothalamus controls the “Four F’s”: fighting, fleeing, feeding, and mating.
-Unknown psychology professor in neuropsychology course

Conservatives say teaching sex education in the public schools will promote promiscuity. With our education system? If we promote promiscuity the same way we promote math or science, they’ve got nothing to worry about.
-Beverly Mickins

To succeed with the opposite sex, tell her you’re impotent. She can’t wait to disprove it.
- Cary Grant

A chicken and an egg are lying in bed. The chicken is smoking a cigarette with a satisfied smile on its face and the egg is frowning and looking put out. The egg mutters to no one in particular, “I guess we answered that question.”
-Author Unknown

You know, of course, that the Tasmanians, who never committed adultery, are now extinct.
-W. Somerset Maugham, The Bread-Winner

It is not economical to go to bed early to save the candles if the result is twins.
-Chinese Proverb

Kinky is using a feather. Perverted is using the whole chicken.
-Author Unknown

I previously mentioned that you should index the objectclass attribute if you haven’t done so.
My friend ~Eric called me out on it and said the logic given was poor.
He is correct, the logic I stated isn’t the greatest and could theoretically be used to justify indexing any attribute.
It is my bad, I tried to [...]

Government is not the solution to our problem, government is the problem.
- Ronald Reagan (First Inaugural Address)

Sex without love is an empty experience, but as empty experiences go it’s one of the best.
-Woody Allen

There is nothing wrong with going to bed with someone of your own sex. People should be very free with sex, they should draw the line at goats.
-Elton John

Sex.
In America, an obsession.
In other parts of the world, a fact.
-Marlene Dietrich

The Christian view that all intercourse outside marriage is immoral was, as we see in the… passages from St. Paul, based upon the view that all sexual intercourse, even within marriage, is regrettable. A view of this sort, which goes against biological facts, can only be regarded by sane people as a morbid aberration. The [...]

I have examined all of the known superstitions of the world and I do not find in our superstitions of Christianity one redeeming feature. They are all founded on fables and mythology. Christianity has made one half the world fools and the other half hypocrites.
- Thomas Jefferson

Imagine the people who believe such things and who are not ashamed to ignore, totally, all the patient findings of thinking minds through all the centuries since the Bible was written. And it is these ignorant people, the most uneducated, the most unimaginative, the most unthinking among us, who would make themselves the guides and [...]

If a man really believes that God once upheld slavery; that he commanded soldiers to kill women and babes; that he believed in polygamy; that he persecuted for opinion’s sake; that he will punish forever, and that he hates an unbeliever, the effect in my judgment will be bad. It always has been bad. This [...]

One of the proofs of the immortality of the soul is that myriads have believed it. They also believed the world was flat.
- Mark Twain

A friend of mine and fellow MVP named Laura Hunter (www.shutuplaura.com) is working on the new edition of the Active Directory Cookbook and has been pinging me with various AdFind/AdMod questions and well anything else that happens to come up. I guess if you want to know what makes the horse tick you walk up [...]

This just in, Galileo Galilei has been convicted of heresy by the Catholic Church. He has been sentenced to spend the remainder of his life under house arrest.
Galileo was convicted of heresy due to his writings supporting Copernicus’s obsurd theory that the Earth rotates around the sun in a Heliocentric manner versus the universe [...]

I recently got feedback that ExchMbx’s move mailbox functionality broke under Exchange Server 2003 SP2…. I couldn’t duplicate the issue until I actually ran ExchMbx on the E2K3 SP2 server directly versus across the network.
I built another Exchange 2003 server and ExchMbx worked great, as soon as I upgraded to SP2, broken….
The error is the [...]

I have been pretty busy with life and work so the new HP Laptop has been sitting still. However my memory came in this morning so this evening I wanted to plug it in. I had two shiney new 1GB SODIMMs to insert. I did so and hit the power button and got a sound [...]

I was asked about the whole indexing objectclass topic I talked about in my last post. I have one thing to say about it.
Just do it.
It is a good thing, it helps every single app out there that has a crappy query that uses objectclass and no indexed attributes. This includes many scripts, many [...]

I saw this LDAP query three different times today, I am not sure why, but I think someone was telling me to write about it.
People use objectcategory=user probably because they are used to hearing use objectcategory, not objectclass because objectclass isn’t indexed.
That is correct, by default in Windows 2000 and Windows Server 2003 and [...]

Well I figured I should write an update on this story and say I went ahead and bought the BDS software for the upgrade price (just under $400).
It bothers me that I had to buy it. I used to buy Borland because its standards compliance was way better than VC++ (what standards compliance you [...]

So I have gotten a couple of emails (and an IM) along the lines of “So what’s up with the laptop?”

Go Hewlett-Packard…
Go Federal Express….
You will recall I posted *yesterday*, yes YESTERDAY that I received notification of my laptop shipping….
I just got it… 10:15AM EST the next day…. I selected the 5-7 day shipping option…
I looked up the fedex tracking info and it left China yesterday, was in Achorage Alaska last night, and was in [...]