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Do you know LinkedIn? If not, there’s nothing more for you to see here, move along… 
So I am generally quite slow to use the various websites that try to connect you to other folks but have been known to sign up for one or two occasionally such as classmates.com just to see what the hubbub is [...]

More Vista 5365 news 
So I couldn’t get sound on my HP DV8000 with the 64 bit version of Vista. There were no 64 bit drivers for the sound card and even the ones that were for other devices that theoretically should have worked didn’t. So I reloaded with the 32 bit version and while it [...]

Many will look at that subject and go huh? Those with websites will tend to know what I am saying, well one exception in my mind is a good friend of mine who has a website but doesn’t look at logs. Hi buddy!
 
So anyway, I am looking at my web stats to see [...]

You will recall the artwork I put up on the blog previously.
The link below is to a ”movie” of the steps the drawing went through from the original pictures arranged on a piece of paper to the rough drawings to the slow filling out of all sections of the drawing to the completed project. This should clear up [...]

Ok, after much delay, the new version of ExchMbx has been released. The main update here is that it now works to move mailboxes again on Exchange Server 2003 SP2. The Microsoft Exchange Server 2003 SP2 update had a nice “fix” where the Exchange Dev Team broke the mailbox interface contract by changing the parameters [...]

I just heard about this controversy, people wanting to rename BC (Before Christ) to BCE (Before Common Era) and AD (Anno Domini - (in the) year of the lord) to CE (Common Era)….
Is this really something worth worrying about or worse, spending money on? Does it really matter at all? I think it lost any religious significance a [...]

Don’t take my word for it, check out these images….
 Ask Guido, he contacted her in Northern Michigan, USA from Germany to commission some artwork and absolutely loved it.
 

 

The Ten Commandments are for lame brains. The first five are solely for the benefit of the priests and the powers that be; the second five are half truths, neither complete nor adequate.
-Ira Johnson in To Sail Beyond the Sunset (Robert Heinlein)

Kissing girls is a goodness. It beats the hell out of card games.
- Mike - Stranger in a Strange Land (Robert Heinlein)

I have a higher and grander standard of principle than George Washington. He could not lie; I can, but I won’t.
-Mark Twain

I didn’t attend the funeral, but I sent a nice letter saying that I approved of it.
-Mark Twain

Grief can take care of itself, but to get the full value of a joy you must have somebody to divide it with.
-Mark Twain

An Englishman is a person who does things because they have been done before.
An American is a person who does things because they haven’t been done before.
-Mark Twain

A man cannot be comfortable without his own approval.
 -Mark Twain

You don’t marry someone you can live with,
you marry the person who you cannot live without.
- Author Unknown -

My mom reads the blog and I just wanted to say hi to her.
I figure it was an easy way to make her smile and smiling is critically important, both for the person smiling and the people who get to just sit back and look at it.   (a)
 
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Are you an MSDN Subscriber? Well Map Point 2006 just hit the site and is available for download.

Ok… So this is a bit weird.
Supposedly the MoveMailbox CDOEXM method cannot be used to move mailboxes across administrative groups until you get Exchange 2003 SP2 installed and specially call the method with the proper parameters… I am not finding that to be true with ExchMbx. I can use an old or new version of [...]

A friend of mine I have worked with since I joined my current employer a couple of years ago decided to move on to another company this week. He is my Exchange “counterpart” in the same organization in that he is responsible for handling the high level Exchange questions like I am responsible for the [...]

Well I just completed loading Vista Build 5365 (beta 2) on my HP DV8000…
Huge improvements over build 5342. For starters the installation maybe took 80 minutes which is drammatically faster and obviously the installation looks much better. The build still doesn’t set up my sound card yet though which is a trifle annoying, I will [...]

Kelly Pickler got voted off American Idol tonight. Wow. I was quite shocked even though she hasn’t sung great the last two weeks.
She wasn’t my favorite but I truly expected her to be in the top three based on her charisma alone. Certainly I think she should have outlasted Paris, Elliot, and Taylor. It may be [...]

http://www.microsoft.com/windowsserver2003/technologies/management/powershell/default.mspx
Yep its true… Can’t say that the name PowerShell makes me quiver or anything. I recall how the first time I heard the Monad name I was like, hey pretty cool name, a science (chemistry) term. The name PowerShell makes me think of a MAC. 
Oh well, it appears it will be released to web Q4 [...]

If you don’t know Darren, your loss, he is a great guy, a bright guy, a fellow Microsoft MVP, the GPO GUY. Darren is one of the few folks that is into GPOs and knows a lot about them that I actually like talking to. GPOs aren’t my bag and most of the folks who talk [...]

I have been working on updating ExchMbx so that MoveMailbox works under Exchange Server 2003 SP2. I also added a switch to enable the new Cross Administrative Group capability that is there. I am hoping to release it in the next week or before May 1 since I kept saying I should have it done [...]

It was hell getting vaccinated to go to India.
Although I feel as though I could have unprotected sex in a gutter in bare feet while eating raw chicken and still be safe.
   - anonymous

This entry was written yesterday… I am posting now because I didn’t have internet access at 30,000 feet. I wish they would fix that…
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It is 10:49PM EST and I sit in the Dulles G terminal while I write this entry. My flight on a United commuter plane to get back to Michigan is sheduled to leave [...]

Only when the last tree has died and the last river been poisoned and the last fish been caught will we realise we cannot eat money.
~Cree Indian Proverb

Tomorrow I am going to be hanging out with my Aunt Linda, she is the person who dragged me into the computer field in the first place, she was an instructor for the company known as Sperry Univac back before the Burroughs merger occurred and they all became Unisys. She used to travel all over [...]

I ran into another search windows article today that sucked, I didn’t get the point and it wasn’t even close to being spelled out. This one, however, wasn’t written by Derek. 
SECURITY CONCERNS OF EXTENDED SCHEMA IN ACTIVE DIRECTORY
 

The last couple of days were quite interesting for me. I had the opportunity to work with a customer that I have never worked with; a government type customer. The customers I normally speak with are very large corporate customers, not government. There were many things that I take as common sense or “of course you [...]

After the wave of responses on what could possibly be wrong with my VPN (insert stock footage of crickets chirping) I continued on pecking away at the problem.
As you recall, last we met I had VPN’ed into work, got some updates (what I don’t know), then VPN didn’t work anymore, I couldn’t learn anything from [...]

I thought I would spend most of the day working on the laptop to get VPN working again and somehow it just didn’t seem important enough so I slipped off and had a nice Easter dinner and then spent some time trying to figure out exactly how many pair of socks I would need for [...]

Having written something good about Google, I must now write something not so good about Google so my MSFT friends don’t completely shun me.
So what is the bad thing? Well it seems Google did something to shift around priority of Microsoft hits on their search results. Why do I say that? Well because [...]

Something I like to do a week or so prior to going on the road for work is to update my work laptop with the latest work updates, etc that they like to send down. Something that surpises nearly everyone I work with is that I keep my work laptop almost 100% completely work standard [...]

You recognize that line?
If not, it is from the Google Desktop install which I just installed yesterday. I believe it is version 3 but I don’t really know.
I read that line and just started cracking up, it definitely got my attention. It told me that if I enable advanced features some info will be sent  to Google. Unfortunately, [...]

http://sify.com/news/fullstory.php?id=14181737
Kuala Lumpur: A Malaysian man said he nearly fainted when he received a $218 trillion phone bill and was ordered to pay up within 10 days or face prosecution, a newspaper reported Monday.

Ok so that is a bad title… really bad but I am an in an extremely humorous mood. First it is friday, second my morning was much better than average, third I had a blast driving around in the jeep with the top dropped the last two days, fourth I am going to Virginia next [...]

Robbie beat me to the punch and scraped the scripts from AD3E out of the Word docs and has posted them on his site with the scripts from the other edition as well as the other O’Reilly books with scripts.
You can find them here
http://rallenhome.com/books/ad3e/code.html
If you just want to buy the book because you
a. want a [...]

I just received this email from my favorite group…. the AFA…
 April 10, 2006

SEC refuses Ford’s request to keep homosexual issue off their stockholders meeting agenda
Ford Sales Drop 5% in March
Dear Joe,
The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has denied a request by Ford Motor Company to keep a shareholder resolution forbidding Ford to promote homosexual marriage [...]

As mentioned in passing previously I installed Vista on my HP AMD 64 bit Laptop, build 5308 (yes I know it is out of date, I am downloading 5342 as I write this) and it was slow slow slow slow. In fact, I thought the darn thing had hung on me when I didn’t see [...]

Questions to Microsoft:
 1. When I upgraded Virtual Server 2003 to Virtual Server 2003 R2 why did I have to upgrade the Virtual Machine additions individually on each and every single guest? Shouldn’t it have been enough to say, upgrade all of these for me?
 2. Why did it take two reboots?
 

By resurrecting a protein that disappeared 450 million years ago, a trio of University of Oregon researchers have shown how evolution could have produced the amazingly complex biological systems that some have claimed are evidence of “intelligent design.”
The research, published today in Science magazine, provides an evolutionary path for the intricate “lock-and-key” relationship between a [...]

I haven’t written anything too inflamatory for a bit so possibly this will be. We shall see.
Those who know me know I have a special affinity for Ford. My first car was a 1971 Ford Mustang with a 351 Cleveland (yes it makes a difference) big block, my next car was a 1972 [...]

Who needs sleep?
Personally I think I do but getting my body to cooperate at times can be a bit of a trick. I don’t tend to need a lot of sleep, never really have. 4-6 hours usually seems to be enough with some catch up times occasionally where I go into an 8-10 hour coma [...]

http://www.gilsblog.com/index.cfm?commentID=66
It appears I have an “uncompromising take it or leave it personality”. Who would have thunk it.
I admit, I do have strong opinions and they tend to come through pretty clear, if I think a certain way or have a certain feeling about something I am not the greatest at hiding that from [...]

I upgraded the blog software this evening. It would have gone perfectly but I dorked it up.
Long story short, I wanted to use a parallel install upgrade method and when I did that I totally spaced on one of the directory levels required. It is something that I have only encountered with this [...]

…are good.
Just something happy making about their music (what did YOU think I was talking about?)
We’ve got these chains that hang around our necks
people want to strangle us with them before we take our first breath….
Lyrics like that and it is still a fun song.
Go Canada, Eh!

Apple unveils software to run Windows XP…
Hurray… oh wait… Isn’t that called dual boot and hasn’t that been available for like YEARS and YEARS and YEARS now? What’s different? Oh yeah… Apple actually runs on Intel now.
Very impressive. Umm no.
Not sure where the excitement is there, Apple can now do what people have been [...]

While working on an ACL coding issue I realized that there was some info that I had intended to put into chapter 26 of Active Directory Third Edition that I seem to have spaced on and forgot to add (that or I spaced when looking for it). It involves special options for reading/writing the Security [...]