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STOP!
Do you know what you are doing? Are you rebuilding in the old image or are you trying to make it better?
If the former, why bother? Just give everyone swimming lessons and hope for the best the next time.
If the latter, how are you trying to accomplish that?
I recommend that New Orleans and the Federal [...]

Y’all haven’t noticed it but out of the blue starting Saturday my blog has been getting blasted by spam. Usually I don’t have a problem with spam because the list of black listed words I have is extensive and unforgiving and any comment that has one of those words gets dropped with no notification to anyone; [...]

I have updated the MemberOf utility.
This is just a quickie update as I received requests from like three people in less than a week that were for similar requests I have gotten over the years. I want to rewrite this from scratch again to take advantage of some stuff that I have learned to make it [...]

I could do a lot more shocking things. I’ve just always asserted myself as a villain because the villain in any walk of life is the person who refuses to follow blindly and always wants to question things. For me, art is supposed to be a question mark. So I’m merely asking questions to the [...]

In the US this weekend marks the unofficial beginning of summer and usually seems to have crappy weather. This year it was amazingly different.
It was gorgeous day and about 95 degrees (that would be about 35c for my fahrenheit challenged friends) and cancer level sunny. I have a great start on my jeep tan which is a nice [...]

If you live in a the US, happy Memorial day, if you live in one of the other countries that chose to also set this day as a national or bank holiday happy whatever holiday it is for you (such as Spring Bank Holiday).
For the US this holiday is to celebrate the folks who have [...]

This should be well known at this point but doesn’t appear to be as I continue to see questions and problems around this….
There are multiple formats of a userid that can be used for authentication depending on the type of authentication.
For most authentications you can use either the NT format which is Domain\SAMAccountName or the user principal [...]

Angelina had her baby, congrats to her and Brad.
Now that is all I need to know, I don’t need photos, I don’t need to know the babies weight nor height nor hair color or anything else. Neither does anyone else. If the family wants to announce that stuff great, in the meanwhile I hope all [...]

I’ll take one of these when produced thanks…
 
http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=10000082&sid=a5w0Bet0kOE4&refer=canada
 

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
http://www.informationweek.com/industries/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=188500744

That’s gold Jerry, GOLD!  
 
Carlos Mencia rocks.    
 
 

Congratulations to Taylor Hicks.
I am shocked that he won but that shock started when Chris and Kim got voted off as I really didn’t expect that to happen. Once it happened it became “anybody’s game” between Kat and Taylor. Kat kind of choked up a little the last few weeks and Taylor just kept charging [...]

The AFA still makes me laugh. Keep going Ford… You would think that a vote 95% against the AFA would send them a message? Even if most of the shares voted were Ford family owned… I.E. AFA, it isn’t your company, get your nose out of its business. Don’t like their policies, don’t buy their stock, [...]

Get over it.
 

SuperFastMofo is up and running. Well she has been for a few days but I keep reloading the OSes on her to test her out and testing different disk configs. The name isn’t actually SuperFastMofo, it became

SFMXP32
SFMXP64
SFMVISTA32
SFMVISTA64

Depending on what partition I boot up under.
I took four of the 250GB disks and made them into a x4 RAID-0 [...]

I have been promising to do this for over a year now… share the funniest email that I have personally ever received from someone I didn’t know. Don’t get me wrong, I get a lot of really funny email from friends, they all know how much I love to laugh. This is so funny because [...]

It seems that a lot of people with no actual technical ability want to be in the computer industry because that is where they feel they can make money. In general lots of training companies help enforce this by telling people they can get them certified after a week or a month’s worth of classes.
You [...]

Latest email from the AFA…
Hahaha. Go Jessica!
 
May 19, 2006
Oregon student newspaper runs pictures of Jesus as a homosexual. It is time to speak out!
Dear Joe,
The Associated Students of the University of Oregon (ASUO) has refused to apologize for an obscene anti-Christian assault in the campus newspaper Insurgent.The March edition of the Insurgent ran one of [...]

…but I thought this was funny…
 
http://www.jokaroo.com/funnyvideos/peta_killed_for_your_coat.html
 

Steve is a bright guy… Listen to him.
http://blogs.msdn.com/spatdsg/archive/2006/05/15/598260.aspx
  
     joe

I realized my current main desktop machine is now 30 months old and while it still is decent I would like to upgrade it. I have had a terrible time with Windows Rot as of late because the machine hasn’t been reloaded since I first set it up… A new record for me, normally my machines [...]

Even road side signs need real security…
http://www.zug.com/gab/index.cgi?func=view_thread&sort=active&head=1&thread_id=64475
 

Yes, any frequent reader knows I am sort of a reality TV buff, well at least I like most of the shows. I didn’t watch Amazing Race this year, last year’s just made me tell my media center to ignore it. Also I didn’t watch Surreal Life until just recently when for some reason I found it interesting. [...]

Happy Mother’s Day to Mom’s around the world (or at least in any countries that celebrate Mum’s day today).
In particular Happy Mother’s day to my Mom and my Grandmom and sister (the one with kids) and all my brother’s wives.
Oh yeah, also in particular, Happy first Mother’s day to Dawn. You are doing a great job [...]

I {love} my media center. It changed how I watched TV, I don’t watch live TV anymore. Ever. It is amazing how it gets the shows I want and how I can zip through the commercials and pretty much just watch TV the way I want. Sure I have some complaints like it encodes files [...]

One of these songs is metal, one is hard rock. Which is which?

Song 1
She was a fast machine,
She kept her motor clean,
She was the best damn woman that I ever seen,
She had sightless eyes,
Telling me no lies,
Knockin’ me out with those American thighs,
Taking more than her share,
Had me fighting for air,
She told me to come, [...]

 

 
 VH-1 had a special on called the 40 Least Metal Moments, it went off on various things that folks declared as things that did not reflect well on the Heavy Metal or actually more accurately for most of the bands the hard rock[1] music world. A lot of this show focused on “the Ball”, which is [...]

The last item in the magazine that really caught my attention was the {END BRACKET} piece. That is usually pretty good and why often I will be reading a magazine I will flip to the last page to determine if I want to keep on reading. Often it is sort of a recap of everything [...]

Ok on to the next article… It was written by Jeffrey Richter. If you don’t know who that is, you are obviously not someone who has taken Windows programming seriously. That is fine if you don’t consider yourself a programmer, otherwise, please go code for the GNU folks; you shouldn’t be near Windows.
In the article [...]

The first article is about moving from Visual Studio 2003 to Visual Studio 2005. I thought, this should be a good article… I don’t actually use either IDE (Borland guy here…) but it is good to see what others say about them. I am reading away and then got a trifle perturbed…
There was a comment [...]

I just recently received the latest MSDN Magazine, June 2006. I like MSDN Mag, it is a cool mag. It tends to have at least one interesting article and keeps me fairly up to date with some things other folks are thinking or doing. I like Dr. Dobbs better because it seems more realistic, but [...]

What the heck does that mean?
Well there is this style of restaurants becoming fairly popular in the US, at least in the Michigan area called Mongolian Barbeques. Basically it is where you select various meats, veggies, noodles, etc and throw them in a bowl, select some oils, sauces and spices and then some crazy kid [...]

po·lyg·a·my - marriage in which a spouse of either sex may have more than one mate at the same time — compare POLYANDRY, POLYGYNY
For some reason this evening, CNN is having a special on Polygamy; one report after another. Most of it is focused on the stuff a guy named Warren Jeffs is pushing out [...]

If you were at Dean and my presentation at DEC 2006 you will recall that we presented a possible Logo for ADAM (Active Directory Application Mode) because it doesn’t appear to have one[1].
The logo I came up with was

 
Personally I think that is a great logo. However one of my friends from a former company [...]

“And the National Rifle Association says that, “Guns don’t kill people, people do,” but I think the gun helps, you know? I think it helps. I just think just standing there going, “Bang!” That’s not going to kill too many people, is it? You’d have to be really dodgy on the heart to have that…”
    [...]

“So the American government lied to the Native Americans for many, many years, and then President Clinton lied about a relationship, and everyone was surprised! A little naïve, I feel!”  - Eddie Izzard 
NB: If you are not familiar with Eddie Izzard, I recommend you become familiar. Yes, he is a bit off center for most [...]

A comment came in today about my admod post from yesterday that prompted a response that I thought was good enough to pull up to a full blog entry in its own right instead of responding in the comments…
The question is from Fred and goes like this…

So, Joe, which tools would you say you use in [...]

I received a couple of offline responses to my last blog entry with the general question of “What is elegant and inelegant code?”
Elegant code to me is beautiful/logical/intuitive/smooth code, inelegant code is “ugly” or rough code. Elegant code isn’t necessarily “pretty” but is a combination of several things that make it “right” and beautiful in its own [...]

I have moved AdMod into the garage for some updates, buff out some scratches, fill in some door dings, replace the cracked windshield, scrape the roadkill from the undercarriage… It is jacked up, the wheels are off, the fittings are being greased, the oil is being changed, the tranny fluid is being checked for that telling burnt [...]

I am a light abuser of MSN Messenger. I have maybe 15 contacts on my IM list right now and most of those folks stay on the list because they are relatively quiet, I actually talk on a weekly basis to four people. I look at IM like I look at the phone, there are [...]

“If the American people only understood the rank injustice of our money and banking system - there would be a revolution before morning…”
   - Andrew Jackson

Subject Fire
Dear Sir stroke Madam
I am writing to inform you of a fire which has broken out at the premises of…
No… that’s too formal
TAP TAP TAP TAP TAP TAP TAP TAP
Dear Sir stroke Madam
FIRE Exclamation Mark
FIRE Exclamation Mark
HELP ME Exclamation Mark
123 Collenden road
Looking forward to hearing from you
All the best
Maurice Moss
TAP
 

So it was rather nippy here today so I thought I would work on some updates for AdMod that I have been putting off for some time.
One of those updates involves allowing AdMod to do intra-forest cross domain moves, like, for instance, you want to move a group of contacts from one domain to another… [...]

I am scanning through my directory looking around just to see if there is something I don’t recognize or maybe something I didn’t previously understand that all of a sudden I magically do understand. Don’t laugh this happens on a fairly regular basis.
I pull up one of my new Vista machine account objects and start [...]

…you don’t own that information. Stop treating it like you do and making decisions with how to deal with it like you do.
In particular, you do not have the right to determine that it is safe for you to put my information on your mobile devices (say like laptops) even if you put your own personal info [...]

 

The holiday of Cinco De Mayo, The 5th Of May, commemorates the victory of the Mexican militia over the French army at The Battle Of Puebla in 1862. It is primarily a regional holiday celebrated in the Mexican state capital city of Puebla and throughout the state of Puebla, with some recognition in other parts [...]

So, in the spirit of telling why, I was asked by 2 people Why the “Testing the blog-ience” post and one person who, interesting to me, sent me a link to why.
 
First off part of the why is I like Rocky Horror Picture Show. Great show. A lot of fun. Tough to beat the people watching [...]

A friend sent me an email the other day that had this KB mentioned
http://support.microsoft.com/?id=327270
 
SQL Server 2000 is not supported on Windows Server 2003 Terminal Server application server  
It gives you info about the problem but doesn’t actually tell you why there is a problem at all. Why thanks for telling me how to determine if TS [...]

Well I was walking down the street just a-having a think
     When a snake of a guy gave me an evil wink
He shook me up, he took me by surprise
     He had a pickup truck and the devil’s eyes.
He stared at me and I felt a change
     Time meant nothing, never would again
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