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Ok let’s face it, when you are in the Northern Hemisphere and you think of summer, you stop thinking of it as being summer as of September 1. I don’t care what the stars say or the length of the day says or the angle of the earth or any of it. Summer ends when [...]

One of my MCS friends pointed me at this… Cracked me right up…
MONTPELIER, Vt. - A middle school that censored the anti-drug, anti-Bush message on a student’s T-shirt violated the boy’s right to free speech, an appeals court ruled Wednesday.
The shirt bore images of cocaine and a martini glass — in addition to messages calling [...]

I seem to field a lot of questions on this though I am far from the expert here. However, here is my take on it…
Warming the cache is not limited to x64 with giant DITs, it just happens to be something people like to force up front with x64 with large DITS because the smaller [...]

I went and did it… Bought yet ANOTHER handheld gadget. I have to travel again next week (lovely Ohio this time) and the thing that I keep wishing I had every time I travel is a simple easy to use and deal with GPS with good maps. I was close to that in Montreal; I had [...]

…so they can change the channel…
The latest from my friends at the AFA below… They want you to contact CBS and pull programming. I find it funny that instead of telling their concerned members to avoid the channel they instead tell them to contact CBS and try and force them to change.
You know every Sunday [...]

This is an odd and sad story…
 The girl held for eight years as a sex slave in a tiny underground dungeon said yesterday that she was sorry her kidnapper had killed himself.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/new…

This is pretty cool news…
A synthetic molecule that triggers cancer cells to commit suicide was effective in mouse cancer models, scientists said. They hope the finding will herald in new drugs that can activate this mechanism that causes cancer cells to hasten their own death.
http://www.foodconsumer.org/777/8/Synthetic_compound_triggers_cancer_cell_suicide_.shtml

Do you like “The Office”? UK or US? I like them both. I think the boss, David, from the UK version is much funnier than the boss, Michael, in the US version. But I like Dwight from the US version more than Gareth from the UK version who are playing the same type of brown nosing [...]

I appear to be a bug magnet. Using the product just a few days and bam…
Ok so you will notice on my blog site I have an entry for interesting changes in E12. At the bottom of it I had a web link to the EHLO blog with the info… Only the link didn’t work.
When [...]

The EHLO blog folks posted an interesting blog entry on some upcoming changes for E-12 that change how you provision users and also changes to the recipient policy mechanism (the RUS dies) and hurray, it looks like they might have gotten a clue with the property sets and put the Exchange attributes into Exchange specific [...]

I have to say this tool is pretty cool and it certainly makes blogging easier. I am loving it, great job Microsoft.
Things that could use work, not in any particular order. :)

Use F7 instead of shift-F7 to spell check.
On a seemingly regular basis the display will jump around.
I would like Font choice available from [...]

 
Cat images from http://b3ta.hnldesign.nl/index.php?list=4

After an event, “possible” and “true” are equivalent ideas, whereas “probable” becomes a measure of one’s ignorance. To call a conclusion “improbable” after the event was self-confusing amphigory.
   - Robert A. Heinlein (Gulf)

“We defined thinking as integrating data and arriving at correct answers. Look around you. Most people do that stunt just well enough to get to the corner store and back without breaking a leg.
If the average man thinks at all, he does silly things like generalizing from a single datum. He uses one-valued [...]

I sat down and worked out how to insert my own “skin” into this theme. Unfortunately the author of the theme doesn’t have generic skin capability yet so I hacked mine into it. I think if I spent a couple of hours I could figure out how to make it generically accept any skins dropped [...]

http://www.space.com/php/multimedia/downloads/wall…

Homosexuality is an abomination of god. Loving and accepting people is what all of us should do, but the Bible teaches us that the lifestyle Lance has chosen is absolutely forbidden.
  - Kathy Taylor Midfield Ala. (People Magazine 8/28/2006 in response to article on Lance Bass)

 
That quote cracked me up…

…but Pluto is no longer a planet….
Officially, Pluto is no longer a planet.
“Pluto is dead,” said Caltech researcher Mike Brown, who spoke with reporters via a teleconference while monitoring the vote. The decision also means a Pluto-sized object that Brown discovered will not be called a planet.
“Pluto is not a planet,” Brown said. [...]

Over the years I have learned that weather pressure changes aren’t good to me. When there is a large differential in the pressure I have been at and what it is changing too I tend to get headaches and in some case various other body aches from all the broken bones I acquired through my [...]

I was working away updating the usage and examples for AdMod this evening and ran a couple of test commands to figure out which ones I want to document. I like to play against ADAM as it is all local and just because I like playing with ADAM.
Anyway, I fired one of my saved ADAM instances up that [...]

So everyone keeps raving about WIndows Live Writer so I downloaded it tonight and we will see how it goes… The cool thing is that it integrates right into your blog software, I am running WordPress as I have mentioned in the past and it seems to work fine with that… But then, that is [...]

Ok… so let me claim being too busy to properly write the previous blog entry about transfering the PDC master role… I totally forgot that I made it a trifle easier to use AdMod than what I documented… This is my utility flexibility coming back to bite me… But then, maybe I bit me, no one [...]

There is an interesting conversation that spun up over on activedir.org when someone needed to troubleshoot an LDAPS issue when querying an AD DC through a firewall.
The issue ended up being due to not having the certificate chain (i.e. didn’t trust the root) installed on the client machine but it flushed out a change that will [...]

If you happen to notice the formatting/colors/fonts/etc of the blog bouncing around like a grasshopper with its foot on fire, it is just me trying out various themes.
I love the Ocadia theme I have but I really want something with the main text on the far right and wider so code isn’t so [...]

FYI. I updated the Wordpress software this evening, if you see something broken, please let me know.
    joe
 

…use VMWare Server 1.0!!!!
Our friend Jorge contacted me about something he ran into in Longhorn (LH) which reminded me that I had a LH server mid-build on a Virtual Server 2005 R2 (VSR2) instance. I had started it but it was taking so damn long I went on to other things and eventually work stuff [...]

This should spawn some interesting if not good debate…
The new season of “Survivor” will be a race among races.
At the start of the reality show’s 13th edition, “Survivor: Cook Islands,” 20 contestants will be organized into four tribes divided along ethnic lines - black, white, Hispanic and Asian, CBS announced Wednesday.
http://www.forbes.com/home/feeds/ap/2006/08/23/ap2968565.html
 

HP and Sun smacking at each other over a little bit of artwork…
 
This time, the two computer companies are not fighting for market share, but about a wooden sculpture of Bill Hewlett and Dave Packard, the HP founders. As wrote ‘The Register’ in Sun buys Hewlett and Packard, HP refused to put a Hewlett and [...]

I read this and thought it was pretty cool of Microsoft
The head of Microsoft’s open source lab is inviting Mozilla developers up to Redmond for some help in making sure Firefox and Thunderbird run on Windows Vista. The offer is part of a weekly lab Microsoft is holding for developers in order to reduce application [...]

I have heard about this a couple of times now… Here is the only docs I have really found on it
http://support.microsoft.com/newsgroups/default.aspx?dg=microsoft.public.exchange.misc&tid=7c258550-1d14-4677-8f2e-fbbba1630ee6&p=1
Which contains
After some work, we were able to determine why Outlook 2003 crashes after
moving mailboxes off of Exchange 2000 onto Exchange 2003.
The fix is to add a registry value “Guid-Replid Caching” under
HKLM\System\CurrentControlSet\Services\MSExchangeIS\\\
Under each mailbox store [...]

I just wanted to touch base and let everyone know that admod v01.07.00 is still coming along. I have finally finished getting some additional debug logging into the tool in the event someone finds something that doesn’t appear to be working right and need to get me involved. This is necessary for some of the [...]

Occasionally you want to sniff some network traffic but the traffic is all local and you find that the network sniffer doesn’t show anything. This is because the traffic doesn’t make it out to the capture drivers, it is redirected internally before it gets that far.
I am working on testing AdMod right now with ADAM on [...]

If you ever enjoyed Stargate SG1 you want to see the 200th episode. It is quite hilarious and they spend the whole show poking fun at themselves and the scifi genre in general. Even a poke at Farscape which is quite hilarious due to the presence of Ben Browder and Claudia Black[1] on SG1 which [...]

Those damn terrorists….
No more gel filled bras on airline flights unless needed for medical reasons… 
See http://improbable.com/2006/08/17/travel-alert-bring-a-gel-filled-bra/
which points at the TSA not allowed list at
http://www.tsa.gov/travelers/airtravel/prohibited/new-items.shtm
 
I found that a bit humorous but it does follow with where we are going at the moment… However it makes me think of another issue… Women with implants or for that matter, [...]

There was a bit of a debate on Active Dir Org recently which is a rehash of a debate that comes up on a fairly regular basis concerning whether or not you should transfer FSMO roles when doing domain controller maintenance.
I come down quite unforgivingly on the side of yes, transfer the roles. Part of the reasoning is [...]

Zuma…
Online version available here…
http://www.shockwave.com/gamelanding/zuma.jsp#None

http://www.mozilla.org/directory/standards.html

I was chatting with a friend in IM about this very topic and wondered when exactly the airlines would start fighting back on this. The industry is already on tight profit margins and when 30%+ of the flights are being cancelled in the UK it can’t be helping them very much with those margins.
 
UK Airline [...]

This one is an odd story… Buddhist killed by Anthrax. First human death from Anthrax in 32 years… Not terrorist related… Just making musical instruments…
http://www.guardian.co.uk/medicine/story/0,,1851793,00.html
 

Google is giving away wifi and high speed internet in Mountainview…
http://www.mybroadband.co.za/nephp/?m=show&id=3902
I am not sure I understand the strategy behind that but hey I’m all for it… Come to Michigan!
I wonder how long before the lawsuits start spinning up of unfair competitive practices…
I see the next raid of the Microsoft Employees targeting the legal [...]

This 12 year old runaway from a children’s home got on an international flight with no passport and no ticket. I also assume he didn’t have a driver’s license or other form of ID… Possibly he was carrying a nuclear warhead but that is unconfirmed…
Recall back my comment on trying to fully secure planes was [...]

Not sure why they did this without making it so it works from legacy clients, seriously hampers the use of it for some time. Reminds me of the crap with doing admin work from XP, you couln’t with the normal tools until Server 2003 came along. It would be nice if those two sides of [...]

Raymond has an interesting blog entry on getting on bikes…
http://blogs.msdn.com/oldnewthing/archive/2006/08/14/699522.aspx
The comments, as usual with Raymond’s blog, are quite interesting as well.
It made me recall my biking youth and it is interesting to note (at least to me) that my next oldest brother and I at the least used the Chinese-Michigan method often but we also used [...]

This was sort of an aside to a question I discussed with a fellow MVP today…

Get hex format of domain SID
Send to new DC with operational attribute becomePDC

Simple huh?
Ok here is a little more detail.
 
Get hex format of domain SID
adfind -b dc=domain,dc=com -s base objectsid -sidbinout
Of if you want to work with the default domain
adfind [...]

I saw on a listserv today that SBS Mom  who ran into an issue where an IE Helper App from Company X and the publisher column is listed as “(not verified) TODO: < Company Name > “.
So I was thinking, who do you take that up with? You want the company to fix their stuff [...]

Dork:
https://mvp.support.microsoft.com/profile=91CA576C-0219-42FF-8D70-358E4CA460AF
Super Dork:
https://mvp.support.microsoft.com/profile=71A1AB76-A4A0-4518-BBB5-4814869A8A37
Princess Dork:
https://mvp.support.microsoft.com/profile=F8C04F4A-BFF2-453E-9AED-7DFEDAB0BE10
Active Dir Org Kiwi Dork:
https://mvp.support.microsoft.com/profile=9E65199B-9E4A-4374-A758-A595EC437EA2
The Dork next door:
https://mvp.support.microsoft.com/profile=CD41B8DC-639E-4F1E-BAC9-CCB5873501CB
Cookbook Dork:
https://mvp.support.microsoft.com/profile=28398877-75A9-4BAE-8393-2D6E894A8CAB 
GPO Dork:
https://mvp.support.microsoft.com/profile=DB003CFE-A19A-4DB1-8CBA-0C6DB3ECDFC1
DR Dork:
https://mvp.support.microsoft.com/profile=E8E8003E-E12D-4B9F-ADF8-E3302BB0A951
Dork.NET.html.url():
https://mvp.support.microsoft.com/profile=CD02A5E5-0645-4750-A6E5-854349861C40
Afraid to post a picture Dork:
https://mvp.support.microsoft.com/profile=9328704F-1DD9-46DE-8B10-229C50B884DC
Small Business Dork:
https://mvp.support.microsoft.com/profile=CE014B24-6892-47AC-B2B5-902D4241ECBF
FTP Dork:
https://mvp.support.microsoft.com/profile=90B5EE92-9F9B-4B79-8288-60A3E648C8D9 
AD Maid Dork:
https://mvp.support.microsoft.com/profile=E7F1CD17-07EF-41BC-8368-F4A1D09A0C22
[Edit: 8/14/2006 9:36PM EST]
Exchange GUI Dork:
https://mvp.support.microsoft.com/profile=75A59B58-A479-43FE-998F-6FA311016412
 

Anyone recall that claim besides me.
Oh no, not only will NTFS not fragment, it cannot fragment… Yeah, that was being said not too long ago really…
I started thinking about that again when I ran an interesting little PC Pitstop program someone asked me about and it told me I was really fragmented… This on a [...]

I was reading through some of the blogs I monitor and Larry Osterman’s blog referred to a blog entry from Dare Obasanjo (and another) talking about why Developers SHOULD NOT be doing your ops.
I agree, dev should not be doing ops. As Larry says the skill sets are slightly different. More importantly, the goals and [...]

So how do I display what info is in the negative cache? From the command line…
Also, the DNSCMD tool allows you to show the positive cache, but I don’t see how to have it show the entire positive cache versus just the cache for specific domains that you specify.
I looked at what it would take [...]