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Scoble asks that question.
My response like for a lot of things is “It depends… what for?”.
For the most part, I can do days or weeks without tech. I hate phones and even though I have a cell phone I rarely carry it with me unless required. I don’t have a separate PDA. About the only [...]

Because we do things like this in Texas…
TEENAGE girls in a US city have been banned from showing cleavage in the classroom because it distracts boys from their studies.
More at http://www.news.com.au/story/0,23599,20067405-13762,00.html
Thank goodness. I don’t know how in the world I, nor any other guy in the USA, ever got an education at all without this ban for [...]

I received a new email from the AFA today about Ford and how Ford supports the Gay Lifestyle. Seems the AFA still thinks that they are the reason for Ford’s losses though we have discussed that here in depth. Now they are also talking about a group of 78 Texas Area Ford Dealerships that sent [...]

I was recently (summer 2006) going through a document produced by MCS (Microsoft Consulting Services) last year (fall 2005) for an Active Directory design and came across a remarkable statement. The statement was that if you take two forests and connect them with a forest trust, the two forests become a single forest.
If you have ever [...]

adfind -sc u:userid homemdb
Take the value displayed for homemdb and parse it as per the following

CN=[DataBase Name],CN=[Storage Group Name],CN=InformationStore,CN=[Server Name],CN=[Admin Group Name],CN=Administrative Groups,CN=[ORG Name],CN=Microsoft Exchange,CN=Services,CN=Configuration,[Root Domain DN]
As you can see, you can quickly ascertain your

Root Domain DN [Root Domain DN]
Exchange Organization Name [ORG Name]
Administration Group Name [Admin Group Name]
Exchange Server Name [Server Name]
Storage Group Name [Storage [...]

One of the more annoying  and unfortunately common emails I tend to get sent to me goes something like…
Dear joe,
Your tool xxx must have a bug because it doesn’t work when I have a space in the name[1]. I guess you must not have tested for this situation. When do you think you can fix [...]

Dante: But you hate people.
Randal: Yes, but I love gatherings. Isn’t it ironic?