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I have uploaded the latest versions of AdFind and AdMod this evening.
AdFind is now at V01.33.00

Changed some docs
Fixed a bug reported to me on the search produced by -sc u
Slight mod to how -decsddlacl works
Added some extra timers for -selapsed
Added more -exterr capability to a couple of error areas that didn’t have it
Added a built [...]

One of the best holidays of the year…
Make sure you break out the Nightmare Before Christmas DVD and watch it and break out the soundtrack for listening to while driving around or at work…
 
 
If you haven’t seen it… Wow. Why not? Even today the graphics and artwork in Nightmare are wonderful. The music [...]

Wow… I was reading the Oracle PDFs about this new support and saw this
Transition is very easy. Existing Red Hat and Novell Linux customers that move to the Unbreakable Linux support program may receive credit for the remainder of their existing support contract. For example, if a Red Hat customer has a support contract expiring [...]

Welcome to Michigan!!!
Interestingly Troy is listed as the 5th safest and Sterling Heights is listed as the 16th safest and they are between Detroit and Flint. I am nearer to Troy and Sterling Heights than Detroit or Flint – miles versus tens of miles.
I figure that it is so dangerous in those two cities [...]

Happy Devil’s Night all you little devils out there…

The rumours are tearing across the internet… Vista is in the box. MSFT is alleged to have artifically bumped the build number to 6000…. As one unidentified friend quipped “kinda silly to bump the build # like that I think”, I have to say I agree… But it is kind of fun, wish they could slip another [...]

Yes I have been a little quiet lately. A lot going on at work. Dealing with several major large companies, household names here in the US. The differences between the companies is amazing with how they have approached Active Directory and the systems infrastructure as a whole. I find the differences pretty interesting.
I have some [...]

Hello… There are laws in Michigan that prevent individual service stations from taking advantage of situations and raising gas prices at the pump unnecessarily… Someone needs to be looking at the actual Oil companies…
http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-chevron28oct28,1,4634694.story?coll=la-headlines-business
I was watching a show on Discover Channel a week or so ago and it was talking about some northern European [...]

I actually found this article pretty interesting. I never considered this angle and I am expecting some Red Hat execs hadn’t either….
Oracle is going to provide “better” and cheaper support of Red Hat Linux than Red Hat itself is going to…
 
http://www.informationweek.com/software/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=193402336&subSection=Operating+Systems
I find it humorous how Oracle was like… hell no, we don’t want [...]

Spirit and Opportunity are STILL going. Spirit has hit 1000 sols (24 hours, 37 minutes – a Martian “day”) and Opportunity is approaching 1000 sols. That is 10 times longer than they were expected to run. That is amazingly great. Go NASA. Something to take note of though is that between the two of them, [...]

I was pinged on a question today about Sharepoint, an app I have never had to deal with. Well the question was how to easily resync Sharepoint after a user object changes… for instance, email, displayname, domain, or userid… I was like what? Why would it need to do that if it is all in [...]

I was playing with Vista RC2 on a new desktop machine the last couple of days, I have to say, not too shabby. The number of UAC messages really decreased to something far less annoying and even when they did pop it seemed somehow less annoying. Much more “perfomant” than the last rev I loaded [...]

Well they are getting there…
IT BEGAN as just a wizard idea from a British scientist. Yesterday it became a reality.
And reality began to disappear.
Following in the footsteps of Harry Potter, it was revealed that the world’s first invisibility cloak has been tested in America. So far the device is rather limited [...]

You probably have seen these already but thought that I would share just in case…
http://www.jibjab.com/jokebox/jokebox/jibjab/id/175139/jokeid/52803
http://www.jibjab.com/jokebox/jokebox/jibjab/id/175141/jokeid/52819
http://www.jibjab.com/jokebox/jokebox/jibjab/id/175142/jokeid/52820
http://www.jibjab.com/jokebox/jokebox/jibjab/id/175143/jokeid/52821
http://www.jibjab.com/jokebox/jokebox/jibjab/id/175144/jokeid/52822
http://www.jibjab.com/jokebox/jokebox/jibjab/id/175145/jokeid/52823

Those are the words you utter when you drop your drink or maybe when you spill some chocolate cake on your white shirt…
Steve Wynn uttered those words upon realizing he stuck his elbow through a $139 million painting…
He bought the picture in 1997 from another collector for $48.4 million. Priceless, in fact, is not quite accurate. [...]

The United States considers space capabilities — including the ground and space segments and supporting links — vital to its national interests. Consistent with this policy, the United States will: preserve its rights, capabilities, and freedom of action in space; dissuade or deter others from either impeding those rights or developing capabilities intended to do [...]

IE7 is now available from Microsoft.
 
http://www.microsoft.com/windows/ie/default.mspx
 
In other news, I just heard from a couple of different sources that Vista should be RTM’ed within the next 7-10 days.

You can now download IE7 from Yahoo…
http://downloads.yahoo.com/internetexplorer
 
If you download from that site, you can unpack the non-branded version of IE7 (dated 2006/10/17 11:48PM EST) from the download pack. Use WinZip or WinRAR or whatever tool you use for handling files like that and pull out the IE7-Setup.exe file.

IE7 is coming…
Microsoft is releasing IE7 this month and when it does it will be forcing it down as a high priority update to help get people secured.
IE7 is not your momma’s IE… It has changed significantly, different look, different feel. You may be an IE “expert” now, you likely won’t after the update. [...]

I just wanted to put a short blog post out there about AdMod.
If you are getting an error using AdMod to make a change and you don’t know what is going on, don’t forget about the VERY USEFUL switch, -exterr. That switch is specifically there to help you find issues. So if you get [...]

Has anyone jumped from Exchange to Zimbra? What are your experiences? What do you think?

I was pinged today about some emails sent to Microsoft that were NDR’ed with messages seemingly from a Postfix mailer. The “sender” was a bit confused as they though Postfix was for *nix… While it is possible for Postfix to run on Windows, it would be pretty unusual. The fact that the NDRs were to [...]

It is illegal to hunt camels in the state of Arizona.

“The perpetual obstacle to human advancement is custom.”- John Stuart Mill (1806 – 1873)

“If you smile when no one else is around, you really mean it.”- Andy Rooney

There are two major products that come out of Berkeley: LSD and [Unix] BSD.We don’t believe this to be a coincidence.– Jeremy S. Anderson

1. Give people more than they expect and do it cheerfully.2. Memorize your favorite poem.3. Don’t believe all you hear.4. Don’t spend all you have.5. Don’t sleep all you want.6. When you say, “I love you”, mean it.7. When you say, “I’m sorry”, look the person in the eye.8. Be engaged at least six months [...]

I was digging through some old files (like 1995/1996 old) today and found a couple of old gems I will post… this is one of them…
   joe
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Some of you programmers expressed irritation about being described as eccentric in last week’s top ten list. To placate you, we present an [...]