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Archive for October, 2006

AdFind and AdMod updated…

by @ Tuesday, October 31st, 2006. Filed under updates

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 [...]

Happy Halloween

by @ Tuesday, October 31st, 2006. Filed under general

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 [...]

More Oracle Red Hat Linux stuff…

by @ Tuesday, October 31st, 2006. Filed under tech

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 [...]

FBI: Detroit - #2 most dangerous City… Flint - #3

by @ Monday, October 30th, 2006. Filed under general

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 [...]

Devil’s Night

by @ Monday, October 30th, 2006. Filed under general

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

I’m out there Jerry, and I’m lovin’ every minute of it!!!

by @ Monday, October 30th, 2006. Filed under tech

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 [...]

Relatively quiet lately…

by @ Saturday, October 28th, 2006. Filed under general

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 [...]

Chevron posts $5 billion in profits for a single quarter????

by @ Saturday, October 28th, 2006. Filed under general

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 [...]

Oracle to out-support Red Hat support for Red Hat

by @ Saturday, October 28th, 2006. Filed under general

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 [...]

Energizer Bunny has nothing on NASA…

by @ Saturday, October 28th, 2006. Filed under general

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, [...]

Sharepoint WTF?

by @ Friday, October 27th, 2006. Filed under tech

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 [...]

Vista RC2 - Not too shabby

by @ Friday, October 27th, 2006. Filed under general

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 [...]

Cloak of invisibility - AC +4 Dexterity -2

by @ Sunday, October 22nd, 2006. Filed under general

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 [...]

LINUX - You’ll only play with yourself… or… Runs best in your Mom’s basement…

by @ Saturday, October 21st, 2006. Filed under humour

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

Oh shit, look what I’ve done…

by @ Thursday, October 19th, 2006. Filed under general

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. [...]

Great….

by @ Wednesday, October 18th, 2006. Filed under general

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 available for download from Microsoft

by @ Wednesday, October 18th, 2006. Filed under tech

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.

Yahoo booboo… IE7 now available to download from Yahoo…

by @ Wednesday, October 18th, 2006. Filed under tech

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.

All your base are belong to us

by @ Wednesday, October 18th, 2006. Filed under tech

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. [...]

Getting an error in AdMod?

by @ Tuesday, October 17th, 2006. Filed under general

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 [...]

Zimbra anyone?

by @ Tuesday, October 17th, 2006. Filed under tech

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

Microsoft "Exchange" Hosted Solutions using… Postfix?

by @ Tuesday, October 17th, 2006. Filed under tech

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 [...]

I know someone like this…

by @ Tuesday, October 17th, 2006. Filed under humour

Camels…

by @ Tuesday, October 17th, 2006. Filed under quotes

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

Obstacles…

by @ Tuesday, October 17th, 2006. Filed under quotes

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

Smile

by @ Tuesday, October 17th, 2006. Filed under quotes

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

LSD vs BSD

by @ Tuesday, October 17th, 2006. Filed under quotes

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

Instructions For Life

by @ Tuesday, October 17th, 2006. Filed under general

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 [...]

If God Were a Programmer…

by @ Tuesday, October 17th, 2006. Filed under humour

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

Some of you programmers expressed irritation about being described as eccentric in last week’s top ten list. To placate you, we present an [...]

You know its going to be a bad day when…

by @ Tuesday, October 17th, 2006. Filed under general

Threshold

by @ Tuesday, October 17th, 2006. Filed under general

CBS had a pretty cool show on called Threshold, for some reason they canceled it. Well Sci-Fi apparently bought the rights for it, this evening I was scanning through my Media Center trying to figure out what to watch… 1 of the 42 hours of Seinfeld… 1 of the 20 episodes of Scrubs…. 1 of [...]

Good job Kevin Poulsen.

by @ Monday, October 16th, 2006. Filed under general

Yaphank, NY — The computer crimes unit of New York’s Suffolk County Police Department sits in a gloomy government office canopied by water-stained ceiling tiles and stuffed with battered Dell desktops. A mix of file folders, notes, mug shots and printouts form a loose topsoil on the desks, which jostle shoulder-to-shoulder for space on the [...]

Wishes…

by @ Saturday, October 14th, 2006. Filed under quotes

You are never given a wish without also being given the power to make it true.
You may have to work for it, however.
    - Richard Bach “Illusions”

Existence…

by @ Saturday, October 14th, 2006. Filed under quotes

I do not exist to impress the world. I exist to live my life in a way that will make me happy.
Everybody else is free to do whatever they feel like doing, for a living.
Responsible is “Able to Respond”, able to answer for the way we choose to live. There’s only one person we [...]

Drawn…

by @ Saturday, October 14th, 2006. Filed under quotes

Every person, all of the events of your life are there because you have drawn them there.
What you choose to do with them is up to you.
   - Richard Bach “Illusions”

Selfishness…

by @ Saturday, October 14th, 2006. Filed under quotes

Your conscience is the measure of the honesty of your selfishness.
Listen to it carefully.
  - Richard Bach “Illusions”

Mission…

by @ Saturday, October 14th, 2006. Filed under quotes

Here is a test to find whether your mission on earth is finished:
If you’re alive, it isn’t.
   - Richard Bach “Illusions”

Goodbyes…

by @ Saturday, October 14th, 2006. Filed under quotes

Don’t be dismayed at good-byes. A farewell is necessary before you can meet again.
And meeting again, after moment or lifetimes, is certain for those who are friends.
   - Richard Bach “Illusions”

Belief…

by @ Saturday, October 14th, 2006. Filed under quotes

The mark of your ignorance is the depth of your belief in injustice and tragedy.
What the caterpillar calls the end of the world, the master calls a butterfly.
   - Richard Bach “Illusions”

Quality…

by @ Saturday, October 14th, 2006. Filed under quotes

You don’t tell the quality of a master by the size of his crowds.
   - Richard Bach “Illusions”

This sucks…

by @ Friday, October 13th, 2006. Filed under tech

Microsoft Corp. did an about-face yesterday, agreeing to make it easier for customers of its forthcoming Vista operating system to use outside security vendors, such as those who make popular antivirus and anti-spyware programs.
[snip]
The company said that blocking the core of area of the operating system was also meant to enhance the performance of the [...]

Happy Friday the 13th….

by @ Friday, October 13th, 2006. Filed under general

Brutal article - well for Carly it is.

by @ Thursday, October 12th, 2006. Filed under general

I was a bit surprised at how strongly this news column was worded being that it was from a mainstream network (ABC). I wasn’t all that surprised to see that the columnist was a former HP employee though surprised he left well before Carly was anywhere near HP.
The Former CEO Has Taken Questions About Her [...]

LDAP Client API Memory Leak

by @ Friday, October 6th, 2006. Filed under tech

A user in one of the newsgroups I frequent ran into an issue with some LDAPS code that was leaking memory on him. You can view the entire thread by clicking here.
The summary is that the user was writing some LDAP API code and submitting one of the LDAP Options, specifically LDAP_OPT_CLIENT_CERTIFICATE session option which [...]

whenChanged and modifyTimeStamp

by @ Tuesday, October 3rd, 2006. Filed under tech

There was a posting in the public newsgroups the other day concerning using whenChanged and/or modifyTimeStamp for tracking changes for an object so I thought I would say a few words about it…
Before I say anything though, lets look at the schema definitions:
 

F:\>adfind -sc s:whenchanged
AdFind V01.32.00cpp Joe Richards (joe@joeware.net) October [...]

More on the ridiculous claims of the "security" companies.

by @ Tuesday, October 3rd, 2006. Filed under tech

http://www.rockyh.net/Posts/Post.aspx?postId=6d119600-53a9-4bf4-b491-2b04127f4022

McAfee and Symantec don’t want you safe, they want your money…

by @ Tuesday, October 3rd, 2006. Filed under tech

I saw this article today
http://www.businessweek.com/technology/content/oct2006/tc20061003_871186.htm?chan=top+news_top+news+index_businessweek+exclusives
which is about how McAfee and Symantec are pissed that Microsoft is locking down the OS from people hacking it.
Me personally, I don’t mind of they go out of business, I don’t use either of their products; neither one has done anything I would even start to consider amazing in [...]

Ethereal -> WireShark

by @ Monday, October 2nd, 2006. Filed under tech

I talk about Ethereal a lot because I believe it is an extremely useful tool. If you don’t know, it is a network “sniffer” utility. I.E. It captures network packets for display or analysis. I love the tool, I used to use Microsoft’s NetMon but several years ago found Ethereal and slowly stopped using NetMon.
Well [...]

Darren is off to the races…

by @ Monday, October 2nd, 2006. Filed under tech

Well DesktopStandard has been acquired by Microsoft which means Darren Mar-Elia is off and running with his own startup full time now.
http://blogs.dirteam.com/blogs/gpoguy/archive/2006/10/02/DesktopStandard-acquired-by-Microsoft.aspx
I have known Darren quite a while now. I first met him in an official meeting where he, in his capacity as the CTO of Quest, was trying to sell a customer (who I [...]

Long Stick…

by @ Monday, October 2nd, 2006. Filed under quotes

In waking a tiger, use a long stick.
 - Mao Tse-Tung

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