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There is lots of chatter lately about the whole Daylight Savings Time “blah” where “blah” is whatever it is you want to call it - hubbub, scare, whatever. I don’t know what to call it other than blah but it certainly is causing far more trouble than its worth. I am getting pinged with quite [...]

Judge Smails: Ty, what did you shoot today? Ty Webb: Oh, Judge, I don’t keep score. Judge Smails: Then how do you measure yourself with other golfers? Ty Webb: By height.

So I jump ship in Hong Kong…and I make my way over to Tibet…and I get on as a looper at a course over in the Himalayas. A looper… You know, a caddy, a looper, a jock. So, I tell them I’m a pro jock, and who do you think they give me? The Dalai [...]

Danny: Did you have to take that Cooter Preference Test when you were a senior in high school? Ty: Oh yeah, I took it. They said I should be a fire-watcher. What are you supposed to be? Danny: An underachiever. Ty: HahahahaDanny: I gotta go to college, I gotta.Ty: Ahhhh Danny this isn’t Russia… Is [...]

A previous manager of mine sent this to me…

A friend is a person with whom I may be sincere. Before him, I may think aloud.
   - Ralph Waldo Emerson

To give pleasure to a single heart by a single kind act is better than a thousand head-bowings in prayer.
  - Saadi

Make America what we want it to be - a literate country and a hopefuller country.
   - George W. Bush

We are getting more and more imports from abroad.
  - George W. Bush

Do you watch MythBusters? If not, consider it, great show.
One of the recent shows talked about the Pirate eye patch. Personally I always thought it was because someone lost an eye… But there is another reason… To assist with night vision. The MythBusters showed pretty conclusively in my opinion that the eye patch helps [...]

 I attended the NAIAS again this year, went down today for a couple of hours. It was a good break and nice relaxation prior to driving 4-5 hours tomorrow to a customer site.
There were only 5 vehicles that really caught my eye…
The first was this cool throwback… It was swamped with people so I [...]

Sony may have made yet another bad decision though I doubt Mark Russinovich will be writing it up… It has decided not to assist the porn industry with getting their movies put on Blu-Ray. Anyone who watches the media industry knows that the porn industry drives media. You want to know where media is going in general, [...]

I decided to upgrade the hard drive for the DV8000 as well as add the second drive that it would accept. I ordered a pair of Hitachi Travelstar 7K100 drives… 7200 RPM 100GB drives… As for the drives themselves… Wow wow wow… Very fast. Rate out as a 5.1 for Vista’s experience rating.
Something disappointing [...]

I receive a lot of of emails with questions and I am slowly catching up to those questions (yes I have emails from December I still haven’t processed…). One of the questions was about an attribute most people don’t really seem to know about - canonicalName.
What is canonicalName you ask? It is like a [...]

VH1 played a 100 Most Wanted Bodies show back in December, I finally got a chance to make it through the shows. Interesting choices I guess.
Here is what I would probably put as the Top 20 (ok 21) hottest famous women. Top men… hmmm don’t care.

Halle Berry / Faith Hill
Eliza Dushku (Faith from Buffy the [...]

Not sure why, but every time I open Windows Live Writer it literally takes 30 seconds or so for it to start. What in the world is it doing? Sometimes, when I am busy, I am not sure if I even clicked on it to start it. It needs to at least throw up a [...]

Scott C was nice enough to forward this on to me, it is in regards to previous blog posting
http://blog.joeware.net/2006/10/19/685/
 
Steve Wynn’s Bad DreamVegas mogul sues Lloyd’s over $54 million damaged Picasso claim
http://www.thesmokinggun.com/archive/years/2007/0111072wynn1.html

I have had a wide screen laptop for some time. One major issue I had with it when using RDP to connect to a remote machine was when I would go from full screen mode to windowed mode and then tried to go back to full screen mode it would chop off the sides like [...]

Someone posted info on a bug in the joeware forums about AdMod that I wanted to take care of ASAP so I made the correction as well as a couple of other small changes and have uploaded the new bin.
Changes

Fixed bug in tokenization which could impact many things but primarily argument processing
Allow single user [...]

So I am a little disappointed at the turnout over the responses to the previous “So you think you know AD?” post.
Only M@ was willing to step up and post a public comment and I received about 11 offline responses all saying about the same thing - basically not possible unless some network trickery is [...]

I love the TV Show Scrubs, this afternoon I just caught the latest episode which was about one of the main character’s (Carla) post partum depression. One of the other main characters, Jordan, wife of Dr. Cox, the two funniest parts of the show, IMO, told Carla…
You can’t get rid of this by sheer force of [...]

Well it was looking very unlikely that I was going to make it to the MVP Summit in Seattle/Redmond in March (they occur about every 1.5 years) but I actually got approval today to be away from work for it so I can go. Cheer!
 
I am still working on getting approval to go to DEC [...]

I was working on a new utility for a little while this evening because I have been thinking about it and my mind needed to get some of it down into c++ code… Anyway, I started thinking of different what if situations and came up with a question that I was curious how people would [...]

Friends are like melons; shall I tell you why? To find one good you must one hundred try.
    – Claude Mermet

I am slowly working my way through email and ran into a question that I seem to get rather often and the answer actually bothers me.
The email asked:
“Quick question.
What all attributes do I have to give a user permission to in order to set the password when creating an account? I can create [...]

I am multitasking today… I am doing laundry, doing “mud work” in the kitchen (i.e. drywall patching), validating a play list on MediaPlayer I made to make sure I like every song on it for real, eating Coco-Wheats for lunch, and watching a show called Mega Disasters: Asteroid Apocolypse.
I saw something on the show [...]

This question comes up so often I decided to write a little something something on it so I can point people at it instead of rewriting the answer.
So let’s say the questions comes in like
Question:
How do I query AD for all users (or objects or whatever) that don’t have “Allow inheritable permissions to propagate to [...]

I have released an update to AdFind. The new version is V01.35.00. The following changes are included:

Fixed bug in -onlydacl
Fixed bug in -sddl for ACL flag output
Added shortcut DomainNCs
Changed output of ACL Flag output for -sddl++
Added -onlydaclflag, -onlysaclflag, -onlyaclflags

I think folks will like the -onlydaclflag switch once they realize how useful it can be. [...]

http://www.dfw.com/mld/dfw/business/16378045.htm
Robert Nardelli walked away from The Home Depot Inc. on Wednesday with a parting pay package worth $210 million. Shareholders can only wonder how much more he might have pocketed had Home Depot’s stock price increased while he was chief executive.

AFA has sent out a another poll. Their polls make me laugh with how they are phrased. This one was particularly funny so I thought I would share.
You can see the actual poll here:
http://www.afa.net/petitions/islam/islam.asp
As you can see it is about Islam. You can see the current results at:
http://www.afa.net/petitions/islam/ThankYou.asp?s=407537821
 
Here are the results as if this [...]

Back last May I talked about building my latest desktop PC. It was entry - http://blog.joeware.net/2006/05/15/371/
One of the pieces of hardware was an HP DVD840 which looked to be pretty good and it was a decent price, something like $80 or something like that from Amazon or NewEgg which I felt was a decent deal - [...]