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Some Government Stooge: Alright people, I’m in charge now and we will find these terrorists.
Some Government Stooge: Jarvis, I want you to check for any terrorist chatter on AOL…
Some Government Stooge: Marley and Greggs try searching for Nuclear Devices on AskJeeves.com
Kyle: Ask Jeeves????!
Kyle: No one uses Ask Jeeves, just Google search it.
Some Government Stooge: [...]

Why??? I don’t know. I think that every single time I see  a vote off episode and Sanjaya doesn’t leave.

We can appreciate your problem but hopefully you can appreciate that it is YOUR problem and that we have our own problems we need to appreciate more as that is what we were given resources to do. 
     - Me

I am playing with a new utility I was challenged to write at the latest MVP Summit. It is a command line utility to manage msDS-PasswordSettings objects and I ran into a weird issue where one of my GC queries wasn’t finding what I thought it should be finding. So as a point of first [...]

…is generally a very bad idea. Why, because in Windows 2000 and Windows Server 2003 AD, objectClass is not, by default, indexed.
What does that mean you ask? It means that your query is going to be way slow because it has to look at every single object in the search scope of the query [...]

So you are in a spaceship…. In interstellar space…
Obviously you have no nearby points of reference…. Say maybe stars light-years away….
Is your spaceship moving? Yes? No?
How do you authoritatively know without nearby external points of reference that allow you to track your motion?

I believe with positive thinking we can change things within ourselves and possibly some things within people around us, but changing the weather is clearly out.
Certainly you can change your opinion about the weather, a rain storm doesn’t necessarily have to be something that makes you sad or ruin your day. In fact, there [...]

One of the more secret but possibly hottest new features of Longhorn Server is now “out of the closet”. It is something that has been in the last couple of customer preview versions of Longhorn available up on MSDN and blog entries from Microsoft and other parties are starting to pop up. Rumors have abounded for months [...]

I have released the new joeware website to production. My hope is that it is easier to browse and locate what you need plus I expect folks will consider it to be much more up to date in its look.
If you have any comments or questions or issues with the site, please email me and let me [...]

Who would have thought. <eg>
 
http://news.com.com/HP+shareholders+want+exec+pay+more+tied+to+performance/2100-1014_3-6167406.html

Well I have about zero spare time with well over 1000 emails just in my personal inbox (this doesn’t count any of the lists I am on which is thousands of more emails) and about 100 DVDs to watch but I have been forcing myself to spend at least 30 minutes every night before bed just working [...]

This is a heck of a deal
http://members.powweb.com/powweb/hosting.bml
 
300GB of space and 3000GB of bandwidth per month.
$5.77 per month for the first year and $7.77 after…
 
This is the hosting company I use. If you do sign up for it, I would appreciate it if you referenced this blog or my website www.joeware.net when doing so, maybe [...]

Just an update on the whole Trend Micro detecting CPAU as a TROJ_GENERIC.ZA virus so I can direct people to this page instead of answering all of the emails individually…
I, as well as several companies who use CPAU, contacted Trend Micro. They responded to me within a few hours and said they would look into it. I have now [...]

Now I know that title caught your attention… Why? Because most of the folks reading this blog do something with Active Directory and this is a pain point in AD. An unnecessary pain point in my opinion, but a pain point none-the-less.
I bring it up because Tim Springston from PSS (or CSS, whatever you [...]

For anyone who knows me that will be in Seattle next week, I will also be there. I am going out there for the Microsoft MVP summit which will be in session. The summit is a great time to meet up with MVPs and Microsoft folks I normally only exchange emails with and get to [...]

You may recall that McAfee started listing CPAU as an virus last year, now Trend Micro has jumped on board as well. I just received an email today that V01.11.00 was identified as TROJ_GENERIC.ZA starting with pattern 4.309.00 which the user received today.
I have emailed Trend to see if they intend this or it [...]