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    In certain company
        She’ll tell you she’s an orphan
               After you meet her family…
That is what I will remember as the last moments of the Directory Experts Conference 2007. Officially the conference ended the day before but that was the song playing on the radio as I zipped up my suitcase and rolled out [...]

http://www.feministe.us/blog/archives/2007/04/27/the-terrorism-that-dare-not-speak-its-name/

Are you a Windows admin? If yes, this book is for you. If it is too deep for you, you need to step up to a point where it isn’t - security is just that important.
I paged through the book on the flight back from the Directory Experts Conference. At first I thought I would be [...]

Most people won’t come right out and tell folks something like that. Me, I can do it. I will say it again, I have Trouble in the LoveSac and can honestly say I never thought I would see that happen.

Meet Trouble, she is lying in my giant bean bag (actually foam bag) from [...]

What is it with public restrooms and how they draw in disgusting disrespectful people?
This seems to be an issue of staggering proportions. Anymore, you are surprised if you walk into a lavatory and it actually is really clean. In some cases, certainly we can blame the facilities management who maintain the lavatory, but mostly I think [...]

Right now my life seems to be filled with opposites. Not sure how to best describe it. But as an example of something I can state here, I am extremely mentally energized and free association ideas are flowing throw my noodle like cartridges through an MP7 but I am just dead tired to the point [...]

This is getting shouted from the rooftops but Longhorn Beta 3 is now available to be downloaded from Connect. I highly recommend anyone who uses Windows Servers to download and run this so they can
a. Learn about the new stuff which is a lot
b. Find bugs and report them so you don’t have to [...]

I didn’t even know I had a support team…
 
From: service@joeware.net [mailto:service@joeware.net] Sent: Thursday, April 26, 2007 4:22 PMTo: joe@joeware.netSubject: MEMBERS SUPPORT
Dear Joeware Member, We have temporarily suspended your email account joe@joeware.net.This might be due to either of the following reasons:
1. A recent change in your personal information (i.e. change of address). 2. Submiting [...]

I am out of the home starting tomorrow (Saturday April 21) for most of this coming week. Any emails you send me may or may not be responded to until after I return some time after that - maybe a long time after that if it is an exceptionally annoying email. :) 
If you have something extremely [...]

GPOs are not AD, AD is not GPOs.
GPOs are an application that utilize AD, say like Exchange. AD really doesn’t need GPOs but GPOs absolutely can’t without AD because that is where all of the information is. It is sort of like the relationship between AD and ESE… ESE doesn’t need AD but AD sure [...]

I get a lot of questions regarding the availability of source code for my joeware utilities. I am not sure why, I thought I have been pretty clear on the web pages for the tools:
Source Code Availability
          None

I think that is clear. I tried to keep it simple and concise. Despite this clarity I get [...]

A while ago I mentioned buying the parts and putting together SFVM - http://blog.joeware.net/2007/02/17/808/
I have received lots of emails and quite a few comments posted on an update… So here it goes.
First I apologize for the delay, I have been immensely swamped, I keep saying that but that is only because it is keeps being [...]

No more Sanjaya… It was way overdue but thankfully it is over now.
Might as well just get down to the final two… Blake and Jordin head to head.
Jordin is by far the better singer but Blake is hella entertaining.

Now this is a seriously cool seafood place…
http://www.snopes.com/photos/architecture/undersea.asp

I finished V01.00.00 of PSOMgr yesterday. PSOMgr is a command line utility I built to help manage Fine Grain Password Policy Password Settings Objects that are present in Longhorn Server Active Directory. I also set it up to manage Domain Password Policy Settings as well.
If you didn’t read my previous info on FGPP then [...]

Sony Corp. said on Thursday it planned to start selling ultra-thin TVs using organic light-emitting diode (OLED) technology this year, aiming to become the first to market with a TV using the promising next-generation display.

http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,1895,2113456,00.asp
 
If you aren’t familiar with OLED, it is the technology that currently exists that allow you to basically print a [...]

The world famous Directory Experts Conference will be going on in Las Vegas (well just outside of Las Vegas) in one week. The festivities officially start on Sunday morning with a Longhorn Workshop where the newest joeware utility will make its public debut - PSOMgr - the one and only tool currently available for easily managing [...]

Tiny bits of protein extracted from a 68-million-year-old dinosaur bone have given scientists the first genetic proof that the mighty Tyrannosaurus rex is a distant cousin to the modern chicken.

 
http://uk.reuters.com/article/scienceNews/idUKN1231500620070412

This is a pretty cool story actually…
http://www.techshout.com/ipod/2007/07/ipod-takes-a-bullet-for-american-soldier-in-iraq-saving-his-life/

Charles Simonyi is going to the International Space Station tomorrow with the Russians… I say good luck and have fun Charles, you deserve it. If you don’t know Simonyi he has had tremendous impact on the world of computers and Microsoft. If you have ever seen a variable such as szName or dwErr or uERR [...]

Interesting article
Call center employees would be required to disclose their physical location when U.S. consumers call them if freshman Congressman Jason Altmire of Pennsylvania has his way.

http://www.informationweek.com/story/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=198800507&cid=RSSfeed_IWK_News
Can’t say I expect that it should surprise many people…. I mean if someone says “Hi my name is John Smith” and they speak with a heavy Indian accent, [...]

Look I’m just saying that some where between Jesus dying on the cross and a giant bunny hiding eggs there seems to be a gap of information.
-Stanley (SouthPark)

I just received an email from MikeK, frequent joeware blog commenter that indicated that it looks like my book - Active Directory Third Edition is up on Mark Russinovich’s bookshelf. You see it in this video
http://channel9.msdn.com/ShowPost.aspx?PostID=294410
It certainly looks like the Active Directory book, but I can’t tell which edition it is, it may be the [...]

Not sure whether to put this under humour or tech. I chose tech because I am likely the only one laughing. I have been working on a new command line tool to manage PSO’s. Tonight I was testing some of the basic components to make sure I could move forward to some of the cooler [...]

Google has announced a new beta wireless broadband service which supports much of urban North America. It leverages an, until now, underutilized infrastructure that connects most homes in urban areas. Previously most network providers have been trying to leverage power lines and video based cable lines. Unfortunately the volume of the available media pipes are [...]