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I sense an impending growth in the interest in pole vaulting in this country…
http://barstoolsports.com/randomthoughts/2007/05/29/#stokke_show_back
http://www.withleather.com/post.phtml?pk=2811
http://www.withleather.com/post.phtml?pk=2994
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/05/28/AR2007052801370.html?hpid=topnews
Very smart, sports talent and incredible looks… We are looking at the next millionaire to come out of Newport Harbor High School I expect if she can learn to live with the attention she is no doubt (and in her mind right now [...]

AdFind has been updated and uploaded to the website.
There is one change in there that may piss some people off, I changed the TZ text string on time decode with -utc switch from Coordinated Universal Time to UTC. I realize this may piss some people off, but I personally wanted it. I dump a lot [...]

http://h71028.www7.hp.com/enterprise/cache/523434-0-0-0-121.html

I always chuckle when I or someone else mentions a feature of AdFind (or really any of the utilities from my website) and then someone else who uses it regularly says “Wow, I didn’t know it did that…”. This has happened a couple of different times in a couple of different forums.
Well in the [...]

I had no idea that Jerold retired, I just stumbled upon the fact when going to get a link for his web page for another blog entry. I saw this announcement: http://www.jsiinc.com/aboutJSI.htm  I am just shocked by this… I’m being selfish but the site has been such a mainstay in my life the last 10 or so [...]

It seems the last couple of weeks have been heavy security weeks for me. Dealing with all sorts of security issues that quite frankly, never should have been issues to begin with but I think the knowledge level of Windows Security and how Windows works[1] is so poor in general that stupid things that never [...]

It is good to see Paris back in jail. Some people are up in arms that she was released at all, some people don’t feel it is right she got sent back. Me personally, she never should have been released and she should be there for her full sentence. While the writer of this article
http://www.time.com/time/arts/article/0,8599,1631258,00.html
seems [...]

How come I can’t configure Windows such that all AT scheduled tasks run as a specific userid or security principal? Why is it automatically going to run as the most powerful security principal on the machine? At least under NT4 we could set the scheduler service up to run as some other ID and it [...]

If you want to protect data in an Excel spreadsheet from prying eyes, set the color of the font to the color of the background. In this way you can be sure no one but you will know the data is there and be able to see it. This is especially good for super important [...]

So I am going to be out of home again for a week. Flying out to the Tacoma Washington area for work. No, not Seattle as I was initially sold on but Tacoma. ;) I don’t have a problem with Tacoma other than I am near to Seattle but not so near that it is quite [...]

Then consider trying this following command (all one line) and testing how everything works. If you find something bad that happens in Windows, let me know so I can feed that info back to the people who need to know.
adfind -schema -f objectcategory=attributeschema searchflags -adcsv | admod -unsafe searchflags::{{.:SET:512}} -cont

I have done this in a [...]

Then check out this KB article, seems like this is hitting quite a few folks who are deploying SP2. Could be older network drivers, could be firewall type software, could be other advanced network software.
 
You cannot host TCP connections when Receive Side Scaling is enabled in Windows Server 2003 with Service Pack 2
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/927695

 
There is [...]

I have been fielding a lot of questions on what books people should be reading for PKI and Cert Authority stuff for Microsoft infrastructures lately for some reason… So I added a new book recommendation to http://www.joeware.net/books/index.htm
Specifically I added Microsoft Windows Server 2003 PKI and Certificate Authority by Brian Komar.
 
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Not a whole lot…
I am on my second Jeep Wrangler, initially I bought a 2003 X. I slapped bigger wheels/tires on it and while I considered it a bit weak (poor gearing mostly) I drove it pretty heavily though admittedly no extremely heavy off road stuff. Along about 10k miles I ran into an issue [...]

There was discussion over on one of the forums I hang out at, ActiveDir.Org, about someone at TechEd mentioning that the slow link detection “ping” was sending a JPG image file to determine network speeds. There was much debate about whether this was crazy, whether the speaker was smoking the funny stuff, whether it was [...]

I need to be able to ascertain what clients are hitting a particular domain controller and asking for MSMQ resources. Preferably this can be done easily and without having to go all the way down to the level of a network trace.
I would also like to know the client versions that are hitting the [...]

You probably heard this by now but the NASA chief made some comments about Global Warming that have people up in arms.
http://www.npr.org/blogs/news/2007/05/nasa_chief_questions_need_to_a_1.html
While I think we have some issues with our climate, I think the NASA chief makes some good points but more importantly, I don’t think this is NASA’s fight. NASA didn’t cause any [...]

Great little interview with Steve Jobs and Bill Gates.
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB118066046287520886.html?mod=googlenews_wsj

Oh my gosh, you have seen the number of blog posts since installing this new version… So I have been using it like crazy, but my gods is it slow. I am SO sick of it pegging my CPU for 20,30,40 seconds at a time and not allowing me to do anything in it or anything [...]

I learned something new this week that caught me by surprise, I guess it shouldn’t have but I don’t recall seeing the documentation before so was shocked when someone asked me about it.
So I get this email from a reader of AD3E, not unlike many emails I get every day only it isn’t something that [...]

I recently watched the show in the subject on the History channel. I found it to be quite interesting but I also found myself asking all through it as the “analysts” told you what George was doing the whole time…
Did George Lucas really think of the myths of the Greeks, Romans, and the Babylonians as [...]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extensible_Storage_Engine
Amazing how powerful a database there is that is built right into Windows. Obviously it scales and is dependable because Microsoft’s most important and more deployed products rely entirely upon it - Exchange and Active Directory. Wonder why more of the stuff out of MSFT that needs a backend store doesn’t use it. Say like MIIS, MOM, [...]

Microsoft Surface - http://www.microsoft.com/surface/
Tabletop computers. MSFT is saying they came up with this, but I swear I recall seeing a show a couple of years ago on this and the work was being done on it at a university. Match concept up with OLED and we have something cool. Wall displays, desk displays, etc that can [...]

Microsoft gives Vista’s Windows Mail the heave-ho
Beta of Windows Live Mail replaces Vista’s, XP’s built-in e-mail
http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=viewArticleBasic&taxonomyName=networking_and_internet&articleId=9022558&taxonomyId=16