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I get a chuckle with how many places will see SYMPTOMS of some sort and the first thing they come up will be to _decide_ the problem is that they need to reboot a DC. If I had to give this form of troubleshooting a name I would give it something like “Wishful thinking”, “I should [...]

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http://blog.joeware.net/2006/07/18/447/

My friend Dean was griping about NETDOM a while back and how it wasn’t working for him on something. I was, as I seem to be most of the time now, swamped under water with a reed to breath through so unfortunately I didn’t have much time to chat with him about the problem and [...]

I am about sick to death of running into LDAP apps that need hardcoded host names. What the hell is wrong with you people? There is a perfectly good RFC out there for locating LDAP Services (as well as other services) that works quite well and you still refuse to use it. FYI, if you [...]

Remember me when you are rich.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/19684842/
“VMWare IPO could raise $1.1 billion”
I don’t quite understand why Intel is buying 9.5 million shares… Anyone understand that?

IMO, still ridiculously high and I can’t see myself spending money on it.
http://blogs.pcworld.com/gameon/archives/004841.html
Even the XBOX 360 is too expensive but when the new Halo comes out, I expect I will be buying it.

I meant to do this last December/January but it just wouldn’t come up on the “I have time to do” list. Well my XP Media Center started acting really weird with stuttering sound the last few days and acting like it was out of resource but it had plenty of CPU, RAM, and disk IOPS [...]

$600 for the phone and $90 for the replacement battery….
Come on… Are people really standing in line for that thing? Can’t wait to see their expression when they drop it in the toilet or on the road and it gets run over… The expressions will be priceless.
I am really enjoying my, what was it $50 [...]

Kind of interesting
http://tech.monstersandcritics.com/news/article_1326936.php/Microsoft_claims_exemption_from_GPLv3
Personally I think MSFT should say, you know what, fine we won’t play here, then go work with the BSD folks like Apple did. Stallman would be standing there with no one else to play with. Long term I see a space for the UNIX-ish Operating Systems but I also think that whomever MSFT [...]

http://blog.joeware.net/2007/07/04/925/
Love it. Love it. Love it. Love it.
The acceleration and handling is great. It looks really good. It sounds really good. Absolute joy to drive.
But there are points that annoy me where engineers just weren’t having a good day.
First and foremost that just completely annoys me… The cupholders are in the worst place imaginable, [...]

I mentioned this tool previously. I was one of the lucky bastards who received a copy of it a long time ago and used it exclusively for managing the Virtual Server I have (mostly because it is great but also because my IIS VS Management Console melted down). Now everyone can have it.
http://blogs.technet.com/matthts/
This [...]

For anyone running Trend AV products I have to say a heartfelt “I’m sorry”. Not for anything I have done, but because Trend is reporting CPAU as a virus again with 4.583.02. I came home to _many_ emails describing the problem, thanks to everyone who took the time to write. Several mentioned opening tickets with Trend [...]

…I bought a new Mustang GT. A Black Premium Convertible with the California Special Edition package and the Shaker 1000 sound system (allegedly 1000 watts) w/ satellite and lots of other options. I was chatting with Don on the phone the other day and he said, “joe, go buy a Ford product!” and so I did! [...]