joeware - never stop exploring...

Well I decided I would be a responsible OID holder and registered the OID that Microsoft gave to me several years ago…
http://www.oid-info.com/get/1.2.840.113556.1.8000.1420
 
Note that Microsoft no longer gives out OIDs like that. All done. They decided they didn’t want to be in that business and there were data privacy issues. So now they have a script [...]

I had someone ping me about replacing the target address on a bunch of contacts in a given OU with adfind/admod. This is actually a great use of those utilities and why I added the cool -adcsv functionality in… This used to be something that you had to script, no choice, but not now…
So the [...]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KgFnMjymXI0
I am not a huge fan of Mariah but the video is funny and I like the silver dress.
Oh I was asked about the reference at the end… 802.11N is a draft specification for wireless networking. Basically Mariah is asking if the geek guy (who is the guy from Third Rock and I think [...]

One of the top things I get “help me joda!” emails about is people trying to run my utilities and running into issues with strings with spaces and other special characters. These strings are handled in special ways by the command interpreter and when people think my programs are screwing up, it is actually just that [...]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EURion_constellation
 
And how to get around it in Photoshop…
http://digitalmedia.oreilly.com/2006/05/03/dekepod.html

The new US $5 bill…
Allegedly the small yellow circles are in a special pattern that will tell digital copy software not to copy the money… You will just get a black image.
http://www.portfolio.com/interactive-features/2008/02/New-Five?TID=st092007ab
 
With all the redesign work on the money, I wonder why we haven’t done like some other countries and made the money more usable [...]