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I know some of you may read that and choke on your bagel or candy bar or coke or whatever else you were shoving down your throat as you relaxed and sat back to read what I have to say today…
But I mean it!
I had an unfortunate issue where one of my virtual host servers [...]

So maybe not a complete geek, this looks good too.
 
Deception…
 

Yes I am a geek….
 
Iron Man the Movie!!!

 
 
Iron Man Trailer
 
http://www.myspace.com/ironmanmovie

Those who can…. do.
Those who can’t… beg.
 
    - Me (in post to ActiveDir.Org)

I received the following email:
If I wanted to copy the IP Phone attribute of each user into Exchange Extension attribute13 for that user, would AdMod work?  and if so, can you point me to and example?

This is actually extremely easy with adfind and admod since I added the -adcsv capability… This is however where you [...]

You are a child of the universeno less than the trees and stars;you have a right to be here.
Go placidly amid the noise and haste,and remember what peacethere may be in silence.
As far as possible, without surrender,be on good terms with all persons.Speak your truth quietly, and clearly;and listen to others,even [...]

A DNS server that is dynamically handed its address is NOT the most useful device you could have on a network…
   - Me (in a post to activedir.org)

Two California Highway Patrol Officers were conducting speeding enforcement on I-15, North of MCAS Miramar. One of the officers was using a hand held radar device to check speeding vehicles approaching near the crest of a hill.
The officers were suddenly surprised when the radar gun began reading 300 miles per hour. The officer [...]

Tracers work both ways.
   - U.S. Army Ordnance Manual

It is generally inadvisable to eject directly over the area you just bombed.
     - U.S. Air Force Survival Manual

If the enemy is in range…. so are you.
   - Infantry Journal

Recently my work cell phone died and I had to get another one, instead of just getting a new phone on the current service (ATT then Cingular then ATT again), I decided to try Verizon as I heard good things about its connectivity.
I am absolutely willing to admit that I was stupid, I should have [...]

This is a nice article on Active Directory Limits
http://technet2.microsoft.com/windowsserver/en/library/d2fc40d8-50ba-450c-959b-28fd7e31b9961033.mspx?mfr=true
 
Summary
Max Objects - 231 minus 255 or ~2.15 Billion or 2,147,483,394
Max SIDs - 230 or ~1 billion or 1,073,741,824
Max Group Membership for Security Principal - 1015 groups
Max FQDN Length - 64 characters
Max File Name Length - 260 characters [1]
Max OU Name Length - 64 characters
Max Group Policies [...]

Alternate title - Who taught my cat how to tell time???
My gorgeous black cat Trouble whom I have mentioned before, the President and CEO of joeware, at some point has learned how to tell time. I don’t know how she did it, I don’t even let her look at books because I don’t need a [...]

Here is yet another reason why….
http://www.betanews.com/article/Bringing_down_the_cloud_HPs_Upline_down_for_a_third_of_its_life/1208893272
 
HP has not officially cited the reason for the service’s suspension, but in a comment to TechCrunch last Friday, member Ridz may have proven to have experienced Upline’s fatal flaw: His application was connecting him to another member’s account.

http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/nationworld/chi-india-stress_nu_goeringapr20,1,7771719.story
Indians may have taken over three-quarters of the world’s call-center jobs, but they’ve also taken on the stresses of those jobs: weight gain, depression, boredom and, often, relationship troubles.

I wanted to share a little humour from the MSFT MVP Summit. Most of the summit is NDA material (i.e. I signed one or more pieces of paper saying I wouldn’t Disclose the information gained in the NDA sessions under legal penalty) but the Executive sessions which in general I find almost a complete waste [...]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WazA77xcf0A

Alternate title - Why marketing annoys me…
 
I know this is a spoof video, but we all know how true this would be if MSFT sold the iPod. And it is no dis on the developers or inventors, it is entirely about MS Legal and MS Marketing.
 

I learned this week that maybe one or more of my friends may have trouble with Hexadecimal… So to help out, I went and found this wikipedia article…
 
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hexadecimal
 

The 2008 MVP Summit is over. It included some 2000 MVPs from around the world. I didn’t see and talk to most or even a large number, relatively, of the MVPs. Pretty much I stuck to the 40 or so DS MVPs that were present as well as a bunch of Exchange MVPs[1]. There were [...]

There was, of course, a session, actually several at the MVP Summit about Power Shell and what I was, in particular, involved with, was the Active Directory Provider the MSFT DS team is working towards. At the beginning of the first session I was caught off guard and really had to laugh pretty hard… The [...]

The MSFT DS Dev team needs our help. They need use cases for ADAM 2008 on Vista as well as future client OSes to push for an install that works on Vista and future client OSes. Apparently they want to do it and my response of "what are you kidding me, how come I can’t [...]

Sorry MSFT Marketing, I will not call ADAM by the new name you want to give it, ADLDS, no matter how much you want me to….
I also will not call AD, ADDS….

I have to say that I received some of the nicest compliments from various Microsoft MVPs at summit this year. I heard several "Your utilities have saved my ass more than once" comments but the comment that just made me smile and smile when I heard it was a direct response from a direct question [...]

I am in the Westin in Seattle as I type this getting ready for bed. Here is a google map view
http://maps.google.com/maps?ie=UTF8&q=Seattle,+WA,+USA&ll=47.613396,-122.337699&spn=0.004781,0.011362&t=h&z=17
The Westin Seattle is 2 round towers, I am in the south tower. The lower right one in the google map.
 
It was overall a nice trip. Traffic to the airport was great. Check in [...]

“If at first you don’t succeed keep on sucking ’till you do succeed”
     - Curley

R2-D2 Wireless WebCam
 
http://shop.starwars.com/catalog/product.xml?product_id=1218826;category_id=;pcid1=;pcid2

“do the needful”

I received this and thought it was a good story.
 
When I arrived at 2:30 a.m., the building was dark except for a single light in a ground floor window.
Under these circumstances, many drivers would just honk once or twice, wait a minute, and then drive away. But I had seen too many impoverished [...]

All national institutions of churches, whether Jewish, Christian or Turkish, appear to me no other than human inventions, set up to terrify and enslave mankind, and monopolize power and profit.
     -Thomas Paine

http://www.microcenter.com/single_product_results.phtml?product_id=0273266
 
$199.99
Product Specifications
Formatted Capacity1TB (1000GB)
Interface TypeSerial ATA-300
Buffer Size16MB
Spindle Speed (RPM)IntelliPower (5,400RPM to 7,200RPM)
Read Seek Time Average8.9 ms
Data Transfer Rate: Buffer to HostUp to 300MBps
Data Transfer Rate: Buffer to DiskUp to 1,156Mbps
Ports and Connectors7-pin Serial ATA Connector
Included SoftwareDrivers & Utilities
Manufacturer Warranty3 Year Limited Warranty

I will be out in Redmond and Seattle for the Microsoft MVP Summit from Sunday to Friday… So if I seem quiet… that would be why.

How do you respond to someone who asks you “Will a WAN link being down affect a file copy going over it?”…
 
I mean you have the correct obvious technical response of “ummm YES!” but at this point, would that really help anything? Really???
Isn’t there a deeper more meaningful “life, the universe, and everything” type question [...]

I am smack in the middle of email issues so if anyone has sent me email in the last few days and I haven’t responded…. Well that would be the reason.
 
Anyone who sent me email prior to Wednesday and I haven’t responded… well I just haven’t gotten to that yet. :<>

I thought I would add my part to this ridiculous controversy which illustrates that some people have too much time on their hands… Maybe even me for taking time to have read the article and then post this…
This is a picture of Dick Cheney out fly fishing, this picture was posted on the White House [...]

Misc quotes from Dwight in The Office…
 

Oh it is serious. Five citations and you’re looking at a violation. Four of those and you’ll receive a verbal warning. Keep it up, and you’re looking at a written warning. Two of those, that’ll land you in world of hurt. In the form of a disciplinary review, [...]

This application does some sort of analysis on the pictures, so even if the pictures have different names or sizes, it seems pretty good at finding duplicates…
http://www.softpedia.com/get/Multimedia/Graphic/Graphic-Others/SimilarImages.shtml

Well the bug in LiveWriter that I ran into in my last post about Security Descriptors got me to looking for a more recent version and what do you, they are now out of beta… So I have loaded the new version and here we go… Right off I can say this version starts up [...]

I hear this question all of the time… AdFind is cool, but can it display Security Descriptors in a friendly format… or more accurately most people say “can it display permissions in a way I can read??”
Well yes, AdFind can output security descriptors in a readable format, whether or not *you* can read it is, [...]

Only those who risk going too far can possibly find out how far they can go.”
                  –T.S. Eliot

Will be in Vegas on March 22-25…

 
DEC 2009 Europe will be in Europe in September 2009.
 
Speaking of DEC Europe, how many people go to that that don’t go to DEC USA? And of those, how many are interested in having Dean and I run around saying hi? Not saying actually present, but [...]

My first car was a 1972 Mustang Coup with a 351C (Cleveland big block) with glass packs and Hooker headers and a nice high lobe Crane cam (I put it together), sounded quite a bit like this 71 Coupe… I would drive through parking lots and every single car with a car alarm would go off [...]