joeware - never stop exploring...

One of the worst practices in older firms is managing to metrics with the end result being a practice where you award people who are doing really bad things to the company.
    - Rob Enderle (TechNewsWorld - http://www.technewsworld.com/story/hardware/63604.html?welcome=1214841647)

http://computerworld.co.nz/news.nsf/tech/99A7774F067EA284CC257474007C0076
 
Hewlett-Packard is working with Fusion-io to adapt the start-up’s high-performance, solid-state input/output storage technology to HP’s enterprise servers to improve their data access performance and energy efficiency.

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“With our ioMemory architecture, we’re getting more than 200,000 IOPS within HP BladeSystem c-Class server blades today,” says Don Basile, Fusion-io’s chief executive officer. “So, working together with [...]

“PowerShell is the COBOL of the scripting world. In that I mean as you type out what you need to do your fingers actually get tired. Powerful no doubt, but it will require most PowerShell scripters to buy a gripmaster to build up finger strength for those marathon scripting sessions or more likely, there will [...]

I don’t expect Bill Gates will ever see this blog post but with Bill’s retirement from full time Microsoft operations I just wanted to offer a very sincere and heart felt “thank you very much Bill”.
Regardless of what anyone says of Bill or Microsoft, the face of computing is very different now than it [...]

A friend of mine pinged me recently and asked
… can you think of way of determining with certainty that a DC was IFM promoted or not based on its DIT (logs are say long since retired)

I thought about this a moment,  furrowed my brow for another moment and then started down the path involving a [...]

I raised a flag pole just in time for Flag Day…
 

I still have quite a few rocks to put down as you can see. I will surround the whole flag pole with them and then put some nice soil over the top of it and then plant wild flower seeds. [...]

Wow I went looking and actually found the SLIQ Major MUD scripts I talked about in the last post. Or at least I think I found most of them, even then I broke the stuff up into multiple files and modules.
I was poking around in one piece and found this section which was one [...]

Well Darren has effectively said “Tag, you’re it” for this Scripting/Sysadmin Meme that is going around. I kind of liken this to the emails that say send this to 7 of your friends immediately but since I am not actually forwarding it, you have to come to me to read it, I will play. [...]

I saw this on an email today and had to share as it cracked me right up…
One very intelligent analyst I know was asked if a customer should be queried about the scope of a given project. His response was
“They will ask us for a 2008 Lincoln Continental. We’re reasonably equipped to deliver a 2001 [...]

So I am working on Active Roles Server (ARS for now on…) and ran into a little issue that had me thinking for a little bit…
The thing was that I needed to auto-generate the user name and it needed to be
[LASTNAME],[SPACE][FIRSTNAME][SPACE][INITIALS]
So for example, say I have John Q. Public the name attribute (aka cn [...]

So you will recall my previous post on AdFind and PowerShell using S.DS.Protocols…
If you read activedir.org you will know that I realized some odd things occurred… I didn’t want to post back here until I had some more understanding of what is going on but now almost 2 weeks later I still haven’t a [...]

http://biz.yahoo.com/iw/080618/0408055.html
 
http://www.tec2009.com/

It’s hard to be emotional with a spitter.
    - Anonymous friend

So Brandon stepped up and did something I didn’t think anyone would step up and do… Start profiling and comparing the performance of PowerShell and .NET DS Protocols against a native App using the wldap32 LDAP library[1]. Brandon’s first blog entry on the topic is here - http://bsonposh.com/archives/325
While I am going to question Brandon’s testing [...]

“If you pick up a starving dog and make him prosperous, he will not bite you; that is the principal difference between a dog and a man.”
  - Mark Twain

“Listen,” he said, “it’s important. We are all. Free. To do. Whatever. We want. To do.“
   - Richard Bach “Illusions”

A lot of times when people run into issues with LDAP based apps, one of the troubleshooting steps I recommend is to do a network trace and look at the LDAP traffic and then I hear… Hey, I try to but it looks like gibberish and WireShark says it can’t be decoded or something… By [...]

So besides house pics, I have been pinged a lot about “Hey how is that Carbon Monoxide thing working out for you?”
Well I have finally gone through all of the various doctor tests. Overall I am in very good shape, just getting older. It was confirmed through blood work that I had had serious CO [...]

I keep getting pings about putting up more house pics. I finally posted some more up through February. I will put more up at some point in the future.
Those who were watching the progress will note that the progress markedly decreased after I moved into the house and suffered my Carbon Monoxide issues. [...]

So I uninstalled Microsoft Expressions Web 1 and installed Microsoft Expressions Web 2 on my main workstation (SFMFXP32) this weekend. Then a familiar problem popped up which kind of ticks me off as I bugged this with Microsoft quite some time before and I know people have been complaining about it since at least 2006. [...]