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So I am watching TV the other day and there is a Saturn commercial raving how great a couple of their cars are and how “green” they are because they get 30 MPG on the highway… My Mustang GT gets 21-22 MPG when I am racing around town with the top down which includes doing [...]

Well my MVP lead is already asking for the year’s accomplishments to determine if I have been helpful enough to receive the MVP designation another year. I have to say this is absolutely the earliest this has happened in the ummmm 6, 7, or 8 years that I have been an MVP. It usually happens [...]

A pretty common issue out there in the real world is an error of something like
“There are multiple accounts with name XXX/YYYYYYYYYY of type DS_SERVICE_PRINCIPAL_NAME” or maybe that last bit is “of type 10″
floating about.
The general guidance is to find the objects with the same SPNs and clean all but one of them up. [...]

I was recently pinged by a friend who had some consultants in at his company and the consultants I guess were going on about how the domain is the security boundary and it is perfectly safe/acceptable to have a bunch of child domains that are run by disparate groups of admins.
THIS IS INCORRECT!
It has ALWAYS [...]

http://news.cnet.com/8301-11128_3-9988923-54.html?hhTest=1

http://grenouille-bouillie.blogspot.com/2008/05/where-did-hp-way-go.html
 
Good article.

Yet another alternative energy source…
 
http://www.valcent.net/i/misc/Vertigro/index.html

http://www.thewebsiteisdown.com/

Someone on ActiveDir Org (and actually the umich LDAP list) were asking about putting multivalued manager info into AD for dotted line reports. Active Directory’s manager attribute is single valued so this won’t work. You get one manager, have a nice day.
Well this someone wants MSFT to add this to their schema, it [...]

Back in May of last year I mentioned that Longhorn RODCs would have an issue with updating lastLogonTimeStamp. This was indeed the case at the time. I just wanted to revisit the topic and say that the DS team at MSFT realized that was a serious problem and put in some special functionality into Windows [...]

All of us wear masks. They can be worn out of love and the desire to remain close to those around us. To spare them from the complicated reality of afraid psyches. We trade honesty for companionship. And in that process never truly know the hearts closest to us.
    - Sarah Connor (Terminator: The Sarah [...]

Driving a car at 100MPH is a supported function by the auto manufacturer. Driving a car at 100MPH into a wall likely isn’t though you may not find specific guidance saying it isn’t. The fact that you can is a byproduct to the supported functionality combined with free will.
   - me (in response to [...]

This is fully 10% of the Starbucks stores in Seattle, whatever will they do if you can’t hit a Starbucks on all four corners of every intersection? ;o)
 
http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5hinV1XVpDeRBwTJTEpQCkvIcoMJAD91LG05O0