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Calmness of the mind is one of the beautiful jewels of wisdom. It is the result of long and patient effort in self control.
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A man becomes calm in the measure that he understands himself as a thought-evolved being, for such knowledge necessitates the understanding of others as the result of thought, and as he [...]

So you have this big nasty LDAP filter and for some reason it isn’t working and by that I mean when you submit the query it comes back and says invalid filter or maybe it doesn’t return what you expect for the data set. You know if you could just see the filter in a [...]

My mom has retired from the State of Michigan. I am very excited for her as she can now go on to other challenges. Though I doubt any challenge could be as great as the challenge of working in the Department of Social Services for the State of Michigan for as long as she did. [...]

The thoughtless, the ignorant, and the indolent, seeing only the apparent effects of things and not the things themselves, talk of luck, of fortune, and chance. Seeing a man grow rich, they say, “How lucky he is!” Observing another become intellectual, they exclaim, “How highly favored he is!” And noting the saintly character and wide [...]

I received my complementary copy of Active Directory Fourth Edition today and noted that it is now IN STOCK on Amazon.com
http://www.amazon.com/Active-Directory-Designing-Deploying-Running/dp/059652059X/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1227681383&sr=8-1
 
My version of the book is now officially dead. (
 
At some point possibly Brian will outline what is different about his edition of the book. It will most likely be posted to his blog [...]

If I already have administrative or extremely privileged rights on a box, an “exploit” that can do things to the kernel is just a normal bug… Don’t get too excited about it.
 
I am talking about this article…
http://redmondmag.com/news/article.asp?editorialsid=10415