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Archive for February, 2009

Sounded like a good plan in the beginning…

by @ Friday, February 27th, 2009. Filed under quotes

I’m sure that sounded like a good plan in the beginning… I’ve had lots of those… Like when I tried to breed wiener dogs with cats to get wiener cats… Well you don’t get long skinny cats… You get one dead cat and a dog with lots of scratches.       – Randy (TV Sitcom – […]

The Eleanor of the new age…

by @ Thursday, February 19th, 2009. Filed under general

The real Eleanor if you don’t know who she is…   The replacement? (http://www.thalondesign.com/files/smart.htm)   Rating 3.00 out of 5

Getting QFE info from a machine in CSV format through WMI

by @ Thursday, February 19th, 2009. Filed under tech

Recently needed to pull some QFE info to validate some things… Found some fun commands. wmic qfe list full /format:htable wmic /node:”servername” qfe list full /format:csv Rating 3.50 out of 5

Finding Active Directory (or ADAM) objects that have multiple values in a specific attribute

by @ Thursday, February 19th, 2009. Filed under tech

Today I ran into an issue where a syncing tool blew up because it encountered an object that had multiple values in an attribute that “normally” has a single value in it and it didn’t know how to properly sync that object. Well obviously whomever set up the syncing tool kind of made a mistake […]

Alaskan Clydesdale

by @ Thursday, February 19th, 2009. Filed under humour

Rating 4.33 out of 5

AdFind V01.40.00 Released

by @ Friday, February 13th, 2009. Filed under updates

AdFind V01.40.00 has emerged from the cocoon… The Butterfly Release is now available. 🙂 After I released V01.39.00 I intended to go work on AdMod and get that updated and released, however I started hearing reports of typos and other comments on the functionality in AdFind V01.39.00. So I decided to work on AdFind a […]

Off the cuff comments for a new Domain Admin

by @ Friday, February 13th, 2009. Filed under general

Yesterday I added a new member to the domain admins group in a company I do work for. Off the cuff I typed up a few comments to send along with the note indicating the access has been granted, thought I would share. 1. Do not share your credentials with anyone. Period. 2. Be scared […]

Happy Birthday Chuck! :)

by @ Thursday, February 12th, 2009. Filed under general

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Darwin Rating 3.00 out of 5

Why is my Windows OS not seeing all 4GB of RAM…

by @ Wednesday, February 11th, 2009. Filed under general

This is a pretty common question folks ask about on the internet. They bought a new machine with 4GB of RAM and Windows is only telling them it has some lesser amount between 3GB – 4GB available so they think their machines are broken or that Windows is broken. Here is an excellent article discussing […]

Active Directory Query Performance – Index Hints

by @ Monday, February 9th, 2009. Filed under tech

Recently I was searching for some specific OU’s in Active Directory that had a specific substring within the name. i.e. it didn’t start with a specific substring, the substring I wanted was buried in the main string like for example the substring Crab in the string Joe’s Crab Shack which would be represented as *crab* […]

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