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A multinational corporate advertises for a secretary.
A golden retriever applies for the job, passes the typing test, and is granted an interview.
The human-resources manager asks, “Do you speak any foreign languages?”
And the golden retriever says, “Meow.”

Pat: Mike, I’m calling you from the freeway on my new cell phone.
Mike: Be careful, Pat. They just said on the radio that there is a nut driving the wrong way on the freeway.
Pat: One nut? Hell, there are hundreds of them!

The lookout on a battleship spies a light ahead off the starboard bow. The captain tells him to signal the other vessel, “Advise you change course twenty degrees immediately!”
The answer comes back, “Advise you change course twenty degrees immediately!”
The captain is furious. He signals, “I am a captain. We are on a collision course. Alter [...]

A blind man, a Lesbian, and a frog walk into a bar. The barkeep looks up at them and says, “What is this… a joke?”

This morning on the Fox 2 news in Detroit there was a report that the 50 year old refrigerator at the Macomb County Jail had mold in it and had to be shut down. That meant that prisoners had to be fed bologna sandwiches and peanut butter and jelly sandwiches and the prisoners were complaining… [...]

спални комплектиCenterfold, your previous answer was so wrong it almost became right again… If you would… please help me choose the subject for my pending criticism.
    – Dr. Perry Cox (Scrubs)

http://download.microsoft.com/download/5/C/0/5C0BD0AB-040D-4C56-A60B-661001012DDA/Windows_Server_2008_R2_e-book.pdf

Convert your system into a virtual…
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/ee656415.aspx

This looks pretty cool, XP Mode virtualization without the dreaded hardware virtualization support requirement…
I poked around the web site, couldn’t tell what their business model is supposed to be. Do they intend to just give this away?
http://www.vmlite.com/

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/11/18/windows_7_heart/
I found this to be an interesting article. I was really interested in the part about Heap Shimming via Fault Tolerant Heap (FTH). Of course my first thought was cool, how do you get a list of apps that this is being applied to. Up until today I had only found a command to clear [...]

A friend sent this link to me… Could be useful if you are doing web dev work…
http://www.fiddler2.com/fiddler2/

In a previous blog entry (http://blog.joeware.net/2009/12/05/1826/) I mentioned a need for some software for the Storm Chasers… A person (name withheld to protect the guilty) sent me a nice informative email on some of this stuff and I wanted to share parts of it… Note I did ask for permission first…
“Most chasers and spotters, including [...]

I regularly get asked about people adding CNAMEs to DNS to set up an alias for a Windows machine. Like maybe the machine name is server123site5 and they want to call it oldserver1. They do that and all of a sudden when they try to use it the connection attempt results in a “duplicate name [...]

http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2357079,00.asp
 
I haven’t tried this but think I will start recommending it to any and everyone that says their PC is taking forever to start up. Every time I look at those machines they tend to have a bazillion apps that start on logon.

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB126102247889095011.html?mod=WSJ_hpp_LEFTTopStories
 
I wonder how much we pay to see our own feeds? I think some military supplier owes us some cash back…

http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2357138,00.asp
 
Funny article. I actually find my iPhone to be the most useful phone I have had. But then I mostly use it for the apps. I rarely talk to anyone on the phone (I used 2 minutes on it last month) and I don’t text at all. Period. None. Mostly it is used for Google [...]

In 1944 the Battle of the Bulge began… Bloodiest set battles of World War II for American Forces but the end was in sight for the Nazi war machine.

Ten years ago today, Windows 2000 and hence Active Directory were released to manufacturing!!!
Today Active Directory is the de facto LDAP directory and the de facto Kerberos implementation… I.E. There are more AD LDAP directories and more AD Kerberos environments out there than any other LDAP directory and Kerberos implementations.

My Aunt Linda sent this to me.
http://www.gabrielwhitepiano.com/

I have the Discovery Channel Storm Chasers show on for background while working on something else. I don’t purposely watch this show normally but when it happens to be on, I leave it on because it is interesting.
After two episodes in a row I started thinking, they really need to tie all of these [...]

http://code.google.com/speed/public-dns/docs/using.html

Dentist appt co-pays…
But also the fact that VHDMount will not accept a drive letter with a colon for the drive letter parameter. The X number of years that I have been working on PCs you specify the drive letter as <letter>:, not <letter>.
So this
C:\Program Files\Microsoft Virtual Server\Vhdmount>vhdmount /m e:\vhd\eviltest.vhd f:
Invalid command line parameters. [...]