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I have posted what I expect to be the final AdFind and AdMod beta before final release.
http://www.joeware.net/downloads/beta/adfindmod_beta.zip
 
I am shooting for a mid-February release.
 
In the last 10 days most of the updates are in AdFind. Lots of misc shortcut bug fixes. Added some additional attribute decodes. One big item is that I added digest [...]

http://www.ctntunited.com
 
Saw their products at the Detroit North American Auto Show and they were quite interesting.
 
   joe

Just don’t do it.
See http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ee424329(WS.10).aspx
From the article
When a company acquires another company, business unit, or product line, the purchasing company may also want to acquire corresponding IT assets from the seller. Specifically, the buyer may want to acquire some or all of the domain controllers that host the user accounts, computer accounts, or security [...]

I really really hope this new Michigan State University logo isn’t for real. Why? Because it sucks.
http://blogs.suntimes.com/sportsprose/2010/01/michigan_state_to_unveil_new_l.html
http://blog.mlive.com/ganggreen/2010/01/michigan_state_spartans_to_unv.html
http://blog.mlive.com/ganggreen/2010/01/new_michigan_state_logo_may_no.html
 
 
Current
 
 

Alleged New
 
 
If this is the new logo, besides the thought that it sucks I think… Why? Why waste money right now on something like this. We hear educational establishments complaining because money is tight because of reduced [...]

http://www.pcworld.com/businesscenter/article/187009/financial_firm_notifies_12m_after_password_mistake.html
A Concord, New Hampshire, financial services company is sending data breach notification letters to customers after discovering that shared passwords, set up to simplify administrative functions nearly 10 years ago, could have exposed the private data of 1.2 million customers.

Off the top of my head, every company I have ever seen does this in some [...]

This is an interesting article…
http://www.wired.com/dangerroom/2010/01/darpa-us-geek-shortage-is-a-national-security-risk/
Sure, we’re all plugged in and online 24/7. But fewer American kids are growing up to be bona fide computer geeks. And that poses a serious security risk for the country, according to the Defense Department.

I think a another big part of this problem is around [...]

I promise myself that any time I hit about five emails for the same issue, I will try to write a blog entry about it so people can find it during their Google search phase before attempting to bother the developers/support folks…
Well I hit the limit this morning with an issue that has annoyed [...]

I have updated the AdMod Beta again. My good friend Princess (Jorge) was very nice to ping me with an issue he was hitting in AdMod (both previous stable versions and beta) this last week and low and behold after testing I realized it was a bug. A bug in a very nasty portion of [...]

http://blogsearch.google.com/blogsearch?hl=en&ie=UTF-8&filter=0&q=%22The+tool+is+called+Gold+Finger%22&sa=N&start=0

This email came in from one of my former work managers… It wasn’t him. I knew it by the writing style and word choice and well, that it happened at all to be honest, as soon as I saw it but others may not figure it out so fast…
 
Hi, I really don’t mean to [...]

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?displaylang=en&FamilyID=a45059af-47a8-4c96-afe3-93dab7b5b658
 
The same for Windows Vista is on the horizon…

I incorrectly linked AdMod when I posted it (http://blog.joeware.net/2010/01/07/1862/) previously. So if you ran it you probably saw an error about a missing DLL unless you had already installed the Borland/Codegear DLLs for some other app. I have recompiled and relinked with static linkages so everyone should be fine now. Let me know if there [...]

“Better authentication methods can come along any day now… I’m ready…”
That is something I said this morning while working on my work laptop. We recently were required to add whole machine encryption which meant adding yet another password and remembering yet another ID/Password combination. When I loaded the encryption software two things irked me… The [...]

Wow, I got quite a few emails on the Special Folder GUIDs posts… Thanks to all who sent me the link… Keep it up!
Here are the link everyone was sending me
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ee330741(VS.85).aspx
http://news.cnet.com/8301-13860_3-10426627-56.html?part=rss&subj=news&tag=2547-1_3-0-20

Choose your friends carefully. Association brings about assimilation. If you think your friends are stupid and crude, get new friends unless you want to be stupid and crude. Or to put it another way… Birds of a feather flock together.
   – Combination of quotes from Chris Rock, Patrice Dean & others

After seeing http://blog.joeware.net/2010/01/07/1860/ my good friend Deano reminded me that he had shown me something like this back last year for just Network Connections…
md c:\_special\nc.{7007ACC7-3202-11D1-AAD2-00805FC1270E}

Looks like…

Is someone trying to gear up for the 2012 election already???
http://www.salon.com/politics/war_room/2010/01/08/giuliani
 
“In an interview on ABC’s "Good Morning America," Giuliani said, "What he [Obama] should be doing is following the right things that Bush did — one of the right things he did was treat this as a war on terror. We had no domestic attacks [...]

http://www.wired.com/video/ces-2010-hands-on-with-transparent-display-of-the-future/60826805001

No new info here… Just revisiting my previous post about the recorder that lets you record what you are doing for documentation or debugging. I keep forgetting the command and so wanted to post here so I can find it easier without having to worry that the original poster’s post goes away…
So joe, when you [...]

Mark Minasi has an interesting newsletter this month about a special folder that you can create to see all your CPL’s in one place. Very nice… You can read about it here –> http://www.minasi.com/newsletters/nws1001.htm
Basically I ran the following command
md c:\_special\cp.{ED7BA470-8E54-465E-825C-99712043E01C}

And then just pull the folder up in Explorer…
explorer c:\_special\cp.{ED7BA470-8E54-465E-825C-99712043E01C}

That will save a lot of time [...]

http://download.microsoft.com/download/8/2/3/823871D1-819F-446D-ADD5-3049B78F020F/Windows_Server_2008_R2_Feature_Components.pdf

I have been exceedingly lax in updating AdMod this last year. I started working on it on and off after releasing AdFind V01.40.00 last year and while I have gotten much in, I haven’t gotten it released. In the meanwhile, I would hit little things that needed to be fixed in AdFind so I started [...]

Iranian Air Defense Site: ‘Unknown aircraft you are in Iranian airspace. Identify yourself.’
Aircraft: ‘This is a United States aircraft. I am in Iraqi airspace..’ 
Air Defense Site: ‘You are in Iranian airspace. If you do not depart our airspace we will launch interceptor aircraft!’ 
Aircraft: ‘This is a United States Marine Corps FA-18 fighter.  [...]

Someone asked me a question at work today about PowerShell… yes, I know, silly silly people but I was a bit curious as well so I opened up the PSompt (hmmm PSPrompt… Command PS… P Prompt… PS Prompt… ) err whatever… I opened the Windows application that gives me an interactive PowerShell instance and typed [...]

http://abcnews.go.com/Health/EyeHealthNews/tarantula-attack-pierces-owners-eyes/story?id=9458010&page=1
 
People who get the shivers over tarantulas likely imagine a gigantic bite from a fanged mouth. But as one man recently found out in England, tarantulas are more likely to defend themselves by shooting a mist of microscopic barbed hairs straight into your eye.
Man walks for the first time in 20 years after being [...]