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Archive for February, 2010

Listening for screams…

by @ Friday, February 26th, 2010. Filed under quotes

…an experiment in designing a solution by feeling the bumps on the walls and listening for screams…      – me (discussing an infrastructure architecture project) Rating 3.00 out of 5

From the mailbag: How to change home directories en masse to a new server…

by @ Friday, February 26th, 2010. Filed under tech

From: joe [mailto:support@joeware.net] Sent: xxx To: xxx Subject: RE: Support Reuest Hi xxx, You won’t be able to do this with just usernames in a file with just adfind/admod, you would need a script to add the additional logic to look up the usernames and convert to DNs. However, if you have a list of […]

One year later…

by @ Wednesday, February 24th, 2010. Filed under general

…and I am still using LDAP…   Obviously the announcement of its demise was a bit premature.   That is why I chuckled when I heard it last year. 🙂      joe Rating 3.00 out of 5

Do you want to raise chickens?

by @ Wednesday, February 24th, 2010. Filed under general

I thought this was an interesting little setup…   http://www.motherearthnews.com/Do-It-Yourself/2007-04-01/Portable-Chicken-Mini-coop-Plan.aspx   Yes that is a little different from what I normally post. But hey, I live in the country and am thinking about getting some chickens. 🙂      joe Rating 3.00 out of 5

Parents…

by @ Tuesday, February 23rd, 2010. Filed under quotes

Do not handicap your children by making their lives easy.     – Robert Heinlein (Time Enough For Love) Rating 3.00 out of 5

Straitjacket…

by @ Sunday, February 21st, 2010. Filed under quotes

Whatever you do, do not let the past be a straitjacket!    Robert Heinlein (The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress) Rating 3.00 out of 5

You pay for what you get…

by @ Saturday, February 20th, 2010. Filed under quotes

One way or another, what you get, you pay for.     – Robert Heinlein (The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress) Rating 3.00 out of 5

Load Balancing Domain Controllers

by @ Friday, February 19th, 2010. Filed under tech

Recently a friend pinged me about what I thought about load balancing Domain Controllers behind some sort of VIP (Virtual IP) hardware be it from Brocade, Cisco, Barracuda, F5 or from whatever vendor. As a generic statement, I am against it. Period. Active Directory was built in such a way that the load balancing[1] and […]

From the mailbag… Finding groups with a certain string in the name

by @ Friday, February 19th, 2010. Filed under tech

From: joe [mailto:support@joeware.net] Sent: xxx To: xxx Subject: RE: AdFind Hey xxx, you could do something like adfind -default -f "&(objectcategory=group)(name=*webmaster*) " -dn If you want to specify a domain other than the default, replace -default with -b domainDN    joe — O’Reilly Active Directory Fourth Edition – http://www.joeware.net/win/ad4e.htm From: xxx Sent: xxx To: ‘support@joeware.net’ […]

From the mailbag… Downloading tools

by @ Friday, February 19th, 2010. Filed under general

—–Original Message—– From: joe [mailto:support@joeware.net] Sent: xxx To: xxx Subject: RE: Hey xxx, You should only try to download joeware utilities from my website… I can’t vouche for whether or not other sites have put anything into the executable. http://www.joeware.net/freetools/tools/oldcmp/index.htm I just now downloaded and unzipped it (using the standard OS unzip and WinZip) and […]

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