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	<title>joeware - never stop exploring...</title>
	<link>http://blog.joeware.net</link>
	<description>Information about joeware mixed with wild and crazy opinions...</description>
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		<title>Sanity&#8230;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[One of the sanest, surest, and most generous joys of life comes from being happy over the good fortune of others.    
&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160; &#8211; Robert A. Heinlein 
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		<link>http://blog.joeware.net/2010/03/15/1999/</link>
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		<title>Troublemakers&#8230;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A society that gets rid of all its troublemakers goes downhill.    
&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160; &#8211; Robert A. Heinlein 
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		<link>http://blog.joeware.net/2010/03/14/1998/</link>
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		<title>Little wheels&#8230;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Clocks slay time&#8230; time is dead as long as it is being clicked off by little wheels; only when the clock stops does time come to life.    
&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160; &#8211; William Faulkner 
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		<link>http://blog.joeware.net/2010/03/14/1997/</link>
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		<title>Three eights&#8230;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[For disappearing acts, it&#8217;s hard to beat what happens to the eight hours supposedly left after eight of sleep and eight of work.    
&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160; &#8211; Doug Larson 
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		<link>http://blog.joeware.net/2010/03/13/1996/</link>
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		<title>The future&#8230;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The future is something which everyone reaches at the rate of 60 minutes an hour, whatever he does, whoever he is.    
&#160;&#160;&#160; &#8211; C. S. Lewis 
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		<link>http://blog.joeware.net/2010/03/13/1995/</link>
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		<title>Longest distance&#8230;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Time is the longest distance between two places.    
&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160; -Tennessee Williams 
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		<link>http://blog.joeware.net/2010/03/13/1993/</link>
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		<title>Twenty-four hours&#8230;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Day, n. A period of twenty-four hours, mostly misspent. 
&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160; &#8211; Ambrose Bierce 
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		<link>http://blog.joeware.net/2010/03/12/1992/</link>
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		<title>Don&#8217;t do Everything &#8211; Do a few Things Well</title>
		<description><![CDATA[http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/magazine/ee309869.aspx
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		<link>http://blog.joeware.net/2010/03/09/1991/</link>
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		<title>Forefront Identity Manager 2010 is now available on MSDN (subscription only of course)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[But why is there only an x86 version???
&#160;&#160; joe
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		<link>http://blog.joeware.net/2010/03/08/1987/</link>
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		<title>Oh now this is nice, Popular Science puts scanned archive online for free!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[http://www.wired.com/gadgetlab/2010/03/popular-science-puts-entire-scanned-archive-online-free/
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		<link>http://blog.joeware.net/2010/03/07/1989/</link>
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		<title>Truth be told&#8230; I didn&#8217;t really get a feel that was going to go anywhere anyway&#8230;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[http://www.theregister.co.uk/2010/03/05/microsoft_unplugs_ebs/
Microsoft will halt development of its mid-market oriented Windows Essential Business Server software bundle, as the company bets on &#34;cloud computing&#34; rather than lump licensing to woo penny-pinching IT markets.

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		<link>http://blog.joeware.net/2010/03/07/1990/</link>
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		<title>Bye bye bye!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[http://ie6funeral.com/
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		<link>http://blog.joeware.net/2010/03/05/1986/</link>
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		<title>Handy WireShark Filter for looking at Kerberos ticket requests/responses</title>
		<description><![CDATA[kerberos.msg.type == 12 &#124;&#124; kerberos.msg.type == 13 &#124;&#124; kerberos.msg.type == 30 &#124;&#124; kerberos.msg.type == 10 &#124;&#124; kerberos.msg.type == 11
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		<link>http://blog.joeware.net/2010/03/05/1985/</link>
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		<title>Helpdesks through the Ages!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Cd7Bsp3dDo
In English and slightly different… http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yUQRbqc2qtY&#38;NR=1
And for the nerds… Star Wars Help Desk… http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Q8DriPCX2o
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		<link>http://blog.joeware.net/2010/03/03/1983/</link>
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		<title>Fructose is bad</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Interesting lecture



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		<link>http://blog.joeware.net/2010/03/03/1984/</link>
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		<title>Official Microsoft Blogs</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I was recently asked for a list of MSFT blogs, here you go!
&#160;
http://blogs.technet.com/blogms/pages/directory-of-microsoft-team-blogs.aspx
&#160;
&#160;&#160; joe
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		<link>http://blog.joeware.net/2010/03/01/1982/</link>
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		<title>Alternate Fuel Cell technology</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This looks very cool…
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2010/02/18/60minutes/main6221135.shtml
Could this be sitting in your yard in the next 10 years? If they can truly get it down to a couple thousand I would give it a shot. 
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		<link>http://blog.joeware.net/2010/03/01/1988/</link>
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		<title>Listening for screams&#8230;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[…an experiment in designing a solution by feeling the bumps on the walls and listening for screams…
&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160; &#8211; me (discussing an infrastructure architecture project)
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		<link>http://blog.joeware.net/2010/02/26/1979/</link>
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		<title>From the mailbag: How to change home directories en masse to a new server&#8230;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[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 [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.joeware.net/2010/02/26/1978/</link>
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		<title>One year later&#8230;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[…and I am still using LDAP…
&#160;
Obviously the announcement of its demise was a bit premature. 
&#160;
That is why I chuckled when I heard it last year.  
&#160;
&#160;&#160; joe
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		<link>http://blog.joeware.net/2010/02/24/1977/</link>
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		<title>Do you want to raise chickens?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I thought this was an interesting little setup…
&#160;
http://www.motherearthnews.com/Do-It-Yourself/2007-04-01/Portable-Chicken-Mini-coop-Plan.aspx
&#160;
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.  
&#160;
&#160;&#160; joe
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		<link>http://blog.joeware.net/2010/02/24/1976/</link>
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		<title>Parents&#8230;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Do not handicap your children by making their lives easy.
&#160;&#160;&#160; &#8211; Robert Heinlein (Time Enough For Love)
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		<link>http://blog.joeware.net/2010/02/23/1921/</link>
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		<title>Straitjacket&#8230;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Whatever you do, do not let the past be a straitjacket!
&#160;&#160; Robert Heinlein (The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress)
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		<link>http://blog.joeware.net/2010/02/21/1918/</link>
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		<title>You pay for what you get&#8230;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[One way or another, what you get, you pay for.
&#160;&#160;&#160; &#8211; Robert Heinlein (The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress)
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		<link>http://blog.joeware.net/2010/02/20/1917/</link>
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		<title>Load Balancing Domain Controllers</title>
		<description><![CDATA[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 [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.joeware.net/2010/02/19/1980/</link>
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		<title>From the mailbag&#8230; Finding groups with a certain string in the name</title>
		<description><![CDATA[From: joe [mailto:support@joeware.net]     Sent: xxx    To: xxx    Subject: RE: AdFind
Hey xxx, you could do something like
adfind -default -f &#34;&#38;(objectcategory=group)(name=*webmaster*) &#34; -dn
If you want to specify a domain other than the default, replace -default with -b domainDN
&#160;&#160; joe
&#8211;
O&#8217;Reilly Active Directory Fourth Edition &#8211; http://www.joeware.net/win/ad4e.htm

From: xxx  [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.joeware.net/2010/02/19/1924/</link>
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		<title>From the mailbag&#8230; Downloading tools</title>
		<description><![CDATA[&#8212;&#8211;Original Message&#8212;&#8211;   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&#8230; I can&#8217;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 [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.joeware.net/2010/02/19/1923/</link>
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		<title>From the mailbag&#8230; How to dump SMTP addresses for users in a group</title>
		<description><![CDATA[From: joe [mailto:joe@joeware.net]     Sent: xxx    To: xxx    Subject: RE: ADFIND &#8211; Group + Members Query
You can’t do this in one query, it will take at least two.
First query would be to find the group and dump its memberof values.
adfind -default –f &#34;&#38;(objectcategory=group)(name=groupname)&#34; memberof
The second query [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.joeware.net/2010/02/19/1922/</link>
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		<title>I am free&#8230;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I am free, no matter what rules surround me. If I find them tolerable, I tolerate them; if I find them too obnoxious, I break them. I am free because I know that I alone am morally responsible for everything I do.
&#160;
&#160;&#160;&#160; &#8211; Robert Heinlein (The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress)
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		<link>http://blog.joeware.net/2010/02/19/1916/</link>
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		<title>Happy Birthday Copernicus&#8230;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[There is no one center of all the celestial spheres [orbits]. 
The Earth’s center is not the center of the universe. 
The center of the universe is near the sun. 
The distance of the Earth to the sun is imperceptible compared with the distance to the stars. 
The rotation of the Earth accounts for the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.joeware.net/2010/02/19/1915/</link>
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		<title>Useful  Microsoft PKI Documentation Reference Page</title>
		<description><![CDATA[PKI / Certificate Authority Information
http://blogs.technet.com/pki/archive/2007/08/19/windows-pki-documentation-reference.aspx
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		<link>http://blog.joeware.net/2010/02/18/1914/</link>
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		<title>Utility Versions Text File</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I have added a text file in a semi-CSV format up on the website for current versions and release dates of the utilities. There is a link from the free tools page but you can go directly to it via
http://www.joeware.net/freetools/versions.txt
This is what it currently looks like
Updated: 2010.02.18
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App,Version,Date
accexp,01.01.00,2002.08.04
adfind,01.41.00,2010.02.13
admod,01.12.00,2010.02.13
adqueueloop,02.00.00,2006.03.23
atsn,01.00.00,2004.03.27
auth,01.01.00,2001.08.17
changepw,02.03.00,2006.06.26
clienttest,01.01.00,2005.11.09
cpau,01.11.00,2005.11.08
dnssrvrec,01.00.00,2006.01.15
eldll,01.00.00,2002.02.17
eldllex,01.00.00,2002.02.17
exchmbx,01.04.00,2006.04.29
expire,01.00.00,2000.04.15
findexpacc,01.01.00,2005.06.19
findnbt,01.02.00,2002.11.15
findpdc,01.00.01,2001.09.28
gcchk,01.03.00,2004.08.30
getuserinfo,02.07.00,2003.09.27
lg,01.02.00,2006.07.10
memberof,02.03.00,2006.06.10
netsess,02.00.00,2004.02.01
oldcmp,01.05.00,2004.12.28
qlogoff,01.00.00,2001.01.28
quiet,01.01.00,2002.04.27
psomgr,01.00.00,2007.04.15
secdata,02.03.00,2002.08.19
sectok,01.00.00,2001.11.11
seinteractivelogon,00.10.00,2001.09.20
shrflgs,01.00.01,2005.02.19
sidtoname,02.00.00,2003.03.07
snu,01.00.00,2001.11.04
svcutil,02.04.00,2005.06.12
unjoin,01.01.00,2007.07.17
unlock,02.01.00,2004.08.16
userdump,01.01.00,2001.01.28
username,01.00.00,2002.10.08
w2klockdesktop,01.00.00,2001.05.10
writeprot,01.00.00,2004.08.08

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		<link>http://blog.joeware.net/2010/02/18/1913/</link>
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		<title>Outlook 2010 Bloat Bug</title>
		<description><![CDATA[If you have Outlook 2010, install this bug fix…
http://blogs.msdn.com/buckh/archive/2010/02/12/fix-for-message-size-issue-in-outlook-2010-beta.aspx
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		<link>http://blog.joeware.net/2010/02/18/1912/</link>
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		<title>ADAM (aka ADLDS) is available for Windows 7 now!!!! Part Deux (and this time we really mean it!!!)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Previously I announced that ADAM/ADLDS was available for Windows 7 client machines. Shortly after I announced that MSFT quietly pulled the product back off the download site due to some issue that they did not disclose. An issue critical enough though that they actually pulled the product.
Anyway I just got confirmation from Microsoft today that [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.joeware.net/2010/02/17/1911/</link>
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		<title>Happy Public Release Birthday Active Directory</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Ten years ago today Active Directory was made publically available[1]. Been a long ten years and we have seen some cool/wonderful things and some sad/horrible things. Overall, looking good AD.  
&#160;&#160; joe
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[1] RTM was December 15, 1999. 
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		<link>http://blog.joeware.net/2010/02/17/1926/</link>
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		<title>AdFind V01.41.00 and AdMod V01.12.00 Released</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The betrunkener Schmetterling releases of AdFind and AdMod have been posted to the website.
You can find AdFind V01.41.00 here &#8212;&#62;&#160; http://www.joeware.net/freetools/tools/adfind/index.htm
You can find the new usage here &#8212;&#62; http://www.joeware.net/freetools/tools/adfind/usage.htm
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You can find AdMod V01.12.00 here &#8212;&#62;&#160; http://www.joeware.net/freetools/tools/admod/index.htm
You can find the new usage here &#8212;&#62; http://www.joeware.net/freetools/tools/admod/usage.htm
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You had to expect something was going to hit the joeware free [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.joeware.net/2010/02/13/1905/</link>
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		<title>Daemon Tools ISO Mounting Tool for Windows 7</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Last time I looked, the Daemon ISO Mounting Tool didn’t work for Windows 7, just looked again today and now Windows 7 is supported and it actually works:
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http://www.disk-tools.com/download/daemon
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		<link>http://blog.joeware.net/2010/02/11/1903/</link>
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		<title>Know It All&#8230;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[When I was 13 I knew it all… 
When I was 16 I realized I didn’t know it all at 13 because I now knew it all… 
At 19 I realized I didn’t know so much when I was 16 because I really knew it all then. 
At 21 I finally got the point and [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.joeware.net/2010/02/11/1902/</link>
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		<title>Into AD?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[If you don’t know joe’s tools, are you really into AD?
&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160; &#8211; Florian Frommherz (http://www.frickelsoft.net/blog/?p=180)
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		<link>http://blog.joeware.net/2010/02/11/1904/</link>
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		<title>Knowing&#8230;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[People like to think they know more than they do, especially the ones that know the least.
&#160;&#160; &#8211; me
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		<link>http://blog.joeware.net/2010/02/11/1901/</link>
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		<title>No Summit and No Experts Conference for me&#8230;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Unfortunately this year I won’t be attending the Microsoft MVP Global Summit in Seattle nor The Experts Conference. Things didn’t work out properly for me to pull it off. I will greatly miss seeing my friends at Microsoft at the summit as well as the other MVPs. 
I will also (as will my g/f) miss [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.joeware.net/2010/02/11/1900/</link>
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		<title>Microsoft RMS Change</title>
		<description><![CDATA[If you see any of these errors
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You cannot open this document because we cannot set up your computer to open documents that have restricted permission.
&#160;
The Rights Management client returned the following result code: 0&#215;80004005(-2147467259).
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The Rights Management client returned the following result code: E_DRM_SERVICE_NOT_FOUND.
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The Rights Management client returned the following result code: E_DRM_BIND_VALIDITY_TIME_VIOLATED.
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Check out http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=979099
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		<link>http://blog.joeware.net/2010/02/11/1899/</link>
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		<title>So if I were to write a book&#8230;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[…what would you guys like to see in it?
&#160;
I am once again thinking about writing a book for AdFind and AdMod coupled with LDAP basics, Active Directory basics, and ADAM / ADLDS Basics. Then maybe some discussion on how to use all of the above mentioned products. Basic guidelines I give folks when I asked. [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.joeware.net/2010/02/05/1898/</link>
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		<title>Active Directory (and ADAM/ADLDS) Tombstone Lifetime</title>
		<description><![CDATA[There is an article on TechNet about the forest’s tombstone lifetime for Active Directory (http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc784932(WS.10).aspx) that was discussed on an internal MSFT DS Team / MSFT MVP email list. The discussion pointed out that there is a little confusion around the article.
Specifically the confusion can come up around step 8
Note the value in the Value [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.joeware.net/2010/02/05/1896/</link>
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		<title>Rinse, lather, repeat&#8230;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[History is cyclical in nature, the evidence shows us. What is today, was before. What was yesterday, will be tomorrow. We need to learn from our mistakes, so that instead of travelling endlessly in a repetitious cycle, we move in an upward spiral towards perfection and utopia. 
&#160;&#160; &#8211; David Hatcher Childress in Technology of [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.joeware.net/2010/02/02/1892/</link>
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		<title>Uplifting thoughts&#8230;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I have had a good many more uplifting thoughts, creative and expansive visions while soaking in comfortable baths in well-equipped American bathrooms than I have ever had in any cathedral.
&#160;&#160; &#8211; Edmund Wilson
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		<link>http://blog.joeware.net/2010/02/02/1889/</link>
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		<title>We were the first with the Atom bomb&#8230;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[When (Dr. J. Robert Oppenheimer, the “Father of the H-Bomb”) asked in an interview at Rochester University seven years after the Alamogordo Nuclear test whether that was the first atomic bomb ever to be detonated, his reply was, “Well, yes, in modern history.”
&#160;&#160;&#160; &#8211; David Hatcher Childress &#8211; Technology of the Gods
&#160;
joe Note: It is [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.joeware.net/2010/02/01/1891/</link>
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		<title>Ignorance&#8230;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored. 
&#160;&#160;&#160; &#8211; Aldous Huxley
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		<link>http://blog.joeware.net/2010/02/01/1890/</link>
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		<title>Have you ever&#8230;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[asked the question “So if humans have been around pretty much at this same evolutionary state for thousands of years, how come we are the first ones playing Halo on Xbox?” or something similar? My g/f asked me a question like that a few months back and I started to explain that well we don’t [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.joeware.net/2010/02/01/1888/</link>
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		<title>Final (I think) AdFind/AdMod beta</title>
		<description><![CDATA[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
&#160;
I am shooting for a mid-February release. 
&#160;
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 [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.joeware.net/2010/01/27/1886/</link>
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		<title>Watch this Electric Car company&#8230;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[http://www.ctntunited.com
&#160;
Saw their products at the Detroit North American Auto Show and they were quite interesting. 
&#160;
&#160;&#160; joe
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		<link>http://blog.joeware.net/2010/01/24/1885/</link>
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		<title>Cloning Forests for Divestitures / Acquisitions</title>
		<description><![CDATA[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 [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.joeware.net/2010/01/22/1884/</link>
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		<title>Seriously?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[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
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Current 
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Alleged New
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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 [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.joeware.net/2010/01/22/1883/</link>
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		<title>Ooops&#8230; or should I say&#8230; You mean it isn&#8217;t ok to leave admin IDs unchanged for years?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[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 [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.joeware.net/2010/01/20/1878/</link>
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		<title>Decreasing Number of Geeks a National Security Risk</title>
		<description><![CDATA[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 [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.joeware.net/2010/01/18/1877/</link>
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		<title>AdFind&#8217;s objectClass output is correct, it is CSVDE that is incorrect&#8230;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[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 [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.joeware.net/2010/01/18/1876/</link>
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		<title>And another AdMod beta&#8230; Fix for a CSV multi-value expansion mode bug.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[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 [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.joeware.net/2010/01/17/1875/</link>
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		<title>Blog Spam</title>
		<description><![CDATA[http://blogsearch.google.com/blogsearch?hl=en&#38;ie=UTF-8&#38;filter=0&#38;q=%22The+tool+is+called+Gold+Finger%22&#38;sa=N&#38;start=0
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		<link>http://blog.joeware.net/2010/01/15/1874/</link>
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		<title>Watch out, some personalized phishing going on&#8230;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[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… 
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Hi, I really don&#8217;t mean to [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.joeware.net/2010/01/14/1873/</link>
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		<title>ADAM (aka ADLDS) is available for Windows 7 now!!!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?displaylang=en&#38;FamilyID=a45059af-47a8-4c96-afe3-93dab7b5b658
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The same for Windows Vista is on the horizon…
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		<link>http://blog.joeware.net/2010/01/12/1872/</link>
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		<title>AdFind/AdMod Beta update</title>
		<description><![CDATA[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 [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.joeware.net/2010/01/12/1871/</link>
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		<title>Better Authentication&#8230;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[“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 [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.joeware.net/2010/01/11/1869/</link>
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		<title>Special Folder GUIDs</title>
		<description><![CDATA[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&#38;subj=news&#38;tag=2547-1_3-0-20
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		<link>http://blog.joeware.net/2010/01/11/1868/</link>
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		<title>Association&#8230;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[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. 
&#160;&#160; &#8211; Combination of quotes from Chris Rock, Patrice Dean &#38; others
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		<link>http://blog.joeware.net/2010/01/11/1870/</link>
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		<title>And another special Folder GUID&#8230;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[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…

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		<link>http://blog.joeware.net/2010/01/08/1867/</link>
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		<title>Rudy Rudy Rudy&#8230; Sheesh.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Is someone trying to gear up for the 2012 election already???
http://www.salon.com/politics/war_room/2010/01/08/giuliani
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“In an interview on ABC&#8217;s &#34;Good Morning America,&#34; Giuliani said, &#34;What he [Obama] should be doing is following the right things that Bush did &#8212; one of the right things he did was treat this as a war on terror. We had no domestic attacks [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.joeware.net/2010/01/08/1864/</link>
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		<title>OOOOOOHHHHHHHhhhhh</title>
		<description><![CDATA[http://www.wired.com/video/ces-2010-hands-on-with-transparent-display-of-the-future/60826805001
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		<link>http://blog.joeware.net/2010/01/07/1863/</link>
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		<title>Documentation Tool in Win7 Part Deux&#8230;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[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 [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.joeware.net/2010/01/07/1855/</link>
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		<title>Control Panel Applet Aggregator</title>
		<description><![CDATA[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 –&#62; 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 [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.joeware.net/2010/01/07/1860/</link>
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		<title>Windows Server 2008 R2 Feature Components Poster</title>
		<description><![CDATA[http://download.microsoft.com/download/8/2/3/823871D1-819F-446D-ADD5-3049B78F020F/Windows_Server_2008_R2_Feature_Components.pdf
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		<link>http://blog.joeware.net/2010/01/07/1861/</link>
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		<title>AdFind V01.41.00 and AdMod V01.12.00 Betas available</title>
		<description><![CDATA[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 [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.joeware.net/2010/01/07/1862/</link>
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		<title>Send &#8216;em up&#8230;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Iranian Air Defense Site: &#8216;Unknown aircraft you are in Iranian airspace. Identify yourself.&#8217; 
Aircraft: &#8216;This is a United States aircraft. I am in Iraqi airspace..&#8217;&#160; 
Air Defense Site: &#8216;You are in Iranian airspace. If you do not depart our airspace we will launch interceptor aircraft!&#8217;&#160; 
Aircraft: &#8216;This is a United States Marine Corps FA-18 fighter.&#160; [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.joeware.net/2010/01/06/1854/</link>
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		<title>Nice&#8230;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[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 [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.joeware.net/2010/01/06/1853/</link>
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		<title>Happy New Year&#8230; and if you have a Tarantula, wear goggles when cleaning the cage!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[http://abcnews.go.com/Health/EyeHealthNews/tarantula-attack-pierces-owners-eyes/story?id=9458010&#38;page=1
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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 [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.joeware.net/2010/01/01/1852/</link>
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		<title>Everyone is looking for work&#8230;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[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.”
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		<link>http://blog.joeware.net/2009/12/31/1851/</link>
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		<title>Nut&#8230;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[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!
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		<link>http://blog.joeware.net/2009/12/31/1850/</link>
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		<title>Change course&#8230;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[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 [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.joeware.net/2009/12/31/1849/</link>
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		<title>Is this a joke?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[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?”
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		<link>http://blog.joeware.net/2009/12/31/1848/</link>
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		<title>You are not supposed to be happy&#8230; It&#8217;s JAIL!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[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… [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.joeware.net/2009/12/31/1847/</link>
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		<title>So wrong&#8230;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[&#1089;&#1087;&#1072;&#1083;&#1085;&#1080; &#1082;&#1086;&#1084;&#1087;&#1083;&#1077;&#1082;&#1090;&#1080;Centerfold, your previous answer was so wrong it almost became right again… If you would… please help me choose the subject for my pending criticism. 
&#160;&#160;&#160; &#8211; Dr. Perry Cox (Scrubs)
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		<link>http://blog.joeware.net/2009/12/19/1845/</link>
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		<title>Windows Server 2008 R2 eBook</title>
		<description><![CDATA[http://download.microsoft.com/download/5/C/0/5C0BD0AB-040D-4C56-A60B-661001012DDA/Windows_Server_2008_R2_e-book.pdf
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		<link>http://blog.joeware.net/2009/12/19/1844/</link>
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		<title>Disk2VHD Utility from Sysinternals</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Convert your system into a virtual… 
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/ee656415.aspx
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		<link>http://blog.joeware.net/2009/12/19/1843/</link>
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		<title>VMLite</title>
		<description><![CDATA[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/
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		<link>http://blog.joeware.net/2009/12/18/1842/</link>
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		<title>Windows 7 Kernel Enhancements</title>
		<description><![CDATA[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 [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.joeware.net/2009/12/18/1841/</link>
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		<title>WordPress Upgrade completed&#8230;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.joeware.net/2009/12/18/1837/</link>
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		<title>WordPress Upgrade in Progress&#8230;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.joeware.net/2009/12/18/1836/</link>
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		<title>Debugging Web Apps?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A friend sent this link to me… Could be useful if you are doing web dev work…
http://www.fiddler2.com/fiddler2/
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		<link>http://blog.joeware.net/2009/12/18/1835/</link>
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		<title>Storm Chasers Part Deux</title>
		<description><![CDATA[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 [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.joeware.net/2009/12/18/1833/</link>
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		<title>Using DNS Aliases on Windows Machines.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[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 [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.joeware.net/2009/12/18/1832/</link>
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		<title>Startup Cop</title>
		<description><![CDATA[http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2357079,00.asp
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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. 
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		<link>http://blog.joeware.net/2009/12/18/1831/</link>
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		<title>Come again???? Our $10+ Million dollar robot spy plane video feeds can be intercepted with $30 in off the shelf software???</title>
		<description><![CDATA[http://online.wsj.com/article/SB126102247889095011.html?mod=WSJ_hpp_LEFTTopStories
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I wonder how much we pay to see our own feeds? I think some military supplier owes us some cash back…
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		<link>http://blog.joeware.net/2009/12/18/1830/</link>
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		<title>The iPhone is ruining the country&#8230;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2357138,00.asp
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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 [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.joeware.net/2009/12/18/1829/</link>
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		<title>On this day in history&#8230;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[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.
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		<link>http://blog.joeware.net/2009/12/16/1828/</link>
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		<title>Happy RTM Birthday Active Directory</title>
		<description><![CDATA[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. 
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		<link>http://blog.joeware.net/2009/12/15/1925/</link>
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		<title>Interesting take on Christmas Music on the piano&#8230;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[My Aunt Linda sent this to me. 
http://www.gabrielwhitepiano.com/
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		<link>http://blog.joeware.net/2009/12/11/1827/</link>
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		<title>Anyone involved with the Discovery Channel Storm Chasers reading this?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[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 [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.joeware.net/2009/12/05/1826/</link>
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		<title>Alternative DNS&#8230; Google.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[http://code.google.com/speed/public-dns/docs/using.html
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		<link>http://blog.joeware.net/2009/12/03/1825/</link>
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		<title>Annoyance of the day&#8230;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[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 &#60;letter&#62;:, not &#60;letter&#62;.
So this
C:\Program Files\Microsoft Virtual Server\Vhdmount&#62;vhdmount /m e:\vhd\eviltest.vhd f: 
Invalid command line parameters. [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.joeware.net/2009/12/03/1824/</link>
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		<title>Gizmo Freeware for mounting ISO, VHD, etc</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This is pretty cool looking
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http://arainia.com/software/gizmo/overview.php?nID=4
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Gizmo Drive v2.7.6 
&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160; •&#160;&#160;&#160; Mount ISO, BIN, CUE, NRG files to a virtual CD-ROM drive    &#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160; •&#160;&#160;&#160; Mount VHD files, used with Microsoft Virtual PC     &#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160; •&#160;&#160;&#160; Mount password protected images to a virtual hard drive     &#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160; •&#160;&#160;&#160; Encrypt [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.joeware.net/2009/11/30/1823/</link>
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		<title>Charlotte bound&#8230;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Charlotte, North Carolina bound tomorrow morning for the Thanksgiving festivities. If you are down there and see someone running around in a joeware hoody or t-shirt please feel free to say hi. If you have a tech position in a company that pays really well, be even more forceful.  
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		<link>http://blog.joeware.net/2009/11/24/1822/</link>
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