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	<title>joeware - never stop exploring...</title>
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		<title>This is pretty stupid</title>
		<description><![CDATA[When I heard about the naming of the Windows OSes following version numbers I was pretty excited&#8230;. Gone were Windows Vista, Windows Me, Windows 95/98, Windows XP, Windows 2000, Windows Server 2003, Windows Server 2003 R2, etc. Long live Windows 7, Windows 8, Windows 9, etc.
Imagine my chagrin as I start reading that the next [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.joeware.net/2008/11/18/1507/</link>
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		<title>The opportunity to begin again&#8230;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Failure is simply the opportunity to begin again, this time more intelligently. 
I love that quote. Simply awesome. It describes the situation perfectly&#8230; If you screw up, you have now learned a way not to do something, go find a new way that takes that into account and do better. That works for your personal [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.joeware.net/2008/11/17/1506/</link>
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		<title>Let&#8217;s hope&#8230;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[What&#8217;s right about America is that although we have a mess of problems, we have great capacity - intellect and resources - to do some thing about them. 
&#160;&#160;&#160; - Henry Ford
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		<link>http://blog.joeware.net/2008/11/17/1505/</link>
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		<title>Best Friend&#8230;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[My best friend is the one who brings out the best in me.
&#160;&#160;&#160; - Henry Ford
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		<link>http://blog.joeware.net/2008/11/17/1504/</link>
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		<title>Second Life Affair Causes a Real Life Divorce?????</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Oi…
http://edition.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/europe/11/14/second.life.divorce/?iref=mpstoryview
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Not even sure what to say about that… Except maybe, focus on the first life… 
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		<link>http://blog.joeware.net/2008/11/15/1503/</link>
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		<title>The body is the servant of the mind&#8230;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The body is the servant of the mind. It obeys the operations of the mind, whether they be deliberately chosen or automatically expressed. At the bidding of the unlawful thoughts the body sinks rapidly into disease and decay; at the command of glad and beautiful thoughts it becomes clothed with youthfulness and beauty.
…
Thoughts of malice, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.joeware.net/2008/11/13/1502/</link>
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		<title>Specifying the DNS Server on the command line when using nslookup</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I was asked a question this week about how to &#8220;batch script&#8221; the use of nslookup to test looking up a specific hostname. The &#8220;tricky&#8221; part was that the person wanted to use a specific DNS server instead of the default for the machine. 
The person was shocked by my response so I thought I [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.joeware.net/2008/11/13/1501/</link>
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		<title>Cool one of a kind original insanely inexpensive artwork that are perfect for gifts</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Looking for the cool unique gifts for friends and family for this holiday season??? 
Look no further&#8230;
http://gallery.trendyartist.com/portfolio.php?cat_id=10
My sister is an amazing artist, she just doesn&#8217;t put the right value on her work&#8230; The amount of work that goes into each of these uniquely designed one off pieces is worth at least $20-25&#8230; 
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		<link>http://blog.joeware.net/2008/11/13/1500/</link>
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		<title>To be a man&#8230;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A man only begins to be a man when he ceases to whine and revile, and commences to search for the hidden justice which regulates his life. And as he adapts his mind to that regulating factor, he ceases to accuse others as the cause of his condition, and builds himself up in a strong [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.joeware.net/2008/11/06/1499/</link>
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		<title>Smile&#8230;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Smile&#8230; it&#8217;s the second best thing to do with your lips. 
&#160; - Anonymous
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		<link>http://blog.joeware.net/2008/11/05/1498/</link>
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		<title>Behind the great woman&#8230;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Behind every great woman, is a guy looking at her ass. 
&#160; - Anonymous
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		<link>http://blog.joeware.net/2008/11/05/1497/</link>
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		<title>Finally&#8230;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Finally the election is over. Congratulations to both Obama and McCain for a hard fought race. I was sick of all of the crap months and months ago but they both fought hard for what they believed in. Now let’s move on and solve the problems in front of us together. I loved what John [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.joeware.net/2008/11/05/1496/</link>
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		<title>Trouble is not happy with the time change&#8230;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[As previously predicted, my cat Trouble is not thrilled with the time change. She sat at my desk from 3-3:30PM whapping me with her tail and claws and meowing at me until I broke down and gave her her treat at 3:30PM instead of 4PM. I really must teach her how to read the clock [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.joeware.net/2008/11/04/1495/</link>
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		<title>PATCH YOUR MACHINES!!!!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Very serious patch came out from Microsoft today. Unless you are running Vista or Windows Server 2008 anyone, and I mean anyone, who can touch the RPC port on your machine can hurt you. Be safe, go to Microsoft or Windows Update and update your machines now. Or if you are an IT type you [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.joeware.net/2008/10/23/1493/</link>
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		<title>Lag Sites++</title>
		<description><![CDATA[More comments on the Active Directory Services Team blog concerning Lag Sites. My friend Guido, probably one of the top guys in the industry in terms of understanding the backup/recovery solution space for Active Directory stepped up and commented as well. He didn&#8217;t even know I had left a comment and later pinged me and [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.joeware.net/2008/10/23/1492/</link>
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		<title>AdFind compiles successfully under Code Gear Builder 2009!!!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Yes! I hit a milestone in AdFind V01.38.00&#8230;. I got it to compile under Code Gear C++ Builder 2009. This was quite an accomplishment as there have been some serious changes in that compiler from Borland C++ Builder 6.0 (circa 2002) which was the last compiler that I was using for it. Mostly the issues [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.joeware.net/2008/10/22/1491/</link>
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		<title>Active Directory Lag Sites</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Over on the &#8220;Ask the Directory Services Team&#8221; blog there is a post about Lag Sites. I really disliked what was written and left a nice long comment. I am not sure if it will be posted or not and I also wanted to reach folks with my comments about lag sites that possibly don&#8217;t [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.joeware.net/2008/10/22/1489/</link>
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		<title>K.I.S.S</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Recently I received an email from an ex-coworker. One of our other ex-coworkers had popped off to a Math Seminar/Conference thingy about neural networks and it ended up discussing nodes and hubs, interconnections, etc and the most optimal solutions. This ex-coworker who attended happened to remark that what was being described as the optimal solution [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.joeware.net/2008/10/22/1488/</link>
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		<title>I code&#8230; therefore I am</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I am finally writing code again&#8230; I am happy about that because I was effectively not coding for over a year. Yes, for over a year, almost 15 months actually. That is a long time for me not to write code because it is one of my main creative outlets. 
I will be releasing one [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.joeware.net/2008/10/07/1486/</link>
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		<title>Happy October???</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Can you believe it? Already October again. Sigh. The year really flies when you lose half of it to Carbon Monoxide. On the positive side I don&#8217;t have fear turning on the furnace in a few weeks when it gets a little colder.
So Oct 1 has come and is almost gone (here in the good [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.joeware.net/2008/10/01/1485/</link>
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		<title>More funny Tina Fey playing Palin&#8230;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[http://www.nbc.com/Saturday_Night_Live/video/clips/couric-palin-open/704042/
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		<link>http://blog.joeware.net/2008/09/28/1484/</link>
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		<title>Behavior&#8230;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[When you choose behavior, you choose the consequences.
&#160;&#160; - Dr. Phil (Chapter&#160;9 - Family First)
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		<link>http://blog.joeware.net/2008/09/28/1482/</link>
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		<title>Watching&#8230;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Don&#8217;t worry that children never listen to you; worry that they are always watching you.
&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160; - Robert Fulghm
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		<link>http://blog.joeware.net/2008/09/28/1480/</link>
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		<title>Let your life be a living example&#8230;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Your children are profoundly shaped by you, and your actions will resonate, for good or ill, throughout the rest of their lives. Be a parent who lives the qualities, characteristics and values you would like your family to emulate. Let your life be a living example of what you want to see in your children.
&#160;&#160;&#160; [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.joeware.net/2008/09/28/1478/</link>
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		<title>Finally done with the books for real!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I thought I was done with the books I was reviewing a few weeks ago.&#160;I found out later that I was wrong, there were a few more chapters I had to do for the Active Directory Cookbook 3rd Edition. Thankfully, I finished that up tonight.  
CHEER!
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I received my new compiler via Fed Ex, now [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.joeware.net/2008/09/27/1476/</link>
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		<title>Another funny video&#8230;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[http://www.collegehumor.com/video:1831461
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		<link>http://blog.joeware.net/2008/09/27/1475/</link>
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		<title>Disaster Tour</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Bush Tours America To Survey Damage Caused By His Disastrous Presidency
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		<link>http://blog.joeware.net/2008/09/26/1474/</link>
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		<title>Hate days like this&#8230; ;)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[ 
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http://xkcd.com/386/
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		<link>http://blog.joeware.net/2008/09/24/1472/</link>
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		<title>A big thanks to some of you&#8230;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[&#8230;because yesterday I ordered the new Code Gear Builder Pro 2009 compiler/IDE and I paid for it in part with PayPal donations from some of you folks. I greatly appreciate the donations and as you can see just roll it right back into producing more products. 
While I could start using the Visual Studio suite [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.joeware.net/2008/09/23/1471/</link>
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		<title>Books are apparently becoming a family business in my family&#8230;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[So my sister, the world famous artist, now has a second book out that she illustrated. It is a children&#8217;s illustrated book, you can find it here
http://gallery.trendyartist.com/portfolio.php?cat_id=10
http://search.barnesandnoble.com/Sprucie/Nancy-Ellison/e/9781436339568/?itm=6
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This reminds me of some children&#8217;s books I wrote when I myself was &#8220;a children&#8221;&#8230; I should see if I can scan them and post them. I was a [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.joeware.net/2008/09/23/1470/</link>
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		<title>This masterpiece&#8230;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[http://www.vladville.com/2008/09/the-joy-of-it.html
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		<link>http://blog.joeware.net/2008/09/15/1467/</link>
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		<title>Love Tina Fey&#8230;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Hmm the NBC embedding doesn&#8217;t seem to be working for this&#8230; here is the direct link&#8230;
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http://www.nbc.com/Saturday_Night_Live/video/clips/palin-hillary-open/656281/
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		<link>http://blog.joeware.net/2008/09/14/1466/</link>
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		<title>New Bill Gates and Seinfeld Video</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I am not loving this one so much, not sure I really get it&#8230;
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New Family: Jerry Seinfeld and Bill Gates (Long Version)
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		<link>http://blog.joeware.net/2008/09/13/1465/</link>
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		<title>My friend Dean has left the building&#8230; and entered a different building&#8230;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[So my outstandingly good friend and brother from another, but English, mother (or would that be Mum) Dean Wells has moved on from one job and onto another. This will likely shock the heck out of some people and others will say wow that makes sense, about time. I know I was shocked at first [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.joeware.net/2008/09/11/1461/</link>
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		<title>Interpretation&#8230;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Talk to your children about the fact that they own their feelings. Their sadness or anger is not caused by someone else. They are not mad because someone else made them mad. They&#8217;re angry or sad because of how they choose to respond. Emotional responses are triggered by our interpretation - the meaning we assign [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.joeware.net/2008/09/11/1459/</link>
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		<title>LOL! - Has the Large Hadron Collider Destroyed The Earth Yet???</title>
		<description><![CDATA[http://www.hasthelhcdestroyedtheearth.com/
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Don&#8217;t know what the LHC is??? 
Read this &#8212;&#62; http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lhc
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Seriously&#8230; its very cool. Even if you don&#8217;t care about the science, at least you will know what it is when Angels and Demons (by Dan Brown - yes Da Vinci Code Dan Brown) comes out next year (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Angels_%26_Demons_(film)).
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		<link>http://blog.joeware.net/2008/09/10/1458/</link>
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		<title>Great Post on Active Dir Org from Don&#8230;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This was an outstanding post and I thought should be copied here&#8230;
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 From: ActiveDir-owner@mail.activedir.org On Behalf Of Don HacherlSent: Sunday, September 07, 2008 12:52 AMTo: ActiveDir@mail.activedir.orgSubject: RE: [ActiveDir] Delegating Start/Stop Service on DCs
Years ago I worked with a &#8220;domain admin qualified&#8221; person at Microsoft who fat fingered the admin UI and deleted a container instead [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.joeware.net/2008/09/07/1457/</link>
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		<title>WSUS/WUA requires Terminal Services on Clients&#8230;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Now this is really stupid, hope they have a fix in the works.
http://blogs.technet.com/sus/archive/2008/09/03/wsus-windows-vista-clients-reboot-automatically-even-though-a-user-is-logged-on.aspx
The idea is to shut off things that you don&#8217;t need and I would argue, successfully I think, that if you aren&#8217;t using remote desktop to control a machine, it doesn&#8217;t need to be running. I don&#8217;t care if the WUA people did [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.joeware.net/2008/09/05/1456/</link>
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		<title>Friday laugh - love Bill Gates in commercials&#8230;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[
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		<link>http://blog.joeware.net/2008/09/05/1455/</link>
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		<title>Well crap&#8230;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[So I just found out I am not done with Active Directory Cookbook 3rd Edition, a couple of more chapters haven&#8217;t been uploaded to the SharePoint yet. That sucks. Can&#8217;t wait to get that off my plate so I don&#8217;t have to worry about it anymore.
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		<link>http://blog.joeware.net/2008/09/05/1454/</link>
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		<title>Smart Updates of bitwise attributes</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Recently in working with Laura Hunter on my Technical Review of Active Directory Cookbook 3rd Edition, I mentioned that AdFind and AdMod could be used together to do a smart™&#160; update of bit flag attributes. She was a bit surprised so I figured I would mention it here as well for everyone.
But first let&#8217;s back [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.joeware.net/2008/09/05/1453/</link>
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		<title>Why isn&#8217;t serviceClassName in the PAS?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Familar with Service Connection Point objects? This is an object in AD that is published by various services so people/processes can find them. For example, by default ADAM will publish a service connection point object in AD so you can easily track down the instances, it will look something like
dn:CN={04c817c7-46a4-4a0e-b258-c2bd69c00f78},CN=2K3UTL01,CN=Computers,DC=test,DC=loc&#62;objectClass: top&#62;objectClass: joeware-ServerClass&#62;objectClass: leaf&#62;objectClass: connectionPoint&#62;objectClass: serviceConnectionPoint&#62;cn: [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.joeware.net/2008/09/05/1452/</link>
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		<title>Love Jon Stewart&#8230;.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[http://www.thedailyshow.com/video/index.jhtml?videoId=184086&#38;title=sarah-palin-gender-card
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		<link>http://blog.joeware.net/2008/09/05/1451/</link>
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		<title>VMWARE and MICROSOFT WORKING WELL TOGETHER</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Imagine that&#8230;
http://www.vmware.com/company/news/releases/svvp.html
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PALO ALTO, Calif. – Sept 3, 2008 &#8212; VMware, Inc. (NYSE: VMW), the global leader in virtualization solutions from the desktop to the datacenter, today announced it has qualified its industry-leading VMware ESX hypervisor under the Microsoft Server Virtualization Validation Program (SVVP). VMware ESX 3.5 update 2 (ESX 3.5u2) is the first hypervisor to [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.joeware.net/2008/09/04/1450/</link>
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		<title>Finally Done!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I am finally done reviewing Active Directory 4th Edition and Active Directory Cookbook 3rd Edition. It is nice to get those off my plate so I can get some other stuff done - like cleaning the house. 
One of the first things I will try to clean up is the ~4000 unread messages in my [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.joeware.net/2008/09/04/1449/</link>
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		<title>Love Mythbusters&#8230; But they were gagged by Discovery Channel and Texas Instruments&#8230;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[http://consumerist.com/5043831/mythbusters-gagged-credit-card-companies-kill-episode-exposing-rfid-security-flaws
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Credit card companies successfully nixed a Mythbusters segment exposing RFID&#8217;s security flaws, according to Arbiter of Truth and Mythbusters co-host, Adam Savage.

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		<link>http://blog.joeware.net/2008/09/04/1448/</link>
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		<title>All done with Western Digital</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I have been buying Western Digital drives for years and years. That has stopped now. I just had the fourth drive in less than a year fail on me. Three computers, four failed drives. All drives between two and four years old. I have never had so many drives fail on me. This one was [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.joeware.net/2008/09/04/1446/</link>
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		<title>Very cool - HP Reduced laptop packaging by not 10%, not 50%, but 97%&#8230;.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[http://uk.reuters.com/article/environmentNews/idUKN0241925420080903
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SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - A Hewlett-Packard Co (HPQ.N: Quote, Profile, Research) notebook computer that&#8217;s packaged in a recycled bag rather than a box has won a challenge by retailer Wal-Mart Stores Inc (WMT.N: Quote, Profile, Research) for less wasteful packaging. 
HP&#8217;s Pavilion dv6929, which Wal-Mart and Sam&#8217;s Club stores are selling for $798, was singled [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.joeware.net/2008/09/03/1445/</link>
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		<title>American Idol Wrapup&#8230;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Top 4 show&#8230; 
David Cook didn&#8217;t sound so good in his first song - actually he sounded kind of flat. Babba O&#8217;Riley was ok, not great. You need to bang that song out, he didn&#8217;t, he shouted it. 
Don&#8217;t agree with Simon on Syesha&#8217;s performance of Proud Mary, I thought it was pretty good. Not [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.joeware.net/2008/09/03/1443/</link>
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		<title>Random mailbag question - CPAU returning data to the calling process</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Got this in the inbox&#8230;
Hi Joe,  
Thanks great tool. One quick question, I&#8217;m using CPAU to run a vbscript under a different user id however I was wonder if there was an easy way to pass parameters back to the calling application without having to give the &#8220;runas&#8221; account a lot of local access [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.joeware.net/2008/09/02/1442/</link>
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		<title>Insuppressible nature of one&#8217;s self at its base level</title>
		<description><![CDATA[One day a scorpion arrived at the bank of a river he wanted to cross, but there was no bridge. He asked a frog that was sitting nearby if he would take him across the river on his back. The frog refused and said, &#8220;I will not, because you will sting me.&#8221;  
The scorpion [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.joeware.net/2008/09/02/1441/</link>
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		<title>Ugh. The Internet&#8217;s Biggest Security Hole</title>
		<description><![CDATA[http://blog.wired.com/27bstroke6/2008/08/revealed-the-in.html
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Two security researchers have demonstrated a new technique to stealthily intercept internet traffic on a scale previously presumed to be unavailable to anyone outside of intelligence agencies like the National Security Agency.

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		<link>http://blog.joeware.net/2008/08/29/1440/</link>
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		<title>Just one reason why I won&#8217;t be opening a bank account at Lloyds TSB anytime soon&#8230;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[http://blog.wired.com/27bstroke6/2008/08/british-bank-ba.html
Here is a snippet
A customer of the British bank Lloyds TSB discovered the bank had changed his account password because someone on staff apparently couldn&#8217;t take a joke. 
Steve Jetley had created the password &#8220;Lloyds is pants&#8221; after he had a dispute with the bank over free travel insurance that was supposed to come with [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.joeware.net/2008/08/28/1439/</link>
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		<title>Interesting Comments&#8230;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I am sure all of us at some level or point can agree with some of Mr. Exum&#8217;s comments.
http://www.chattanoogan.com/articles/article_133893.asp
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Excerpt (lots more good stuff to read, go to the link)
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Finally I get &#8220;Sonny&#8221; in your repair shop. He&#8217;s as nice and kind as anyone I ever talked to. But soon &#8220;Sonny&#8221; became &#8220;Sunny&#8221; because, it turns [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.joeware.net/2008/08/26/1437/</link>
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		<title>More American Idol (for Darren ;o) )</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Ok so now I am past the top 10 and&#160;the top&#160;8&#8230;&#160;Mostly this is seeming boring to me. Carly is very good, she will have a career after this but I don&#8217;t think she can win.&#160;Kristy is stunningly beautiful and a good singer, she won&#8217;t win. Brooke is very good and getting less boring and I [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.joeware.net/2008/08/25/1435/</link>
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		<title>Active Directory Application Mode (ADAM not ADLDS) on Vista</title>
		<description><![CDATA[So who here likes to run ADAM on their client PCs? Who would like to run the Windows Server 2008 version of ADAM on Vista? Yeah me too. 
Microsoft was stupid and didn&#8217;t make it so Windows Server 2008 ADAM could be installed on the Client OS. Extremely shortsighted. Extremely silly.
So what we need is [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.joeware.net/2008/08/22/1434/</link>
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		<title>VMWARE is alleged to be throwing their hat in the ring now&#8230;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In reference to the previous MSFT Virtualization platform validation post
http://www.networkworld.com/news/2008/081908-vmware.html
There doesn’t seem to be any official announcement, but a Microsoft spokeswoman said Tuesday that VMware has joined Microsoft’s Server Virtualization Validation Program. This means that VMware will try to get its hypervisor certified by Microsoft, and once that happens Microsoft will offer technical support for [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.joeware.net/2008/08/20/1433/</link>
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		<title>Come on EMC/VMWARE&#8230;.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I want to see your name on this list&#8230;
http://www.windowsservercatalog.com/svvp/
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		<link>http://blog.joeware.net/2008/08/19/1431/</link>
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		<title>If you can, please help my insane friend.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I have a friend who is a bit insane. I say that because she runs many many miles just for fun. She isn&#8217;t trying to chase down a cat that got out the door or chase down a nice ice cream cone or something, she just runs to run and to help other people. She [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.joeware.net/2008/08/18/1430/</link>
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		<title>American Idol Top 12</title>
		<description><![CDATA[
Dean said I am a hermit and couldn&#8217;t believe I didn&#8217;t know who won when he saw my last post. 
I truly do not know who won, please do not share that info with me. My head has seriously been very much down in the dirt the last 6-12 months with the CO stuff and [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.joeware.net/2008/08/15/1428/</link>
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		<title>American Idol</title>
		<description><![CDATA[So some of you noticed a while back that I wasn&#8217;t chatting up American Idol at all which I occasionally do. I am a music kind of guy and that is a show I find interesting at times. Well the thing is, with the stuff that happened the last year I didn&#8217;t actually watch it, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.joeware.net/2008/08/15/1426/</link>
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		<title>Under the things that make you go wtf???  category&#8230;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[How do you get [ADSI] as a shortcut for System.DirectoryServices.DirectoryEntry()???? Seriously.
From MSDN
What is ADSI? 
Active Directory Services Interfaces (ADSI) is a set of open interfaces that abstract the capabilities of directory services from different network providers to present a single view for accessing and managing network resources. Administrators and developers can use ADSI services to [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.joeware.net/2008/08/12/1424/</link>
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		<title>UpToDateness Vector (UTDV)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Brandon posted recently about the UTDV and how to get it in PowerShell. As he mentions in the blog post some chatter on AD Org got him and I going down another road in an offline email stream. This resulted in him finding a .NET method to get this over his really painful way he [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.joeware.net/2008/08/11/1423/</link>
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		<title>Active Directory LDAP Compliance</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I keep losing this link so posting here so I can find it later.  
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http://www.microsoft.com/windowsserver2003/techinfo/overview/ldapcomp.mspx
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Summary
This paper discusses the origins of Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (LDAP) within Microsoft products and, specifically, the implementation of and conformance to the LDAPv3 Proposed Standard within Microsoft Windows 2000 Server and Microsoft Windows Server 2003. Included for reference are [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.joeware.net/2008/08/11/1421/</link>
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		<title>History of Active Directory from someone who made it</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Recently there was a post on AD Org that spawned a discussion on the history of Active Directory. My friend ~Eric who is about as pragmatic as they come (though he can&#8217;t seem to get the hang of posting regular blog posts[1]) said well heck if we want the history of AD, lets all stop [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.joeware.net/2008/08/11/1420/</link>
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		<title>Using the memberof utility to determine if a user is a member of a specific group</title>
		<description><![CDATA[More from the mailbag&#8230;.
I just downloaded and tried your memberof utility, but I think I’m missing something. 
What I want to do is – in the Windows logon script – determine if the logged on user is in a particular group so I can take a specific action.&#160; The easy part has been to figure [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.joeware.net/2008/08/10/1419/</link>
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		<title>Good Illustrated Write-up on the Kaminsky DNS issue</title>
		<description><![CDATA[http://www.unixwiz.net/techtips/iguide-kaminsky-dns-vuln.html
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		<link>http://blog.joeware.net/2008/08/10/1418/</link>
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		<title>Little bit on Exchange Permissions</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Another one from the mailbag&#8230;
adfind -b cn=ZZZ,ou=Users,ou=AAA,ou=XXX,ou=ad,DC=YYY,DC=com dn msexchmailboxsecuritydescriptor publicDelegates publicDelegatesBL -f &#8220;(&#38;(objectcategory=person)(objectclass=user))&#8221; -sddc++ -resolvesids &#62;&#62; C:\textfile.txt  
what an i missing to pull permissions off a mailbox that they user has applied on the client. Say I have an account reviewer to my contacts in my mailbox  
Thanks for any help

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This one needed [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.joeware.net/2008/08/10/1416/</link>
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		<title>Quick answer to an email question about moving users between OUs</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This was part of a message in my inbox, it was about using OldCmp and this was one of the questions.

We want to move all the users into the appropriate OU based on the first two digits of their username. Can we move users into an OU? 
Something like: -move –b ou=Carlisle, dc=domain, dc=com –af [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.joeware.net/2008/08/10/1415/</link>
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		<title>Info on hacking the Massachusetts Bay Transit Authority</title>
		<description><![CDATA[http://www.tgdaily.com/content/view/38817/108/
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		<link>http://blog.joeware.net/2008/08/10/1414/</link>
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		<title>Troubleshooting a service stop&#8230;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Brian wrote up a great little article on the steps he took in troubleshooting a service that was crashing, I highly recommend this article.
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http://briandesmond.com/blog/archive/2008/08/05/msdtc-exits-on-pdce-transfer.aspx
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		<link>http://blog.joeware.net/2008/08/06/1413/</link>
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		<title>HowTo: Report on Password Changed Dates</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Got this question in the mailbag today, thought I would share as it is common question
I’m looking for a reference or some lead on how I can comprehensively report the date of the last time all user accounts passwords in AD were reset.&#160; I was wondering if you could point to something out there.

My response
You [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.joeware.net/2008/08/05/1411/</link>
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		<title>Giving up something precious&#8230;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Sometimes happiness is about giving up something precious to get something better. 
- Earl Hickey (My Name is Earl) 
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		<link>http://blog.joeware.net/2008/08/05/1410/</link>
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		<title>Misc TV Musings</title>
		<description><![CDATA[So I am watching TV the other day and there is a Saturn commercial raving how great a couple of their cars are and how &#8220;green&#8221; they are because they get 30 MPG on the highway&#8230; My Mustang GT gets 21-22 MPG when I am racing around town with the top down which includes doing [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.joeware.net/2008/07/24/1409/</link>
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		<title>Will I or won&#8217;t I be an MVP for another year?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Well my MVP lead is already asking for the year&#8217;s accomplishments to determine if I have been helpful enough to receive the MVP designation another year. I have to say this is absolutely the earliest this has happened in the ummmm 6, 7, or 8 years that I have been an MVP. It usually happens [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.joeware.net/2008/07/17/1408/</link>
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		<title>The problem with duplicate SPNs - alternate working title&#8230; KB321044++</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A pretty common issue out there in the real world is an error of something like
&#8220;There are multiple accounts with name XXX/YYYYYYYYYY of type DS_SERVICE_PRINCIPAL_NAME&#8221; or maybe that last bit is &#8220;of type 10&#8243;
floating about. 
The general guidance is to find the objects with the same SPNs and clean all but one of them up. [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.joeware.net/2008/07/17/1407/</link>
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		<title>The Forest, not the Domain is the security boundary in Windows Active Directory</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I was recently pinged by a friend who had some consultants in at his company and the consultants I guess were going on about how the domain is the security boundary and it is perfectly safe/acceptable to have a bunch of child domains that are run by disparate groups of admins.
THIS IS INCORRECT!
It has ALWAYS [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.joeware.net/2008/07/17/1406/</link>
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		<title>Very cool, Solar looking better and better</title>
		<description><![CDATA[http://news.cnet.com/8301-11128_3-9988923-54.html?hhTest=1
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		<link>http://blog.joeware.net/2008/07/13/1405/</link>
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		<title>The HP Way</title>
		<description><![CDATA[http://grenouille-bouillie.blogspot.com/2008/05/where-did-hp-way-go.html
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Good article. 
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		<link>http://blog.joeware.net/2008/07/13/1404/</link>
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		<title>Power from Algae</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Yet another alternative energy source&#8230;
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http://www.valcent.net/i/misc/Vertigro/index.html
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		<link>http://blog.joeware.net/2008/07/13/1403/</link>
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		<title>Life of a poor tech support guy&#8230;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[http://www.thewebsiteisdown.com/
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		<link>http://blog.joeware.net/2008/07/12/1402/</link>
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		<title>Dotted Line Managers and Reports To in Active Directory and/or ADAM</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Someone on ActiveDir Org (and actually the umich LDAP list) were asking about putting multivalued manager info into AD for dotted line reports. Active Directory&#8217;s manager attribute is single valued so this won&#8217;t work. You get one manager, have a nice day.  
Well this someone wants MSFT to add this to their schema, it [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.joeware.net/2008/07/12/1401/</link>
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		<title>Replication of lastLogonTimeStamp revisited</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Back in May of last year I mentioned that Longhorn RODCs would have an issue with updating lastLogonTimeStamp. This was indeed the case at the time. I just wanted to revisit the topic and say that the DS team at MSFT realized that was a serious problem and put in some special functionality into Windows [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.joeware.net/2008/07/10/1400/</link>
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		<title>Happy Independence Day U.S.A</title>
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		<link>http://blog.joeware.net/2008/07/04/1399/</link>
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		<title>Masks</title>
		<description><![CDATA[All of us wear masks. They can be worn out of love and the desire to remain close to those around us. To spare them from the complicated reality of afraid psyches. We trade honesty for companionship. And in that process never truly know the hearts closest to us.
&#160;&#160;&#160; - Sarah Connor (Terminator: The Sarah [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.joeware.net/2008/07/03/1396/</link>
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		<title>100 MPH</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Driving a car at 100MPH is a supported function by the auto manufacturer. Driving a car at 100MPH into a wall likely isn&#8217;t though you may not find specific guidance saying it isn&#8217;t. The fact that you can is a byproduct to the supported functionality combined with free will. 
&#160;&#160; - me (in response to [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.joeware.net/2008/07/02/1395/</link>
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		<title>Whoa - Starbucks to close 600 U.S. Stores&#8230;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This is fully 10% of the Starbucks stores in Seattle, whatever will they do if you can&#8217;t hit a Starbucks on all four corners of every intersection? ;o)
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http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5hinV1XVpDeRBwTJTEpQCkvIcoMJAD91LG05O0
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		<link>http://blog.joeware.net/2008/07/02/1394/</link>
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		<title>Worst practices&#8230;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[One of the worst practices in older firms is managing to metrics with the end result being a practice where you award people who are doing really bad things to the company.
&#160;&#160;&#160; - Rob Enderle (TechNewsWorld - http://www.technewsworld.com/story/hardware/63604.html?welcome=1214841647)
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		<link>http://blog.joeware.net/2008/06/30/1393/</link>
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		<title>200,000+ IOPS out of an HP C-Class blade system in 2009????</title>
		<description><![CDATA[http://computerworld.co.nz/news.nsf/tech/99A7774F067EA284CC257474007C0076
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Hewlett-Packard is working with Fusion-io to adapt the start-up&#8217;s high-performance, solid-state input/output storage technology to HP&#8217;s enterprise servers to improve their data access performance and energy efficiency. 

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&#8220;With our ioMemory architecture, we&#8217;re getting more than 200,000 IOPS within HP BladeSystem c-Class server blades today,&#8221; says Don Basile, Fusion-io&#8217;s chief executive officer. &#8220;So, working together with [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.joeware.net/2008/06/29/1392/</link>
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		<title>PowerShell</title>
		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;PowerShell is the COBOL of the scripting world. In that I mean as you type out what you need to do your fingers actually get tired. Powerful no doubt, but it will require most PowerShell scripters to buy a gripmaster to build up finger strength for those marathon scripting sessions or more likely, there will [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.joeware.net/2008/06/28/1391/</link>
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		<title>Thank you Bill. :)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I don&#8217;t expect Bill Gates will ever see this blog post but with Bill&#8217;s retirement from full time Microsoft operations I just wanted to offer a very sincere and heart felt &#8220;thank you very much Bill&#8221;. 
Regardless of what anyone says of Bill or Microsoft, the face of computing is very different now than it [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.joeware.net/2008/06/27/1390/</link>
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		<title>Was this Domain Controller a product of normal DCPromo or IFM DCPromo?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A friend of mine pinged me recently and asked
&#8230; can you think of way of determining with certainty that a DC was IFM promoted or not based on its DIT (logs are say long since retired)

I thought about this a moment,&#160; furrowed my brow for another moment and then started down the path involving a [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.joeware.net/2008/06/25/1383/</link>
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		<title>Most recent home project</title>
		<description><![CDATA[ I raised a flag pole just in time for Flag Day&#8230; 
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I still have quite a few rocks to put down as you can see. I will surround the whole flag pole with them and then put some nice soil over the top of it and then plant wild flower seeds. [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.joeware.net/2008/06/22/1382/</link>
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		<title>I know this will fit right in with many companies out there&#8230;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[
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		<link>http://blog.joeware.net/2008/06/22/1373/</link>
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		<title>Major MUD Scripts&#8230;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Wow I went looking and actually found the SLIQ Major MUD scripts I talked about in the last post. Or at least I think I found most of them, even then I broke the stuff up into multiple files and modules. 
I was poking around in one piece and found this section which was one [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.joeware.net/2008/06/19/1370/</link>
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		<title>Scripting / SysAdmin Meme</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Well Darren has effectively said &#8220;Tag, you&#8217;re it&#8221; for this Scripting/Sysadmin Meme that is going around. I kind of liken this to the emails that say send this to 7 of your friends immediately but since I am not actually forwarding it, you have to come to me to read it, I will play.  [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.joeware.net/2008/06/19/1369/</link>
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		<title>Hilarious response&#8230;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I saw this on an email today and had to share as it cracked me right up&#8230;
One very intelligent analyst I know was asked if a customer should be queried about the scope of a given project. His response was
&#8220;They will ask us for a 2008 Lincoln Continental. We&#8217;re reasonably equipped to deliver a 2001 [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.joeware.net/2008/06/19/1368/</link>
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		<title>Question about configuring Active Roles Server property validation policies&#8230;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[So I am working on Active Roles Server (ARS for now on&#8230;) and ran into a little issue that had me thinking for a little bit&#8230;
The thing was that I needed to auto-generate the user name and it needed to be 
[LASTNAME],[SPACE][FIRSTNAME][SPACE][INITIALS]
So for example, say I have John Q. Public the name attribute (aka cn [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.joeware.net/2008/06/19/1367/</link>
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		<title>PowerShell + S.DS.Protocols Versus AdFind Redux&#8230; Sorta</title>
		<description><![CDATA[So you will recall my previous post on AdFind and PowerShell using S.DS.Protocols&#8230; 
If you read activedir.org you will know that I realized some odd things occurred&#8230; I didn&#8217;t want to post back here until I had some more understanding of what is going on but now almost 2 weeks later I still haven&#8217;t a [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.joeware.net/2008/06/18/1366/</link>
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		<title>Directory Experts Conference renamed&#8230;. Dates and places Officially announced.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[http://biz.yahoo.com/iw/080618/0408055.html
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http://www.tec2009.com/
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		<link>http://blog.joeware.net/2008/06/18/1365/</link>
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