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Archive for June 27th, 2006

Hey buddy… can you spare a billion US Dollars? How about $30 billion?

by @ Tuesday, June 27th, 2006. Filed under tech

This is the new definition of generous… http://www.forbes.com/business/2006/06/27/billion-donation-gates-cz_ts_0627buffett.html Warren Buffett’s stunning announcement that he will give $30 billion of his $44 billion Berkshire Hathaway (nyse: BRKA – news – people ) fortune to the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation shows that the billionaire titans of today want serious advances in the world’s health, science and […]

Why Skype is bad…

by @ Tuesday, June 27th, 2006. Filed under tech

Interesting comments in the blog below… http://blogs.technet.com/usefultechnology/archive/2006/06/27/438172.aspx I had no idea that Skype did this super node business… But then I am not a big Skype user. You see, Skype is another way to spell TELEPHONE and we all know how I feel about those. I have exactly one person in my Skype contact list […]

Modifying ACLs on SAM objects (on local machines, not in AD…)

by @ Tuesday, June 27th, 2006. Filed under tech

I recently fielded a question on how to read/modify the ACL on a local group on a workstation. This made me think back because I haven’t done ACL mods on workstations in a while and then I realized I had never seen it done. I thought about it… does a local group in the SAM have […]

Being flexible is hard…

by @ Tuesday, June 27th, 2006. Filed under tech

I am sitting here watching Modern Marvels and working on ADMOD. I am _still_ working on the CSV/ADCSV functionality coupled with the flexible variable expansion I am putting in. It’s tough. Even tougher will be trying to document _how_ to use the full functionality I am putting in. Seriously, it isn’t going to be a […]

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