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Archive for July, 2007

Reboot is rarely the correct answer

by @ Tuesday, July 31st, 2007. Filed under general

I get a chuckle with how many places will see SYMPTOMS of some sort and the first thing they come up will be to _decide_ the problem is that they need to reboot a DC. If I had to give this form of troubleshooting a name I would give it something like “Wishful thinking”, “I should […]

Two years later… Are we any more secure now?

by @ Monday, July 23rd, 2007. Filed under tech

No updates.   http://blog.joeware.net/2006/07/18/447/ Rating 3.00 out of 5

New Utility – Unjoin V1.1.0

by @ Tuesday, July 17th, 2007. Filed under updates

My friend Dean was griping about NETDOM a while back and how it wasn’t working for him on something. I was, as I seem to be most of the time now, swamped under water with a reed to breath through so unfortunately I didn’t have much time to chat with him about the problem and […]

LDAP Application Developers get off your collective asses already

by @ Thursday, July 12th, 2007. Filed under tech

I am about sick to death of running into LDAP apps that need hardcoded host names. What the hell is wrong with you people? There is a perfectly good RFC out there for locating LDAP Services (as well as other services) that works quite well and you still refuse to use it. FYI, if you […]

For my friends that work at VMWARE….

by @ Monday, July 9th, 2007. Filed under general

Remember me when you are rich. 🙂 http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/19684842/ “VMWare IPO could raise $1.1 billion” I don’t quite understand why Intel is buying 9.5 million shares… Anyone understand that? Rating 3.00 out of 5

PS3 60GB model cut by $100

by @ Monday, July 9th, 2007. Filed under general

IMO, still ridiculously high and I can’t see myself spending money on it. http://blogs.pcworld.com/gameon/archives/004841.html Even the XBOX 360 is too expensive but when the new Halo comes out, I expect I will be buying it. Rating 3.00 out of 5

Finally upgraded XP Media Center to Vista Ultimate

by @ Monday, July 9th, 2007. Filed under tech

I meant to do this last December/January but it just wouldn’t come up on the “I have time to do” list. Well my XP Media Center started acting really weird with stuttering sound the last few days and acting like it was out of resource but it had plenty of CPU, RAM, and disk IOPS […]

The iPhone

by @ Saturday, July 7th, 2007. Filed under general

$600 for the phone and $90 for the replacement battery…. Come on… Are people really standing in line for that thing? Can’t wait to see their expression when they drop it in the toilet or on the road and it gets run over… The expressions will be priceless. I am really enjoying my, what was […]

Microsoft and GPLv3 article

by @ Saturday, July 7th, 2007. Filed under general

Kind of interesting http://tech.monstersandcritics.com/news/article_1326936.php/Microsoft_claims_exemption_from_GPLv3 Personally I think MSFT should say, you know what, fine we won’t play here, then go work with the BSD folks like Apple did. Stallman would be standing there with no one else to play with. Long term I see a space for the UNIX-ish Operating Systems but I also think that […]

VMRCPlus is here… and if you use Virtual Server you should be using it…

by @ Friday, July 6th, 2007. Filed under tech

I mentioned this tool previously. I was one of the lucky bastards who received a copy of it a long time ago and used it exclusively for managing the Virtual Server I have (mostly because it is great but also because my IIS VS Management Console melted down). Now everyone can have it. 🙂 http://blogs.technet.com/matthts/ […]

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