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Archive for September, 2008

Smart Updates of bitwise attributes

by @ Friday, September 5th, 2008. Filed under tech

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™  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’s […]

Why isn’t serviceClassName in the PAS?

by @ Friday, September 5th, 2008. Filed under tech

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>objectClass: top>objectClass: joeware-ServerClass>objectClass: leaf>objectClass: connectionPoint>objectClass: […]

Love Jon Stewart….

by @ Friday, September 5th, 2008. Filed under humour

http://www.thedailyshow.com/video/index.jhtml?videoId=184086&title=sarah-palin-gender-card Rating 3.00 out of 5

VMWARE and MICROSOFT WORKING WELL TOGETHER

by @ Thursday, September 4th, 2008. Filed under tech

Imagine that… http://www.vmware.com/company/news/releases/svvp.html   PALO ALTO, Calif. – Sept 3, 2008 — 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 […]

Finally Done!

by @ Thursday, September 4th, 2008. Filed under general

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 […]

Love Mythbusters… But they were gagged by Discovery Channel and Texas Instruments…

by @ Thursday, September 4th, 2008. Filed under general

http://consumerist.com/5043831/mythbusters-gagged-credit-card-companies-kill-episode-exposing-rfid-security-flaws   Credit card companies successfully nixed a Mythbusters segment exposing RFID’s security flaws, according to Arbiter of Truth and Mythbusters co-host, Adam Savage. Rating 3.00 out of 5

All done with Western Digital

by @ Thursday, September 4th, 2008. Filed under general

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 […]

Very cool – HP Reduced laptop packaging by not 10%, not 50%, but 97%….

by @ Wednesday, September 3rd, 2008. Filed under general

http://uk.reuters.com/article/environmentNews/idUKN0241925420080903   SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) – A Hewlett-Packard Co (HPQ.N: Quote, Profile, Research) notebook computer that’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’s Pavilion dv6929, which Wal-Mart and Sam’s Club stores are selling for $798, […]

American Idol Wrapup…

by @ Wednesday, September 3rd, 2008. Filed under general

Top 4 show… David Cook didn’t sound so good in his first song – actually he sounded kind of flat. Babba O’Riley was ok, not great. You need to bang that song out, he didn’t, he shouted it. Don’t agree with Simon on Syesha’s performance of Proud Mary, I thought it was pretty good. Not […]

Random mailbag question – CPAU returning data to the calling process

by @ Tuesday, September 2nd, 2008. Filed under tech

Got this in the inbox… Hi Joe, Thanks great tool. One quick question, I’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 “runas” account a lot of local access […]

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