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Archive for December, 2011

Default Tombstone Lifetime yet again… Alternate working title: TechNet why do you hate tombstoneLifetime and correct information?

by @ Wednesday, December 28th, 2011. Filed under tech

Many moons ago I wrote a post about how a TechNet article on the default tombstone lifetime was wrong. That TechNet article eventually ended up getting corrected at some point though it doesn’t seem to be properly linked anymore to the GUID URL that I had for it – so much for theory of never […]

Happy Winter Solstice. :)

by @ Thursday, December 22nd, 2011. Filed under general

To all… Have safe and restive celebrations. Apologies for not getting much done in this space this last year, I will endeavor to perform better in the coming year. 🙂   And so as to not insult (real or imagined) anyone out there, a purely scientific salutation!   Rating 4.00 out of 5

O’Reilly Updating eBooks…

by @ Saturday, December 17th, 2011. Filed under general

http://briandesmond.com/blog/active-directory-4th-edition-updates/   This seems kind of weird to me… So now we need version numbers on books. Person1: Active Directory 4th Edition says xxx and yyy. Person2: No it doesn’t, it says aaa and bbb. Rating 3.00 out of 5

Updated WordPress Version…

by @ Wednesday, December 14th, 2011. Filed under general

I have updated the WordPress software, if you run into issues, let me know. 🙂        joe Rating 3.00 out of 5

Two-Factor Authentication for AD as a best-practice or standard?

by @ Monday, December 12th, 2011. Filed under tech

Is anyone out there using 2FA for AD as a best practice or their standard? I am not asking about things like VPN, I am simply meaning basic AD auth once you are already on the internal network.     joe Rating 3.00 out of 5

Calling all techno-nerds/geeks…

by @ Thursday, December 8th, 2011. Filed under tech

If you haven’t noticed, Radio Shack is making an honest attempt at wrangling in all the geeks/nerds that used to go hang out there back in the 80’s. Check out this DIY website they have set up, lots of cool Arduino projects. http://www.radioshackdiy.com/ If there were only more time in the days for me… I […]

Another alternative energy source

by @ Tuesday, December 6th, 2011. Filed under alternatives

This is pretty cool, based on a Stirling Engine which was originally conceived in the early 1800’s!   http://www.whispergen.com   http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stirling_engine Rating 4.33 out of 5

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