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Stuart: Hmm. Nice not to drink alone. Raj: Amen to that. Sometimes I pour a little chardonnay into my dog’s water bowl. Stuart: You’re kidding. Raj: She’s kind of a mean drunk, but what are you gonna do? Stuart: Cheers. Raj: Cheers. – Big Bang Theory Rating 4.00 out of 5
The story so far: In the beginning the Universe was created. This has made a lot of people very angry and been widely regarded as a bad move. – Douglas Adams Rating 4.25 out of 5
I haven’t forgotten… I am playing with the MediaWiki software actually right this second (well 2 minutes ago) and have decided to read a book on MediaWiki on Books24x7 so I understand it a little more. I don’t want something out on my webserver that I don’t have a fairly decent understanding of – especially […]
If you had to set up a system to track applications in an Enterprise and their Infrastructure Requirements, say like they point to a specific DC or use specific domain IDs or a specific SMTP server or other things like that, what would you use? This would be something that Application owners/specialists could get into […]
I had intended, actually strike that, I had thought I had written a blog entry about the urban legends surrounding the dreaded 5 minutes of Kerberos skew. Basically it was to be a story around the fear everyone has about our clocks going outside of 5 minutes of skew and then never being able to […]
Pre-Creating Computer Accounts When you create a machine account in Active Directory via ADUC (DSA.MSC), by default Windows generates a random (possibly, perhaps even probably non-printable) password for the computer account. If you select the “Assign this computer account as a pre-Windows 2000 computer” it takes the sAMAccountName, removes the trailing $ and then takes […]
If you have a Windows XP SP3 or Windows Server 2003 SP2 machine that goes really slow for GPO application (like tens of minutes or even hours) and the network trace looks something like I.E. Read AndX Request and Response with small values like 2-4 bytes over and over again until it gets through […]
For anyone interested, here is a link to some free training on using and becoming more efficient with Google search called Power Searching with Google. http://insidesearch.blogspot.com/2012/09/power-searching-with-google-is-back.html Rating 3.00 out of 5
I was digging into an issue and saw lots of search result hits around HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Winlogon and the BufferPolicyReads value in particular all referring back http://support.microsoft.com/kb/319440 and some of them mentioned making the change on Domain Controllers and some of them mentioned making the change on Vista and/or Windows 7. I just peeked at the […]
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