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Archive for December, 2012

End of the World…

by @ Thursday, December 20th, 2012. Filed under general

So tomorrow is supposed to be the end of the world… So I encourage you to hit the tip jar in the corner and donate your entire or most of your life savings or perhaps even $12.21, $1,221, or $12,212,012. If that last one, I will give you free support on all joeware tools for […]

Perl, the first 25 years…

by @ Wednesday, December 19th, 2012. Filed under general

In the Beginning… The beginnings are rather simple, and maybe a little mundane; Larry Wall (Tim Toady) released version 1.0 to the newsgroup comp.sources.misc on the 18th December 1987 while working as a programmer at Unisys. Perl was intended, we believe, to be a Unix scripting language to make report processing easier borrowing from sh, […]

Samba does Active Directory now… Whoah. Part Deux

by @ Tuesday, December 18th, 2012. Filed under tech

So I previously http://blog.joeware.net/2012/12/13/2650/ pointed out an article talking about AD Support in Samba 4.0. Upon further reading around on the Samba Wiki, white papers, and release notes etc, the article appears to be a little over generous on the functionality. One thing specifically that I was shocked to read is this In addition, the […]

Google Maps Available for i* devices again!

by @ Thursday, December 13th, 2012. Filed under general

https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/google-maps/id585027354?mt=8 Rating 4.00 out of 5

Samba does Active Directory now… Whoah.

by @ Thursday, December 13th, 2012. Filed under tech

I had no idea they were still working on this… Could be interesting. Test well before putting these into production…. http://www.theregister.co.uk/2012/12/11/samba4_active_directory_support/ Rating 4.50 out of 5

iSCSI SAN?

by @ Wednesday, December 12th, 2012. Filed under tech

So I am starting to poke around and sort out how I want to rebuild my test lab setup as I have been ramping back up on using it and finding it is a little anemic occasionally. Currently I am running off of SuperFastVirtualMofo which is an Intel Quad box I built back in the […]

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