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Virtual DC Poll Results

by @ Monday, May 13th, 2013. Filed under tech

Once again, apologies for the slow turnaround time on this. It was a combination of being really busy with my real job along with the poor questions I asked and the way the poll plugin worked. I had to work out how to extract the raw data from the MySQL DB to make some real […]

The Cloud…

by @ Friday, May 10th, 2013. Filed under quotes

"The Cloud" – that place where all of your IT issues are solved. But the sales folks are a little "nebulous" on exactly how… — joe (@joewaredotnet) May 11, 2013 Rating 4.60 out of 5

Correction on USENET AD Group Posting from March 2007…

by @ Wednesday, May 8th, 2013. Filed under tech

I responded to a USENET AD Group post back in March 2007 and unfortunately someone pinged me on it and said the command line I specified didn’t work. I looked at it and immediately saw that I had made a mistake. The post can be found here: http://help.lockergnome.com/windows2/enforce-password-required–ftopict483580.html The AdFind query is supposed to find […]

Best Practices for Securing Active Directory – Published April 26, 2013

by @ Thursday, May 2nd, 2013. Filed under tech

http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=38785 (I am only a little miffed I wasn’t invited to review this… thanks Laura…) Protecting Domain Controllers Domain controllers should be treated as critical infrastructure components, secured more stringently and configured more rigidly than file, print, and application servers. Domain controllers should not run any software that is not required for the domain controller […]

Where the <bleep> is the virtual DC Poll info?

by @ Friday, April 26th, 2013. Filed under tech

I am working on it. I learned a things with that poll… 1. That software wasn’t designed to host a poll with multiple questions 2. I need to write better questions, some people seemed confused with the answers they gave. 3. Some people like to stuff the ballot box (didn’t think I would look at […]

Definition of Infinite Loop

by @ Monday, April 1st, 2013. Filed under general

https://twitter.com/joewaredotnet/status/318748605664088066 Rating 4.50 out of 5

The Cloud… A Public Service Announcement

by @ Monday, April 1st, 2013. Filed under humour

Cloud: a visible mass of particles of condensed vapor (as water or ice) suspended in the atmosphere of a planet (as the earth) or moon. Think back a few short years ago, that simple word brought wonderful visions of beautiful light airy vapor floating aimlessly across the sky. Visualize it, if you can… Whole afternoons […]

Need to be Online but Offline in Lync?

by @ Tuesday, March 26th, 2013. Filed under general

Using you favorite Registry editor go to \HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Policies\Microsoft\Communicator, then add a DWORD called EnableAppearOffline (32bit) and give it a value of 1. Restart Lync and the status should be there. Rating 4.00 out of 5

Don’t be afraid…

by @ Friday, March 22nd, 2013. Filed under quotes

Eventually everyone and everything will be forgotten. So what does that mean? Don’t be afraid to make mistakes, in the end it doesn’t matter and no one will remember. Rating 4.40 out of 5

Humans 100% inaccurate in understanding Ground Hog Weather Prediction

by @ Monday, March 18th, 2013. Filed under humour

So according to http://earthsky.org/earth/groundhog-day-2013-how-accurate-is-punxsutawney-phil our favorite ground hog, Punxsutawney Phil is only accurate 39% of the time. Is this just the weather people trying to feel better about themselves? What if it isn’t Phil’s accuracy that is poor, with 61% of the time incorrectly predicting weather… What if in fact it is humans reading the […]

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