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We’re now providing the same level of service to our subscribers at zero the cost…

by @ Tuesday, February 5th, 2013. Filed under humour

"Gentlemen, today I moved Kabletown’s Customer Service to a part of India that has no phones. We’re now providing the same level of service to our subscribers at zero the cost."   I will really really really miss 30 Rock… Rating 4.50 out of 5

Decoding the Caller Logon ID value in event logs

by @ Monday, January 14th, 2013. Filed under tech

I was pinged today by a coworker who was trying to track down password change audit entries that looked something like: Event Type:        Success Audit Event Source:    Security Event Category:                Account Management Event ID:              628 Date:                     1/14/2013 Time:                     2:52:32 PM User:                     NT AUTHORITY\SYSTEM Computer:         DCNAME Description: User Account password set:                Target Account Name:   USERID […]

Active Directory 5th Edition Tech Review…. CHECK!

by @ Tuesday, January 8th, 2013. Filed under general

Officially done tech reviewing Active Directory 5th Edition. WOOOOOOOOOO HOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO! Nice to get that behind me. 🙂      joe Rating 4.50 out of 5

Happiness…

by @ Tuesday, January 8th, 2013. Filed under quotes

Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony.   -Mahatma Gandhi Rating 4.33 out of 5

Windows Server vNext

by @ Monday, January 7th, 2013. Filed under humour

The following feature information of Windows Server vNext information is not NDA, repeat not NDA… Due to the fact that it has been arbitrarily determined that the minimum barrier of something you know combined with something you have is too low for authenticating administrators, a new requirement to bring default administrator authentication up to three-factor […]

dsWiki Security Change

by @ Friday, January 4th, 2013. Filed under general

You may or may not have noticed but we had a rash of spam hit dsWiki. Something was creating accounts and spamming. So to combat this I have now set it up to require a valid email address that you need to validate in order to edit. I am going to try to look into […]

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

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