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Active Directory in "the cloud"…

by @ Wednesday, June 13th, 2012. Filed under tech

Tech Ed presentation by our (or at least my) good friend Deano. http://channel9.msdn.com/Events/TechEd/NorthAmerica/2012/SIA205   I haven’t made it all the way through the presentation yet, I choked a bit when he said virtual DCs were completely safe in Windows Server 2012. That is one of those things that comes back and haunts you as famous […]

Perl advent calendars…

by @ Monday, June 11th, 2012. Filed under tech

http://perladvent.pm.org/2000/ http://perladvent.pm.org/2001/ http://perladvent.pm.org/2002/ http://perladvent.pm.org/2003/ http://perladvent.pm.org/2004/ http://perladvent.pm.org/2005/ http://perladvent.pm.org/2006/ http://perladvent.pm.org/2007/ http://perladvent.pm.org/2008/ http://perladvent.pm.org/2009/ http://perladvent.pm.org/2010/ http://perladvent.pm.org/2011/ Rating 4.50 out of 5

MachinePwd V01.00.00 Released

by @ Thursday, June 7th, 2012. Filed under tech

The new utility I wrote that I mentioned in my previous post http://blog.joeware.net/2012/06/05/2508/, MachinePwd, has been released. You can find it in the usual place I keep all of the utilities which is here –> http://www.joeware.net/freetools or you can go directly to the MachinePwd utility page which is here –> http://www.joeware.net/freetools/tools/machinepwd   Quick Summary of […]

Windows 7 Media Player got a burr under its bonnet…

by @ Wednesday, June 6th, 2012. Filed under tech

I noticed that my laptop’s Media Player library wasn’t properly updating so I went through the self help process and it was completely useless, told me the DB was corrupt but didn’t fix it. I finally found a post that helped me correct it. I share it here both so I can find it easier […]

The trust relationship between this workstation and the primary domain failed.

by @ Tuesday, June 5th, 2012. Filed under tech

Ever see that message before? How about on a machine that was previously working just perfectly? It’s anything but [OK]. You can usually think of some different verbiage that should be in the button under that message… Especially when the machine has special software on it that takes offense when you remove a machine from […]

No more Aero…

by @ Thursday, May 24th, 2012. Filed under general

http://blogs.msdn.com/b/b8/archive/2012/05/18/creating-the-windows-8-user-experience.aspx Microsoft is killing Aero in Windows 8. Except for the excessive performance hit (I figured they would work that out) I actually liked Aero but then I was the guy looking for alternate desktops all the way back in W2K time frames for alternate desktop systems with transparent window capability. I like the look. […]

View and Extract From MSI files

by @ Thursday, May 17th, 2012. Filed under tech

http://code.google.com/p/lessmsi/ Rating 3.00 out of 5

You must be a flag…

by @ Wednesday, May 2nd, 2012. Filed under quotes

To rise in this company you must be a flag, willing to blow in whatever direction the wind says to blow. Rating 4.33 out of 5

Make your own animated movies online…

by @ Tuesday, May 1st, 2012. Filed under general

http://www.xtranormal.com/ Rating 3.00 out of 5

Well we are calling it all cloud now because that makes you want to buy more stuff from us.

by @ Friday, April 27th, 2012. Filed under humour

CIO: Isn’t that all just the internet? That is hardly news. SALESGUY: Well we are calling it all cloud now because that makes you want to buy more stuff from us.   http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NHpKhVGAYuw   Overheard in one of many Fortune X companies… Rating 4.00 out of 5

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