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Happy Winter Solstice. :)

by @ Thursday, December 22nd, 2011. Filed under general

To all… Have safe and restive celebrations. Apologies for not getting much done in this space this last year, I will endeavor to perform better in the coming year. 🙂   And so as to not insult (real or imagined) anyone out there, a purely scientific salutation!   Rating 4.00 out of 5

O’Reilly Updating eBooks…

by @ Saturday, December 17th, 2011. Filed under general

http://briandesmond.com/blog/active-directory-4th-edition-updates/   This seems kind of weird to me… So now we need version numbers on books. Person1: Active Directory 4th Edition says xxx and yyy. Person2: No it doesn’t, it says aaa and bbb. Rating 3.00 out of 5

Updated WordPress Version…

by @ Wednesday, December 14th, 2011. Filed under general

I have updated the WordPress software, if you run into issues, let me know. 🙂        joe Rating 3.00 out of 5

Two-Factor Authentication for AD as a best-practice or standard?

by @ Monday, December 12th, 2011. Filed under tech

Is anyone out there using 2FA for AD as a best practice or their standard? I am not asking about things like VPN, I am simply meaning basic AD auth once you are already on the internal network.     joe Rating 3.00 out of 5

Calling all techno-nerds/geeks…

by @ Thursday, December 8th, 2011. Filed under tech

If you haven’t noticed, Radio Shack is making an honest attempt at wrangling in all the geeks/nerds that used to go hang out there back in the 80’s. Check out this DIY website they have set up, lots of cool Arduino projects. http://www.radioshackdiy.com/ If there were only more time in the days for me… I […]

Another alternative energy source

by @ Tuesday, December 6th, 2011. Filed under alternatives

This is pretty cool, based on a Stirling Engine which was originally conceived in the early 1800’s!   http://www.whispergen.com   http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stirling_engine Rating 4.33 out of 5

Panning for Gold…

by @ Tuesday, November 22nd, 2011. Filed under quotes

Using scripts to process data is more like panning for gold than transmuting lead into gold. So if there is gold in the garbage, the scripts can find it, consolidate it, and output it in a shiny pretty form. If there isn’t any gold, then you will just get some finely sorted and polished garbage. […]

Target Cleanup of sIDHistory Revisited

by @ Sunday, November 20th, 2011. Filed under tech

I recently had a conversation with an Active Directory engineer who was working on some token bloat issues. As AD has pushed past the decade mark I seem to be seeing/hearing more and more of this bloat problem as many companies continue consolidating groups into and creating new groups in AD without cleanup or normalization. […]

Bad Programmers

by @ Friday, October 21st, 2011. Filed under humour

http://badprogrammer.infogami.com/   I especially enjoyed this piece   Signs that you shouldn’t be a programmer The following may not have any remedies if you still suffer from them after taking a programming course in school, so you will stand a better chance of advancing your career by choosing another profession. 1. Inability to determine the […]

WordPress sites working incorrectly with Windows Live Writer (WLW)

by @ Friday, October 21st, 2011. Filed under tech

As some of you may have noticed over the last few weeks as I found time I was posting test posts to the blog after several of the most recent "real"[1] posts got FUBAR’ed after posting and I wasn’t bright enough to go back and look at the post right away to validate that it […]

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