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My DVD burner in my Dell Studio 1749 failed so I had to replace it. I figured, this should be easy. I looked online and found a cheap drive on eBay for $17, it got to me in a couple of days. Replacing DVD drives is something I have done in previous HP laptops quickly […]

It is focused on web site code but free is free! jQuery JavaScript PHP Python Ruby API coding of things like YouTube, Twitter, SkyDrive, any many more…. http://www.codecademy.com Edit: Fixed URL Rating 4.00 out of 5

VIRUS/MALWARE ALERT: As always do not click on files that you get in email unless you know who it is from and you are expecting it and it is exactly what you expected. This is always the case but there is malware running around right now that we are actually seeing hit people that will […]

I am starting to look around for servers to replace Super Fast Virtual Mofo (SFVM) which hosts all of my virtual machines. I haven’t looked seriously at hardware in many years, actually since I built SFVM in 2007. As you may have noticed by how quiet it has been around here I have been exceptionally […]

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I recall sharing how to extend an Active Directory user’s password expiration previously somewhere, probably on the ActiveDir Org list but perhaps even in this blog… I don’t remember exactly where. This topic popped up in my head this morning because I saw via twitter (@joewaredotnet) that someone released a tool called "AD Password Extender" […]

It was terribly more difficult than it should have been but it has finally been accomplished. I have changed from some perl CGI scripts to some PHP scripts for download functionality so let me know if you have issues. Also I think there may be something a bit hinky going on in wordpress so I […]

Google apparently broke some IPv6 DNS lookup functionality in the latest rev of Chrome (v28.x) and folks who were using it to tunnel into corporate networks via DirectAccess suddenly stopped working. The simplest fix is to add the switch "–enable-ipv6" to the shortcut. Things should work great after that. Rating 4.00 out of 5

So I am trying to duplicate the output of a very simple AdFind command to locate a universal group and enumerate the members in a simple quoted DN format. I want identical output to the console or perhaps I could live without the quotes. The AdFind command looks like: adfind -gcb -f "displayname=some group displayname" […]