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Hewlett-Packard unveiled a memory chip the size of a tomato seed on Monday in its Palo Alto laboratories. The tiny chip, called the Memory Spot, can be attached unobtrusively to any object and carry media or data. The Memory Spot will rival RFID tags in carrying information on movable physical objects, but HP calls it […]

I was recently reading something where someone described a multi-tree forest as a forest with a disjoint namespace. This is not correct and since there seems to be quite a bit of confusion on what exactly a disjoint namespace and its supportability is I thought I would put some words out there about it since […]

The Active Directory domain is not a security boundary; it is a policy and replication boundary. The Active Directory domain is not a security boundary; it is a policy and replication boundary. The Active Directory domain is not a security boundary; it is a policy and replication boundary. The Active Directory domain is not a […]

Ever see the error This Active Directory installation requires domain configuration changes, but whether these changes have been made on the domain controller xxx.domain.com is undetermined. The installation process has quit. “The system cannot find the file specified.” when doing a DCPROMO? I was going through my emails trying to clean up and hit one […]

I had an interesting day troubleshooting hard disk issues. The first problem was in a machine that hosts a bunch of my virtual machines I use for testing scenarios for work. It was running slower and slower as the last few days went by and boot times had doubled from the normal time frame on the […]

It is patch Tuesday and there is at least one critical that folks should probably pay attention to if they just plain run Windows. http://www.microsoft.com/technet/security/Bulletin/MS06-035.mspx Mailslots used to be used quite extensively on Windows and still are in use now. That messenger service, no not that MSN Messenger thing, the one that receives NET SEND […]

No more Windows 98, Windows 98 SE, and Windows ME support…. FINALLY!!!!! http://www.microsoft.com/windows/support/endofsupport.mspx   I know it is probably just me but I hated Windows 95/98/ME. As soon as NT4 was available and I got a hold of it I was running that. Prior to that I worked on a lot of DEC RSTS/E and […]

Well I just got a majority of the CSV import new object code into admod and debugged and just wanted to share how cool it is… Check this out… The command being run is on the spot pulling all of the OUs in a domain (all 13160 of them…) and creating them in ADAM…. One […]

The summary of this post is that if you are using a c++ Standard Template Library (STL) container and you need to iterate through it… use an iterator… That is what they are there for. I admit, I am not the greatest c++ coder but I can generally find my way around without too much […]

Matheesha left a comment on Change Password versus Set Password entry that is actually quite good and I hear on a regular basis… That question being “Hey, what’s up with PWD_NOT_REQD??” The short and sweet… Don’t use it. It isn’t required and shouldn’t be used. The slightly longer and slightly less sweet… PWD_NOT_REQD is a […]