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I am not a GPO expert nor fan, I could be wrong with things here. If I am, be sure to comment and correct me. I do know for a fact however that the steps outlined will result in being able to use local machine policies while the machine is in a domain; I tested it […]

Y’all haven’t noticed it but out of the blue starting Saturday my blog has been getting blasted by spam. Usually I don’t have a problem with spam because the list of black listed words I have is extensive and unforgiving and any comment that has one of those words gets dropped with no notification to anyone; […]

This should be well known at this point but doesn’t appear to be as I continue to see questions and problems around this…. There are multiple formats of a userid that can be used for authentication depending on the type of authentication. For most authentications you can use either the NT format which is Domain\SAMAccountName or the […]

Get over it.   Rating 3.00 out of 5

Steve is a bright guy… Listen to him. http://blogs.msdn.com/spatdsg/archive/2006/05/15/598260.aspx         joe Rating 3.00 out of 5

I realized my current main desktop machine is now 30 months old and while it still is decent I would like to upgrade it. I have had a terrible time with Windows Rot as of late because the machine hasn’t been reloaded since I first set it up… A new record for me, normally my machines […]

I {love} my media center. It changed how I watched TV, I don’t watch live TV anymore. Ever. It is amazing how it gets the shows I want and how I can zip through the commercials and pretty much just watch TV the way I want. Sure I have some complaints like it encodes files […]

The last item in the magazine that really caught my attention was the {END BRACKET} piece. That is usually pretty good and why often I will be reading a magazine I will flip to the last page to determine if I want to keep on reading. Often it is sort of a recap of everything […]

Ok on to the next article… It was written by Jeffrey Richter. If you don’t know who that is, you are obviously not someone who has taken Windows programming seriously. That is fine if you don’t consider yourself a programmer, otherwise, please go code for the GNU folks; you shouldn’t be near Windows. In the […]

The first article is about moving from Visual Studio 2003 to Visual Studio 2005. I thought, this should be a good article… I don’t actually use either IDE (Borland guy here…) but it is good to see what others say about them. I am reading away and then got a trifle perturbed… There was a […]