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Spam and virus based email sucks which for the remainder of this entry will all be called spam because I treat it all the same. I can tell when we hit the holidays because it seems the amount of spam increases by a near order of magnitude. Does anyone actually ever buy things from spam? […]

Well it seems one of my favorite magazines has been discontinued – C/C++ Users Journal. That is one of two magazines I looked forward to seeing, the other magazine is Scientific American. Both of the magazines generally spawn similar thoughts in my head when reading them… Oh that is cool and Wow I should probably […]

It is available from Windows Update now or from the following links below. If you use the internet or receive email with a client that displays images, you probably want this patch. http://www.microsoft.com/technet/security/Bulletin/ms06-001.mspx Downloads: XP http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=0c1b4c96-57ae-499e-b89b-215b7bb4d8e9 Server 2003 http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=1584aae0-51ce-47d6-9a03-db5b9077f1f2 2000 http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=aa9e27bd-cb9a-4ef1-92a3-00ffe7b2ac74 XP x64 http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=3a1166e6-5e9e-4e73-bcd4-28eca6ece877 Windows Server x64 http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=a8f4dcba-5d28-4d9d-a6a4-3b71108cfe2d Rating 3.00 out of 5

I have agreed to be one of the technical review folks for the AD Cookbook 2E. If you are an AD person and don’t have the AD Cookbook 1st edition, shame on you, it is a great book with outstanding technical review work done on it[1]. So anyway, what do you think is missing from […]

ADAM SP1 is now up on the MS downloads site. This is the same ADAM as the one released with Windows Server 2003 R2 with a different license agreement. Lots of updates, you want to get this and use it instead of the older ADAM version. x86 and x64 versions available. http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=9688F8B9-1034-4EF6-A3E5-2A2A57B5C8E4&displaylang=en Rating 3.00 out […]

Ok as you know I am playing around with my new Borland compiler which I am really liking quite a bit. I start thinking of some new stuff I would like to write and what should I do next, I have some cool ADAM ideas etc. Then I think, man, I really should add SSL […]

I chased down the reason for the extended size of the executable as mentioned in http://blog.joeware.net/2005/12/23/182/. The issue was expansion of inline functions, I don’t use inlines nor do I have anything that should be inlined by default but obviously something I am including does so the OBJ bloated right up which bloated the EXE. […]

I loaded up BDS yesterday and today I imported my ADFIND project into it to compile and see if anything would break. Amazingly nothing broke! However, the release version of the EXE has swollen up from 900K to 2600K. That is a pretty serious bloat. I will have to do some testing to see if […]

Let’s say you want to set some environment variables for a user as they log on… how do you do it? Well a logon script of course. But then…. you figure out, it isn’t working right… The script is running, you are sure of it. But the user can’t use the variables because they are […]

You want to know something that is as useful as Snow Skis in Florida? 4GB of RAM on an ASUS P4C800 Deluxe. As per my previous post on the subject you know I was trying to work through the issue of getting 4GB to post after installing it into a machine with a P4C800 Deluxe […]