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1/22/2007
Pirate Eye Patch
Do you watch MythBusters? If not, consider it, great show.
One of the recent shows talked about the Pirate eye patch. Personally I always thought it was because someone lost an eye… But there is another reason… To assist with night vision. The MythBusters showed pretty conclusively in my opinion that the eye patch helps significantly in situations where you need night vision and you are exposed to a lighted area. They showed that it can take up to 25 minutes for your eye to get the “Rods” working properly in low light situations normally, but with an eye patch it is almost immediate.
1/21/2007
Blu-Ray May have just become the next Betamax
Sony may have made yet another bad decision though I doubt Mark Russinovich will be writing it up… It has decided not to assist the porn industry with getting their movies put on Blu-Ray. Anyone who watches the media industry knows that the porn industry drives media. You want to know where media is going in general, look to the porn industry, they are the first to incorporate new media formats in any big way. This in turn drives what many people buy because that is something they want access to. A lot of folks don’t like to admit this is the fact as it doesn’t play into the “vocalized” beliefs etc of the country but the proof is in the pudding and has been for a long time, go back and look at the VHS versus Beta war… A good portion of that was lost due to Porn being readily available on VHS.
1/19/2007
1/18/2007
DV8000 Update
I decided to upgrade the hard drive for the DV8000 as well as add the second drive that it would accept. I ordered a pair of Hitachi Travelstar 7K100 drives… 7200 RPM 100GB drives… As for the drives themselves… Wow wow wow… Very fast. Rate out as a 5.1 for Vista’s experience rating.
Something disappointing is that HP doesn’t supply a drive caddy for the second drive… When I searched the web I found quite a few folks who ran into that as well as questions on where do you even get one??? I hunted all over the HP website and couldn’t find the caddies/frames/trays by themselves. Only could find it with a drive and I already had the exact drive I wanted…
So I looked around and luckily found http://newmode.us who has drive caddies for all sorts of laptops. The caddy was only $28.00 which was a steal compared to other places I found it at which was $50 minimum. I ordered the caddie and it was delivered and it plugged right in perfectly. The caddy came with all of the screws it need. The only thing I didn’t get with the drive or the caddy was the darn jumper. I realized I didn’t really need it though, I ended up just jumpering one drive and that was enough. Why HP couldn’t have included that caddy with the laptop or had it easily available on their website is beyond me.
Now I am running Windows XP Pro and Windows Vista Ultimate (and preparing to load Longhorn and BSD 6) on the laptop quite nicely. I also put Office 2007 on it to check that out as well.
joe
AdFind R00lz – or…. How To Get canonicalName Attribute and Misc Chatter about Constructed Attributes.
I receive a lot of of emails with questions and I am slowly catching up to those questions (yes I have emails from December I still haven’t processed…). One of the questions was about an attribute most people don’t really seem to know about – canonicalName.
What is canonicalName you ask? It is like a Distinguished Name only it is great for sorting purposes, so if you say want to pull AD info into Excel or something else that does standard sorting for you, using canonicalName can really help… For instance…
Here is a DN
CN=$jricha34,CN=Users,DC=joe,DC=com
The canonicalName for the object is
joe.com/Users/$jricha34
The only part that doesn’t fully lend itself nicely to sorting is the domain portion of the canonicalName.
The canonicalName is not normally returned with the default attribute set for an object because the attribute is constructed and constructed attributes have overhead associated with them that MSFT tries to avoid if possible.
How do we know it is constructed? Because the Schema tells us so…
F:\>adfind -sc s:canonicalname systemflags
AdFind V01.35.00cpp Joe Richards (joe@joeware.net) January 2007
Using server: 2k3dc02.joe.com:389
Directory: Windows Server 2003
Base DN: CN=Schema,CN=Configuration,DC=joe,DC=comdn:CN=Canonical-Name,CN=Schema,CN=Configuration,DC=joe,DC=com
>systemFlags: 134217748 [CONSTRUCTED(4);CAT-1(16);NO-RENAME(134217728)]1 Objects returned
How do you get that attribute? You ask for it by name. So if you just want that attribute, you do something like
F:\>adfind -default -f name=$jricha34 canonicalname
AdFind V01.35.00cpp Joe Richards (joe@joeware.net) January 2007
Using server: 2k3dc02.joe.com:389
Directory: Windows Server 2003
Base DN: DC=joe,DC=comdn:CN=$jricha34,CN=Users,DC=joe,DC=com
>canonicalName: joe.com/Users/$jricha341 Objects returned
If you want to get the canonicalName in addition to the normal default attributes that are returned and you are using AdFind, simply specify * and canonicalName as attributes like so
adfind -default -f name=someobject * canonicalname
This tells AdFind to return the default (star) attribute set as well as the canonicalName.
As you have read elsewhere, being constructed, you cannot query for that attribute, it can only be returned from another query. Unlike what you may have read in some places, constructed doesn’t mean you have to use a base level query. There are a couple of constructed attributes that require that, but the vast majority of them don’t.
Oh do you want to get a list of all constructed attributes in your Schema? There is a very simple AdFind command to do so… the shortcut constructedl:
F:\>adfind -sc constructedl
allowedAttributes
allowedAttributesEffective
allowedChildClasses
allowedChildClassesEffective
aNR
attributeTypes
canonicalName
createTimeStamp
dITContentRules
entryTTL
extendedAttributeInfo
extendedClassInfo
fromEntry
modifyTimeStamp
msDS-Approx-Immed-Subordinates
msDS-Auxiliary-Classes
msDS-KeyVersionNumber
msDS-NCReplCursors
msDS-NCReplInboundNeighbors
msDS-NCReplOutboundNeighbors
msDS-QuotaEffective
msDS-QuotaUsed
msDS-ReplAttributeMetaData
msDS-ReplValueMetaData
msDS-TopQuotaUsage
msDS-User-Account-Control-Computed
objectClasses
parentGUID
possibleInferiors
primaryGroupToken
sDRightsEffective
structuralObjectClass
subSchemaSubEntry
tokenGroups
tokenGroupsGlobalAndUniversal
tokenGroupsNoGCAcceptable
After I responded to that question I received the following email from the user which made me smile.
wow! ADFind r00lz. We have a fancy GUI tool for reports (Quest Reporter), and this was the last reason I still used it for AD (outputting canoncal names). ADFind is much faster and more flexible (and free!).
I enjoyed the ScriptLogic discussion the other week–very informative.
Thanks again, joe!
I am not positive all that Quest Reporter does but I am sure there are some benefits it has over AdFind, just not for everyone. 🙂
joe
Why Does Liver Writer Start So Slowly?
Not sure why, but every time I open Windows Live Writer it literally takes 30 seconds or so for it to start. What in the world is it doing? Sometimes, when I am busy, I am not sure if I even clicked on it to start it. It needs to at least throw up a splash screen immediately. I am sure some of my friends have ideas on why it is slow, one I can imagine right now saying something like… That stupid .FAT…. Could it be that the .NET use is what is causing it to be so slow?
Notepad comes up in less than a second, IE7, even, comes up in just a couple of seconds.
joe
Update: Steve Wynn Ripped Painting
Scott C was nice enough to forward this on to me, it is in regards to previous blog posting
http://blog.joeware.net/2006/10/19/685/
Steve Wynn’s Bad Dream
Vegas mogul sues Lloyd’s over $54 million damaged Picasso claim
http://www.thesmokinggun.com/archive/years/2007/0111072wynn1.html
1/17/2007
Way to go Microsoft – new RDP Client
I have had a wide screen laptop for some time. One major issue I had with it when using RDP to connect to a remote machine was when I would go from full screen mode to windowed mode and then tried to go back to full screen mode it would chop off the sides like a wide screen TV without a wide screen signal, very very annoying. The way around it was to close the client out and restart the connection to the remote machine but before connecting you have to go into the options and adjust the screen size again.
The new RDP client doesn’t do it and I was shocked when I stumbled upon it. Quite nice.
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