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10/31/2006

AdFind and AdMod updated…

by @ 1:46 am. Filed under updates

I have uploaded the latest versions of AdFind and AdMod this evening.

AdFind is now at V01.33.00

  • Changed some docs
  • Fixed a bug reported to me on the search produced by -sc u
  • Slight mod to how -decsddlacl works
  • Added some extra timers for -selapsed
  • Added more -exterr capability to a couple of error areas that didn’t have it
  • Added a built in mnemonic for LDAP_MATCHING_RULE_IN_CHAIN. Added this to the current -bit switch as it is used in a way similar to :OR:= and :AND:=. Now you can specify INCHAIN or NEST. This is for Longhorn Server, you can read a really bad writeup at http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/adsi/adsi/search_filter_syntax.asp

 

AdMod is now at V01.08.00

  • Change some docs
  • Added ability to use {{.}} and {{}} in expansion strings. Specifically before where you would have done useraccountcontrol::{{useraccountcontrol}} now you can do useraccountcontrol::{{.}} – just lets you type less
  • Fixed a couple of CSV Add/Modify bugs, nothing huge, mostly multivalue binary update issues – so not something many people are doing. I actually found it myself when doing some oddball tests I needed for something
  • Added ability to specify additional attributes to add to an object when undeleting.
  • Added the -csvmodnull switch to handle cases of CSV Modifies where one of the fields in the CSV input was blank. By default, sending a blank update to AD is wrong, I let you do it. With -csvmodnull you can specify two different forms of behavior other than the default. If you specify ignore, any updates that have a blank field it will skip the blank attribute and update the rest. If you specify clear, it will clear any attributes that are listed with a blank field.

 

The files are stamped 2006-10-30…

     joe

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Happy Halloween

by @ 1:44 am. Filed under general

One of the best holidays of the year…

Make sure you break out the Nightmare Before Christmas DVD and watch it and break out the soundtrack for listening to while driving around or at work…

 

 

If you haven’t seen it… Wow. Why not? Even today the graphics and artwork in Nightmare are wonderful. The music by Danny Elfman is fantastic.

  joe

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More Oracle Red Hat Linux stuff…

by @ 12:56 am. Filed under tech

Wow… I was reading the Oracle PDFs about this new support and saw this

Transition is very easy. Existing Red Hat and Novell Linux customers that move to the Unbreakable Linux support program may receive credit for the remainder of their existing support contract. For example, if a Red Hat customer has a support contract expiring on July 1, 2008 and the customer purchases a three year Enterprise Linux Premier Support contract on March 1, 2007 as a replacement, then the customer will be entitled to support under their Oracle contract from March 1, 2007 through July 1, 2011, three years after the customer’s Red Hat contract expires. Please see Oracle’s Linux Support Policies for important information regarding this offer.

http://www.oracle.com/technologies/linux/ubl-faq.pdf

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10/30/2006

FBI: Detroit – #2 most dangerous City… Flint – #3

by @ 7:30 pm. Filed under general

Welcome to Michigan!!!

Interestingly Troy is listed as the 5th safest and Sterling Heights is listed as the 16th safest and they are between Detroit and Flint. I am nearer to Troy and Sterling Heights than Detroit or Flint – miles versus tens of miles.

I figure that it is so dangerous in those two cities because it is so nasty. You look around and you just want to beat someone up because the residents are so disrespectful and they just destroy the place. I could never understand the mentality of throwing stones through random windows and feeling cool about it or just painting stupid logos on the sides of buildings or setting buildings on fire.

It isn’t just about a lack of jobs. There are A LOT of people in Detroit (and many places actually) that know they can get away with abusing the system and do. They wouldn’t work if there were jobs on every corner for them because the country owes them a living or at least they seem to think so.

I don’t have a problem helping people down on their luck, but if it is consistent over the years, they start losing things like the right to have their own house, car, etc. They get to live in government housing on government campuses and work on farming or building things for the government. If they get an outside job… Alright, they become full citizens again and get to go own stuff and become a useful member to society. I am sure that is a bit unpopular but so be it. 🙂

  joe

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Devil’s Night

by @ 7:16 pm. Filed under general

Happy Devil’s Night all you little devils out there…

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I’m out there Jerry, and I’m lovin’ every minute of it!!!

by @ 7:11 pm. Filed under tech

The rumours are tearing across the internet… Vista is in the box. MSFT is alleged to have artifically bumped the build number to 6000…. As one unidentified friend quipped “kinda silly to bump the build # like that I think”, I have to say I agree… But it is kind of fun, wish they could slip another six in their somewhere….

So build number is alleged to be…

6.0.6000.16384

Of course I expect this is all perfectly true because I JUST this last weekend finally loaded 5744 on my main desktop which would mean I did it all for naught as I don’t upgrade, I raze the ground and plant afresh…. So instead of having SFMXP32 I have SFMVista32 right now. All of the same things mostly annoy me but less so. The UAC stuff has been cleaned up tremendously, so much so that I haven’t even gotten close to turning it off yet.

The new explorer with its tree view still irk me.

Overall though it moves pretty well and as I said before… It is very pretty. The screens are just brighter and happier and easier to read overall.

On the downside I actually submitted a couple more bugs this morning. Well one was with Vista and one was with the Beta Bug Submission tool, so one bug against Vista. It wasn’t anything big, not like the bug I submitted for how Vista was jamming special graphics characters into AD for its operating system name, they still haven’t fixed that. Most people won’t care, some people will think it is cool, others who actually do a lot of management, especially with scripts and command line are going to wonder what monkeys at MSFT are in charge…

  joe

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10/28/2006

Relatively quiet lately…

by @ 8:14 pm. Filed under general

Yes I have been a little quiet lately. A lot going on at work. Dealing with several major large companies, household names here in the US. The differences between the companies is amazing with how they have approached Active Directory and the systems infrastructure as a whole. I find the differences pretty interesting.

I have some updates coming out for AdFind and AdMod. This is a normal thing, after major updates I usually put out some minor updates shortly after for things I missed or typoed. I expect to drop them onto the web site in a week or so.

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Chevron posts $5 billion in profits for a single quarter????

by @ 8:11 pm. Filed under general

Hello… There are laws in Michigan that prevent individual service stations from taking advantage of situations and raising gas prices at the pump unnecessarily… Someone needs to be looking at the actual Oil companies…

http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-chevron28oct28,1,4634694.story?coll=la-headlines-business

I was watching a show on Discover Channel a week or so ago and it was talking about some northern European country that had only a 10% dependence on oil and that was all for cars and now they are looking to go with energy cells. Everything else was geothermal and wind energy. Go team. I like the oil companies just as much as the next profiteer, but we need to do that overall as a country. Not wait until we are going to the gas pumps with shotguns. Mad Max was a fun movie but I don’t want to live that life.

The show also talked about some new nano-based solar technology. They could actually paint the solar cells onto anything. They discussed the roofs of houses, windows, paint on the side of the houses all being solar and generating enough current for the house. Imagine skyscrapers doing that as well and generating all of their power needs. We could pull down most of the power lines in the country, imagine how much prettier things would be. Also imagine how much less smog.

 

    joe

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Oracle to out-support Red Hat support for Red Hat

by @ 7:59 pm. Filed under general

I actually found this article pretty interesting. I never considered this angle and I am expecting some Red Hat execs hadn’t either….

Oracle is going to provide “better” and cheaper support of Red Hat Linux than Red Hat itself is going to…

 

http://www.informationweek.com/software/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=193402336&subSection=Operating+Systems

I find it humorous how Oracle was like… hell no, we don’t want to buy Red Hat, that would be a waste of money…

I wonder how Red Hat will keep themselves alive? I can’t see this being good for them in any way shape or form.

   joe

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Energizer Bunny has nothing on NASA…

by @ 7:56 pm. Filed under general

Spirit and Opportunity are STILL going. Spirit has hit 1000 sols (24 hours, 37 minutes – a Martian “day”) and Opportunity is approaching 1000 sols. That is 10 times longer than they were expected to run. That is amazingly great. Go NASA. Something to take note of though is that between the two of them, they have only traveled about 10 miles… I have heard people remark how they are worthless because they haven’t really found anything. First off that isn’t true, but second off, you could land in lots of places on Earth and only travel 10 miles and find very very very little if anything – consider even one of the small deserts in the American West. Now imagine if our Oceans were dried up… the chances of finding anything in a random drop to the planet and traveling 10 miles is probably about 0%. Planets are big, 10 miles is small.

http://www.usatoday.com/tech/science/space/2006-10-26-spirt-day_x.htm

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