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CIO: Isn’t that all just the internet? That is hardly news.
SALESGUY: Well we are calling it all cloud now because that makes you want to buy more stuff from us.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NHpKhVGAYuw
I was talking with a friend of mine today and he said something extremely funny to me and I wanted to share it…
…My usual response to vendors is “make it idiot proof, we do our part and supply the idiots”…
– Mike Nault
I try not to advertise too much but I wanted to share this deal as it is an amazing savings.
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Jawbone ERA Blue Tooth HeadSet link
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Jabra Ear Gels for Jawbone BT HeadSet Link
I have started seeing emails similar to the title of this blog post trickle in the last few weeks. It had me totally confused until someone sent me something a little more informative:
Just to make it known, your name has been attached to malicious software involved in involuntary GPU mining for the purpose of bitcoin farming. The farmer was improperly coded so I caught it however. The output string from command line ( Eligius ) gave me the following. I will be exploring this Tor site in the next few hours and if this is you actively seeking to farm users of their GPU power, I highly suggest you cease and desist as this is a highly illegal activity.
Parameters: "-o" "http://mining/eligius.st:8337" "-u" "13j4XQEnXzgTi3ihJLLi3DctDZbU26KJ16" "-p" "x"joe@joeware.net Joe Richards
I still don’t really know what it means but I expect it is some sort of malware that someone, not me, is installing on PCs. I don’t know what people are clicking on or installing or whatever that is loading this on their PCs but again, this isn’t me, I can’t help you. My first recommendation is to know what you are installing and clicking on but that is too little advice too late. But I still can’t help you. If this is a work PC, call your helpdesk. If this is a personal PC, call the manufacturer, or call a PC support company like Best Buy.
If you absolutely must have me to figure it out for you, go to my blog (http://blog.joeware.net), look in the upper left corner where it says tip jar, click on PayPal Donate, and specify $2000 and your email address you want me to contact you on. I will receive that and then send you an email with my home address. You will send the PC along with a paid return shipper and I will sit down, figure out what is going on your PC and make it so my utility is no longer running on the PC. That is the only help I can offer.
How can I prove I didn’t put this malware out there you ask? Simple, I am not a complete and utter idiot.
While at times I am mislead or confused and sometimes, more times than I prefer, I make mistakes, I am not a complete and utter idiot. How does that prove that I didn’t do this? If you take the statement "joe loaded this on my PC and is GPU mining on my PC" as a fact, the very next fact you can see is that my full name and email address pop up. And from that you can deduce that "joe is a complete and utter idiot." Again, I was smart enough to write the QUIET utility initially which included purposely putting my name and address in it and I will state for the record that I am also smart enough to remove the name of the utility along with my name and email address and recompile it if I chose to be subversive with the utility. I would further say that I wouldn’t even allow it to output what you see above and in fact you would never see a console window flash but those things don’t help with the proof. I am not an idiot so ipso facto, Shazam, AllaKhazam, voila, and tada… I didn’t do this.
Anymore questions on this, you know where the tip jar is.
thank you and have a good day.
joe
It’s kind of cool when I pull up the RevolverMaps to look at who is checking the blog out and I see something like:
While I am not a fan of killing people in any grand scale I am proud to see the U.S. Armed Forces reading the blog and I assume using the utilities to help make their lives easier. Now if I could only get a tax break for that… 😉
I was having troubles getting these updates out the door. Not to make an excuse, but I kept getting emails pointing out bugs or new functionality in the OS or cool functionality that I could implement and I kept pushing the release out further and further. Since I am not making any money off of this stuff I didn’t have the normal "ship something to get paid" impetus like normal software companies. ;) However I did get an increasing number of people emailing saying… "Hey… any time joe…" Those didn’t sway me, but then I started hearing "pretty please" and that kicked me into gear.
So here you go. As usual, test well. I have been using them (and updated versions of them right along) now since last fall. Thanks to everyone who has reported any bugs, typos, or offered up ideas on additional things the tools should handle; that feedback has been and always will be very welcome to me.
http://www.joeware.net/freetools/tools/adfind/index.htm
http://www.joeware.net/freetools/tools/admod/index.htm
Please see the web pages for the tools for the info but a quick run down of what has changed:
AdFind/AdMod General
AdFind Specific High Level
AdMod Specific High Level
Have fun, enjoy, bugs, feedback, comments, etc, you know where to get me at. 😉
joe
I just wanted to share that bit of info. I just found out that Deadliest Catch (all seasons) has been added to the Amazon.com Prime (i.e. free to watch) so that means the whole last season of Deadliest Catch that got lost when my g/f’s DVR went up in smoke so I never got to see it I can no watch… in HIGH DEF even which her DVR wasn’t even capable of doing…
Mythbuster’s Seasons 1-7 are free.
Red Vs Blue (for the Halo Nerds) is free.
Many many movies and TV Shows as well.
Oh, BTW, if you want to get a Roku, here is a link to get one at discount with free shipping.
http://roku.tellapal.com/a/clk/56ldK1
joe
If you previously saw my post on nuking AD Trees you saw me insert a piece that wasn’t really involved about my friend Brian Desmond trying to copy conflict objects from one Active Directory to another and hitting a bug in AdMod that wasn’t allowing it. Then I later commented that I fixed the bug in AdMod only to find that apparently Active Directory doesn’t even allow you to do add an object with 0x0A in the DN.
Well I was honored to get an email from Don Hacherl (aka Father of AD) who confirmed that yes indeed, creating objects with 0x0A in the DN was disallowed. He has a very logical explanation. The idea is that if they had a conflict, they needed to have a name they could rename an object to that was absolutely guaranteed to be unique so they didn’t get into a recursive naming collision. So they added the GUID to the name which makes it so there is no issue with other DCs causing the collision and then they added the 0x0A and blocked it from being used by “people” to prevent some crafty person from inadvertently or advertently (heh) causing an issue by using the same name.
And as for the release of the new AdFind/Mod… They are still on the way, I got Brian’s issue worked out, but I am still testing some stuff and I added something for Princess for deleting deleted objects… Heh, that is just me being funny… The official term is forcing deleted items to be recycled. I.E. You don’t want the items hanging around anymore so you want them to get scrubbed of attributes and pushed along the process. He also has brought up an interesting issue around removing massive numbers of members from a group that I am looking into. Seems, like deleting massive numbers of objects, there are situations where you can have an issue removing massive numbers of members from a group. Plus I am overly busy with the “real job”. If anyone wants to fix that for me by offering me a really well paying position (work from home, little to no travel, 40- hours a week) which would give me more time to work on cool stuff to help everyone then please email me. Or alternately if you want to give me the winning numbers to the lotto or just outright make me independently wealthy that would be good as well. Most people don’t seem to believe me, but if I were independently wealthy, I absolutely would be writing joeware tools because I love doing it. My sister creates works of art, I create utilities. 
joe
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