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9/6/2011
9/5/2011
Happy Labor Day!
To all of the US readers, Happy Labor Day… Summer is unofficially over now and I will start losing the weather to work on outside projects and have to start working on serious work type stuff again. That is good, I need to wrap up some changes I had to make to AdFind for some bugs and get that released. And continue working on the port to Visual Studio so I can start producing x64 binaries along with the x86 binaries.
It actually feels like summer is over here in SE Michigan right now… 61 degrees as of 4PM and very windy… Of course just a couple of days ago it was nearly 100. Supposed to be 80 again by next weekend. That’s Michigan if you haven’t ever visited. 
Have a great day!
joe
P.S. I was in Chicago this last weekend, it was absolutely beautiful there. But man, how do you deal with the sheer number of people and all of that traffic (and I didn’t drive much at all, mostly was on the North Line Train and walking).
8/22/2011
Wow – HP Touchpad sales blowing up online retailer web sites all over the internet!
So we have, I think, established that people didn’t think the HP TouchPad sucked… It was just priced a bit high. Now that the TouchPad fire sale is in full effect all of the main websites you could buy it through at the discounted price are either broken or out of stock.
If they had had a big time sale up front, perhaps they would have built up some decent market share and developer base and groundswell, and also perhaps the decision tree that led to the cancelling of the product would have been different. It was a bit arrogant to try and put out an unknown quantity pad into the market at the same price levels as the current market leader and expect to take market share. Especially in this economy[1].
joe
[1] This tagline “…in this economy” is starting to sound to me like “…in the Longhorn timeframe” that we used to hear all of the time out of Microsoft. 
8/4/2011
AdFind command for trust audit
Need to check the ages on the trusts in your forest?[1]
for /f "tokens=*" %i in (‘adfind -sc domainlist‘) do adfind -h %i -binenc -f "&(samaccounttype=805306370)(pwdlastset<={{CURRENT:-180d}})" canonicalname name pwdlastset -tdcd -csv -nodn -sort pwdlastset
joe
[1] If you don’t audit your trusts to see if they have gone stale, you certainly should. Just part of normal AD house keeping.
7/29/2011
7/22/2011
The universe isn’t always safe…
Maybe we can call it the Nader effect. In a world where everything is made “fool proof” – fools start to truly believe the universe is always safe. It isn’t.
– Saw this on a website discussing the three 20-somethings that went over the waterfall in Yellowstone.
7/15/2011
7/13/2011
6/15/2011
User registration disabled
I have temporarily disabled user registration. Some sort of automated process is out there registering hundreds of new accounts. I will re-enable it at some later point.
joe
5/31/2011
Avoid Domain Registry of America
A friend of mine (my Chiropractor) asked me to look into their registrar because they wanted to split up their email and web hosting. They had been told by someone that it wasn’t possible. I was pretty shocked because being able to specify email from one hosting company and web page hosting from another is a pretty simple basic configuration. So I pinged customer support and found that yes, they do not allow that type of split up and in fact here is the response I received from Dan in the Technical Support Department.
“And as for what was mentioned about the MX records and our hosting, you
were told the correct information. When you use our hosting you are then
set up on our hosting name servers, which have our internal DNS records
set in place, these records cannot be altered or changed so you would
not have the access to use us for web site hosting only. Our hosting
service is, for a lack of a better term, all or nothing.”
I was pretty shocked, “all or nothing”… Excellent. My recommendation to folks out there then would be to choose NOTHING.
So then I thought, wow, others much have run into this and reported on it as well, sure enough, googling for Domain Registry of America comes up with some choice comments… I have pretty consistently found the term SCAM alongside their name.
Some choice URLS
http://www.scrappybusiness.com/domain-registry-of-america-scam.htm
http://blog.forret.com/projects/domain-registry-of-america/
http://www.gn.apc.org/support/domain-registry-america-scam
joe
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