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History is cyclical in nature, the evidence shows us. What is today, was before. What was yesterday, will be tomorrow. We need to learn from our mistakes, so that instead of travelling endlessly in a repetitious cycle, we move in an upward spiral towards perfection and utopia.
– David Hatcher Childress in Technology of the Gods
I have had a good many more uplifting thoughts, creative and expansive visions while soaking in comfortable baths in well-equipped American bathrooms than I have ever had in any cathedral.
– Edmund Wilson
When (Dr. J. Robert Oppenheimer, the “Father of the H-Bomb”) asked in an interview at Rochester University seven years after the Alamogordo Nuclear test whether that was the first atomic bomb ever to be detonated, his reply was, “Well, yes, in modern history.”
– David Hatcher Childress – Technology of the Gods
joe Note: It is thought that Dr. Oppenheimer was thinking about Mohenjo-Daro and Harappa when he made that comment.
Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.
– Aldous Huxley
asked the question “So if humans have been around pretty much at this same evolutionary state for thousands of years, how come we are the first ones playing Halo on Xbox?” or something similar? My g/f asked me a question like that a few months back and I started to explain that well we don’t really know what all has been accomplished in the past because of our perverse religious side which has us constantly conquering anyone who doesn’t look and think the same and then burning everything in the loser’s culture and attempting to completely eradicating any proof of their existence. On top of that we have had a few cases where disease has knocked civilization for a loop by wiping out some large percentage of the race and when that happens, survival mode kicks in and specialization mode goes out the window… e.g. Who cares about which stars are going to go supernova or which insects have wings and which don’t when you aren’t sure where your dinner is coming from.
Midway through the explanation I thought, I wonder if anyone has done any real exploration in this to see if they can find any kind of proof that by gosh, there were people who lived before us (like Atlantis, Rama, or Mu) who had higher engineering skills than we have right now other than the really obvious things like Pyramids and Easter Island monoliths and other megaliths that we can’t for the life of us duplicate or figure out how to do now…
I found on Amazon and then proceeded to read “Technology of the Gods: The Incredible Sciences of the Ancients” and wow, what a great book. It is interesting to me (read: scary) how it shows how our own scientists will find something they can’t explain and so just toss it off to the side and ignore it. Like archeologists who in 1959 found belt buckles in China that were thousands of years old… but made out of Aluminum[1]???
Absolutely great book. I highly recommend it. It seriously will get you thinking. Has lots of photos and images and links to other sources of information to follow up. The book is only $12 and is eligible for Amazon Prime if you have that (and if you don’t, why not?).
joe
[1] If you don’t know, to our knowledge, the only way to create aluminum is to process Bauxite ore with A LOT of electricity… We have only been producing aluminum in commercial quantities (this last go around at civilization anyway) for roughly 100 years… So who has the chutzpah to make belt buckles out of the stuff thousands of years ago.
I have posted what I expect to be the final AdFind and AdMod beta before final release.
http://www.joeware.net/downloads/beta/adfindmod_beta.zip
I am shooting for a mid-February release.
In the last 10 days most of the updates are in AdFind. Lots of misc shortcut bug fixes. Added some additional attribute decodes. One big item is that I added digest authentication for both utilities (-digest) as that has been missing.
joe
Saw their products at the Detroit North American Auto Show and they were quite interesting.
joe
Just don’t do it.
See http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ee424329(WS.10).aspx
From the article
When a company acquires another company, business unit, or product line, the purchasing company may also want to acquire corresponding IT assets from the seller. Specifically, the buyer may want to acquire some or all of the domain controllers that host the user accounts, computer accounts, or security groups that correspond to the business assets that are to be purchased. The only supported methods for the buyer to acquire the IT assets that are stored in the seller’s Active Directory forest are as follows:
- Acquire the only instance of the forest, including all domain controllers and directory data in the seller’s entire forest.
- Migrate the needed directory data from the seller’s forest or domains to one or more of the buyer’s domains. The target for such a migration may be an entirely new forest or one or more existing domains that are already deployed in the buyer’s forest. We recommend that you migrate the directory data without security identifier (SID) history. If you migrate the directory data with SID history, information about the seller’s forest will be retained in the new forest of the buyer. For more information about migrating directory data without SID history, see Migrating Accounts Without Using SID History (http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=113694).
This isn’t just a so-so recommendation that may or may not be right for your specific circumstance (sort of like the disk configuration guidelines), this is a hard and fast rule. Seriously bad things can happen and likely will if you mess around with it. If you do it and run into issues, the DS Team at Microsoft will walk away shaking their head[1].
joe
[1] They didn’t tell me this, I am just guessing based on my conversations with them.
DON’T CLONE
I really really hope this new Michigan State University logo isn’t for real. Why? Because it sucks.
http://blogs.suntimes.com/sportsprose/2010/01/michigan_state_to_unveil_new_l.html
http://blog.mlive.com/ganggreen/2010/01/michigan_state_spartans_to_unv.html
http://blog.mlive.com/ganggreen/2010/01/new_michigan_state_logo_may_no.html
Current
Alleged New
If this is the new logo, besides the thought that it sucks I think… Why? Why waste money right now on something like this. We hear educational establishments complaining because money is tight because of reduced attendance and reduced state funding due to the economy so someone decided to spend money working on changing the logo and all of the branding so that everything would have to be replaced???
joe
A Concord, New Hampshire, financial services company is sending data breach notification letters to customers after discovering that shared passwords, set up to simplify administrative functions nearly 10 years ago, could have exposed the private data of 1.2 million customers.
Off the top of my head, every company I have ever seen does this in some shape or form. I am always the one saying don’t do it, but usually I don’t have a big enough hammer to get person X to be forced to NOT do this.
I have written this topic before… http://blog.joeware.net/2005/05/08/10/
I wonder how many other companies around the world are in the same bad spot as the company mentioned above and they just don’t realize it.
These bad IDs are easy to find… Download oldcmp and run a report with the following command
oldcmp -report -users -age 365 -sh -realage -h test.loc -format csv
Then chop the non-CSV portion from the top of the file and pull into excel and look at what you have out there. Very likely you will find service/app/generic IDs that have been out there set as non-expiring and haven’t had a password change in years…
joe
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