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4/26/2008
4/25/2008
Darwin Award Wannabee…
Two California Highway Patrol Officers were conducting speeding enforcement on I-15, North of MCAS Miramar. One of the officers was using a hand held radar device to check speeding vehicles approaching near the crest of a hill.
The officers were suddenly surprised when the radar gun began reading 300 miles per hour. The officer attempted to reset the radar gun, but it would not reset and turned off.
Just then a deafening roar over the treetops revealed that the radar had in fact locked onto a USMC F/A-18 Hornet which was engaged in a low flying exercise near the location.
Back at the CHP Headquarters the Patrol Captain fired off a complaint to the USMC Base Commander.
Back came a reply in true USMC style:
Thank you for the message, which allows us to complete the file on this Incident. You may be interested to know that the tactical computer in the Hornet had detected the presence of, and subsequently locked onto your hostile radar equipment and automatically sent a jamming signal back to it. Furthermore, an air to ground missile aboard the fully armed aircraft had also automatically locked onto your equipment. Fortunately the Marine Pilot flying the Hornet recognized the situation for what it was, quickly responded to the missile system alert status and was able to override the automated defense system before the missile was launched and your hostile radar was destroyed.
Thank you for your concerns.
Good Advice…
It is generally inadvisable to eject directly over the area you just bombed.
– U.S. Air Force Survival Manual
Uhhhhhh…
If the enemy is in range…. so are you.
– Infantry Journal
Why I don’t Like Verizon
Recently my work cell phone died and I had to get another one, instead of just getting a new phone on the current service (ATT then Cingular then ATT again), I decided to try Verizon as I heard good things about its connectivity.
I am absolutely willing to admit that I was stupid, I should have looked into it more. Alternately when I received it I should have returned it immediately.
Verizon is set up in such a way that you can’t use SIM cards which means you can’t buy an unlocked phone (which are becoming more and more available) and use it with their service. This is sad because I have multiple unlocked Sony Ericsson phones that I adore. When I questioned the “tech” at Verizon about it he was absolutely floored that switching SIMs between phones so you could use different phones without the Service Provider’s approval was even possible…
Anyway, it is something about CDMA versus GSM or some such network nonsense that honestly and truly I really do not have the time nor inclination to care about. I just want a phone service that works and not be bound and gagged by that service provider.
What does this mean… It means that I will be telling everyone I know to stay away from them.
Can ya hear me now?
Active Directory Limits
This is a nice article on Active Directory Limits
Summary
Max Objects – 231 minus 255 or ~2.15 Billion or 2,147,483,394
Max SIDs – 230 or ~1 billion or 1,073,741,824
Max Group Membership for Security Principal – 1015 groups
Max FQDN Length – 64 characters
Max File Name Length – 260 characters [1]
Max OU Name Length – 64 characters
Max Group Policies applied – 999
Max Number of Directory Operations per LDAP Transaction – 5000[2]
(Recommended) Max Number of Domains – 800 (Windows 2000), 1200 (Windows Server 2003 FFL-2)
(Recommended) Max Number of Domain Controllers in a Domain – 1200[3]
[1] This is a bit tricky as this limitation is in the Win32 subsystem, not in NTFS which has something like a 64k limit. You can get around this limit if the tools you use use unicode path format with \\?\
[2] Wow, I have never been even close to that… I expect you would be close to if not over bumping the Max LDAP Packet size of 10MB (default)
[3] If over 800 DCs and using ADI-DNS, see KB267855.
4/24/2008
Where do cats hide their watches at?
Alternate title – Who taught my cat how to tell time???
My gorgeous black cat Trouble whom I have mentioned before, the President and CEO of joeware, at some point has learned how to tell time. I don’t know how she did it, I don’t even let her look at books because I don’t need a cat revolution on my hands as she realizes she gets the short end of the stick on the decision making process in the household. Last thing I need is her reading the Art of War or something… Regardless, she has figured out how to determine when it is 4PM every day.
I say this because everyday “around” 4PM I try to get my act together and walk away from work for a short break to give her a little snack. The little snack is one spoonful of Friskies canned cat food[1]. As a general food item, she has hard cat food, I can’t recall the kind at the moment, but it is a really good kind in a white bag that I only can remember when I see the bag and sometimes not even then because I only have to buy it every few months and I put it in a plastic bin as soon as I get it home… Anyway, she gets a little spoonful of the wet stuff once a day around 4PM.
Some days I get involved with work and forget for a little while that I need to do that. I am not doing it on purpose to piss her off or anything, I just get tied up; you techies out there understand… there are times when you get in a groove and if you disturb it you know you will have to spend 3 hours trying to get back to where you are right now.
Well if it gets to being about 15-30 minutes too late… she comes looking for me and she isn’t generally happy about having to go out of her way to do that… Initially she may lightly feign niceness but I know she is feigning because I will hear her stomp down the stairs first and I know how hard it is for a cat to actually stomp… then I will hear her jump against the door to my office and the door will pop all the way open, and she will sashay (left right shake) up to me purring and uttering one or two little demure meows.
If I jump up immediately and run to get her snack all is good. She sees me get up, she runs to the door and then stays about 4 feet in front of me stopping and looking back at regularly spaced intervals the whole way to make sure I don’t get lost on the way until we reach the kitchen where she walks up to her little paper plate that I put her snack on, pops a squat, and then looks over her shoulder expectantly at me… Woe is me if I try to make a quick detour to the bathroom before getting her snack…
If not… well then she starts head bumping my legs or standing up on her two back legs and extends her claws into my thighs with a little bark like meow of “Listen Mr… do I have to get rough with you??? I don’t want to do it, but if you make me do it, its on your own head…“. That is almost always enough to get me going but if I am exceptionally tied up then she jumps into my lap, whaps me in the face with her tail repeatedly and starts putting her paws on the keyboard because she seems to know that that will absolutely get my attention… And let’s face the facts… she is right.
I don’t know who trained who in this situation but I really do want to know who taught my cat how to tell time and where in the world does she hide her watch at?
[1] She is particularly fond of the Salmon and Mixed Grill flavors.
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