SCHOOL — 1957  vs. 2007

Scenario: Jack goes quail hunting before school, pulls into school parking lot with shotgun in gun rack.
1957 – Vice Principal comes over, looks at Jack’s shotgun, goes to his car and gets his shotgun to show Jack.
2007 – School goes into lock down, FBI called, Jack hauled off to jail and never sees his truck or gun again. Counselors called in for traumatized students and teachers.

Scenario: Johnny and Mark get into a fistfight after school.
1957 – Crowd gathers. Mark wins. Johnny and Mark shake hands and end up buddies.
2007 – Police called, SWAT team arrives, arrests Johnny and Mark. Charge them with assault, both expelled even though Johnny started it.

Scenario: Jeffrey won’t be still in class, disrupts other students.
1957 – Jeffrey sent to office and given a good paddling by the Principal. Returns to class, sits still and does not disrupt class again.
2007 – Jeffrey given huge doses of Ritalin. Becomes a zombie. Tested for ADD. School gets extra money from state because Jeffrey has a disability.

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A man working on a brand new Dell notebook noticed something odd and decided to look into it. What he found was that Dell had installed a hardware keylogger on their notebooks. The response from Dell and Homeland Security is very interesting. You can read about it and see pictures here.

Here is a link to a Microsoft page containing a list of ports Windows and it’s services use. Very Handy.

Did you think the Y2K bugs were done? Well they’re not! The next is the Y2K38 which begins on January 19th 2008 when 30 yr loan and other calculations will have problems. Read more about it here on Wikipedia.

FSMO Roles
ntdsutilroles Connections "Connect to server %logonserver%" Quit "selectOperation Target" "List roles for conn server" Quit Quit Quit
[JDH: This is really a series of steps, not a single command
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Domain Controllers
Nltest /dclist:%userdnsdomain%
Domain Controller IP Configuration
for /f %i in (‘dsquery server -domain %userdnsdomain% -o rdn’) do psexec \\%i ipconfig /all
Stale computer accounts
dsquery computer domainroot -stalepwd 180 -limit 0
Stale user accounts
dsquery user domainroot -stalepwd 180 -limit 0
Disabled user accounts
dsquery user domainroot -disabled -limit 0
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I wanted to wish you all a very Merry Christmas! I have included this link for some really amazing Christmas lights.

Ok so just about everyone knows Windows Vista didn’t turn out to be the technology flagship Microsoft hoped for. Here is a well done and hilarious video about the benefits of Windows Vista. Enjoy!

Easier said than done these days right? Well I have used Bust-A-Name a few times and found it to work great. They make it easy to use keywords to find available names and even register it right there for you.

Check out this step-by-step walk through, you will learn how to make a very detailed collared shirt out of a one dollar bill. It makes for a unique origami project and creative way to leave a tip!

I played with this a while back and it is quite impressive. It allows you to take multiple random photos of say a location and generate a 3D image from them. You can try it out here with the technical preview of it. I am sure this software will be expensive when it goes live.