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Securing Active Directory White Paper
Microsoft has released a new white paper titled, “Best Practice Guide for Securing Active Directory Installations.”
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Spam will be eliminated in 18 months
I predict that spam, at least spam as we now it now, will be eliminated by September, 2005, probably sooner.
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Sick of inconsistant security standards
Arrrgh! It’s week 8 here in San Jose. Flying out this morning from SeaTac, I was asked to remove my sneakers. Only about half the time at SeaTac am I asked to do this. Never am I asked at SJC. When I mentioned that I didn’t have to do it last week, the lady said “Oh, it’s required. We always ask.” As if I’d slap my forehead and say “Oh of course, I’d forgotten I was humiliated in a degrading manner last time I was here, silly me.” Oh, on each trip, I wear the same Nike white tennis sneakers.
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HR3920 - Congressman wants to overturn Supreme Court
Oh, this is good. Representative Ron Lewis (R-KY) has introduced a bill in Congress last week that aims to overthrow Supreme Court decisions concerning the constitutionality of acts of Congress.
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CSUN 2004
The CSUN Conference on Disabilities, kicks off today at the LAX Marriot for its 19th year. This is the yearly event that people working on enabling technology attend. It’s a great place to share what you’ve been doing with not only your peers, but those who will benefit directly. From 1990 through 1994 I attended this conference as a representative of Henter-Joyce (now Freedom Scientific) as developer of the JAWS screen reader. Starting in 1995 through 1999, I represented Microsoft as a Program Manager for various projects, including accessibility to Windows, and Internet Explorer, and Active Accessibility.
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Gil Kirkpatrick of NetPro
Had a nice lunch today with Gil Kirkpatrick, CTO of NetPro. He's the brains behind a number of products that help enterprises manage Active Directory and other directory services. They've just released ChangeAuditor that tracks changes to Active Directory and a variety of other network configuration parameters. Pretty neat stuff.
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Multiple Active Directory Forests White Paper
Microsoft has just released an updated whitepaper on pros and cons of creating multiple Active Directory forests in the Enterprise.
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First eBay auction - Microsoft Wireless IntelliMouse
I'm selling my first item on eBay this week, a Microsoft Wireless IntelliMouse with a tiltwheel.
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Commuting to Cisco
As I've alluded to in other posts, I'm now working at Cisco Systems doing consulting on their Active Directory infrastructure.
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Source code leak fears apply to Linux too
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Political Activism's New Look
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Chuck installs Linux while watching pigs fly
I never thought I'd be doing this. As of 9:10am, Tuesday March 2, 2004, I have just started the installation of Linux on my IBM ThinkPad X20 laptop. Egads!