I was looking at the picture on the right, and was thinking, there’s something wrong with it.
But I didn’t know what.
So I did a check on TinEye*, and found several close matches.
This one is the closest, it’s from shutterstock.
By the looks of it, the first image was rotated left, so the display board was level; and it has been cropped.
* yes, I wrote about TinEye 3 years ago. I’m still impressed with the service.
I much prefer using Quest to do this (see this post), but I needed to use Vbscript as I had to output the results into an Excel spreadsheet.
If you look around the internet, you’ll find plenty of examples of how to do that.
But when I ran the following code on my system, it failed:For Each objUser in objGroup.Members
Wscript.Echo "Name: " & objUser.DisplayName
Wscript.Echo "Department: " & objUser.department
Wscript.Echo "Street address: " & objUser.streetAddress
Wscript.Echo "Title: " & objUser.title
Wscript.Echo "Description: " & objUser.description
Wscript.Echo “Account Disabled?: “ & objUser.AccountDisabled
Wscript.Echo
Next
After much head scratching, I realised that another AD Group was a member of the current group, AND AD Groups do not have a AccountDisabled attribute.
The solution was to check the class attribute to see if the group member was a “user” or something else.For Each objUser in objGroup.Members
Wscript.Echo "Name: " & objUser.DisplayName
Wscript.Echo "Department: " & objUser.department
Wscript.Echo "Street address: " & objUser.streetAddress
Wscript.Echo "Title: " & objUser.title
Wscript.Echo "Description: " & objUser.description
If LCase(objUser.class) = “user” Then
Wscript.Echo “Account Disabled?: “ & objUser.AccountDisabled
Else
Wscript.Echo “I am a AD Group. “
End If
Wscript.Echo
Next
References:
How Can I Return Information For Each Member in a Group? (Hey Scripting Guy! Blog)
User Attributes – Inside Active Directory by Sakari Kouti
Active Directory Explorer by Sysinternals
It seemed like a good idea at the time, configure the DNS Suffix Search List centrally so everyone gets the same thing.
The wheels fell off when I went to configure the 15th domain suffix. The DNS Suffix Search List Group Policy accepted the value, but the desktop client wasn’t reading it.
The reason I needed to add another prefix, was that an off-site internal website, http://Noddyhome, was not resolving. It was working if the customer typed in the fully qualified domain name, http://Noddyhome.othergroup.internal.beatfeet.com
After much head scratching, it looks as if there is a 200 character limit to that policy. “othergroup.internal.beatfeet.com“ just wouldn’t fit.
The fix? We used the GlobalNames Zone feature of Windows 2008.
References:
Setting DNS Suffix Search List via GPO (Ryan Adams Blog)
When I was growing up, there was a set of these signs on a country road just outside of town. I always took it to mean that you could hoon along at any speed.
What they actually meant was that you could travel at the upmost speed limit for the state (100 kp/h where I was).
At one time, before we got speed limits on the open road, they actually meant you can drive at any speed you wanted, provided it was safe to do so. You don’t get to see these signs much anymore …
There hasn’t been many blog posts of late, as I’ve moved into a new apartment in South Melbourne, and the processing of moving has taken up a bit of time.
One of the first problems in the new apartment was with the lock. I’d put the key in the lock, turn the key to deadlock the lock, then take the key out.
Except the key wouldn’t come out.
Ah, it’ll need some graphite to fix the sticky lock. Off to the local locksmith to buy some. The local locksmith is called Local Locksmiths.
Naahhhhh, you don’t need graphite, your actual problem is that the screws holding the key barrel are loose.
By jove he was right. Tightened the screws up, and the problem was fixed.
There’s a collection of posters that the public transport authority in Perth, TransPerth, are using to try and get the message across to the travelling public. The message is how to be considerate of your fellow travellers.
I think it’s going to take more than a couple of clever posters …
The Spoon Theory by Christine Miserandino
I started to ramble on about pills, and aches and pains, but she kept pursuing, and didn’t seem satisfied with my answers. I was a little surprised as being my roommate in college and friend for years; I thought she already knew the medical definition of Lupus. Then she looked at me with a face every sick person knows well, the face of pure curiosity about something no one healthy can truly understand. She asked what it felt like, not physically, but what it felt like to be me, to be sick.
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How to make sure Windows 7 and Windows 8 creates an MBR formatted drive when installing.
Fatal Distraction: Forgetting a Child in the Backseat of a Car Is a Horrifying Mistake. Is It a Crime?
The defendant was an immense man, well over 300 pounds, but in the gravity of his sorrow and shame he seemed larger still. He hunched forward in the sturdy wooden armchair that barely contained him, sobbing softly into tissue after tissue, a leg bouncing nervously under the table. In the first pew of spectators sat his wife, looking stricken, absently twisting her wedding band. The room was a sepulcher. Witnesses spoke softly of events so painful that many lost their composure. When a hospital emergency room nurse described how the defendant had behaved after the police first brought him in, she wept. He was virtually catatonic, she remembered, his eyes shut tight, rocking back and forth, locked away in some unfathomable private torment.
Recently went to a talk by Victoria Police Chief Forensic Scientist, Bryan Found PhD, titled “Forgeries, Fakes and Forensics”.
Bryan Found is a very engaging presenter. Things I found of interest, in no particular order:
A couple of these arrived in the post the other day. One of my co-workers has one, and following the standard protocol in the office I decided to thieve it* decided to buy my own.
At $3.50, it seemed a reasonable price,
Likes:
Dislikes:
If I was backpacking, I’d invest in a Titanium Spork instead. The Light My Fire Spork website is here.
* I had a titanium spork go missing. It’s probably fallen down the back of the dishwasher with all the other missing items.
There’s this bit of track on a path in the Edinburgh Gardens, Fitzroy.
I thought they were tram tracks, so I asked agreencow who is a noted tram gunzel, what line they were from.
“Inner Circle Train Line” was the reply.