Stick it in your ear

Hehee, now this is funny..  I would use one but what happens when the person you are talking to wants to say something to the kids?  Here son, let me put my finger in your ear. J 

From Japan (of course), a wristwatch phone called the Finger Whisper that uses vibrations to turn your finger into an earpiece -- the catch is that you have to actually stick your finger into your ear to get it to work, something that might get rather tedious. Beginning or finishing a call with the Finger Whisper is as simple as touching your forefinger to your thumb. Read...
[Gizmodo]

HP to introduce desktop blades

Sounds more like a 1-to-1 Terminal Server environment to me, but what do I know….  Someone out there know what the heck they are talking about and why it’s a good idea? 

Hewlett-Packard is set to take the desktop off the desk later this month when it unveils its latest blade computing system for businesses. The setup stores workers' PCs on a central rack.
[CNET News.com - Front Door]

Matrix Revolutions (spoiler-free)

I have seen that some people are disappointed by the last installment of the Matrix series.  They just don’t get it.  For those of you out there who may read this before seeing it yourself I will wait and not talk about any of the plot.  The special effects were simply incredible.  There was only one spot in the movie that looked somewhat cartoonie (like the burly brawl scene in the second one) but even that was short and immediately covered up with other simply awesome special effects.  Well done to everyone that had anything to do with this awesome movie!

 

More comments later, once I am sure others have had a chance to go see it. J  

HP to introduce desktop blades

Sounds more like a 1-to-1 Terminal Server environment to me, but what do I know….  Someone out there know what the heck they are talking about and why it’s a good idea? 

Hewlett-Packard is set to take the desktop off the desk later this month when it unveils its latest blade computing system for businesses. The setup stores workers' PCs on a central rack.
[CNET News.com - Front Door]

To The Driver Of The Seat Leon...

Hehehe someone else who uses their blog as a place to fuss at darn drivers. 

who purposely and insanely cut me up for no reason at the roundabout near Sainsbury's in Wellingborough this evening.

Sexual self-sufficiency isn't something to be proud of, and driving around like Mr fucking Magoo does nothing for your sub-zero, glorified shopping cart street-cred, you asshole.

[memoria technica : The Official Gary Turner™ Weblog / Moblog]

SF Chronicle: Building a crash-test Internet. The new test network, called the...

Isn’t that how the real internet was started?  I will know more in 24 hours but it kind of sounds like a Matrix vs. Zion type of scenario.  What happens if someone on the internet calls the deter network? J 

SF Chronicle: Building a crash-test Internet. The new test network, called the Cyber Defense Technology Experimental Research Network, or DETER, will contain lots of routers and switches imitating the complexity of the real Net. It won't be nearly as big as the real Internet -- the goal is to eventually hook up 1,000 PCs -- but the researchers hope it will be comparable in behavior.
[Tomalak's Realm]

The PFDavAdmin Tool

Boy, I wish we had this back when I was with the big S. 

If you've ever had anyone who's mucked with permissions in the M: drive, you'll know that the repercussions can be serious. The most common thing seen is where someone modifies permissions to public folders via the M: drive, which changes the order of permissions from MAPI canonical to NTFS canonical. The result is that if you then try to add someone to the permissions list of the public folder via Exchange System Manager, you get the classic Invalid windows handle ID no: 80040102 error, as documented in MSKB 313333.

In MSKB 313333, you are advised to use PFINFO.EXE to resolve the problem. Well, there's another tool on offer to resolve such problems - PFDavAdmin. This is a fantastic tool which I had to use recently on a customer site, after I couldn't add any permissions to the Organizational Forms library. I've managed to get Microsoft to upload the PFDavAdmin tool to their PSS site. The tool can be found here. However, you should note that this utility is not supported, and that you use it entirely at your own risk.

If you download the tool, you'll find a Word document attached that nicely explains the features of PFDavAdmin. PFDavAdmin must be run on a computer that has the .NET Framework 1.1 installed, running Windows 2000, Windows XP, or Windows 2003. It must also be a member of the forest in which the target Exchange 2000 server resides. The user running the tool must be logged into Windows as an Exchange Administrator.

This utility lets you do several things:

• Modify folder permissions on folders in the MAPI tree using an interface similar to ESM
• Propagate the addition/replacement or removal of one or more ACEs down the public folder tree without overwriting the entire ACL
• Fix non-canonical and otherwise damaged DACLs on folders in bulk
• Report the DACL state of folders in bulk
• Export and Import folder permissions on both public folders and mailboxes
• Export and Import replica lists
• Propagate changes to the replica list down the tree without overwriting
• Check for and remove item-level permissions in bulk
• Check for event registrations
• Exceed limits imposed by the ESM GUI for values on the Limits tab

This tool accesses the store via webDAV, so you will notice that bulk operations are quite slow and will take a long time to complete against thousands of folders when running against Exchange 2000. If you use this tool against Exchange 2003, it is much faster. Be sure to check out the Known Issues section of the document before using it.

The screen shot below shows you PFDavAdmin looking at the permissions on the Organizational Forms library folder. In the top-right corner, you'll see the DACL state listed as Good. This is what you'll expect to see once the utility has done its magic, assuming of course that you had problems with the folder in the first place. Of course, the utility can work against normal public folders and mailboxes too.

Be sure to check this tool out, as it will make a very good addition to your toolkit. Treat it with the respect it deserves, though.

[MS Exchange Blog]