For the last couple of weeks at work, I've been messing around with Active Directory and Group Policies. I've learned a lot, and now my first rollout is approaching rapidly... and I think that everyone could learn a lot from Microsoft's efforts. Linux especially...
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February 18, 2006
Snow
It was 10 degrees Celsius when I left the house this morning. I left early for work so that I would make it on time. I arrived to find that campus was "closed". The perfect day to bang out thesis work in the lab is ruined.
February 23, 2006
HFS+ Meta Files a pain for tourists...
I move my thesis project between Mac OS X and Windows a lot... and those HFS+ meta files get really heavy. Here's a little tip on how to lighten your load using DOS command line tools. From the base directory, type:del /AH /S *Don't be scared of the *...
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February 24, 2006
No mkstemp() for Windows ?
There is a race condition when using mktemp() to create unique file names, everybody should be aware of this, no big surprise. The nice thing about most *NIXES is that they actually use random strings substituted into the pattern to create the unique name. With a large enough pattern...
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February 28, 2006
Went with option #3...
I went with option #3 , it didn't take long at all to write the code to do this using LibBeecrypt. It took somewhat longer to get LibBeecrypt to link on WIN32 platforms, but I got this working on Sunday...
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