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Recently I needed to find a way to search for accounts an an active directory that are enabled and have not logged on for a while. Fortunately there is a lastLogon attribute, unfortunately this is not replicated across the various domain controllers.

Since Christmas I have been up to loads. I went skiing in March and I went to Cuba in June. I have done well with resolutions, I managed to stay super healthy for January and managed to mostly keep to it since.

It’s time for some new years resolutions! Hopefully if they are cast in stone (well blog) there is more of a chance of success. Stay super healthy for January: Keeping to my minimum weekly gym schedule, 3 morning swims, 2 morning spins, 2-3 afternoon spins, 2 afternoon yogas, 1-2 weekend weights and cv.

I passed my amateur radio Intermediate exam, so now I can kick out 50W! My new call sign is 2E0TDS. My thanks goes to all at SADARS that helped with the practical day and two days of lectures and exams.

Last week I got back from a little holiday in Dublin. I went over for my cousins graduation. I had an amassing time, it was a very relaxed and slow paced get away from everything.

After reading depesz’s great speeding-up-dumprestore-process blog post. I started thinking about how to securely transfer a file from one server to another in the fastest possible way. The problem being that scp/sftp is slow for various reasons.

So today I played a bit with some big cheep disks. I have 3 fairly old desktops each with 4*1TB disks, all exported via ATA over Ethernet to a much more modern sort of disk head.

AnchorFix is a Greasemonkey script that I wrote to fiex anchor links. This script searches for links that have anchors and adds an anchor icon that links to that anchor. Usecase: sending url to someone without having to scroll to the top to find anchor link or worse reading the html source and hand editing url adding anchor.

So my gym is closed for 10 days for a refurbishment. They are going to replace all the cardio equipment with awesomely new kit. I’ll be able to check my progress online and I’ll be able to plug in a video iPod and watch on the screen.