01.26.09

The Day The Saucers Came

Posted in Geek, Images at 7:17 pm by Evan

Here is a wonderful poster created by Jouni Kopenen that illustrates Neil Gaiman’s poem “The Day the Saucers Came”. Check out the cool Flash version of this poster as well.

I love it. Found here, which was linked through this metafilter post. Go, go power hyperlinks!

01.21.09

Windows Vista Will Not Join OSX Server Domain Controller

Posted in Geek at 5:53 pm by Evan

You ever run upon a fix that you can’t really figure out where it should go, but you know it’s important and you’ll probably need to reference it in the future? Simply contribute the power of Google, of course!

This blog post is for those OSX Server administrators (OSX Leopard Server, 10.5.6 to be specific) who have Windows machines on their network but for some reason simply can’t get them to join the domain. It appears they join via the logs, and it adds a computer/machine record in Workgroup Manager…but it gives Vista an error.

The problem is with the default Security Policy in Windows Vista. Here’s how you join a Windows Vista machine to an OSX Server Open Directory / SMB Server. Perform the following on all Vista client machines you need added to the domain:

  1. Click Start.
  2. Type secpol.msc in the search box and press Enter.
  3. Windows Vista will display a warning message; click Continue.
  4. Windows Vista’s Local Security Policy console will appear. Highlight Local Policies.
  5. Double-click Security Options.
  6. Scroll down to the Network Security: LAN Manager Authentication Level policy entry and double-click it.
  7. Change the value from the default setting of Send NTLMv2 Response Only to Send LM & NTLM — Use NTLMv2 Session Security If Negotiated, then click OK. 
  8. Close the Local Security Policy console.

After this is done, you don’t even need to reboot. Simply try and join the domain again and it will automagically work!

I hope this helps, particularly those who stumbled their way here via the Great Goog. This solution was originally found here.

01.14.09

I Kissed A Girl…

Posted in Funny, Images, Religion at 8:20 pm by Evan

Can’t…stop…laughing…

Yup, your daily dose of Christian ridiculousness.

01.13.09

It Fits In Your Pocket!

Posted in Funny, Geek at 5:28 pm by Evan

Just like every other machine you have!

Be sure to check out the last photo in this brilliant engadget piece. Frickin hilarious.

01.06.09

Test Your Logic, Yo

Posted in Funny, Geek at 4:55 am by Evan

I can’t sleep, so I took the logic test. I scored 15/15, woo. Maybe you can too…kinda thought they were obvious, however.