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Here’s a little script I wrote recently to find computer accounts that have been inactive (unused) for more than 60 days and are still resident in Active Directory.

The computers are searched for throughout the entire directory so you shouldn’t miss any. Consider extending this script to automatically delete accounts found by this script.

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I took a trip to Whitby over the weekend with my girlfriend. We wanted to get out, see the sights, grab some Fish & Chips and well, just be British for the day. As soon as we arrived, someone else had obviously decided to be British for the day too and selfishly parked their car adjoining another space. I spent twenty minutes squeezing my car in to the space just so I could bloodywell park! If you’re the owner of that Rover 25 you should be ashamed of yourself.

Nonetheless we both had a nice time, we grabbed some Fish & Chips, bought some fudge and even walked up the famous steps to the Abbey. The only trouble was that we did it only to find out that it was completely cordoned off with no way of getting to it at all, despite trying very hard I might add. Still, we had a nice few hours out.

I took a few photos with my Nokia 6680 which turned out surprisingly well, so much so, I was inspired to blog this photo. I only wish I had taken it with a decent camera – but what can you do?

I’ve completed the move to Wordpress 2.01, everything looks good so I’m happy with that but I’m not 100% happy with the response times being exhibited by the site. It used to be rapid to say the least but it seems awfully sluggish since the upgrade.

A typical simple post like this one takes on average 5-10 seconds before I get notification that the post was successful. Whether that’s a side-effect of having the WYSIWYG editor perform its magic is something I’ll have to investigate!

For the time being, welcome to Wordpress 2.01!

The performance issue is still annoying me, it isn’t the WYSIWYG editor (that causes me layout headaches), enabling a previously disabled plugin has increased performance slightly but I’m still seeing slow response times from the site. In an effort to head the problem off I’ve moved forward an upgrade to PHP 5.1.2. It seems a little quicker but I’m still not happy!

It seems that my recent upgrade to MySQL 5 has caused me to miss a couple of replies to posts due to having “strict” mode enabled.

I have now fixed the problem and you should be able to post replies again. Sorry for the inconvenience!

I’ll be looking to upgrade to the latest version of Wordpress in the very near future. It has some lovely new tricks which I’d like to have a tinker with.