A Glee is a part song, usually scored for at least three solo voices, and normally sung unaccompanied.

A glee club, is a primarily male singing club who sings glees. They became popular in London starting around 1762. They had soprano parts usually sung by boys, but later, women were invited to sing as well. They gained in popularity in the 18th century, but in the 19th and 20th centuries mostly gave way to generic choral societies.

Source: Wiki

That’s Senator Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI), to be exact.

I’ve never heard of Senator Whitehouse before today, but I would have thought that with that name he’d be obligated to run for President.

What could be cooler than President Whitehouse?

Who lives at the White House? President Whitehouse, of course.

I just completed a multi-day odyssey relating to trying to set up Microsoft Forefront Client Security on Windows Small Business Server (SBS) 2003. Hopefully, if you’re trying to attempt the same thing, this will help.

But before we start, here’s the disclaimer: I will not take into account the licensing side of this process, as it gets rather complicated. Complying with licensing is your deal. I’m in compliance over here but your compliance is not my concern. Best of luck.

So now, first off, the cheater’s way out- skip the server component entirely and just install the client component on the client PCs. The clients will get their definition updates from the Internet through Microsoft Update. If you are just looking to protect a few PCs and don’t care about the reporting component, etc., this is an OK way to go.

To install Microsoft Forefront Client on a Client PC:

Browse the Forefront CD. Don’t use the “Explore this CD” link from the splash screen. That will take you to the wrong place. Go to the client folder, and you’ll see Clientsetup.exe. You have to run the install with a switch so it will skip the MOM server part. So, clientsetup.exe /nomom

The Microsoft version here.

Installing the Whole Deal:
Now, the cheater’s way hardly gets you the experience of setting up Forefront on a network, so if you want to go the real way, that’s a little more difficult.

First off, despite what you read, you can make this work. The most basic obstacle is that the final install will require SQL Server 2005 Standard SP2 to work. SBS doesn’t ship with SQL 2005 Standard, so you’ve got to have a copy of that.

Start with installing SQL Server. Then apply the Service Packs. You can go with SP2 or 3, doesn’t matter.

Now, Forefront relies on another technology, Windows Server Update Services (or WSUS) to push out the updates. This is the same application that allows you to centralize Updates for PCs on your LAN. So you have to install that next. You can run WSUS without SQL 2005, but you don’t want to.

The complete MS documentation on installing WSUS on SBS 2003 is here.

(As an aside, make sure your network/domain is configured correctly. If it isn’t, you will have issues when you get to the Group Policy part. Learned that the hard way.)

So, now you’ve got your SQL Server running, WSUS is up, and you have a WSUS Group Policy applied to your client PCs.

Now it’s time to install Forefront on the server. You’ll be installing in the single server topology, since you’re running SBS. (If you have more than one server, why’d you go with SBS?)

The MS documentation on this part is good. It’s here. The deployment section is where you’ll need to pay attention. First you have to create a policy, and then apply it to the AD groups that you are targeting. Then you have to make sure that you have “Updates” set to synchronise in WSUS. Otherwise the clients won’t get the client software pushed to them.

After you deploy, you’ll have to either wait for the PCs to “discover” each other and start downloading the updates, or try to force them along.

Your best friends: gpupdate /force and wuauclt.exe /detectnow

Good luck.

Normally a quick and painless process. Unless of course Windows thinks you have no hard drives.

Setup did not find any hard disk drives installed in your computer. Make sure any hard disk drives are powered on and properly connected to your computer, and that any disk-related hardware configuration is correct. This may involve running a manufacturer-supplied diagnostic or setup program. Setup cannot continue. To quit Setup, press F3.

Huh. Well, I know the hard drive is there. At least it was a minute ago…

Anyway, it’s a quick fix, once you figure it out.

The Vostro ships in AHCI mode by default. You have to change that.

Press F2 on the initial Dell screen as the computer boots to enter the BIOS. Look for a setting related to hard drives, hard disks, or SATA drives, SATA controller, etc. This will be set to AHCI. Change it to SATA.

Save the changes and reboot. You’re all set from there.

At first I thought it was related to Dell Media Direct, however, after changing the mode, everything installed fine and DMD works too.

That’s right. Star Trek: The Animated Series. Ran from 1973-75; 2 seasons. And had all of the original Star Trek cast (except Chekov). It’s supposed to have taken place during the last year of the Enterprises’ original ’5 year mission.’ Roddenberry, however, decided to not make the events of the animated series official canon, so it didn’t ‘really happen.’

Noteworthy trivia:

• An episode of TAS was responsible for the creation of the holodeck.
• They used life-support belts in the show, rather then use space suits. This was because the suits were too complex to draw all the time.
• Likewise, the idea of the transporter (I think we’re talking about the original series now) was created so they wouldn’t have to film an expensive shuttle/landing scene every episode.
• Originally, Nichols (Ohura), Takei (Sulu), and Koenig (Chekov) were all supposed to be scrapped from TAS, but Nimoy objected and got Nichols and Takei jobs. He must not care for Russians.
• Takei was running for a local political office in CA in 1973 when the show premiered, so the local broadcast company aired an episode of TAS which did not feature Sulu the weeks surrounding the election – so they wouldn’t be required to give his opponents “equal” air time.

Source: IMDB

It has to do with the speed of sound.

Normally, your voice travels through regular air, which produces the sound that your voice usually makes.

When you replace the air in your lungs with helium, the distance your voice has to travel stays the same, but the material it has to travel through changes. Because sound travels through helium twice as fast as through regular air, your voice sounds higher.

Source: My new favorite show Brink.

Last Saturday was Don Pardo’s last night announcing on SNL. He’s 91.

He had announced every episode of the show since it went on the air in 1975 (except for one season in the 80′s).

He actually retired a few years ago, but the producers convinced him to fly to New York from Arizona every week to do the show. For awhile he tried to prerecord the voice overs, but that didn’t work.

Prior to SNL, Pardo did announcing for several game shows and news shows. He was also the first person to announce the assassination of JFK.

Source: This Site

There was Pope John Paul I, of course.

John Paul I was notable for being the William Henry Harrison of Popes, dying only 33 days after he ascended to the papacy in 1978. (He lasted a whole day longer than WHH!)

John Paul I immediately preceded John Paul II.

There were implications of conspiracy in his death, and some believe that he died from drinking poisoned tea.

Source: The History Channel

I’ve always been partial to use peroxide as an antiseptic instead of alcohol because it hurts less and does this awesome foamy things which makes me think that it works better or something. So it got me wondering what the foamy thing was all about.

From here:
The reason why it foams is because blood and cells contain an enzyme called catalase. Since a cut or scrape contains both blood and damaged cells, there is lots of catalase floating around.

When the catalase comes in contact with hydrogen peroxide, it turns the hydrogen peroxide (H2O2) into water (H2O) and oxygen gas (O2).

2H2O2 –> 2H2O + O2
Catalase does this extremely efficiently — up to 200,000 reactions per second. The bubbles you see in the foam are pure oxygen bubbles being created by the catalase. Try putting a little hydrogen peroxide on a cut potato and it will do the same thing for the same reason — catalase in the damaged potato cells reacts with the hydrogen peroxide.

So there…

And apparently that’s the place to go to find your 14-year-old son a prostitute.