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Programming devices

J now has two hamsters; one much more vigorous than the other. We talked about how cool it would be to make a sort of tachometer, to see how far the hamster runs each night.

Logoforum has a post regarding the GoGoBoard, a ” a collection of open-source hardware platforms mainly aimed for educational projects.”

I mentioned this item to SJC who pointed me to Parallax’s BASIC Stamp products.

Now there’s an article in the January 2004 Linux Journal about a web-based cat treat dispenser, based on a Parallax Homework Board kit.

The Parallax stuff is more plug-it-together-and-go, where the GoGoBoard project is intentionally more build-it-all-yourself.

And there’s always CS 101 – Computer Organization…

–Geoff

Funkiness joining workstations to a domain

Scenario: when joining a system to the domain and renaming it, some burp happens, and the local system thinks that it has the original computer name and is joined to the domain. The Domain Controller, OTOH, has the NEW name. Either way, there appears to be a problem with the computer password, too, because many aspects of domain funcitonality aren’t working.

Microsoft’s KB (via Google) yields some options:

How To Use Netdom.exe to Reset Machine Account Passwords
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;EN-US;q260575

How To Use the Netdom.exe Utility to Rename a Computer
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/325354

NETDOM Documentation
http://www.microsoft.com/resources/Documentation/windowsserv/2003/all/techref/en-us/netdom.asp