Rain in Dallas. What a shock. Some thunder and lightning, too.

we have been inside all day, so it matters little to us. Some very good sessions yesterday and today. I was most intrigued with ADAM (Active Directory Application Mode), which is a way to support application specific directories tied to AD. This is a significant issue for some of my clients.

The session on Kerberos authentication pointed out some of the tricks that gave me grief testing it with AD several months ago.

I met Jim Dial last night too, he is part of the MSA initiative - Microsoft Systems Architecture. Basically the infrastructure group. I missed his session today, but I had a conflict and I'm starting to get crispy around the edges, so I don't want to jump sessions.

Last night the IT Party gift was a very slick 32 Meg USB drive. I was looking at buying one just to have for quick and dirty file transfers. Glad I was cheap and held off.

Today I bought a Cisco Air 352 PC Card. Its a new model with 100 mA of power versus 30-40 mA that other cards, including the previous model 340 put out. Its not clear what the throughput is on the network here due to contention and 1MM geeks hitting it each break, but I will benchmark against my Orinoco Gold and 340 loaner card when I get home.