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purina bullshit

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so my poor dog has allergies and i need to feed her a special diet. purina makes a food – Pro Plan HA Hydrolyzed – that she can tolerate well, it’s good stuff. i recently got this email from the company i buy the food from:

Purina has recently updated their food and has discontinued the 32 lb bag of the Pro Plan HA Hydrolyzed and replaced this with a 27.5 lb bag. To ensure you do not run out of food, we have placed your autoship order today for the 27.5 lb bag.

that wouldn’t have been an issue, save for the fact that they didn’t lower the price to match the lowered quantity of food. bullshit. i’m not fooled, nobody is fooled. it’s a shitty ploy and shows that purina doesn’t think very highly of their client base. i get needing to raise prices, but be upfront and honest about it, don’t pull this bullshit. bad faith move, bad call purina.

AD/Azure AD – dirsync missing attributes targetAddress and mailnickname

Active Directory, Azure, office 365

this is an odd situation, but i think may be somewhat commonplace in the SMB world. i have office 365 set up for my business email, nothing fancy, just one user. i decided to implement a domain controller in azure and set up dirsync to sync into azure ad. i’m working on an overall project/poc to set up a cloud based environment with a full domain hosted in azure iaas, office 365, intune and azure services including azure active directory to tie all the cloud services together. from there i plan to play with azure mfa and sso for things like dropbox for business, etc. everything went smoothly with standing up the new dc and installing dirsync, however my account didn’t sync up, just a couple test accounts i had made. i got an email from the ms online services team indicating the failure, but chasing the root cause down was tricky.

first step was to try the IdFix DirSync Error Remediation Tool, which has a basic gui and identifies the issues. it flagged that my account was missing the tragetAddress and mailnickname attributes that are set in office 365. i tried to just have the tool fix it, but it failed. from there i dug into my user object with adsiedit, and that didn’t show those attributes. it turns out that you need to have the exchange ad schema extensions added to ad in order to have those attributes. so off to download exchange 2013 so that i can extend the schema per this article.

once the schema extensions were added, i was able to use idfix to make the changes to my user object and sync up the changes to azure ad.

on a related note, to force a sync, in powershell, you need to run the following commands:
Import-Module DirSync
Start-OnlineCoExistenceSync
you can check the event log for details, there’s nothing to see beyond that.

mounting a phone for gps – take 2

moto

so that didn’t work out well at all. word of caution, do not use the friction clamp mount, it dropped off my windshield while on the highway. thankfully it just came to rest on my handlebars and didn’t drop onto the road or into the suspension, but whoah, scary stuff.

for my second try, i picked up the oem large windscreen which comes with a support bar, i attached a bolt-on RAM mount to that and everything’s great now.

mounting a phone for gps

moto

this is my first attempt to mount and power my cell for GPS on a 2013 BMW F800GS.

to start, there is an SAE plug tucked away under the right front fairing, this might be stock, might be dealer added, i haven’t been able to get an answer either way. i picked up an SAE to USB adapter from burns moto that outputs 5V DC @ 2.1A.  the SAE seems to be directly connected to the battery as it charges the phone with the bike off, from what i’ve read, there is a cambus that would shut down power after turning off the bike, the powerlet outlet is on this bus.  here’s a picture of the SAE plug:

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on the mount front, i’ve got a so-so solution with a RAM clamp mount that i’ve got attached to the windscreen, with a 6″ bar it clears the handlebars in a full turn and gets the phone up decently high. i haven’t test ridden yet, so i don’t know about vibration and viewing angle, i’ll report back when i have. [UPDATE] test ride complete, quick city and highway ride, no vibration issues, the screen is readable in motion. [/UPDATE] here are some pictures of the installed mount:

rider view
rider view
side view one
side view one
side view two
side view two
usb port
usb port