She was just three and a half years old and this was very sudden for all of us.

Tuffy had been diagnosed with diabetes about 20 days ago and for the last 10 days started going downhill. She had internal bleeding in her gut and her ulcers just didn’t get enough time to heal. Over the last four days, she received multiple injections and ivy drips, but her body started giving up the fight on Saturday. To hear her whimper and cry was heart-breaking, and all our efforts somehow were just not enough…

Late in the evening on Saturday when she started getting pale, it was evident that Tuffy needed blood. Dr. C.B didn’t think twice before suggesting using his own dog – Junior as the donor.

Tuffy was given the blood, but after about 10 minutes of it having gone in she took her last breath…

I can’t thank Dr. C.B. Singh enough for what he has done for our entire family over the years. Looking after each of our dogs, more than just another patient or a case.

Not like anybody who reads this blog would care much, and least of all people who have ever kept a pet would understand. But for those few who have ever had a pet, know what it’s like to lose a loved companion.

Tuffy was a very beautiful, honey-gold coloured cocker spaniel. She was a princess, and loved to be fussed about and get our attention. We got her when she was a month old, and immediately bonded with Liesl, my German Shepherd. When Liesl passed away, this little one filled the void for us and gave us so much love that we forgot our pain.

Every single day that I got back from work, she would greet me as though she hadn’t seen her for years. All she wanted was to be picked up and tickled and would get jealous if I would sit with mom or Ishu.

Whenever Mickey, Ishu’s brother would come down from Kangra, she would cry and get stuck to him and in her own way complain why he went away for so long.

She was mom and Ishu’s baby and would not leave them for even a minute. She was very different than our previous pets – Liesl, Elsa, Dushka.

She loved the winters with all the static charge in blankets, us, beds, and anything else she could get it from.

With my dad she had a very special bond – didn’t bother much about him, but took a fancy for his walker (he has had knee surgeries and needs it in the interim). The walker was an endless source of charging her not so static self.

Every single day she would go sniff the walker, get a shot of the static goodness and then continue with rest of her greeting us rituals.

There is an endless list of her antics, which I have never seen any of my previous pets do. Some day I might write about them.

Right now there is a void, it will take some time to heal. I just pray for her soul, and IF there is someone up above, he will look after our sweet little bundle of joy.

After going through some forums I did the following to see accounts which were not disabled:
$result = ldap_search($ad, "OU=Users,OU=Office1,DC=country,DC=company,DC=com", "(&(objectCategory=user)(!(userAccountControl=514)))");

Microsoft returns the flags set for any user in the userAccountControl attribute in a cumulative manner. The flag values used by Active Directory are mentioned here.

So e.g.
John has a Normal Account [Flag 512]
Alex had a Normal Account [Flag 512] but now has been disabled [Flag 2] so the status on his account now is [512+2 = 514].

This works fine in most cases but as the flags can be summed up in any order, ldap_search returned 66050 for some users.  Seeing the table what that means is:

[Flag 65536 ]+ [Flag 512] + [Flag 2] which translates to

[Password Doesn't Expire] + [was a Normal Account] + [but has been disabled now.]

So checking for 66050 in my php script was the next dirty fix to exclude such people as well like so:

$result = ldap_search($ad, "OU=Users,OU=Office1,DC=country,DC=company,DC=com", "(&(objectCategory=user)(!(userAccountControl=514))(!(userAccountControl=66050)))");

While making the admin section to manage these users I had to show the users for our different offices (located in different countries) and also what settings they had.

The userAccountControl just gives back the sum of all the flags set when we do an ldap_search and get all entries for any user object.

To solve this problem of mine, I made the following function to breakdown the codes returned in the useraccountcontrol field into their corresponding flags which have been set in the userAccountControl attribute.

function getUserAccountControlAttributes($inputCode)
{
/**
* http://support.microsoft.com/kb/305144
*
* You cannot set some of the values on a user or computer object because
* these values can be set or reset only by the directory service.
*
*/
$userAccountControlFlags = array(16777216 => "TRUSTED_TO_AUTH_FOR_DELEGATION",
8388608 => "PASSWORD_EXPIRED",
4194304 => "DONT_REQ_PREAUTH",
2097152 => "USE_DES_KEY_ONLY",
1048576 => "NOT_DELEGATED",
524288 => "TRUSTED_FOR_DELEGATION",
262144 => "SMARTCARD_REQUIRED",
131072 => "MNS_LOGON_ACCOUNT",
65536 => "DONT_EXPIRE_PASSWORD",
8192 => "SERVER_TRUST_ACCOUNT",
4096 => "WORKSTATION_TRUST_ACCOUNT",
2048 => "INTERDOMAIN_TRUST_ACCOUNT",
512 => "NORMAL_ACCOUNT",
256 => "TEMP_DUPLICATE_ACCOUNT",
128 => "ENCRYPTED_TEXT_PWD_ALLOWED",
64 => "PASSWD_CANT_CHANGE",
32 => "PASSWD_NOTREQD",
16 => "LOCKOUT",
8 => "HOMEDIR_REQUIRED",
2 => "ACCOUNTDISABLE",
1 => "SCRIPT"
);


$attributes = NULL;
while($inputCode > 0)
{
foreach($userAccountControlFlags as $flag => $flagName)
{
$temp = $inputCode-$flag;
if($temp>0)
{
$attributes[$userAccountControlFlags[$flag]] = $flag;
$inputCode = $temp;
}
if($temp==0)
{
if(isset($userAccountControlFlags[$inputCode]))
{
$attributes[$userAccountControlFlags[$inputCode]] = $inputCode;
}
$inputCode = $temp;
}
}
}
return $attributes;
}


$userAccountControlAttributes = getUserAccountControlAttributes(66048);
var_dump($userAccountControlAttributes);

On doing a var_dump this function returns this:
array(2) { ["DONT_EXPIRE_PASSWORD"]=> int(65536) ["NORMAL_ACCOUNT"]=> int(512) }

This made it easier for me to display the attributes set on each user in my admin panel and I also removed the checks for Flag 514, and Flag 66050 in my ldap_search filter and instead checked if the ACCOUNTDISABLE was set and showed only those users in my list like so:
if(!isset($userAccountControlAttributes["ACCOUNTDISABLE"]))
{
// do something
}

Hope this helps someone trying to show account attributes using php.

Notepad2 (Windows notepad is dead, this one has truly replaced all my windows systems)

WinMerge (diff tool)

Softerra LDAP Administrator (amazing ldap manager)

Easy Eclipse (eclipse installation for the truly lazy people)

• Choose the English Resource Folder (which contains nib and string resources)
• Choose the Target Resource Folder (where the localized files would be placed)
• Give the glossary which has the translations stored in it.

I checked out the source code from the CVS repository on my system, and ran the script which finished off the work in a few minutes.

Little did I realize that when the script was placing the nibs in the target folders it overwrote any previous CVS entries inside the nib.

A nib is basically a Bundle which CVS treats as a simple directory, so when you check in a nib into the repository, CVS will insert its entries inside the nib bundle.

I read many forums to figure out a way to open the bundle using applescript but without any luck. Then on one of the forums I read someone who had faced a similar problem and tar might help.

A few more searches on how to use TAR and sure enough it be my saviour! Just posting the code snippet here for future reference:

-- tempPath had the localized resources
-- targetPath was the folder inside the CVS repository

do shell script "(cd \"" & tempPath & "\"; tar cf -
* --exclude CVS) | (cd \"" & targetPath & "\"; tar xfp -)"

“–exclude CVS” option ensures that if any CVS folder exists inside the localized nib data it doesn’t get copied into the new target folder (which in my case was the actual repository)

The first time I came across this “jewel” of English was when I was at school. Apparently it is a true essay written by a Bihari candidate as part of the qualifying Examinations for UPSC [IAS - Indian Adminstrative Services]. The candidate has written an essay on the Indian cow:

Indian Cow HE IS THE COW.

The cow is a successful animal. Also he is 4 footed, And because he is female, he give milks, but will do so when he is got child. He is same like-God, sacred to Hindus and useful to man. But he has got four legs together. Two are forward and two are afterwards. His whole body can be utilised for use. More so the milk. Milk comes from 4 taps attached to his
basement. horses dont have any such attachment What can it do? Various ghee, butter, cream, curd, why and the condensed milk and so forth. Also he is useful to cobbler, watermans and mankind generally. His motion is slow only because he is of lazy species., Also his other motion.. gobar is much useful to trees, plants as well as for making flat cakes like Pizza, in hand , and drying in the sun.

Cow is the only animal that extricates his feeding after eating. Then afterwards she chew with his teeth whom are situated in the inside of the mouth. He is incessantly in the meadows in the grass. His only attacking and defending organ is the horns, specially so when he is got child. This is done by knowing his head whereby he causes the weapons to be paralleled to the ground of the earth and instantly proceed with great velocity forwards.
He has got tails also, situated in the backyard, but not like similar animals. It has hairs on the other end of the other side. This is done to frighten away the flies which alight on his cohesive body hereupon he gives hit with it.

The palms of his feet are soft unto the touch So the grasses head is not crushed. At night time have poses by looking down on the ground and he shouts . His eyes and nose are like his other relatives. This is the cow.

We are informed that the candidate passed the exam.and is now an IAS, is bihar in somewhere… (Sorry somewhere in Bihar)

For those who appreciate the sense in the nonsense here is the Spider Pig…Song.

Liesl, a beautiful, most adorable, german shepherd was with us for the last eight years. She was most attached to me, every single day I came back the unconditional love I got probably no human could or would ever be able to replace. I will certainly cherish her memories and the love and affection she gave us all.

At the moment its too hard for me to write what I am feeling, maybe I will, maybe I wont…

Let’s see how long I keep WordPress. For the moment me not complain.