Cabin in the Woods // Movie Review

Rating: 4/5; Worth the ten bucks.

Release Date: April 2012

Rating: Rated-R for violence and crazy shi*

Thoughts:

Of course I saw cabin in the woods. Chris Hemsworth and Joss Whedon attached to this project? How could I resist. Plus, I read some great reviews on it. (Reviewer power, hurrah!) 

Yes, go watch it. Do not expect it to be your run-of-the-mill horror movie. Expect a Joss Whedon-like storyline. By this I mean, Buffy/Sunnydale-type of plot - not fully, but similar elements. Whedon certainly leaves his mark on this movie. You won't only get a horror movie with a number of can't-help-but-love-being-scared moments, you'll also get an engaging plot (oh yes! fans of The Hunger Games will like this as well), and some humorous/witty lines. 

Sidenote: The horror is not the kind that's in your face and makes you jump in your seat. The deaths (hope that's not spoiler-y…) are also not that bloody and gory (honestly, I like this kinda nutso stuff so that was disappointing for me). They are actually not really shown. 

Sidenote #2: Ooooh guess who shows up in this movie?! Fellow fans of Buffy/Angel will enjoy seeing Fred/Amy Ackler (*tear*) and Andrew/Tom Lenk. 

Trailer:


Resembles:
Joss Whedon work
Supernatural (T.V show)
The Hunger Games (movie & books)
Battle Royale (movie & book/manga)

Harry Potter Boxset Books 1-7 (Hardcover)

The Harry Potter Boxed Set 1-7 includes all seven Harry Potter hardcover books by bestselling author J.K. Rowling, and is housed in a printed and customizable (decorative stickers included) cardboard box featuring a plastic lock and handles.

How to determine whether changes applied to Forefront Threat Management Gateway 2010 are active

I’m sure many experienced Forefront Threat Management Gateway 2010 administrators out there already knows about this but I haven’t really been working with TMG for a while and recently discovered that you can actually check when your changes are actually active after they have been successfully applied.

Rather than sit around and wait a minute before you proceed with testing out, say, a new firewall policy, you can perform the following actions to determine whether your changes are now active:

Navigate to the Monitoring node and then click on the Configuration tab.  Notice that the Configuration Status has a green checkbox and the status is labeled as Synced with the description:

Server configuration matches the stored configuration.

Proceed by clicking on the Refresh button on the right:

Notice that the server’s status is now labeled as Not Synced with the description:

Server configuration does not match the stored configuration.

Hitting the refresh button again a few times will show that the server’s status is now labeled as Updating with the description:

Server is updating configuration to match the stored configuration.

Hitting the refresh button again a few times will show that the server’s status is now labeled as Synced with the description back to:

Server configuration matches the stored configuration.

Using this method to determine when new configuration changes to the TMG are active is definitely better than waiting a predetermined amount of time.

New To My Playlist #36

This is what's new to my most listened to playlist. 

"Gone Away" by Lucy Schwartz

Found: Adam movie - had the change to see an early screening of it back in the day (I really liked it!) and I finally managed to get the song. 

"Midnight City" by M83



Favorite: that beat!! ah!! I know I don't talk like this but the best way to describe it is to say it's DOPE!!! Seriously. I've had it on my playlist for months. I cannot stop listening to it. Check out the rest of their new album!


"Rapture" by Hurt *warning! explicit*



Favorite: In the life of the wrong love lingered on love lingered on to frustration.
Thoughts: This song is literally mentally unwell, buuuuut ahhh so fun! I especially love that intro. Hey! 

How to determine whether the virtual desktops in a XenDesktop 5.5 and 5.6 desktop catalog is using an old image or out of date image

If you’re ever wondering whether the virtual desktops in your Citrix XenDesktop 5.5 or 5.6 desktop catalog is using the most current snapshot from the master image or an older snapshot, you can use the Get-BrokerDesktop cmdlet in PowerShell to find out via the ImageOutOfDate variable.  The following is an example:

Get-BrokerDesktop -DesktopGroupName "XenDesktop XP Pilot" | format-list MachineName,ImageOutOfDate

Make sure you’re using the Desktop Group name and not the Desktop Catalog name as the identifier.