"As I said earlier, there’s one exception to rule, and that’s DCs themselves. Every Domain has a unique Domain SID that’s randomly generated by Domain setup, and all machine SIDs for the Domain’s DCs match the Domain SID. So in some sense, that’s a case where machine SIDs do get referenced by other computers. That means that Domain member computers cannot have the same machine SID as that of the DCs and therefore Domain. However, like member computers, each DC also has a computer account in the Domain, and that’s the identity they have when they authenticate to remote systems. All accounts in a Domain, including computers, users and security groups, have SIDs that are based on the Domain SID in the same way local account SIDs are based on the machine SID, but the two are unrelated."

The low ramifications of this as mentioned above may have changed post Win2K and XP. This particular caveat governed our processes as system deployment specialists for Microsoft corporate events. We had to make sure that any potential DC had a unique SID even before the machines were promoted to DC, otherwise we saw (verifiably!) many issues with Workstations failing to join the domain. I seem to recall other more esoteric issues with older Microsoft server products, but that may be delusions based on the mass hysteria we had about unique SIDs at the time.

I just finished John Ford's "The Searchers" with John Wayne-- another very dark film that was largely ignored by the contemporary critics and moviegoers, and the Academy. And yet, after all these years, it is now widely considered to be one of the greatest and most influential films ever made.

A quote from the extras on the disc was that "time is the only measure by which we can judge a classic." That said, The Watchmen may yet prove to be greater than current boxoffice opinion holds.

I'm most worried about the studios ponying up for smart, dark films in the near future. Most especially as regards Guillermo del Toro's "At the Mountains of Madness". No female lead, no love story, and no happy ending there. And yet, it's just gotta be made. :)

Touche; I was actually looking at his correct damn name when I wrote that. Age is a bitch.

I don't believe you are contradicting anything I've written, except perhaps you are suggesting that Apple had a very substantial influence back in the 70's. This seems to be Cringely's and Apple's opinion, which no one else seems to be able to corroborate, either in terms of eyewitness accounts to computer faires, or in raw sales figures.

Which may actually be true, given their personalities. Woz was a kid in a garage with a non-functional board well after Peddle had designed the 6501 and 6502 microprocessors. Peddle actually assisted Woz in engineering the Apple I motherboard (using the same testing equipment designed for the PET), and they have remained friends throughout.

Maybe it was a weird soldering iron; maybe it was Chuck's. :)

No, "Pirates of Silicon Valley" gave far more credit to Apple than they deserved in the early days, and is an example of some outrageous revisionist history. Remember that the battle was between Commodore and Radio Shack at the time. Apple was constantly playing catch-up, and by the end of the 70's remained far back in third place in terms of volume and sales in spite of their marketing claims.

Wozniak, Jobs, Peddle, and Tramiel all discussed a Commodore buyout of Apple in '78. The Steves were receptive, were it not for Tramiel's stubborn and short-sighted decision to walk away from the deal.

Apple has had some brilliant people in marketing and many of them are guilty of revising history to suit the company's expected image.

If you have any interest in the origins of personal computing, you should read about Chuck Peddle's first-hand account of the relationship between the Steves and Commodore in "On The Edge" by Brian Bagnall. It's an amazing account of those years.

Apple makes some great products, and there are some incredible engineers who have been with NeXT and Apple. But let's be truthful about the origins of the Personal Computer. Apple and Microsoft were sideshows at the time.

Oh, and apropos TFA: this guy misspells Mike Markullas name repeatedly. Not sure where that comes from; hopefully it's not in his book.