RSAT tools can be installed using the built-in Windows DISM tool. As an example, run the following command in an elevated command prompt to install the RSAT Group Policy Management Tools, RSAT Active Directory Domain Services and Lightweight Directory Services Tools and RSAT DNS Server Tools.
dism /online /add-capability /CapabilityName:Rsat.GroupPolicy.Management.Tools~~~~0.0.1.0 /CapabilityName:Rsat.Dns.Tools~~~~0.0.1.0 /CapabilityName:Rsat.ActiveDirectory.DS-LDS.Tools~~~~0.0.1.0 
To administer Active Directory (AD) from Windows, use the Microsoft Remote Server Administration Tools (RSAT). The tools are available for all platforms, Microsoft actively supports.
admin-tools is available as an AppImage which means "one app = one file", which you can download and run on your Linux system while you don't need a package manager and nothing gets changed in your system. Awesome!
AppImages are single-file applications that run on most Linux distributions. Download an application, make it executable, and run! No need to install. No system libraries or system preferences are altered. Most AppImages run on recent versions of Arch Linux, CentOS, Debian, Fedora, openSUSE, Red Hat, Ubuntu, and other common desktop distributions.
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Bill Gates has jumped ship on climate alarmism.
He says it’s not the end of the world, that temp isn’t the most important metric, and that money is being spent poorly (wow, really??)
This is a white flag from someone who fought hard for an insane set of ideas, and lost.
9:27 AM · Oct 28, 2025 //
Bill Gates has been a key enabler of the climate grift, although hardly the most powerful proponent of it. Despite his reputation as an innovator, he is and always has been more inclined to ride a wave than create one. If he is calling off the climate catastrophe talk, you can be sure that he is merely voicing what many people in his orbit are thinking.
There’s a doomsday view of climate change that goes like this:
In a few decades, cataclysmic climate change will decimate civilization. The evidence is all around us—just look at all the heat waves and storms caused by rising global temperatures. Nothing matters more than limiting the rise in temperature.
Fortunately for all of us, this view is wrong. Although climate change will have serious consequences—particularly for people in the poorest countries—it will not lead to humanity’s demise. People will be able to live and thrive in most places on Earth for the foreseeable future. Emissions projections have gone down, and with the right policies and investments, innovation will allow us to drive emissions down much further.
Unfortunately, the doomsday outlook is causing much of the climate community to focus too much on near-term emissions goals, and it’s diverting resources from the most effective things we should be doing to improve life in a warming world.
It’s not too late to adopt a different view and adjust our strategies for dealing with climate change. Next month’s global climate summit in Brazil, known as COP30, is an excellent place to begin, especially because the summit’s Brazilian leadership is putting climate adaptation and human development high on the agenda.
The idiocy of climate alarmists has been obvious to anybody who paid attention for years, and it is infuriating that people like us have to fight against disastrous policies for years or decades before we are proven right. We don't even get thanks or credit for being right, and the idiots don't get punished for being perpetually wrong. As with COVID, it's forgive and forget for the elites.
Imagine if we had built a hundred more nuclear power plants, or two hundred, since the 1980s. But no, the fearmongers stopped us, and the result is that we have spent decades trying to restart an industry that we killed for no reason other than alarmism.
It's not until the damage is done, is obvious, and the bill is outrageously high that people move on. Germany, soon enough, will do an about-face on energy or simply wither away, but if and when they do, they will have to rebuild the nuclear plants they destroyed and work mightily to lure back any industries that might take the risk.
The damage was completely avoidable. We told them so. We jumped up and down. Showed the evidence. Took apart the models. Put things in context. Held conferences. Endured ridicule and censorship. //
So yes, we are winning this battle. But we will have to fight the dead-enders for years and rebuild what they have destroyed.
In my USAF C-141 flying years, I often flew NASA support missions to Ascension Island. It’s a joint RAF/USAF base deep in the South Atlantic. It’s a spit of an island whose landscape looks like the Moon — pockmarked volcanic rock and beaches, an undulating runway often populated with sheep or cattle, a mountain peak reaching into the clouds named “Green Mountain” — with some locals and some military/NASA personnel. It’s a beautiful little island with some amazing history. We’d typically fly from Charleston AFB, SC, to Patrick AFB, FL, then on to Antigua for gas (and a cheeseburger), and then the long flight south to the remote island. We called it “the world’s longest straight in.” After takeoff, you flew the same course all the way to the runway. Often late at night.
It’s still legal to pick locks, even when you swing your legs.
“Opening locks” might not sound like scintillating social media content, but Trevor McNally has turned lock-busting into online gold. A former US Marine Staff Sergeant, McNally today has more than 7 million followers and has amassed more than 2 billion views just by showing how easy it is to open many common locks by slapping, picking, or shimming them.
This does not always endear him to the companies that make the locks. //
Wheels Of Confusion Ars Legatus Legionis
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The company claimed to have this case locked up from the start, but it was picked apart embarrassingly quickly.
By any measure, Melissa is an extraordinary and catastrophic storm.
By strengthening overnight and then maintaining its incredible intensity of 185 mph, Melissa has tied the Labor Day Hurricane of 1935 as the most powerful hurricane to strike a landmass in the Atlantic Basin, which includes the United States, Mexico, Central America, and the Caribbean islands.
Melissa also tied the Labor Day storm, which struck the Florida Keys, as the most intense storm at landfall, measured by central pressure at 892 millibars.
Overall, Melissa is tied for the second strongest hurricane, measured by winds, ever observed in the Atlantic basin, behind only Hurricane Allen and its 190 mph winds in 1980. Only Hurricane Wilma (882 millibars) and Gilbert (888 millibars) have recorded lower pressures at sea. //
Robin-3 Ars Scholae Palatinae
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Hurricane Melissa made landfall in southwestern Jamaica, near New Hope, on Tuesday at 1 pm ET with staggeringly powerful sustained winds of 185 mph. [...] The only mitigating factor is that the storm’s strongest winds are blowing across a relatively confined area, about 20 miles across.
Sustained winds of 185 mph (or nearly) in a 20-mile-wide swath.
For comparison, that's the speed you'd see in a mid-level EF-4 ("devastating") tornado... across a 20-mile-wide path. (I imagine the sustained winds will decrease after landfall, but that's a high enough starting point that a significant reduction can still leave them incredibly high.)
Christopher Rollston examines the Qeiyafa Ostracon, Gezer Calendar and other candidates for the oldest known Hebrew inscription
Using letter order in the ancient Hebrew alphabet for clues
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When a single RIF (Radiation Induced Foci) is faced with multiple DSB's (Double Strand Break in DNA), it can end up rejoining the wrong ends, creating a possibly viable misrepair. A few of the viable mutations will escape our immune system, and a few of those could become cancerous.
If double DSB's are the real problem, then dose rate and repair time becomes all important. The probability that a hit will cause a DDSB is proportional to the inventory of still unrepaired DSB's at the time of the hit.3 To over-simplify, if the repair processes can keep up with the damage, and keep that inventory low, we are OK. If the damage rate is higher than the repair rate, the inventory of unrepaired DSB's will build up, and the probability of a DDSB and a misrepair will grow rapidly. //
If we conservatively assume 10 metabolic DSB's per cell-day, and 0.04 DSB's per millisievert then it would take 250 mSv per day to equal the number of DSB's produced by our metabolism. 250 mSv is about 25,000 times normal background radiation. If normal metabolic damage is equivalent to 250 mSv/d, then any damage associated with 2 mSv/d would almost certainly not be detectable. At the same time, it is not surprising that we start to detect harm at 20 or so mSv/d. At that point, the cell is forced to deal with a substantially higher than normal number of DSB's. ///
Nature has equipped us with a remarkably effective DNA repair system. She had to do this because our O2 based metabolism damages our DNA at a rate that is more than 25,000 times the damage rate from average background radiation.
We begin our Christian life by believing what we are told to believe, then we have to go on to so assimilate our beliefs that they work out in a way that redounds to the glory of God. The danger is in multiplying the acceptation of beliefs we do not make our own.
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Jesus Christ did not say — “Go and save souls” (the salvation of souls is the supernatural work of God), but — “Go and teach,” i.e., disciple, “all nations,” and you cannot make disciples unless you are a disciple yourself. When the disciples came back from their first mission, they were filled with joy because the devils were subject to them, and Jesus said — “Don’t rejoice in successful service; the great secret of joy is that you are rightly related to Me.” The great essential of the missionary is that he remains true to the call of God, and realises that his one purpose is to disciple men and women to Jesus.
It’s always DNS
Amazon said the root cause of the outage was a software bug in software running the DynamoDB DNS management system. The system monitors the stability of load balancers by, among other things, periodically creating new DNS configurations for endpoints within the AWS network. A race condition is an error that makes a process dependent on the timing or sequence events that are variable and outside the developers’ control. The result can be unexpected behavior and potentially harmful failures.
In this case, the race condition resided in the DNS Enactor, a DynamoDB component that constantly updates domain lookup tables in individual AWS endpoints to optimize load balancing as conditions change. As the enactor operated, it “experienced unusually high delays needing to retry its update on several of the DNS endpoints.” While the enactor was playing catch-up, a second DynamoDB component, the DNS Planner, continued to generate new plans. Then, a separate DNS Enactor began to implement them.
The timing of these two enactors triggered the race condition, which ended up taking out the entire DynamoDB.
The man’s family told doctors that, up until a few months prior, he had been taking three different types of herbal supplements that claim to treat joint pain. The man had taken the supplements for four years, and sometimes as often as four times a day, but he had stopped using them in the lead-up to his illness.
Deadly doses
The supplements were: Artri King, Nhan Sam Tuyet Lien, and Linsen Double Caulis Plus. All are known to contain unlisted glucocorticoids, according to the Food and Drug Administration. And testing of two of the man’s supplements by the hospital confirmed the presence of the steroids.
Doctors determined that the man had essentially overdosed on the glucocorticoids—he had taken doses that exceeded the normal levels of glucocorticoids in the body. The steroids likely suppressed immune responses, leading to his infections and GI ulcers. But, more significantly, the excess steroid levels also caused his HPA axis to essentially shut down. While it’s possible to get the HPA axis back up and running after withdrawal from excessive steroid use, the amount of time that takes can vary. Further, if a person stops taking large doses of glucocorticoids abruptly, rather than gradually—as in the man’s case—and particularly after chronic use—also as in the man’s case—it can lead to an adrenal crisis. In retrospect, the man had all the signs of a crisis.
If we ID the DNA for a great antibody, anyone can now make it. //
knowing what antibodies we’d like to see people making while having no way of ensuring that they do.
One of the options we’ve developed is to just mass-produce broadly neutralizing antibodies and inject them into people. This has been approved for use against Ebola and provided an early treatment during the COVID pandemic. This approach has some practical limitations, though. For starters, the antibodies have a finite life span in the bloodstream, so injections may need to be repeated. In addition, making and purifying enough antibodies in bulk isn’t the easiest thing in the world, and they generally need to be kept refrigerated during the distribution, limiting the areas where they can be used.
So, a number of companies have been looking at an alternative: getting people to make their own. This could potentially lead to longer-lived protection, even ensuring the antibodies are present to block future infections if the DNA survives long enough.
When the Emir of Qatar’s Boeing 747-8 BBJ touched down in Palma at the end of June 2025, it brought with it a rare sight and a logistical challenge. The aircraft, often called a flying palace, is one of the largest and most extravagant private jets ever built. Its arrival marked the beginning of the Qatari royal family’s annual summer stay in Spain, a tradition that combines opulence with routine.
On June 30, 1973, a supersonic jet screamed across the African sky at 58,000 feet, chasing darkness at 1,450 miles per hour. Inside Concorde 001, seven scientists peer through holes cut in the roof, watching the longest solar eclipse in human history unfold. //
Over Africa, the Moon’s shadow raced across Earth at over 1,300 miles per hour. Ground observers got seven minutes before the shadow moved on. But Concorde at Mach 2.2 could actually outrun the shadow, staying locked in totality for as long as fuel lasted. //
Height mattered as much as speed. At 58,000 feet, the aircraft flew above weather, water vapor, and atmospheric turbulence that would blur ground observations. The combination of speed, altitude, and precise navigation created a stable observatory hurtling through space faster than a rifle bullet.
Supersonic cruise generated fierce aerodynamic heating, raising the skin to temperatures that would alarm passengers on any other jet. At the nose, engineers recorded figures as high as 261°F (127°C). The wing leading edges often reached about 212°F (100–105°C), while most of the fuselage settled between 194 and 203°F (90–95°C). //
At those temperatures, the entire 202-foot Concorde stretched by 7 to 12 inches. That expansion was most visible to the crew at the seam beside the engineer’s station, where the caps went in. //
The ritual of sealing a cap in the fuselage became most famous during the retirement era. On British Airways Concorde G-BOAG’s delivery flight to Seattle in 2003, flight engineer Trevor Norcott slipped his BA cap into the expansion gap while supersonic over Canada. As he later explained, “The Hat was meant as a permanent link between the aircraft and the crews.” Hours later, as the jet cooled on the ramp in Seattle, the seam clamped down, locking the cap inside. To this day, visitors walking past G-BOAG at the Museum of Flight unknowingly pass a hidden time capsule wedged between metal panels.
A rare shot shows the Concorde taking off with the NASA 905 carrying the Space Shuttle