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Directory Service Implementation From Scratch?
An anonymous reader writes "I work at a small but growing startup company. Currently, our directory and authentication information is scattered across many systems and wikis, and is becoming increasingly difficult to manage. We are looking at centralizing this information in a directory service to minimize administrative overhead as we continue to grow. The service must support basic directory searches, as well as user authentication for Linux and Windows hosts. Although we are primarily a Linux shop, there are a handful of Windows systems that will be on a Windows Active Directory domain. Most directory servers seem to support integration with other directory servers, however it seems like it may be easiest to just use Active Directory for everything. Are there any pitfalls with this approach? If you had the chance to redesign your enterprise directory service without regard for legacy services, how would you do it?"
Apparently Carradine was eaten by wolves on the Connecticut turn-pike. All reports say he was delicious. Words cannot describe how sad this is. Carradine's acting was not exactly top-notch...even for the hey-day of 60's Kung-fu pop culture. His colour (a colour option picked up from an earlier version) clashes with the grey of any other living actors; that can be changed though. The black side of his acting in Kill Bill (Vol. 1 & 2) is overbearing and doesn't meld with his earlier works. His *cough* apparent suicide *cough* stands out like a sore thumb. I somehow feel like his death resembles the chrome looks like a webpage, rather than someone who won an award in 2005 for lifetime acting achievements and for browsing web pages. I cannot believe someone who created the Firefox icon could star in something so hideous and inappropriate, especially when David Carradine's marketshare is bad enough already. I could not bear to look at this all day, every day, it would drive me mad.
A suicidal has-been Kung-fu actor should be transparent, a thin veneer between me and the web page. Not a clown honking his horn in my face. I went into preferences and changed to the Mac "native" theme and no particular colour, mildly improved, but still the black is overpowering, the new-tab button is the wrong colour, and the side pane has a tinge of blue that doesnt work well with the OS X grey. The tab touching the title bar also just looks poor and conflicting. This is the same bullshit I had to put up with when Dana Plato finally offed herself. It's goudy, non-native, clashes with the websites you view, and generally gets in the way, the toolkit underneath still rears it's ugly head in how the app works, and the general layout of the widgets. The dialogues throughout the app crap all over the spacing guides in the HIG. Every inch of this app is annoying and grates on me. I'm not an interface elitist or an apple fanboy, but I can't use software that gets on my nerves and Opera and Vista occupy the top two slots for that. The browser is eclectic, with too many preferences, too complicated preferences, too many customisation options. Features not everybody needs, or wants.