The whole idea of directory services is to combine everything into a single repository, everything potentialy expanding well beyond just information for access to computer resources. Consiter scheduling, electronic locks, HR thingers. Consiter a university whos accademic scheduling software can push down information to NDS so registering for a class gives you access to that special printer. Integration with PBXs. And on and on.
'Directories' are not just for convient computer administration, there for convient everything. Give meeting rooms and slide projectors entries in your directory, and 'invite' them to meetings.
Whatever: the point is you want everything in a directory, and you want everything in a single directory.
However lets say, there is some kind of realy top secret group, or project or something - new products or a security force, or internal affairs in a police department. Now, you've set up NDS either physcialy, or logicly, but either way there are things that are defined in a higher level that you want to flow down. Everybody gets Netscape in ZEN, everybody in bldg 17 gets access to some printer. However, since this paricular group is anal about security, they want there own container admin, and dont want higher level admin's inhereting rights. Your buliding admin can still define ZEN profiles, and printers (and groupwise routing rules, and......) but they dont have access to the sensitive information in that container.
So you can have it both ways, a single direcrory, with inhereted profiles for (whatever), and a secure container.
NDS has been around for 7 years. Its proven to work, and proven to work with insanly large trees. ADS is brand spanking new, unproven, and built on flaky grounds (it runs on JET - the DB backend desigined for Access). ADS runs on Windows. NDS runs on Netware, NT, win2k, solaris, linux, AIX, OS/390, and Tru64.
NDS - ADS comparision
ADS runs on Windows. NDS runs on Netware, NT, win2k, solaris, linux, AIX, OS/390, and Tru64.
I dont know about ADS, but this is quite possible with NDS. Since there are some good reasons why you would want to do it, this is a serious misfeature of ADS.
It was thought up a hell of a lot longer than 20 years ago.. Early 1960s, in fact.
At the time there were two compeating products biding to become the official standard, a 'simple' one gun solution from RCA, and a more complex three gun (one streem for each of RGB, no grille) from [somebody else].
The solution from RCA won out for two main reasons:
It was forawards and backwards compatable with the existing B&W NTSC standard (which itself was for/backwards compatable with a preWWII experemental standard), so the color NTSC signal could be viewed on B&W tvs, and the B&W signal could be viewed on color sets.
RCA owned NBC, and the other company just did hardware, so there was actualy some content using one of the standards, so it took hold (sound familer?)
Im compeled to bring this up whenever I talk about the B&W-color transition and RCA/NBC, so I will agian. Star Trek (TOS) was filmed and brodcast in color (one of the first shows to do so), and was, infact, one of the most popular color programs on the air (using either the-at-the-time-rating-system (which said ST sucked, in general) or a resonable system (which would have said ST was a hit)). It sold TV sets for RCA. Thats why it survived as long as it did (which is not long enough).
MAPI is the standard windows mail usage component. It has nothing to do with the protocol over the wire.
If some program dosent have the ability itself to send mail, but it wants to for some reason (a mailto: link, for example) the it calls the program that has registered itslef as a MAPI porgram, with the standard MAPI interfaces (assumably things like To: and From: and Body: and the like..).
So to send mail from a windows program that dosent know how to send mail you call the MAPI component, and not any specific mail progie. I cant think of any resonably popular mail program that dosent try to register itself as a MAPI component.
Most programmers I think will have a lot more of an easy time programming for dotfiles rather than for the registry.
Yes, but the core of this thread is the developement (because of the lack) of common reusable components - so accessing the unix registry would be as easy as:
for him to be from the San Fernando Vally, but not Silicon Valley... I mean realy. When did Shockly move in? It had to be the early '50s.
If we credit Apple with realy starting silicon valley, (they were around before Sun) then its because Steve and Steve were from silicon valley to begin with! Ok, maby it wasent silicon valley, but aerospace valley (or prehaps Place-where-nasa-spent-a-lot-of-moon-money valley), but the writing was on the wall. IBM has had plants there for decades, as did (the startup) Intel - ship jumpers from Shockley.
No. You only have to give the person whome you sold/leased/lent the pop machine to the code.
You can change GPLd code as much as you want, however, if you distribute it (and only if you distribute it) do you have to also distribute the sources (or at lease facilitate the distribution - ftp, media cost only, etc).
So serious persion could consiter Slashdot to be even vagly journalistic. They have proven time and time agian that, in that field, there compleatly incompitent.
Your right.. Where would the PC industry be if NASA hadent purchased a couple of millions of dollars worth of transistors, deceded they couldnt make it to the moon, and then throw them out?
Fortunatly, for all of us, a highschool rescued them, and (significantly) Steve and Steve hacked on them.
Currently, code is optomized for being produced on keyboards. Its not unresonably to predict that as voice recognition becomes better, we will have languages built around voice input.
Perl is already a little like this (it was written by a linguist after all..) with the expression modifiers (ie some_expressionifcontrol_expression.
Coding in COBOL would be nowhere near as bad if you could speek it:)
But good typers can type faster than they can speek.. However unless your transcribing something, the input part is idle more often then the tinking part (be it code, or a letter to mom)... The thinking is the time consuming part.
One thing that Ive never had adequately explained to me is grades of fiber.. I understand the difference beteween single mode and multi mode fiber, but is upgrading a fiber instalation just swapping out the trancevers? (connectors asside) Or do you have to worry about quality of the light pipe?
Younger, leaner code with the requirement of backwards compatable with old, broken code - to the extent of being 'compatable' with bugs. Faster at being bad, but still bad.
BeOS, on the other hand has always had the design goal of being good... In fact beteween two major versions, enough changed that stuff writen/compiled for the old version diddnt run. Backwards compatability has been at the bottom of the list of goals.
disclamer: I dont run beos, but have been curious in it, and have a friend who does run it (in addition to linux..)
I dont understand people who dont recognoize tha this is not a new thing, and its not necessarly bad, either.
Take, for example, the Hudson Bay Company. It was given, by royal proclamation, control of Hudson Bay's dranage basin, ie, something like 1/20 of the land mass of the earth.
And they did a prety good job of ruling the place (and colonizing it, with significntly less blod shed then the Amercian colonized their west). They even kept prety good scientific records (tempartures, migtation pattern, etc (granted they were significant to there main LOB)).
When the time came, the sold off there massive land holdings to the new country of Canada.
But your not realy disagreeing with me, so this rant may be in the wrong thread. Ultimatly, there are good companies, and there are bad companies. Just make sure you dont support the evil companies:)
Well, FCC is god for every non military US aircraft/airport.
While I dont paticulary understand the EE behind these problems, this has shed some light on it, and Im quite prepared to beleive it..
There are lots of weird things that can cause aircraft to crash, and being from Nova Scotia, Ive proably heard a little more about SwisAir (#whatever).. While the final report hasent been released, it looks like the major cause of the crash was bad wire insulation. There have shown (US) military tests on simmilar wire done in the early 80s, which cause them to rewire all of there planes.
The moral of the story is while it may seem like a fucked up regulation, theres proably a good reason, somewhere.
Making digital signatures legally binding scares the shit out of me.
Keep in mind that, even with current 'legaly binding' signatures, you can potentialy always go to court and say "I diddnt sign that".
Because of this, important contracts require a witness (who could also potentialy say "I diddnt see him sign that, and someone forged my name too!"), and realy important contracts need to be signed and notarized by something like a Notary Public, a Comissioner of Oathes, or even a judge.
When I say "require" I dont mean "legaly necessary" but "expected" and/or "required" by the other entity involved in the contract to do business with you. IANAL (and working on lay Canadians idea of the law (but this is all prety basic, and basied on English Common Law anyway)) but since there is always the "I diddnt do it" escape, important contracts will always require a third party.
Actualy, no.. Identical twins, for example have identical DNA, and I would suspect that 'consumer grade' DNA scanners in keyboards wouldnt beable to tell the difference beteween blood relatives
Handwrighting expercts maintain that signatures are unique, and they may be. The problem is, that signatures can be forged.
Actual fingerprints would not be a bad idea, nor would face, ear lobe, or retina scans, preferably with a combination of two or more of the above, in addition to a password.
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Whatever: the point is you want everything in a directory, and you want everything in a single directory.
However lets say, there is some kind of realy top secret group, or project or something - new products or a security force, or internal affairs in a police department. Now, you've set up NDS either physcialy, or logicly, but either way there are things that are defined in a higher level that you want to flow down. Everybody gets Netscape in ZEN, everybody in bldg 17 gets access to some printer. However, since this paricular group is anal about security, they want there own container admin, and dont want higher level admin's inhereting rights. Your buliding admin can still define ZEN profiles, and printers (and groupwise routing rules, and......) but they dont have access to the sensitive information in that container.
So you can have it both ways, a single direcrory, with inhereted profiles for (whatever), and a secure container.
NDS has been around for 7 years. Its proven to work, and proven to work with insanly large trees. ADS is brand spanking new, unproven, and built on flaky grounds (it runs on JET - the DB backend desigined for Access). ADS runs on Windows. NDS runs on Netware, NT, win2k, solaris, linux, AIX, OS/390, and Tru64.
NDS - ADS comparision ADS runs on Windows. NDS runs on Netware, NT, win2k, solaris, linux, AIX, OS/390, and Tru64.
Like I needed any more reasons not to use it..
Why are you not deploying NDS into unix and NT?
You can produce non crystalized H2O, though it dosent happen usualy.
Bigger picture, crystals proably should be there own catagory of matter, since they usualy have nifty properties.
Ive also been told that water is the only substance that expands when it solidifies, but I think its a gross over symplification.
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Clarity
On Slashdot, about StarWars. Brain... exploding..
If there as different as French and the language spoken in Quebec, then you could have a problem.
At the time there were two compeating products biding to become the official standard, a 'simple' one gun solution from RCA, and a more complex three gun (one streem for each of RGB, no grille) from [somebody else].
The solution from RCA won out for two main reasons:
Im compeled to bring this up whenever I talk about the B&W-color transition and RCA/NBC, so I will agian. Star Trek (TOS) was filmed and brodcast in color (one of the first shows to do so), and was, infact, one of the most popular color programs on the air (using either the-at-the-time-rating-system (which said ST sucked, in general) or a resonable system (which would have said ST was a hit)). It sold TV sets for RCA. Thats why it survived as long as it did (which is not long enough).
If some program dosent have the ability itself to send mail, but it wants to for some reason (a mailto: link, for example) the it calls the program that has registered itslef as a MAPI porgram, with the standard MAPI interfaces (assumably things like To: and From: and Body: and the like..).
So to send mail from a windows program that dosent know how to send mail you call the MAPI component, and not any specific mail progie. I cant think of any resonably popular mail program that dosent try to register itself as a MAPI component.
Ah, but the true point is that once the problem has been solved once, the problem is solved forever.
Yes, but the core of this thread is the developement (because of the lack) of common reusable components - so accessing the unix registry would be as easy as:
get_reg_value(user.thisapp.version.property);
and
set_reg_value(user.thisapp.version.property, "magic value");
That sounds easy to me..
If we credit Apple with realy starting silicon valley, (they were around before Sun) then its because Steve and Steve were from silicon valley to begin with! Ok, maby it wasent silicon valley, but aerospace valley (or prehaps Place-where-nasa-spent-a-lot-of-moon-money valley), but the writing was on the wall. IBM has had plants there for decades, as did (the startup) Intel - ship jumpers from Shockley.
It was always big, now its just bigger.
You can change GPLd code as much as you want, however, if you distribute it (and only if you distribute it) do you have to also distribute the sources (or at lease facilitate the distribution - ftp, media cost only, etc).
One would wonder, however, if GNU would allow gpl'd software (but not gnu software) to use the gnu TLD.
So serious persion could consiter Slashdot to be even vagly journalistic. They have proven time and time agian that, in that field, there compleatly incompitent.
Fortunatly, for all of us, a highschool rescued them, and (significantly) Steve and Steve hacked on them.
Perl is already a little like this (it was written by a linguist after all..) with the expression modifiers (ie some_expression if control_expression.
Coding in COBOL would be nowhere near as bad if you could speek it :)
But good typers can type faster than they can speek.. However unless your transcribing something, the input part is idle more often then the tinking part (be it code, or a letter to mom)... The thinking is the time consuming part.
One thing that Ive never had adequately explained to me is grades of fiber.. I understand the difference beteween single mode and multi mode fiber, but is upgrading a fiber instalation just swapping out the trancevers? (connectors asside) Or do you have to worry about quality of the light pipe?
BeOS, on the other hand has always had the design goal of being good... In fact beteween two major versions, enough changed that stuff writen/compiled for the old version diddnt run. Backwards compatability has been at the bottom of the list of goals.
disclamer: I dont run beos, but have been curious in it, and have a friend who does run it (in addition to linux..)
Um, stupid: Fans dont decrease heat, they just move it around. And create more, since you proably dont have superconductive fan motors.
I dont understand people who dont recognoize tha this is not a new thing, and its not necessarly bad, either.
Take, for example, the Hudson Bay Company. It was given, by royal proclamation, control of Hudson Bay's dranage basin, ie, something like 1/20 of the land mass of the earth.
And they did a prety good job of ruling the place (and colonizing it, with significntly less blod shed then the Amercian colonized their west). They even kept prety good scientific records (tempartures, migtation pattern, etc (granted they were significant to there main LOB)).
When the time came, the sold off there massive land holdings to the new country of Canada.
But your not realy disagreeing with me, so this rant may be in the wrong thread. Ultimatly, there are good companies, and there are bad companies. Just make sure you dont support the evil companies :)
I just ran it on 'cat /dev/null' and was overwhelmed with the page and a half of information it spewed out (not /dev/null, strace :P )
ZoneAlarm is more like netstat with a nice GUI and and (importantly) allows only selective programs to use IP.
While I dont paticulary understand the EE behind these problems, this has shed some light on it, and Im quite prepared to beleive it..
There are lots of weird things that can cause aircraft to crash, and being from Nova Scotia, Ive proably heard a little more about SwisAir (#whatever).. While the final report hasent been released, it looks like the major cause of the crash was bad wire insulation. There have shown (US) military tests on simmilar wire done in the early 80s, which cause them to rewire all of there planes.
The moral of the story is while it may seem like a fucked up regulation, theres proably a good reason, somewhere.
Keep in mind that, even with current 'legaly binding' signatures, you can potentialy always go to court and say "I diddnt sign that".
Because of this, important contracts require a witness (who could also potentialy say "I diddnt see him sign that, and someone forged my name too!"), and realy important contracts need to be signed and notarized by something like a Notary Public, a Comissioner of Oathes, or even a judge.
When I say "require" I dont mean "legaly necessary" but "expected" and/or "required" by the other entity involved in the contract to do business with you. IANAL (and working on lay Canadians idea of the law (but this is all prety basic, and basied on English Common Law anyway)) but since there is always the "I diddnt do it" escape, important contracts will always require a third party.
Handwrighting expercts maintain that signatures are unique, and they may be. The problem is, that signatures can be forged.
Actual fingerprints would not be a bad idea, nor would face, ear lobe, or retina scans, preferably with a combination of two or more of the above, in addition to a password.