I keep hearing all of these announcements about LDAP-generic tools, but I don't think anybody is answering his questions. He's talking about USER-SPECIFIC tools, which is rather lacking. Granted, there are many different schemas for users, but it's more or less only a couple of standard schemas (that come with OpenLDAP).
There's not that many good user management tools for LDAP. I don't feel like typing it in on raw mode with GQ, when a lot of it is duplicate information (to make sure it gets caught with the different schema names).
Not to say that nerds aren't interested in PDAs, but the influx of reviews on each and every one we see seems to a indication that we're bored. (Of course, when you see that 99.999% of all Slashdot articles are rejected, you know that there's no such thing as a "slow news day".) Not to troll or anything, but I'd like to see some more interesting articles on techlaw news and other hard-impacting issues, not Yet Another PDA Review.
Microsoft actually profiting from this move - sure, they'll loosing a bit on server selling if you use Linux as a PDC, but you still need NT/2K for BDC stuff, you're also using Exchange server which needs licenses (and connected to PDC/BDC), and the biggest part - those servers service the Windows workstations - which is the big revenue to MS...
Once Samba becomes a full-fledged server/client piece, with PDC/BDC et all, you would be able to have a full network with Linux stations and servers running Samba.
Why use Samba for Linux, if most are Linux anyway? For those couple of MS workstations/servers you still have. It would be great for migrating from MS to Linux. First, slowly replace the servers with Samba stations, then slowly replace the workstations. MS wouldn't like it if Samba was widely being used as a Windows-to-Linux migration tool.
Anybody else notice that this was yet another case of a corporate entity backing down and submitting to Satan (in this case, Gracenote) just because they don't want to get into a lawsuit.
This is unusual, because this is a corporate vs. corporate case. Most of the time, it involved a corporate vs. person (with no money), and the person folds because he can't afford the huge lawyer fees. In this CvsC case, they can afford the fees, but they don't want to. Especially if it's to defend a free service.
Of course, the only loser here is FreeDB. They lose what would have been their biggest break, and Gracenote grips tightly to their monopoly on CDDB services. It would have been nice if Roxio had a fscking backbone and would stand up to their decision.
Not only will I refrain from buying another CD again (because of the copy-protection issues), I'll refrain from using Roxio to burn those MP3s.
Apparently no article is deemed important. I submit plently of good articles to Slashdot, some of them of high-importance for the Linux or tech-law crowd, but they never get published, and I don't even see it from anybody else, either. (I could understand if the article has already been submitted by other people.)
Uhhhh...then why is a friend of Peter McWilliams running from the law, and was trying to get amensty from Canada? It was in a fairly recent issue of Playboy, I think Sept or Oct.
Then MS would be able to take most of Emacs and incorporate it into Word and make a working product, without having to divulge what they did....:-)
Only with 10-year-old versions of Emacs, not the newer ones. Emacs is still being developed. On another point, in 2005, we would be able to look at Windows 95.
The Us Supreme layed the smackdown on Indy! (Of course, this is a rarity that the "smackdown" is good. I will still remember the big stink about the California measure to legalize hemp, only to have somebody arrested because the federal courts still said it was illegal.)
I don't think they are making much progress. Nobody likes spam, including politicians. Sure, they'll take their money, but they'll vote the other way. And if they don't, we can spam the politicians with hate e-mail.
(Am I spelling "politicians" right? I don't think so...)
It's value?! Are we talking about companies which only exist to sell themselves out to the highest bidder? Id Software gives out its software, and uhhh...it's not going down the tubes.
It would be/ALOT/ easier if the programmer could just shrug his/her shoulders and say "well hey, the copyright has ran out, nothing you can do about it."
Thanks to current copyright laws, we have to wait -75- years for it to expire. Now, if it was something reasonable, like 10 years...
I think it just grabbed random documents from the My Documents directory. Plus, it caused damage, too. Something like that will get fixed too quickly. SirCam wasn't good enough, because I didn't hear enough stories of business secrets being published, or other feats of anarchy *VBEG*.
I'm all for giving the artists a cut of the subscription.
Huh? I'm lost. You're not giving money to the artist. You're giving money to the RIAA and the music monopolies. In the end, the artists might get $0.00000000021 from your sale.
You want to support the artists and screw over the RIAA? Download the MP3 and cut them a check or at least a $5.
Kinda reminds me of various SF dystopias where the general populace is kept just smart enough to be useful but not enough to be critical thinkers and therefore dangerous to the status quo.
It's already like this. Just look at the government we have now: One which is more worried about banning abortion to produce more babies, instead of enforcing better (and cheaper) birth control. One which is more worried about protecting ourselves from ourselves (read: victimless crimes), instead of letting us learn from our mistakes (or letting evolution sort it out). One which is more worried about getting elected the next term and getting in the pockets of lobbists, instead of passing laws that the people really need.
Just look at our idiotic voters. They are the mediorce masses. They are the ones just smart enough to be useful, but not smart enough to see that they've been screwed. They are the proles [1984], and the future is NOT with them.
I'd love to see an I-Worm do this! It could scan for words like "Confidential", "payroll", "affair", "fired" and send e-mails to random people with copies of the message.
Marriages would be broken.
Important MS memos would be leaked.
VPs with high salaries would be exposed.
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I keep hearing all of these announcements about LDAP-generic tools, but I don't think anybody is answering his questions. He's talking about USER-SPECIFIC tools, which is rather lacking. Granted, there are many different schemas for users, but it's more or less only a couple of standard schemas (that come with OpenLDAP).
There's not that many good user management tools for LDAP. I don't feel like typing it in on raw mode with GQ, when a lot of it is duplicate information (to make sure it gets caught with the different schema names).
Why don't you look it up on Dictionary.com or a search engine?
(Why do people insist on asking questions, when it's easier to figure it out for themselves?)
Not to say that nerds aren't interested in PDAs, but the influx of reviews on each and every one we see seems to a indication that we're bored. (Of course, when you see that 99.999% of all Slashdot articles are rejected, you know that there's no such thing as a "slow news day".) Not to troll or anything, but I'd like to see some more interesting articles on techlaw news and other hard-impacting issues, not Yet Another PDA Review.
Google now has a translator that will translate from German (and other languages, of course).
Microsoft actually profiting from this move - sure, they'll loosing a bit on server selling if you use Linux as a PDC, but you still need NT/2K for BDC stuff, you're also using Exchange server which needs licenses (and connected to PDC/BDC), and the biggest part - those servers service the Windows workstations - which is the big revenue to MS...
Once Samba becomes a full-fledged server/client piece, with PDC/BDC et all, you would be able to have a full network with Linux stations and servers running Samba.
Why use Samba for Linux, if most are Linux anyway? For those couple of MS workstations/servers you still have. It would be great for migrating from MS to Linux. First, slowly replace the servers with Samba stations, then slowly replace the workstations. MS wouldn't like it if Samba was widely being used as a Windows-to-Linux migration tool.
Anybody else notice that this was yet another case of a corporate entity backing down and submitting to Satan (in this case, Gracenote) just because they don't want to get into a lawsuit.
This is unusual, because this is a corporate vs. corporate case. Most of the time, it involved a corporate vs. person (with no money), and the person folds because he can't afford the huge lawyer fees. In this CvsC case, they can afford the fees, but they don't want to. Especially if it's to defend a free service.
Of course, the only loser here is FreeDB. They lose what would have been their biggest break, and Gracenote grips tightly to their monopoly on CDDB services. It would have been nice if Roxio had a fscking backbone and would stand up to their decision.
Not only will I refrain from buying another CD again (because of the copy-protection issues), I'll refrain from using Roxio to burn those MP3s.
Apparently no article is deemed important. I submit plently of good articles to Slashdot, some of them of high-importance for the Linux or tech-law crowd, but they never get published, and I don't even see it from anybody else, either. (I could understand if the article has already been submitted by other people.)
...Loveline. Only the early listeners of that show would really appreciate that winner "penis" poem.
Uhhhh...then why is a friend of Peter McWilliams running from the law, and was trying to get amensty from Canada? It was in a fairly recent issue of Playboy, I think Sept or Oct.
Then MS would be able to take most of Emacs and incorporate it into Word and make a working product, without having to divulge what they did.... :-)
Only with 10-year-old versions of Emacs, not the newer ones. Emacs is still being developed. On another point, in 2005, we would be able to look at Windows 95.
The Us Supreme layed the smackdown on Indy! (Of course, this is a rarity that the "smackdown" is good. I will still remember the big stink about the California measure to legalize hemp, only to have somebody arrested because the federal courts still said it was illegal.)
Or to quote Bob Dylan: "Growing Forever Old". Of course, I figure that if my brain is still working, I'm still a functional member of society.
Yeah, wow on my end, too. It makes me think that if we find the cure for cancer, we find the key to immorality.
That's a scary thought. Are we ready for immorality? (Are we ready for cloning?)
That should be interesting. What are the odds that 100,000 pieces of Japanese land at a Californian? Is the Japanese firm (or whatever) accountable?
Actually, like most Internet laws (read: casinos), I believe it's just for the sender.
I don't think they are making much progress. Nobody likes spam, including politicians. Sure, they'll take their money, but they'll vote the other way. And if they don't, we can spam the politicians with hate e-mail.
(Am I spelling "politicians" right? I don't think so...)
It's value?! Are we talking about companies which only exist to sell themselves out to the highest bidder? Id Software gives out its software, and uhhh...it's not going down the tubes.
It would be /ALOT/ easier if the programmer could just shrug his/her shoulders and say "well hey, the copyright has ran out, nothing you can do about it."
Thanks to current copyright laws, we have to wait -75- years for it to expire. Now, if it was something reasonable, like 10 years...
Socialism, perhaps? It works for GNU and Sweden, right?
I tend to thing that it's not a good idea to argue a farmer on this issue, just like you don't argue to an English professor about English.
If you're not familar with his plan of putting in "brainscan" devices in every airport, here.
Scary, isn't it? The Taliban have won their real war: turning this world closer to a 1984-esque planet.
Hmmm...reminds me of hemp and DuPont. Go find yourself a copy of "The Emperor Has No Clothes".
I think it just grabbed random documents from the My Documents directory. Plus, it caused damage, too. Something like that will get fixed too quickly. SirCam wasn't good enough, because I didn't hear enough stories of business secrets being published, or other feats of anarchy *VBEG*.
I'm all for giving the artists a cut of the subscription.
Huh? I'm lost. You're not giving money to the artist. You're giving money to the RIAA and the music monopolies. In the end, the artists might get $0.00000000021 from your sale.
You want to support the artists and screw over the RIAA? Download the MP3 and cut them a check or at least a $5.
Kinda reminds me of various SF dystopias where the general populace is kept just smart enough to be useful but not enough to be critical thinkers and therefore dangerous to the status quo.
It's already like this. Just look at the government we have now: One which is more worried about banning abortion to produce more babies, instead of enforcing better (and cheaper) birth control. One which is more worried about protecting ourselves from ourselves (read: victimless crimes), instead of letting us learn from our mistakes (or letting evolution sort it out). One which is more worried about getting elected the next term and getting in the pockets of lobbists, instead of passing laws that the people really need.
Just look at our idiotic voters. They are the mediorce masses. They are the ones just smart enough to be useful, but not smart enough to see that they've been screwed. They are the proles [1984], and the future is NOT with them.
I'd love to see an I-Worm do this! It could scan for words like "Confidential", "payroll", "affair", "fired" and send e-mails to random people with copies of the message.
Marriages would be broken.
Important MS memos would be leaked.
VPs with high salaries would be exposed.
Oh, if I had the balls to write such things...