Dzongsar Khyentse Rinpoche, director of The Cup (cf www.movie-list.com/c/cup.shtml), said a few years ago he was planning to do a movie of Tintin in Tibet, one of Herge's sunniest books. Anyone know what the status of this is?
On WinNT, both Mozilla and IE return the message This iTool requires that you are on a Macintosh when accessing the Accounts settings. However, you can access your e-mail (I haven't checked this out extensively).
So if you're up the creek without a Mac, you won't be able to modify accounts.
- Mark
AIM is powered by eDirectory... which means AOL is using it.
With some imagination as well as use of eDirectory (which has been demonstrated publicly to scale to 1 billion users, and in-house at Novell to 3 billion) AOL/Time-Warner, or perhaps the Liberty Alliance, could provide a credible alternative to Microsoft/.NET/Passport.
Remember, in the Matrix movie, the pods with people in them, being mined for their energy? Flash backward to now: the Wall Street dot bombers want to manage your individual identities for their energy (= money). Our identities are ultimately the content of the internet, exposed in HTML.
Enter directory services: the way to manage identities, profiles, and use-rights over network accessible resources. Could be client/server, could be P2P, still needs management.
Novell, with eDirectory, understands this. Eric Schmidt understands this. eDirectory can scale: a billion users publically demonstrated, 3 billion in house. Brilliant DirXML interface. Years ahead of Active Directory.
But Microsoft knows how to market, and over the last year Chief Software Architect Bill Gates has realized this. The.NET term has entered the media in a way that neither NDS, eDirectory, or digitalME ever was able to.
Personal Directory Services are the killer app of the post-web net. Personal, not consumer, not business, because each of us has many consumer, business, community, family, and other faces. And as we live in the net, we need to protect and expose our faces differentially. So this is the key battlefield of the Matrix: is it personal control over my identity, or is my identity a consumer item managed by Microsoft or some neo-Matrix-cartel including Microsoft, which knows better what's good for me?
I don't think there's going to be any escaping the necessity to use Directory Services: if you're on the web you have identity, even as an Anonymous Coward. Question is: are you in control?
And if this is such fundamental infrastructure, should it be Open Source? Is it sane for core infrastructure to be anything but Open Source and publicly controlled?
It's a Bead Game, as originally described by Hermann Hesse in Magister Ludi (out of print): explore a theme through multiple disciplines and arts. It's the first example of such I ran into.
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Dzongsar Khyentse Rinpoche, director of The Cup (cf www.movie-list.com/c/cup.shtml), said a few years ago he was planning to do a movie of Tintin in Tibet, one of Herge's sunniest books. Anyone know what the status of this is?
Akio Morita, former chairman of Sony, famously remarked,
Chess is a game of war, go is a game of market share.
So if you're up the creek without a Mac, you won't be able to modify accounts. - Mark
AIM is powered by eDirectory... which means AOL is using it.
With some imagination as well as use of eDirectory (which has been demonstrated publicly to scale to 1 billion users, and in-house at Novell to 3 billion) AOL/Time-Warner, or perhaps the Liberty Alliance, could provide a credible alternative to Microsoft/.NET/Passport.
Enter directory services: the way to manage identities, profiles, and use-rights over network accessible resources. Could be client/server, could be P2P, still needs management.
Novell, with eDirectory, understands this. Eric Schmidt understands this. eDirectory can scale: a billion users publically demonstrated, 3 billion in house. Brilliant DirXML interface. Years ahead of Active Directory.
But Microsoft knows how to market, and over the last year Chief Software Architect Bill Gates has realized this. The .NET term has entered the media in a way that neither NDS, eDirectory, or digitalME ever was able to.
Personal Directory Services are the killer app of the post-web net. Personal, not consumer, not business, because each of us has many consumer, business, community, family, and other faces. And as we live in the net, we need to protect and expose our faces differentially. So this is the key battlefield of the Matrix: is it personal control over my identity, or is my identity a consumer item managed by Microsoft or some neo-Matrix-cartel including Microsoft, which knows better what's good for me?
I don't think there's going to be any escaping the necessity to use Directory Services: if you're on the web you have identity, even as an Anonymous Coward. Question is: are you in control?
And if this is such fundamental infrastructure, should it be Open Source? Is it sane for core infrastructure to be anything but Open Source and publicly controlled?
It's a Bead Game, as originally described by Hermann Hesse in Magister Ludi (out of print): explore a theme through multiple disciplines and arts. It's the first example of such I ran into.