I.e. in the advent of a cyberwar will our army do anything to protect private infrastructure like the electricity supply or the banking system from harm?
Right now: No.
The book to read on this is "Cyber War: The Next Threat to National Security and What to Do About It" by Richard A. Clarke. A great read and very scary.
There is no scientific consensus on what should be done about global warming.
Yes this is true, just as there is no scientific consensus for how to solve global poverty. Both issues are for politicians to solve. Science tells us there is a problem. It is up to our political system to decide which solutions to choose from.
Both to RedHat and Cannonical for actually trying to innovate in this space.
At least one of the projects will fail and there will be instability for those trying out the new solutions, but that doesn't mean they shouldn't try. I love seeing this because whatever happens, it will make desktop Linux more fun!
Rather than Zimbra, I am more interested in the approach that the SoGo project is taking.
They use Thunderbird as the basic email client and then extend it using extra plugins. Very nice!
Also, SoGo does not modify the OSS components they use. AFAIK Zimbra has added patches to postfix and Cyrus that makes it hard to integrate it using normal distribution packages.
Some 6 months ago someone mentioned another project that merged Thunderbird and Firefox into a tabbed kind of email browser, but I cannot find the URL anymore. That is also a very interesting project.
While everyone seems to be in love with war metaphors these days, I find this quote the most fitting:
"First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win."
- Mahatma Gandhi
So close! When will we get the perfect SME-server?
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While this discussion is mostly about the fantastic new features of some new desktop package, what I'm wondering about is if SuSE has managed to improve SuSEs server setuptools.
I'd been running samba/samba-tng network for the last 4/5 years on different distros but I have yet to see a distro that makes it easy to set up a basic serversetup for a small business network (dhcp,bind,samba and nfs) without having to use the commandline +++.
The shocker is how close SuSE is to achieving this in 9.1 - but that they didn't bother to go the last mile.
This would make it a kickass product for many SMEs.
As of 9.1 the following things are missing:
Autogeneration of the initial LDAP-database. I know some think ldap sucks but actually most of the other parts of ldapsupport is allready there.
A yast interface for simple Certificate Authorty handling.
Simple configuration of dynamic dhcp/dns updates. I tried to use yast in 9.1 but it just plainly didn't work and was buggy.
A suggested roadmap for how you should use a SuSE server to integrate your Windows, Linux and Mac-boxes. This should include suggested loginscripts, ways to use the same mozilla profile accross OS'es and a simple way to set NFS shares to the same shares as samba uses.
The press release says that they have adressed these issues (aehm, it says a redesigned user interface to permit easier setup of SAMBA, DNS and DHCP servers whatever that means), let's hope they have.
For the brave trying to make an AD out of openldap (haven't tried that myself) heres a link to the schemas:
http://www.unav.es/cti/ldap-smb-howto.html
also, for those who need schemas for unixusers into ad I would guess that a good start is to look at the schemas supplied with openldap and use them as blueprints.
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Jeff Atwood wrote this great article https://meta.discourse.org/t/the-state-of-javascript-on-android-in-2015-is-poor/33889 that shows how far Android has fallen behind.
Is the army protecting us from this?
I.e. in the advent of a cyberwar will our army do anything to protect private infrastructure like the electricity supply or the banking system from harm?
Right now: No.
The book to read on this is "Cyber War: The Next Threat to National Security and What to Do About It" by Richard A. Clarke. A great read and very scary.
There is no scientific consensus on what should be done about global warming.
Yes this is true, just as there is no scientific consensus for how to solve global poverty. Both issues are for politicians to solve. Science tells us there is a problem. It is up to our political system to decide which solutions to choose from.
I will take puppet to GUI tools any day. Having a DSL is far more satisfying than trying to navigate around GUIs.
Both to RedHat and Cannonical for actually trying to innovate in this space.
At least one of the projects will fail and there will be instability for those trying out the new solutions, but that doesn't mean they shouldn't try. I love seeing this because whatever happens, it will make desktop Linux more fun!
Rather than Zimbra, I am more interested in the approach that the SoGo project is taking.
They use Thunderbird as the basic email client and then extend it using extra plugins. Very nice!
Also, SoGo does not modify the OSS components they use. AFAIK Zimbra has added patches to postfix and Cyrus that makes it hard to integrate it using normal distribution packages.
Some 6 months ago someone mentioned another project that merged Thunderbird and Firefox into a tabbed kind of email browser, but I cannot find the URL anymore. That is also a very interesting project.
- Mahatma Gandhi
I'd been running samba/samba-tng network for the last 4/5 years on different distros but I have yet to see a distro that makes it easy to set up a basic serversetup for a small business network (dhcp,bind,samba and nfs) without having to use the commandline +++.
The shocker is how close SuSE is to achieving this in 9.1 - but that they didn't bother to go the last mile.
This would make it a kickass product for many SMEs.
As of 9.1 the following things are missing:
The press release says that they have adressed these issues (aehm, it says a redesigned user interface to permit easier setup of SAMBA, DNS and DHCP servers whatever that means), let's hope they have.
For the brave trying to make an AD out of openldap (haven't tried that myself) heres a link to the schemas: http://www.unav.es/cti/ldap-smb-howto.html also, for those who need schemas for unixusers into ad I would guess that a good start is to look at the schemas supplied with openldap and use them as blueprints.
Tarjei