consultancy come in to help us do an Active Directory installation on top of our NT4 domain. They suggested we use.local as the TLD for the AD domain
And they were absolutely right to do so, I would'a done the same. Setting your AD domain to "my-internet-domain.com" screws the pooch on all kinds of things in AD.
All the macs on the network needed a user-created patch to enable.local DNS requests to pass through to an actual DNS server
You mean DNS out in the internets? Point the macs at the AD-PDC.
Dunno about you, but my mail logs are most certainly not public. They contain information on who my users are communicating with, therefore, I treat them as confidential.
would you want records of who you sent email to, or who you called on a telephone, to be public? I don't think so.
I know when I've been trolled, but what the hell...
So, if our beautiful greenbacks are so damned uninteresting, could you please explain to me why US currency is so desireable to you and every other snooty foreigner?
Sure, you'll criticize it as uninteresting, but you sure as shit wouldn't pass up a stack of dead presidents, would you?
Think about it - the end user has been trained to think that a higher number must be better.
For example, "browser version inflation" - MS(IE), Netscape and AOL are all having a pissing match over who has the higher version number, Intel and the MHz war, Athlon CPU naming, etc.
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I think that I am currently the only person in the US who isn't on AIM/MSN/Yahoo/IRC.
Nope, there's at least one more. I just don't think that way. Don't understand IM's appeal, don't want it.
consultancy come in to help us do an Active Directory installation on top of our NT4 domain. They suggested we use .local as the TLD for the AD domain
And they were absolutely right to do so, I would'a done the same. Setting your AD domain to "my-internet-domain.com" screws the pooch on all kinds of things in AD.
All the macs on the network needed a user-created patch to enable .local DNS requests to pass through to an actual DNS server
You mean DNS out in the internets? Point the macs at the AD-PDC.
Where's my Mod points when I need 'em?
I know, I been trolled. Go back under your rock, troll.
public mail routing logs
Dunno about you, but my mail logs are most certainly not public. They contain information on who my users are communicating with, therefore, I treat them as confidential.
would you want records of who you sent email to, or who you called on a telephone, to be public? I don't think so.
Nonononono...
These are scooters.
This is a motorcycle.
I know when I've been trolled, but what the hell...
So, if our beautiful greenbacks are so damned uninteresting, could you please explain to me why US currency is so desireable to you and every other snooty foreigner?
Sure, you'll criticize it as uninteresting, but you sure as shit wouldn't pass up a stack of dead presidents, would you?
...The Marketing Department.
Think about it - the end user has been trained to think that a higher number must be better.
For example, "browser version inflation" - MS(IE), Netscape and AOL are all having a pissing match over who has the higher version number, Intel and the MHz war, Athlon CPU naming, etc.
BG was revolutionary in one way, he was the first to throw an "IP hissy fit" over software "piracy" in his "Open Letter to Hobbyists" back in 1976.
http://www.blinkenlights.com/classiccmp/gateswhi ne . html
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