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  1. Internet 2 Grouper on Ask Slashdot: New Employee System Access Tracking? · · Score: 1

    We use Grouper an OSS project by Internet 2 which is designed to provide distributed access control to an institution. Http://grouper.internet2.edu.

  2. SSO to Google Apps -- easy on Ask Slashdot: Single Sign-On To Link Google Apps and Active Directory? · · Score: 1
    This is fairly easy:
    1. Setup a Shibboleth IdP (www.shibboleth.net)
    2. Configure it to do Kerberos (https://wiki.shibboleth.net/confluence/display/SHIB2/Kerberos+Login+Handler) and configure the browser to behave https://wiki.shibboleth.net/co...
    3. Federate with Google Apps

    User authenticates to machine & SSOs over to Google Apps & done. Since it seems that you're in Wisconsin, contact the IdP folks at UW-Madison: help@login.wisc.edu. They can likely assist you with setting things up.

  3. Re:Smartphone (or feature phone) on Ask Slashdot: Open Hardware/Software-Based Security Token? · · Score: 1

    We use Duo at work and I use it personally (free for up to 10 users with unlimited integrations). Their app is TOTP compatible so it works well with Google Authenticator and the like. The service also supports hard tokens and 3rd party tokens like yubikey. The push works as advertised and is dead simple, and yes, it works just like the demos. Their integrations are generally easy to use. We've found their APIs to be decent as well having written our own user-registration portal as well as custom integrations for some apps.

  4. Re:So... Covenants on Ask Slashdot: How Do You Convince an ISP To Bury Cable In Your Neighborhood? · · Score: 1

    There is one other process. It's called a variance. The Board of Directors, at their discretion, can under certain circumstances grant a variance to the CC&R. Now, if your 22 homes are truly of the mind to get high-speed, why isn't the HOA via the Board trying to negotiate something? If the declaration is what's getting in the way, and everybody wants the service, it seems changing the CC&R would be easy, especially for 22 homes. Now, move up to 300 homes, and life gets harder. Barring that (each state is different in regards to reqs for changing the CC&R). Alternately, the HOA has one other tool -- Special Assessment. You all find out the cost from the ISP to wire you up & the HOA as an entity pays them to do the neighborhood. The ISP is more likely to be willing to deal with one entity and one payer than 22 individual ones.

  5. Re:LOL, wrong question ... on Richard Branson Plans Orbital Spaceships For Virgin Galactic · · Score: 2

    Assuming the cost is on the same scale, would you pay a few hundred grand for a few weeks in orbit?

    Would I if I had it to spend? Absolutely. Can I or most of us afford to spend the cost of a house on this? Sadly, no.

    I suspect most of us will never get to do this, which sucks. Because I would dearly love to do this before I die.

    Folks said the same thing about:

    • Automobiles
    • Air travel
    • Computers
    • Cellular Phones
    • ... and much more
      • Give it 30-40 years or so and you'll be getting daily deal notifications about $1000 one-way tickets to Disney-Space on Southwest.
  6. Re:A B1 visa is not easy to get... on A Floating Home For Tech Start-ups · · Score: 1

    The US has some amazing restrictions and employment laws. For example, I am a US citizen born abroad. Because I was born abroad and lived abroad, I didn't sign up for "Selective Service". Well, duh. However, this makes me ineligible for most government jobs or indeed student loans. (Yes, I have been told this in person by government officials.) I may have lived in the US now for over half my life, paid taxes, yadda yadda yadda, but if I want additional schooling then I'd have to go back to my country of origin (England) because I'd be refused it here.

    So, why not just sign up for the Selective Service & get on with life? It takes just a few minutes to fill out the forms.

  7. Re:This note is legal tender on Apple Reverses iPad "No Cash Purchase" Policy · · Score: 1

    While cash is legal tender for private debts; there is no requirement on the creditor to accept it. source

  8. Safety of the device? on Directed Energy Weapon Downs Mosquitos · · Score: 1

    While I admit this is very cool and I'll take two; what power is the laser? What keeps this thing from also shooting out a user's eyes while it is doing its job?

  9. Re:Now to get rid of noncompetes on AT&T Loses First Legal Battle Against Verizon · · Score: 1

    I didn't have a contract with my old Cingular/AT&T service, nor do I have one with my new VirginMobile service. I also don't have a contract with Netscape ISP, or Dish Network. I *chose* not to take their offered contracts, and you could do the same, if you don't like being locked-in for 1-2 years.

    I did the exact same thing with Comcast for internet and Dish for TV. They came at me with a contract, I declined & told them I'm definitely going elsewhere then as their competitors contracts come with more stuff. They caved.

  10. Re:Verizon is doubling the phone-subsidy to $350.. on Verizon Doubles Early Termination Fee and More · · Score: 4, Informative

    Also, unlike most other services, with TracFone you don't own your number. You decide to switch carriers and your phone number goes with it. Personally keeping my number is worth quite a bit more than $350. To each his own though.

    According to TracFone's FAQ. They will allow you to transfer your number out of TracFone, but your personal information on the TracFone account must match the information on the new carrier's account. Source

  11. Re:I don't get why PVR-users watch recorded ads... on DVRs Help Some TV Shows Improve Ratings · · Score: 2, Interesting

    I don't understand why those with PVRs still watch the ads. .

    In our case, the wife likes watching the ads as it's her primary way to learn about new products and services.

  12. Re:Mesh networks in Aviation on A Mobile Phone Mesh That Can Survive Carrier Network Failure · · Score: 3, Interesting

    The HAM community already has this sort of thing. It's called APRS, and includes all the capabilities that you describe. All that would be needed is to put the necessary GPS and computer systems into the aircraft and wire them up to warn the pilot when another plane is getting too close.

  13. Re:Snowing ? on Report That OS X Snow Leopard May Include Antivirus · · Score: 1

    Unseasonably cool with a 30% chance of flurries. Then becoming warmer.

  14. Re:Now? on US Postal Service Moves To GNU/Linux · · Score: 5, Informative

    "Not only that, I just checked and according to fedex it costs $7.39 to mail that same letter from coast to coast for their cheapest option. That's only what, nearly 17 times more expensive?"

    factor in how much of your tax dollars when into that and then get back to us with a valid point....

    Umm, the USPS is self-funded. None of your tax dollars go towards supporting their operation source

  15. Central Chat on Online Community For a Call Center? · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Over here, instead of a web-board or something like that, management setup a chatroom on our IM server. They then encouraged everybody from front-line tech support up though the developers, sysadmins, engineers, and their managers to join. Attendance is encouraged but not mandatory, and it's been emphasized heavily that people are free to speak their minds about any subject including bashing management without reprisal -- just don't get into a flame-war. What resulted was the room became a mechanism to instantly escalate any issues which the tech support folks couldn't handle as well as a place where you could easily bounce new ideas around to find out how a change would be perceived by the various stakeholders. Our users got a huge win as most problems are now solved while the user is on the phone rather than having to wait while the ticket works itself up/down the hierarchy. The rest of us got a place to blow off steam as well as bounce ideas around people from diverse areas in similiar position levels.

  16. Welcome to OSX leases if Apple loses on Psystar "Definitely Still Shipping" Mac Clones · · Score: 1

    If Apple loses, I'd expect the next logical step would be to turn OSX into a subscription or a leased product rather than a bought product. By making the end-user pay an on-going fee and signing a contract for the OS Apple would once again be on solid ground for requiring their software to only be installed/run on approved hardware.

  17. Re:IC what? on ICQ Starts Blocking Alternative Clients · · Score: 1

    My ICQ # was 8 digits, beginning with 117 - so, not exactly a founding member

    7 digits, starting with 596 :) Take that!

    7 digits starting with 580

  18. Re:Why does AT&T want this? on ISPs To Filter Traffic For Copyright Holders? · · Score: 1

    simple, they make tons of money overselling. they love people who pay for, say, a 5MB pipe and only use it for checking their emails and looking up recipes and whatever. if they switched to an actual-transfers system, they'd lose all kinds of money on those people.

    Not necessarily, keep the rates as they are except change it from Unlimited to say 10 Gig/month for the base price & then $X for each additional Gig of bandwidth you consume.

  19. Re:Get rid of Shift Instead? on War Declared on Caps Lock Key · · Score: 1

    Actually my wife types using the CapsLock instead of Shift for capital letters. She claims that was how they taught her in school. Really odd watching her type things, but it works for her so she sees no reason to change. Yes, I've tried to explain how using Shift was faster, but she still wants no part of it.

  20. Re:Outfoxed on Firefox-based Social Browser Flock Launches · · Score: 1

    Would love to use it, cept the Linux/Mac version isn't available yet.

  21. Re:windows cvs on KDE Switches to Subversion · · Score: 2, Informative

    Actually monotone works on windows as both client and server.

  22. Great on Windows CE R/C Transmitter · · Score: 0, Redundant

    Now not only can the plane crash, but the transmitter also

  23. Not Apr fools joke? on From Turkey Guts to Fuel Oil · · Score: 4, Funny

    The date on the article was Dec. 4, 2002, so I think this one is legit.