...back in the 80s, there was a prototype of something like this. It was an extremely high quality glass "light tube" that could actually visually carry light and whatever was at the other end of the tube. The experimental set up they were talking about mentioned a basement lab with six of these around the room. They looked like round windows or portals in the wall, but they actually looked straight up to the sky. You could look in one and see clouds going by. Sounded pretty cool. I think it was featured in The Futurist magazine in 88 or 89.
...from time to time. It helps to balance out all of the humor impaired moderators like the one who modded me "Off Topic" above. Come on humpy... admit it... it WAS a funny post.
I'e been through the configuration and installation from source of OpenLDAP several times. It's pretty straightforward. Where I run into trouble is the schemas. It's incredibly hard to find EASY-TO-UNDERSTAND docs on schemas. I've glanced at the RFCs, but they are too atomic for my needs. The two main things that I think any beginner needs to know with LDAP are:
1. What are the existing default Classes and attributes in OpenLDAP? 2. How do you add your own custom classes and attributes?
My most recent experience was last week when I installed OpenLDAP on my workstation to try and test some things. I got as far as putting in a single username within my DC tree, but I hadn't a clue what other attributes that Class had. I guessed at trying to do:
mail: e-mail: inet: internet:
None of those worked. (My main experience with LDAP is Sun's implementation in the iPlanet products where they use 'mail' as an attribute of the Person class.)
It's also been my experience that many of these books get outdated quickly, so I really don't bother reading or buying books anymore. I mostly rely on online documentation which tends to be better overall. However, there does seem to be a dearth of LDAP documentation. What to do?
As long as we don't succumb to a complete fascist state where the news is controlled by the government 100% (as opposed to the 60% control the U.S. government currently holds: facts pulled out of my ass in neocon fashion;) ) and as long as news corporations don't completely lock up all news information with "Intellecutal Property" rights, there will always be free alternatives. What are they going to do to keep word of mouth from spreading the news? What about low-tech solutions that can't be controlled by DRM? (I can just imagine "news pirates" printing off their own PDFs and dead tree versions of online news and trading theirn newz w4r3z. Sounds like something out of a Gisbon novel) Nope. There will always be free access to news in some fashion or another.
Yes. But WILL you give your own money to the right charitable causes? Probably not. That's part of the problem with shareholder driven profit motive. Altruism does not happen as much as people who like profit motive like tro claim because people with a lot of money are not usually the most giving people in the world. And the people who need the help have no hopes of helping themselves as charities that provide real help die out.
...that media format no longer matter. At least for me. I have personal data going back to 1985 that I've migrated from floppies, to HDs, to CD-Rs and now to HD arrays and DVDs. The point is that the data is the only thing that matters. This is true of non-personal content as well. As long as the content is in a standard protocol (MPEG, MP3, AAC, FLAC, Vorbis, Theora, etc...) it doesnt' matter what it's stored on. Unfortunately, a lot of people out there still have this bizarre attachment to physical media. Once they get over that (another generation or two) and once the wireless bandwidth ANYWHERE is on the order of about 1 gigbit or better, this wil die out. The main thing that needs to happen is for people to know what a standard format is. Back in the 80s when I was doing a lot of electronic music composition, I chose to use MIDI files to store my performances rather than the proprietary song formats my sequencing programs offered. I did this because I knew that I would have to keep this data alive for decades. And it's worked. Today, all of the music I've composed and saved in MIDI files (not the cheap cheezy crap your browser plays, but MIDI files that play my pro audio offboard Roland/Emu gear) dating back to 1985 are stored on my drive array on the home server. Many of the files were created on Macs, Atari STs and then some on PCs in the 90s. Now I can open any of those songs in Rosegarden under Linux. Same thing with the MPEG2 files I record TV with today. I will still be able to view them 40 years from now. Choose your data protocols wisely and your data will live or at worst be easily converted for eternity.
You may not be a geek. You are definitely a gadget guy. One does not necessarily equate to the other. I like to build things for the fun of building them. Even if the end result *MIGHT* not be as good as a pre-packaged product, I always get this let down/cop out feeling when I buy something I know I could have built. I also don't like it when I get a closed system of some kind and mods are nearly impossible. Of course, I don't realy consider myself a geek since most of the geeks I've interacted with on/. have never: built their own memory expansion for their computers, built their own digital devices for regular use (in my case I built a MIDI interface and a digital volume control)
...that my suspcions were correct. All this 3D stuff with pixels and texels and blah blah blah is just test runs before we create physical augmentation with nanotech replacing pixels and texels. (Wow that was one sentence!) Holodeck anyone?;P
OK. I''m reporting to your office that/. isn't working on Firefox under Linux without reloading. Does that help? BTW... I'm on vacation today. Look at the vacation schedule by the administrative assistant. K-thnx;P
No. That article just makes them an AIX vendor who talks about Linux and FreeBSD and supports the use of all three OSes where appropriate. Geez! With an attitude like yours, I have to think that you've run into the very small vocal minority of Linux supporters who are a little imbalanced. I'm a Linux supporter/user and I didn't have a problem with article you linked to. But I do see that there are people who would prefer to see Linux and its user base curl up and die. It is those people that I have a problem with.
Just because some webmaster somewhere got their panties in a twist by not being allowed to scam people into looking at their worthless site doesn't make this a bad thing. It WOULD be bad if the different site that Google presented users with was selling worthless shit like herbal Viagra and c1al1S. Even if this is a "principle of the thing" sort of matter, I'm certain that Google will make the appropriate changes. I challenege any webmasters out there with a failed business/PR model that relies on cloaking to do the same.
Hehehehe... "99%" of the 2% who can afford to plunk down a few thousand dollars for a TV this size. Wake me when I can get an 42" OLED display for $500. That's when I'll move to HD. Doesn't anyone here think it's a little unrealistic to pay over $500 for a TV set? Hello? (Speaking as a non-gadget guy of course. I prefer building my own to buying pre-made crap)
Actually, that was poorly worded, but I was in a hurry. The wife and kid were coming down the stairs for family time.;P
What I meant is that it depends on this guy's goals. If he wants to arm himself with knowledge, then staying in academia is the way to go with the caveat that things are very different in the real world because you're usually not working with people who went to graduate school. If the guy just wants to get into a great job, he'd be better off leaving school and just pounding the streets trying to hustle his current knowledge, gaining experience by taking side jobs, etc... and trying to keep up with technology trends on his own. Again... higher education is usually the wrong place to learn technology since you don't usually experience the stupid limitations that the "real world" enforces you within an academic setting.
Working in a Cisco networking lab, Linux/Unix lab or AD domain in a college setting is nothing like working on the real thing. The real thing is usually quite lackluster and poorly implemented. It's just that the corporates don't realize how poor the skills of their employees are or they don't care. They make the mistake of assuming that if their main business isn't IT, they shouldn't put much stock in it.
Mod this guy up!!! College is a waste overall, but even moreso at the grauate level. Knowledge is the way to open doors and experience is the key. Work hard on getting the experience.
My memory lasts forever too. There is a person who wronged me in grade school (1978 to be exact) with a figurative target on his head if I ever see him again and can do something to make his day miserable.;P
That would be spot on. But then again if you consider 51% to be a victory, then I suppose you didn't mind making it through school with D minuses either?;P
Actually, I really don't hate anyone. I believe in complete fairness and equality for everyone. But until people get on board with that ideal, there's going to be a lot of dissonance on my part. I don't like this "every man for himself in the name of the almighty dollar" tack that the U.S. has recklessly embarked on. It's disgusting.
It's a quiet war being waged. If I see someone who needs my help in any way these days, I'm asking them who they voted for. If they say Bush, or if they refuse to tell me who they voted for, they're not getting my help. Period. I'm through with being a compassionate "liberal". I've had it with the morons who cut their nose to spite their face by voting for the worst candidate over someone who would have at least been mediocre and not favored the rich. If people don't know what is good for them and what is not, then they aren't getting any help from me ever again. Not that I thought Kerry was really good presidential material, but at least he wasn't going to restructure the US into a country where those of us who make meager earnings are going to suffer. Bush is making this a country where you ned to have at least a six figure salary to just get by since you're going to eventually have to pay for everything out of pocket. I hate the man. I hate the direction this country has taken and I hate every single person who voted for Bush.
Hyuk!! I got me a storage dee-vice that exists on every Unix system in the world and it's got In-Fi-Night capacity!!! It's called/dev/nul and that sucker seems to have more storage in it than the ocean has water! Of course, like these microwires, I need to figure out how to recover the data from it too.
[No Offense meant to southerners unless you voted for Bush]
I have loved Doctor Who since I first saw Tom Baker back in 1976. When the local PBS affiliate ran the series starting with the first doctor all the way through to Sylvester McCoy (seventh doctor), I watched and recorded every episode. I still have those VHS tapes and plan on tranferring them to MPEG format on muptiple HDs for archival purposes. It was a great series that illustrated that using your brain is much better than using force. Interestingly enough, nearly every person I made friends with along the way has liked Doctor Who. So I guess it's "birds of a feather". I would also highly recommend the series "Jonathan Creek" for people who like a central character that prefers to use their smarts instead of flexing their muscles.
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Or did anyone else get that familiar "goatse shudder" when you reached the frame that said "preparing to insert the Shuffle"? Just wondering. ;P
...cacodaemons and imps start crawling out of your rift in the space time continuum.
Excellent info! Thank you VERY much! :)
...back in the 80s, there was a prototype of something like this. It was an extremely high quality glass "light tube" that could actually visually carry light and whatever was at the other end of the tube. The experimental set up they were talking about mentioned a basement lab with six of these around the room. They looked like round windows or portals in the wall, but they actually looked straight up to the sky. You could look in one and see clouds going by. Sounded pretty cool. I think it was featured in The Futurist magazine in 88 or 89.
...from time to time. It helps to balance out all of the humor impaired moderators like the one who modded me "Off Topic" above. Come on humpy... admit it... it WAS a funny post.
That's OK. I had mod points and I did it. Oh wait... ;P
...if I COULD get to the page. But it's being redirected with a 302. ;P
I'e been through the configuration and installation from source of OpenLDAP several times. It's pretty straightforward. Where I run into trouble is the schemas. It's incredibly hard to find EASY-TO-UNDERSTAND docs on schemas. I've glanced at the RFCs, but they are too atomic for my needs. The two main things that I think any beginner needs to know with LDAP are:
1. What are the existing default Classes and attributes in OpenLDAP?
2. How do you add your own custom classes and attributes?
My most recent experience was last week when I installed OpenLDAP on my workstation to try and test some things. I got as far as putting in a single username within my DC tree, but I hadn't a clue what other attributes that Class had. I guessed at trying to do:
mail:
e-mail:
inet:
internet:
None of those worked. (My main experience with LDAP is Sun's implementation in the iPlanet products where they use 'mail' as an attribute of the Person class.)
It's also been my experience that many of these books get outdated quickly, so I really don't bother reading or buying books anymore. I mostly rely on online documentation which tends to be better overall. However, there does seem to be a dearth of LDAP documentation. What to do?
Time to turn in that "geek" card? Huh? ;P LDAP is only the most happeningest approach to directories this side of the dead tree yellow pages! ;P
Laugh, it's funny!
As long as we don't succumb to a complete fascist state where the news is controlled by the government 100% (as opposed to the 60% control the U.S. government currently holds: facts pulled out of my ass in neocon fashion ;) ) and as long as news corporations don't completely lock up all news information with "Intellecutal Property" rights, there will always be free alternatives. What are they going to do to keep word of mouth from spreading the news? What about low-tech solutions that can't be controlled by DRM? (I can just imagine "news pirates" printing off their own PDFs and dead tree versions of online news and trading theirn newz w4r3z. Sounds like something out of a Gisbon novel) Nope. There will always be free access to news in some fashion or another.
Yes. But WILL you give your own money to the right charitable causes? Probably not. That's part of the problem with shareholder driven profit motive. Altruism does not happen as much as people who like profit motive like tro claim because people with a lot of money are not usually the most giving people in the world. And the people who need the help have no hopes of helping themselves as charities that provide real help die out.
...that media format no longer matter. At least for me. I have personal data going back to 1985 that I've migrated from floppies, to HDs, to CD-Rs and now to HD arrays and DVDs. The point is that the data is the only thing that matters. This is true of non-personal content as well. As long as the content is in a standard protocol (MPEG, MP3, AAC, FLAC, Vorbis, Theora, etc...) it doesnt' matter what it's stored on. Unfortunately, a lot of people out there still have this bizarre attachment to physical media. Once they get over that (another generation or two) and once the wireless bandwidth ANYWHERE is on the order of about 1 gigbit or better, this wil die out. The main thing that needs to happen is for people to know what a standard format is. Back in the 80s when I was doing a lot of electronic music composition, I chose to use MIDI files to store my performances rather than the proprietary song formats my sequencing programs offered. I did this because I knew that I would have to keep this data alive for decades. And it's worked. Today, all of the music I've composed and saved in MIDI files (not the cheap cheezy crap your browser plays, but MIDI files that play my pro audio offboard Roland/Emu gear) dating back to 1985 are stored on my drive array on the home server. Many of the files were created on Macs, Atari STs and then some on PCs in the 90s. Now I can open any of those songs in Rosegarden under Linux. Same thing with the MPEG2 files I record TV with today. I will still be able to view them 40 years from now. Choose your data protocols wisely and your data will live or at worst be easily converted for eternity.
You may not be a geek. You are definitely a gadget guy. One does not necessarily equate to the other. I like to build things for the fun of building them. Even if the end result *MIGHT* not be as good as a pre-packaged product, I always get this let down/cop out feeling when I buy something I know I could have built. I also don't like it when I get a closed system of some kind and mods are nearly impossible. Of course, I don't realy consider myself a geek since most of the geeks I've interacted with on /. have never: built their own memory expansion for their computers, built their own digital devices for regular use (in my case I built a MIDI interface and a digital volume control)
...that my suspcions were correct. All this 3D stuff with pixels and texels and blah blah blah is just test runs before we create physical augmentation with nanotech replacing pixels and texels. (Wow that was one sentence!) Holodeck anyone? ;P
OK. I''m reporting to your office that /. isn't working on Firefox under Linux without reloading. Does that help? BTW... I'm on vacation today. Look at the vacation schedule by the administrative assistant. K-thnx ;P
No. That article just makes them an AIX vendor who talks about Linux and FreeBSD and supports the use of all three OSes where appropriate. Geez! With an attitude like yours, I have to think that you've run into the very small vocal minority of Linux supporters who are a little imbalanced. I'm a Linux supporter/user and I didn't have a problem with article you linked to. But I do see that there are people who would prefer to see Linux and its user base curl up and die. It is those people that I have a problem with.
Just because some webmaster somewhere got their panties in a twist by not being allowed to scam people into looking at their worthless site doesn't make this a bad thing. It WOULD be bad if the different site that Google presented users with was selling worthless shit like herbal Viagra and c1al1S. Even if this is a "principle of the thing" sort of matter, I'm certain that Google will make the appropriate changes. I challenege any webmasters out there with a failed business/PR model that relies on cloaking to do the same.
Hehehehe... "99%" of the 2% who can afford to plunk down a few thousand dollars for a TV this size. Wake me when I can get an 42" OLED display for $500. That's when I'll move to HD. Doesn't anyone here think it's a little unrealistic to pay over $500 for a TV set? Hello? (Speaking as a non-gadget guy of course. I prefer building my own to buying pre-made crap)
Actually, that was poorly worded, but I was in a hurry. The wife and kid were coming down the stairs for family time. ;P
What I meant is that it depends on this guy's goals. If he wants to arm himself with knowledge, then staying in academia is the way to go with the caveat that things are very different in the real world because you're usually not working with people who went to graduate school. If the guy just wants to get into a great job, he'd be better off leaving school and just pounding the streets trying to hustle his current knowledge, gaining experience by taking side jobs, etc... and trying to keep up with technology trends on his own. Again... higher education is usually the wrong place to learn technology since you don't usually experience the stupid limitations that the "real world" enforces you within an academic setting.
Working in a Cisco networking lab, Linux/Unix lab or AD domain in a college setting is nothing like working on the real thing. The real thing is usually quite lackluster and poorly implemented. It's just that the corporates don't realize how poor the skills of their employees are or they don't care. They make the mistake of assuming that if their main business isn't IT, they shouldn't put much stock in it.
Mod this guy up!!! College is a waste overall, but even moreso at the grauate level. Knowledge is the way to open doors and experience is the key. Work hard on getting the experience.
My memory lasts forever too. There is a person who wronged me in grade school (1978 to be exact) with a figurative target on his head if I ever see him again and can do something to make his day miserable. ;P
That would be spot on. But then again if you consider 51% to be a victory, then I suppose you didn't mind making it through school with D minuses either? ;P
Actually, I really don't hate anyone. I believe in complete fairness and equality for everyone. But until people get on board with that ideal, there's going to be a lot of dissonance on my part. I don't like this "every man for himself in the name of the almighty dollar" tack that the U.S. has recklessly embarked on. It's disgusting.
It's a quiet war being waged. If I see someone who needs my help in any way these days, I'm asking them who they voted for. If they say Bush, or if they refuse to tell me who they voted for, they're not getting my help. Period. I'm through with being a compassionate "liberal". I've had it with the morons who cut their nose to spite their face by voting for the worst candidate over someone who would have at least been mediocre and not favored the rich. If people don't know what is good for them and what is not, then they aren't getting any help from me ever again. Not that I thought Kerry was really good presidential material, but at least he wasn't going to restructure the US into a country where those of us who make meager earnings are going to suffer. Bush is making this a country where you ned to have at least a six figure salary to just get by since you're going to eventually have to pay for everything out of pocket. I hate the man. I hate the direction this country has taken and I hate every single person who voted for Bush.
Channeling The Ghost of T4D
Hyuk!! I got me a storage dee-vice that exists on every Unix system in the world and it's got In-Fi-Night capacity!!! It's called /dev/nul and that sucker seems to have more storage in it than the ocean has water! Of course, like these microwires, I need to figure out how to recover the data from it too.
[No Offense meant to southerners unless you voted for Bush]
I have loved Doctor Who since I first saw Tom Baker back in 1976. When the local PBS affiliate ran the series starting with the first doctor all the way through to Sylvester McCoy (seventh doctor), I watched and recorded every episode. I still have those VHS tapes and plan on tranferring them to MPEG format on muptiple HDs for archival purposes. It was a great series that illustrated that using your brain is much better than using force. Interestingly enough, nearly every person I made friends with along the way has liked Doctor Who. So I guess it's "birds of a feather". I would also highly recommend the series "Jonathan Creek" for people who like a central character that prefers to use their smarts instead of flexing their muscles.