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  1. Not replace, but maybe work with. on Ask Slashdot: Is Samba4 a Viable Alternative To Active Directory? · · Score: 1

    I don't think you can replace Active Directory for things like Group Policy, etc. The functionality just isn't there, as far as I know. On the other hand check out the FreeIPA project in Fedora (and IPA in RHEL) - they now support creating trusts with Active Directory domains which allows sharing resources, etc. This is the gist of how it works: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/QA:Testcase_freeipav3_ad_trust

  2. Re:Another DST bug? on Hurricane Sandy Fails To Stop Line For iPad Mini Launch · · Score: 2

    You have that backwards.

    http://www.timeanddate.com/library/abbreviations/timezones/na/edt.html

    EDT is 4 hours behind of Coordinated Universal Time (UTC) Note that EDT is a daylight saving time/summer time zone. It is generally only used during the summer in the places listed below, during the winter EST is used instead.

    EST starts Sunday.

  3. Sure on System Admins Should Know How To Code · · Score: 4, Insightful

    And if you're going to say I'm a programmer then pay me like one. I don't think most sysadmins get paid as much as programmers, and I don't think most companies want to pay sysadmins as much as developers.

    Also, developers trying to write tools for sysadmins usually suck at it, unless they've been a sysadmin at some time in the past. I have used a few products lately which are trying to solve all our sysadmin problems, and the one that doesn't suck comes from a dev who is a former sysadmin. And when I talk to him and make suggestions he sees exactly where I'm coming from.

    Developers just want to solve use cases that fit neat little scenarios without any corner cases, and it shows when their tool is so inflexible as to be useless.

  4. Re:They've Been Doing This For Years on One Company's Week-Long Interview Process · · Score: 1

    Not that I agree with this B.S., as it is probably illegal, but maybe his knowledge wasn't the problem. Maybe it was personality or culture fit?

  5. Re:Best advertising *ever* on Apple Adds Samsung Galaxy SIII To Its Ban List · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Amen, when my contract was up, I didn't even think twice to ditch Apple last month after their latest round of litigation. Nice new S3. I'm sorry I ever gave them money. I, along with everyone else, have created a monster, and I am immensely sorry for that.

  6. Re:can all be fixed. on Serious Problems With USB and Ethernet On the Raspberry Pi · · Score: 1

    I could be mistaken, but I believe there remains at least one other fuse or set of fuses in line that will help to prevent this. I recall reading that you could further mod the thing to the point where you could power spinning external drives, but I don't believe this is possible with just the mod that I performed.

  7. Re:can all be fixed. on Serious Problems With USB and Ethernet On the Raspberry Pi · · Score: 1

    Yes, but, for instance I wanted to use a patriot high speed thumb drive for disk. I didn't want a powered hub just to have a thumb drive work reliably. Seems kind of excessive. Now I just boot off it headless with the thumb drive directly attached with no issue and nothing more than power and ethernet attached. It's a problem with multiple answers - whatever you're comfortable with...

  8. can all be fixed. on Serious Problems With USB and Ethernet On the Raspberry Pi · · Score: 2

    You can fix the 140 mA issue with a little solder and two small pieces of wire to bridge the polyfuses. A little google foo can give you the power. If my inept soldering skills can get me through then almost anyone should be able to do the same. The only thing to be mindful of is voltage dips if you plug in high power devices after you're already up and running. And even then there are further mods you can do to prevent that if you're so inclined. Also the buggy driver issues have been fixed for awhile, even in Fedora17 which I think was lagging a bit behind. It is a learning device - be daring and learn a little ;)

  9. Ph'nglui mglw'nafh Cthulhu R'lyeh wgah'nagl fhtagn on Huge Pumice Rock 'Island' Seen Floating In South Pacific · · Score: 2

    An island rising in the south Pacific can mean only one thing!

  10. And I hate phone calls... on IT Support Pro Tells Why He Hates Live Chat · · Score: 1

    Maybe I prefer chat, because then when I spell my last name, which is all of 8 characters, over the phone, slowly, clearly, concisely, and using the phonetic alphabet it still invariably ends up with extra e's in it. If your coworkers would listen and put a half ounce of effort into it so I didn't have to repeat myself 3 times I'd be more apt to call instead of find other alternatives...

  11. Re:Not really surprising. on Ubisoft Uplay DRM Found To Include a Rootkit · · Score: 5, Informative

    Steam doesn't limit the number of installs I can perform. It doesn't require me to be always online. It doesn't stop me from running games under wine[1]. It doesn't restrict me to only one or a few downloads of my purchase. Steam may be DRM, but as things go it is pretty reasonable.

    I have had games limit me to 10 installs. Games with cruddy DRM that can't possibly function under wine. Others let me only download them once. I have fortunately never had to deal with the always online crap, unless by its very nature it was necessary for the game (MMORPG's, for example).

    [1] Yes, I actually game using wine, so that is of value to me. I only run Linux at home. It's a pain in the butt for gaming, but it's how I do it.

  12. Don't need an IBM engineer on Boston Using IBM Engineers To Solve Traffic Problems · · Score: 3, Interesting

    I had to drive into Boston for a few days last week. 1:45 minutes to get into the city the two days I drove myself. Over two hours when I took the train, because first I had to get to the subway. Then I had to wait for the first train, which kept stopping, so it was a long and delayed ride. Then I got to the the Green line and had to wait for another train. Eventually I got where I was going. When sitting in my car is more comfortable and faster, there is little incentive to take the train. Make public transportation faster and more reliable and maybe I'll be more inclined to take...

    Furthermore, on both days that I drove 15 minutes of my ride was getting through a short section of MA Ave, where the lights were perhaps 10's of yards apart. First light turns green. But the light ahead is red, so no one moves. Green light turns red, red light turns green. Next time the light turns green I'm able to move up just enough to get through the intersection and wait at the next red light... I don't know, maybe like get the lights back in sync now and again so traffic can actually flow smoothly?

  13. Re:Microsoft is the bad guy, how exactly? on Microsoft Blocks FSF Donation Website As a 'Gambling Site' · · Score: 1

    Stupid much? Most likely it was no problem with the fsf website and the correction was a form with a details section that said d.f.o is a domation site not a gambling site. Has it been adequately spelled out for you now?

    And that being said I doubt MS did this out of malice. I had seen in websense false positives because one ip address shared multiple named vhosts, with one being porn or something else unsavory. There is probably an equally mundane explanation here. Hell maybe they got their hands on a block of addresses that used to belong to a gambling site. I can come up with more possibilities just brainstorming if you like...

  14. Go with the flashy new movie on Ask Slashdot: How To Introduce Someone To Star Trek? · · Score: 2

    I tried this with my wife with Dr. Who, going to the old first and it was an epic fail. But now that she has seen the new stuff she has become more interested in the old. The new movie is nice and neat and tidy and stands on its own. If they like it they have all the rest of the universe to get excited about. At worst they sent through an action movie in soace and shouldn' hate you for subjecting them to Sci Fi.

  15. I wouldn't on How Would You Redesign the TLD Hierarchy? · · Score: 3, Insightful

    I wouldn't

  16. Whatever on Torvalds Slams NVIDIA's Linux Support · · Score: 2

    At least the binary GPU drivers work. I had to move off of nouveau because every time I resumed from suspend the GPU fan sounded like a UFO taking off. Granted that may arguably be nvidia's fault by not giving the nouveau dev's what they need to write the drivers properly.

    But, I haven't had issues getting nvidia cards working under EFI either; particularly those in Mac's. On the other hand the only way I have gotten ATI cards to work properly is by using fbdev. I have seen supposed ways to get this working by dumping the bios when booting in legacy mode and then using loadbios in grub 2, but have never personally gotten it to work.

    So, they may not be great to work with, but at least they're throwing us a bone, which is more than I can say for ATI in most cases.

  17. Boot Strap services on Ask Slashdot: What Type of Asset Would You Not Virtualize? · · Score: 1

    You don't need all your LDAP and/or other Auth, DNS, and other core services on physical hardware, but make sure that if your whole virt environment goes down you can get it back up again...

  18. Re:So Many Good Alternatives on Dungeons & Dragons Next Playtest Released · · Score: 1

    yep. starting a game on Tuesday and I'm the only one that actually owns any books. I pointed all the players at that website and helped them where they needed it.

  19. So Many Good Alternatives on Dungeons & Dragons Next Playtest Released · · Score: 3, Insightful

    My advice is to try Pathfinder, Castles and Crusades, or Microlite20.

    M20 is free. Pathfinder and Castles and Crusades have cheap PDF/eBook alternatives to buying expensive books.

    They all seem more intent on maintaining a usable rule set than simply releasing new rule sets every few years in order to convince people to rebuy all their books.

  20. what does that have to do with the rising price of tea in china? If you use LUKS to encrypt the entire disk as is very easily doable in many distros (name one: Fedora/RHEL) then they aren't going to get your SSH keys either. They're on an encrypted file system. Good luck with that.

  21. Yawn, who cares. on Chrome Users Are Best With Numbers, IE Users Worst · · Score: 2

    If I use my Mac I use Safari. If I use my Fedora laptop I use Firefox. If use my Windows PC I use IE.

    Any one of them works fine for me. If I can look at web pages and Bookmark/Favorite things it does 99.99% of what I want. I keep all my systems up to date, and run active AV of Windows. I'm not in the habit of viewing a wide range of shady web sites either. To top it off I can't think of a site I use that is not compatible with all three. And it is enough of a headache keeping 3 different systems up to date (nevermind the add virtual machines) without downloading extra browsers and making sure they're up to date separately.

    Basically, who cares what browser you use. I doubt it defines you, me, or anyone else.

  22. Doesn't matter on Sony Ditching Cell Architecture For Next PlayStation? · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Won't buy it. They screwed us with Linux on the PS3. Their consoles are done in this house.

  23. Re:Good, Because Certs Are Worthless on The IT Certs That No Longer Pay Extra · · Score: 1

    Red Hat requires passing hand-ons tests to get many of their certs, if not all. It is possible to take the class without taking the test, but then you don't get the cert.

  24. Re:Hrrm on Exploits Emerge For Linux Privilege Escalation Flaw · · Score: 1

    Attacks come from inside too. Disgruntled user, or even just a dev or curious individual who read an article and decided to go try it. Shell and bastion servers are a reality for some.

  25. Re:Is a UAV necessary? on Amateur UAV Pilot Exposes Texas River of Blood · · Score: 1

    Only in that it is what brought attention to it. Had someone realized it on Google Maps first, then it would have worked just as well...