"Yes, Samba4 can emulate an AD server, if you don't mind having to maintain two sets of user and group accounts. Samba4 still requires either usermapping, or managing the linux users and groups separately. "
Wrong! It's certainly possible to use trivial mapping for Unix and Windows groups and accounts. It was possible to do this since the early days of Samba.
Samba4 even supports the full mapping of Windows ACLs which was the main missing feature in Samba3.
"It simply lacks the nice seamless integration of AD, and does not fully implement GPOs inheritances, etc."
Again, wrong. You can actually use Microsoft's tools to manage GPOs in Samba4.
"If you read the article, you'd see they barely got it to the point where a Win2008 server would talk to it enough to join the domain (not just replicate the LDAP database). That's a far cry full full interoperability."
Wrong. Win2008 server not just joined the Samba4 domain as a member. It has established a _trust_ _relationship_ with it. So members of Win2008 domain could now access resources in Samba4 domain with correct cross-authentication. And this is not a small task.
Samba4 is about >this close to the full AD replacement.
The main missing feature is printing, there's no support for it in Samba4. This task is being tackled in the 'Frankie' project which tries to use parts of Samba3 for printing.
"Having a memory â" RAM or disk â" above 2^64, however, is not achievable in even in theory..."
Why?
Just 5 mins ago I'd bought 32Gb or RAM for $240. So 2^48 of RAM is just about $2 millions. A lot of money, but certainly within the realm of possibility. In 10 years (two iterations of Windows) $2 millions will buy you 2^53 of RAM. And that is also uncomfortably close to the upper limit of 2^64.
If you look at hard drives, 4Tb (2^42) of space is about $500 now. In 10 years that'll be 4Tb for $15, so 2^64 storage will be possible.
So, there ARE reasons to start developing 128-bit architectures.
Some hard errors occur because of natural alpha-decay - even one alpha particle can flip a bit. Also, energetic cosmic rays can cause problems.
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The problem is that the company behind the ExtJS claims that the server-side code tightly coupled to JS code. So it makes it a derived work with all implications.
Yes, I'm too lazy to search for this statement on their site right now.
"n two cases I had to pay a fine to police because I hadn't registered in Moscow where I only changed the trains and had stayed merely for a few hours."
Actually, you were ripped off:) There's no requirement to register unless you're staying permanently. Also, police officers on streets don't even have the right to check the registration.
"On the other hand, Russia takes the cake for bizarre and restrictive immigration procedures."
Russian visa procedures are fairly common. It was about equally easy for me to host a guest from the EU and visit EU country. About the only unusual requirement is restriction on visiting some cities (a legacy of the USSR), but generally you won't encounter problems with it.
Also, Russia softens visa requirements for special occasions.
"Because the Arab-Israeli "conflict" is about Israel fighting for its existence, and Islam fighting to, umm, "wipe it off the map"."
Wipe it off _political_ map. Which has quite different meaning.
"Got the balls to research the Islamic tenets behind dar al-Islam and dar al-Harb?"
So? Where did I say that all Arabic states were good and fluffy?
Also, there are lot of Jewish people who would be quite happy to exterminate all Arabs. Because Jewish religion is about as mad as Islam and Christianity.
"Right, the pictures of the big bad Israelis bulldozing Palestinian homes make for such great propaganda that the inconvenient fact that the Palestinian authority actually bulldozes _far more_ Palestinian homes than Israel ever has (or that Israel actually bulldozes Israeli citizens homes built on disputed land as well) gets completely overlooked."
So? Probably Israel bulldozes far more Israeli homes than Palestine does.
Face it, Israel richly deserves what it gets. Instead of trying to create peace, it actively nurtures hate.
It's useless to think about 'what ifs' in history.
What if US hadn't supported Shah in Iran? What if US hadn't supported Iraq during Iraq-Iran war? What if Israel was never formed? What if Hitler won the WWII?
I don't think Iran is insane. It's governed by theocratic elite, but they are completely sane.
Actually, it might even do some good if Iran builds several atomic bombs and methods of their delivery. Maybe Israel will stop acting like a total bully then.
That's because all these attacks were harmless from the military point of view and Israel had more than enough conventional firepower to suppress everybody in the region right now.
Once this changes, Israel will use nukes (and I _really_ hope I'm wrong).
Right now, Israel continues its usual policy of generating hatred in the region. For example, Israeli government evicts Palestinians from their homes in Jerusalem (because they have no permits), while continuing to build settlements on the disputed land. Etc.
Israel had already: 1) Fought offensive wars. 2) Fought wars for purely mercantile reasons. 3) Committed crimes against humanity (de-facto apartheid). 4) Generally behaves like a regional bully.
No, I'd surely trust Israel with nukes! I really believe that Israel will use nuclear weapons first to 'defend' itself.
Israel right now has the absolute power in the region. And the absolute power corrupts absolutely.
"I don't care if you're pro-Israel or not, its sheer madness to believe that Iran is really a peaceful country out to defend itself."
I don't care if you're pro-Iran or not, its sheer madness to believe that Israel is really a peaceful country out to defend itself. It works both ways...
"Therefore your body makes you feel hungry to provide for the already ramped up production.'
So do not eat more, even if you are a bit hungry. What's the problem?
I've lost 20 pounds during the recent 4 months, just by eating less (i.e. limiting calories intake). And as a part of eating less energetic food I've switched to diet Coke. Read the 'Hacker's Diet', it's enlightening.
Also, it should be possible to embed Linux kernel image directly into EFI working memory (which is structured as a partition on a hard drive) and jump directly into it as early as possible and then do hard drive initialization in parallel with other devices.
Though we won't save that much time with new SSD drives.
The problem with BIOS is that right now you don't even _need_ it in Linux and Windows. Linux/Windows have their own device drivers, so BIOS is not necessary.
If I made this notebook, then I'll first check that 'Control' key is pressed (using hardcoded codepaths) and if it's depressed then jump directly into the bootloader, skipping device initialization (apart from hard drive and memory controllers, of course, but they usually are pretty fast).
If 'Control' key is pressed, then I'd just do a normal BIOS startup routine.
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Ocean is now as acidic as it was 20 _million_ years ago. And it became that acidic in less than 150 years!
But surely, that's just a natural cycle. WTF is wrong with you?
"Yes, Samba4 can emulate an AD server, if you don't mind having to maintain two sets of user and group accounts. Samba4 still requires either usermapping, or managing the linux users and groups separately. "
Wrong! It's certainly possible to use trivial mapping for Unix and Windows groups and accounts. It was possible to do this since the early days of Samba.
Samba4 even supports the full mapping of Windows ACLs which was the main missing feature in Samba3.
"It simply lacks the nice seamless integration of AD, and does not fully implement GPOs inheritances, etc."
Again, wrong. You can actually use Microsoft's tools to manage GPOs in Samba4.
"If you read the article, you'd see they barely got it to the point where a Win2008 server would talk to it enough to join the domain (not just replicate the LDAP database). That's a far cry full full interoperability."
Wrong. Win2008 server not just joined the Samba4 domain as a member. It has established a _trust_ _relationship_ with it. So members of Win2008 domain could now access resources in Samba4 domain with correct cross-authentication. And this is not a small task.
Samba4 is about >this close to the full AD replacement.
The main missing feature is printing, there's no support for it in Samba4. This task is being tackled in the 'Frankie' project which tries to use parts of Samba3 for printing.
"I seriously doubt Samba-based AD servers will be fully functional anyway, just like Samba emulating an NT4 domain was just barely functional. "
???
Samba3 emulated Windows DC just fine. In fact, it sometimes worked even better than the Windows Server (particularly, in Win9x interoperability).
Samba4 can already be used to replace AD, and it could already replicate its database using stock OpenLDAP replication support.
"Having a memory â" RAM or disk â" above 2^64, however, is not achievable in even in theory..."
Why?
Just 5 mins ago I'd bought 32Gb or RAM for $240. So 2^48 of RAM is just about $2 millions. A lot of money, but certainly within the realm of possibility. In 10 years (two iterations of Windows) $2 millions will buy you 2^53 of RAM. And that is also uncomfortably close to the upper limit of 2^64.
If you look at hard drives, 4Tb (2^42) of space is about $500 now. In 10 years that'll be 4Tb for $15, so 2^64 storage will be possible.
So, there ARE reasons to start developing 128-bit architectures.
Some hard errors occur because of natural alpha-decay - even one alpha particle can flip a bit. Also, energetic cosmic rays can cause problems.
The problem is that the company behind the ExtJS claims that the server-side code tightly coupled to JS code. So it makes it a derived work with all implications.
Yes, I'm too lazy to search for this statement on their site right now.
Have you tried to install DLLs without using MSI?
It's not so easy with NSIS, for example. And don't get me started on shared DLL usage counters...
"Ones with secular governments that keep religion out of government policy and decisions. "
Oh well. That means Israel is one of the 'bad guys'.
"n two cases I had to pay a fine to police because I hadn't registered in Moscow where I only changed the trains and had stayed merely for a few hours."
Actually, you were ripped off :) There's no requirement to register unless you're staying permanently. Also, police officers on streets don't even have the right to check the registration.
It's a common scam used by police, though :(
"On the other hand, Russia takes the cake for bizarre and restrictive immigration procedures."
Russian visa procedures are fairly common. It was about equally easy for me to host a guest from the EU and visit EU country. About the only unusual requirement is restriction on visiting some cities (a legacy of the USSR), but generally you won't encounter problems with it.
Also, Russia softens visa requirements for special occasions.
PS: I'm Russian, currently living in Ukraine.
Maybe we should switch to more distributed (federalized? :) ) system? Like, allow states to branch laws in their private repositories?
The consensus is that there _are_ statistically significant differences between races. Mostly because of different variability within different races.
But difference is not that great, in practice it's negligible.
"Because the Arab-Israeli "conflict" is about Israel fighting for its existence, and Islam fighting to, umm, "wipe it off the map"."
Wipe it off _political_ map. Which has quite different meaning.
"Got the balls to research the Islamic tenets behind dar al-Islam and dar al-Harb?"
So? Where did I say that all Arabic states were good and fluffy?
Also, there are lot of Jewish people who would be quite happy to exterminate all Arabs. Because Jewish religion is about as mad as Islam and Christianity.
"Right, the pictures of the big bad Israelis bulldozing Palestinian homes make for such great propaganda that the inconvenient fact that the Palestinian authority actually bulldozes _far more_ Palestinian homes than Israel ever has (or that Israel actually bulldozes Israeli citizens homes built on disputed land as well) gets completely overlooked."
So? Probably Israel bulldozes far more Israeli homes than Palestine does.
Face it, Israel richly deserves what it gets. Instead of trying to create peace, it actively nurtures hate.
It's useless to think about 'what ifs' in history.
What if US hadn't supported Shah in Iran? What if US hadn't supported Iraq during Iraq-Iran war? What if Israel was never formed? What if Hitler won the WWII?
I don't think Iran is insane. It's governed by theocratic elite, but they are completely sane.
Actually, it might even do some good if Iran builds several atomic bombs and methods of their delivery. Maybe Israel will stop acting like a total bully then.
That's because all these attacks were harmless from the military point of view and Israel had more than enough conventional firepower to suppress everybody in the region right now.
Once this changes, Israel will use nukes (and I _really_ hope I'm wrong).
Right now, Israel continues its usual policy of generating hatred in the region. For example, Israeli government evicts Palestinians from their homes in Jerusalem (because they have no permits), while continuing to build settlements on the disputed land. Etc.
Israel had already:
1) Fought offensive wars.
2) Fought wars for purely mercantile reasons.
3) Committed crimes against humanity (de-facto apartheid).
4) Generally behaves like a regional bully.
No, I'd surely trust Israel with nukes! I really believe that Israel will use nuclear weapons first to 'defend' itself.
Israel right now has the absolute power in the region. And the absolute power corrupts absolutely.
"I don't care if you're pro-Israel or not, its sheer madness to believe that Iran is really a peaceful country out to defend itself."
I don't care if you're pro-Iran or not, its sheer madness to believe that Israel is really a peaceful country out to defend itself. It works both ways...
To be fair, Israel doesn't threaten Iran with its nukes. Israel will just use them.
ANY in the middle east solution will require disarming Israel first.
"Therefore your body makes you feel hungry to provide for the already ramped up production.'
So do not eat more, even if you are a bit hungry. What's the problem?
I've lost 20 pounds during the recent 4 months, just by eating less (i.e. limiting calories intake). And as a part of eating less energetic food I've switched to diet Coke. Read the 'Hacker's Diet', it's enlightening.
Yes, it can use cached authorization. But it can't use the entered password to obtain Kerberos ticket once connection is established.
Samba4 has something like that (pam_winbind), but it's not yet ready.
Use direct device access. Like in the original 8042 controller.
Also, it should be possible to embed Linux kernel image directly into EFI working memory (which is structured as a partition on a hard drive) and jump directly into it as early as possible and then do hard drive initialization in parallel with other devices.
Though we won't save that much time with new SSD drives.
The problem with BIOS is that right now you don't even _need_ it in Linux and Windows. Linux/Windows have their own device drivers, so BIOS is not necessary.
If I made this notebook, then I'll first check that 'Control' key is pressed (using hardcoded codepaths) and if it's depressed then jump directly into the bootloader, skipping device initialization (apart from hard drive and memory controllers, of course, but they usually are pretty fast).
If 'Control' key is pressed, then I'd just do a normal BIOS startup routine.