Firefox with 9 tabs==37MB for me - dunno why you had 49MB with only two. Oooh - could it be the PAGES you were viewing?
Anyway - not really important. It is your choice to run whatever browser you want...
"...The company even suggests that customers might upload a shopping list to the store's website before leaving home, and then download the list to the shopping cart upon arriving at the store."
Why would you even think this. If you have access to the web and are into planning your groceries list in advance, just place an order at one of many online grocery stores. No parking hassles, no queues, no wailing brats, no checkout-chicks chewing gum and smirking at your condom choice...
Primordial ooze is already much smarter than us. It is happy in its oozingness and has no reason to buy a car or a house, thus doesn't need a dead-end job and surf slashdot for hours at a time.
In short, Primordial Ooze has it all over slash-dotters...
Furthermore, an enterprise directory can hold information about applications and settings (witness Novell's Zenworks), is generally replicated across mutliple hosts to eliminate Single Point of Failure and speed up authentication by not traversing the WAN.
A logical extention of this has been UDDI which is a directory standard for application service (think web-applications or MS.Net - coming real soon now to an internet near you). UDDI allows you to execute a search on say "english-UK spellink;-) checker" and a UDDI server will return a URI to the location from which the spelling checker can be called by your own application. This is sort of like the yellow or pink page phone-books.
Directories in general are pretty cool and have applications mostly in medium to large organisations, but certainly are not limited to those. In fact, I would say that a two-person company could glean some benefit if they were doing anything more complicated than just file-sharing.
err. And how is this different to SMB? You might like to hear what Andrew Tridgell (the original Samba author) has to say about this. I quote from an article he wrote for Groklaw (http://www.groklaw.net/article.php?story=20050205 010415933&query=Samba)
"The protocol that Samba implements was first invented by Barry Feigenbaum at IBM in early 1983. He initially called it the "BAF" protocol after his initials, but changed the name to "SMB" before the first official release. You may note that the name "Samba" contains the letters "SMB", and that is not a coincidence.
The term "CIFS" or "Common Internet File System" was coined by Microsoft in 1996 as a marketing exercise in an attempt to combat a perceived threat from Sun Microsystems after their WebNFS announcement. The term caught on, and now the SMB protocol is often called CIFS. The two names refer to the same protocol, as is easily demonstrated by connecting a current Microsoft "CIFS" client to a Samba "SMB" server from 1992."
Yes. Novell has had eDirectory out for a few years on the linux platform. http://www.novell.com/products/linuxservices/
Of course, you could also check out their open beta of OES (the next version of Netware based (optionally) on SLES 9's distro of Linux. http://www.novell.com/products/openenterpr iseserve r/index.html?sourceidint=productsmenu_oes
hmm - it looks like/. ate my url so I'll just post in plaintext
Banyan Vines and Street-talk were effectively killed off by both MS and Novell. MS because they told you that you only needed a domain to run an enterprise, and Novell because the OS was exceptional as a file and print server, and they did a first class job on NDS. NW 4.0 was just terrible, but with 4.1 and 4.11 (Intranetware - their marketing skillz suck and always have) things became really cool.
B-V and street-talk were long gone before MS even considered a true directory service. I'm not even sure about it's X.500 compliance as street-talk pre-dated that by years. The only thing non-x.500 about NDS was it required IPX/SPX as the transport and that has since been corrected using TCP/IP and SLP.
The free seats have been on offer for years. They aren't going away anytime soon. Why? Strategy. Novell *wants* people to develop eDirectory applications and not be turned off by licence costs.
ADS is not hosted on WinXP. The topic is about servers and directory services. Not desktops. Why do people think they are the same?
Oh. Because Microsoft would have you believe that there is no real difference and you can run an enterprise on a beige box PC with an oversized hardisk and a kid out of school as the sysadmin and "achieve ROI"
It has been mentioned in above posts, but you need to seriously check their stuff out. eDirectory is over a decade old (read mature) and multi-platform (Windows, Netware, Linux at the server level and pretty much everything at the client level). It has implemented LDAP access almost since Netscape creamed their pants over it (8 years ago?).
My company have Mac's authenticating to Netware/eDirectory today and for the past 1-2 years using LDAP. We have bidirectional synchronisation with MS Active Directory using DirXML and there are other connectors available for things like SAP and Oracle etc. Or write your own - the API is there are available for your viewing pleasure.
Last week I installed the beta OES using the linux option (aka SLES 9) on a test server and things are looking fantastic for a beta. All of the great Novell stuff is there such as NSS (the hierarchical and very granular trustee rights being the main seller over other file-systems), eDirectory, web-based management and monitoring, all running on a late model Linux kernel.
Trust me. OES is going to be a kick-arse server OS and will definitately kill off Netware (the NLM kernel) and hammer Windows Server. Once the linux option gets tier-1 vendor support from the likes of hardware and backup software suppliers of course.
Apologies for sounding like a Novell fanboy. But I can't help my enthusiasm for where this is heading.
BSD allows this {subject} if the modifier wants to participate. However, as things stand now I can take a BSD licenced product, make it my own with certain attribution requirements tucked away where nobody will notice and (3)???? + (4) profit.
Is (3) a bad thing? I don't know at this point. But I do know that no one else will ever be able to learn and build on (3) unless I publish the source code.
Anyone seen some original MS-DOS source code recently BTW?
Doesn't the question hinge around the hardware vendor certifying a particular distro? I mean, Debian or Gentoo may be great, but it is not so good when you can't get a driver for a Fibre Channel card for your HP StorageWorks SAN, or if you do manage to get one going, your configuration is unsupported (ie no regression testing performed by the vendor).
Actually a practical use for this sort of technology is taking a photo of an animal, insect or flower/tree when on a field excursion or hike and getting back its taxonomy.
Or in Australia, taking a photo of some of the wildlife to see how many painful ways you can die if it bites/stings you...
PS - The legal concept behind this is "Promisory Estoppel". In other words, if they have promised that it is irrevocable (which they have done), they cannot change their minds in the future and start suing people for it. For the same reason that if you put a sign on your door saying "All Welcome" you can't shoot/sue (sorry - dunno what the standard is in the USofA) someone for trespassing.
The grant/pledge of the named 500 patents is irrevocable.
[snip]
the commitment not to assert any of these 500 U.S. patents
and all counterparts of these patents issued in other countries is irrevocable except that IBM
reserves the right to terminate this patent pledge and commitment only with regard to any party
who files a lawsuit asserting patents or other intellectual property rights against Open Source
Software.
[/snip]
Interesting, although it fails to mention how exactly alerts would be delivered. It would need to go to a few more people than those who just happened to be running an agent on there PC/Mac whatever and happened to notice it.
Slashdot Mirror
there didn't happen to be an @ in that URL somewhere did there? Anything before the at symbol is discarded.
Firefox with 9 tabs==37MB for me - dunno why you had 49MB with only two. Oooh - could it be the PAGES you were viewing? Anyway - not really important. It is your choice to run whatever browser you want...
"...The company even suggests that customers might upload a shopping list to the store's website before leaving home, and then download the list to the shopping cart upon arriving at the store."
Why would you even think this. If you have access to the web and are into planning your groceries list in advance, just place an order at one of many online grocery stores. No parking hassles, no queues, no wailing brats, no checkout-chicks chewing gum and smirking at your condom choice...
Primordial ooze is already much smarter than us. It is happy in its oozingness and has no reason to buy a car or a house, thus doesn't need a dead-end job and surf slashdot for hours at a time.
In short, Primordial Ooze has it all over slash-dotters...
Furthermore, an enterprise directory can hold information about applications and settings (witness Novell's Zenworks), is generally replicated across mutliple hosts to eliminate Single Point of Failure and speed up authentication by not traversing the WAN.
.Net - coming real soon now to an internet near you). UDDI allows you to execute a search on say "english-UK spellink ;-) checker" and a UDDI server will return a URI to the location from which the spelling checker can be called by your own application. This is sort of like the yellow or pink page phone-books.
A logical extention of this has been UDDI which is a directory standard for application service (think web-applications or MS
Directories in general are pretty cool and have applications mostly in medium to large organisations, but certainly are not limited to those. In fact, I would say that a two-person company could glean some benefit if they were doing anything more complicated than just file-sharing.
err. And how is this different to SMB? You might like to hear what Andrew Tridgell (the original Samba author) has to say about this. I quote from an article he wrote for Groklaw (http://www.groklaw.net/article.php?story=20050205 010415933&query=Samba)
"The protocol that Samba implements was first invented by Barry Feigenbaum at IBM in early 1983. He initially called it the "BAF" protocol after his initials, but changed the name to "SMB" before the first official release. You may note that the name "Samba" contains the letters "SMB", and that is not a coincidence.
The term "CIFS" or "Common Internet File System" was coined by Microsoft in 1996 as a marketing exercise in an attempt to combat a perceived threat from Sun Microsystems after their WebNFS announcement. The term caught on, and now the SMB protocol is often called CIFS. The two names refer to the same protocol, as is easily demonstrated by connecting a current Microsoft "CIFS" client to a Samba "SMB" server from 1992."
CIFS is just MS marketing speak. Go read about Samba a bit more and the standard that they implement, but Microsoft does not (exactly) follow.
Yes. Novell has had eDirectory out for a few years on the linux platform. http://www.novell.com/products/linuxservices/
r iseserve r/index.html?sourceidint=productsmenu_oes
/. ate my url so I'll just post in plaintext
Of course, you could also check out their open beta of OES (the next version of Netware based (optionally) on SLES 9's distro of Linux.
http://www.novell.com/products/openenterp
hmm - it looks like
Banyan Vines and Street-talk were effectively killed off by both MS and Novell. MS because they told you that you only needed a domain to run an enterprise, and Novell because the OS was exceptional as a file and print server, and they did a first class job on NDS. NW 4.0 was just terrible, but with 4.1 and 4.11 (Intranetware - their marketing skillz suck and always have) things became really cool.
B-V and street-talk were long gone before MS even considered a true directory service. I'm not even sure about it's X.500 compliance as street-talk pre-dated that by years. The only thing non-x.500 about NDS was it required IPX/SPX as the transport and that has since been corrected using TCP/IP and SLP.
The free seats have been on offer for years. They aren't going away anytime soon. Why? Strategy. Novell *wants* people to develop eDirectory applications and not be turned off by licence costs.
ADS is not hosted on WinXP. The topic is about servers and directory services. Not desktops. Why do people think they are the same?
Oh. Because Microsoft would have you believe that there is no real difference and you can run an enterprise on a beige box PC with an oversized hardisk and a kid out of school as the sysadmin and "achieve ROI"
+ immature, badly designed,incompatible. Choose 6
It has been mentioned in above posts, but you need to seriously check their stuff out. eDirectory is over a decade old (read mature) and multi-platform (Windows, Netware, Linux at the server level and pretty much everything at the client level). It has implemented LDAP access almost since Netscape creamed their pants over it (8 years ago?).
My company have Mac's authenticating to Netware/eDirectory today and for the past 1-2 years using LDAP. We have bidirectional synchronisation with MS Active Directory using DirXML and there are other connectors available for things like SAP and Oracle etc. Or write your own - the API is there are available for your viewing pleasure.
Last week I installed the beta OES using the linux option (aka SLES 9) on a test server and things are looking fantastic for a beta. All of the great Novell stuff is there such as NSS (the hierarchical and very granular trustee rights being the main seller over other file-systems), eDirectory, web-based management and monitoring, all running on a late model Linux kernel.
Trust me. OES is going to be a kick-arse server OS and will definitately kill off Netware (the NLM kernel) and hammer Windows Server. Once the linux option gets tier-1 vendor support from the likes of hardware and backup software suppliers of course.
Apologies for sounding like a Novell fanboy. But I can't help my enthusiasm for where this is heading.
BSD allows this {subject} if the modifier wants to participate. However, as things stand now I can take a BSD licenced product, make it my own with certain attribution requirements tucked away where nobody will notice and (3)???? + (4) profit. Is (3) a bad thing? I don't know at this point. But I do know that no one else will ever be able to learn and build on (3) unless I publish the source code. Anyone seen some original MS-DOS source code recently BTW?
Doesn't the question hinge around the hardware vendor certifying a particular distro? I mean, Debian or Gentoo may be great, but it is not so good when you can't get a driver for a Fibre Channel card for your HP StorageWorks SAN, or if you do manage to get one going, your configuration is unsupported (ie no regression testing performed by the vendor).
Did you not RTFA? The compile test showed non-linear results, but other benchmarks did prove (near) linear.
Actually a practical use for this sort of technology is taking a photo of an animal, insect or flower/tree when on a field excursion or hike and getting back its taxonomy. Or in Australia, taking a photo of some of the wildlife to see how many painful ways you can die if it bites/stings you...
PS - The legal concept behind this is "Promisory Estoppel". In other words, if they have promised that it is irrevocable (which they have done), they cannot change their minds in the future and start suing people for it. For the same reason that if you put a sign on your door saying "All Welcome" you can't shoot/sue (sorry - dunno what the standard is in the USofA) someone for trespassing.
The grant/pledge of the named 500 patents is irrevocable.
[snip] the commitment not to assert any of these 500 U.S. patents and all counterparts of these patents issued in other countries is irrevocable except that IBM reserves the right to terminate this patent pledge and commitment only with regard to any party who files a lawsuit asserting patents or other intellectual property rights against Open Source Software. [/snip]
Interesting, although it fails to mention how exactly alerts would be delivered. It would need to go to a few more people than those who just happened to be running an agent on there PC/Mac whatever and happened to notice it.