The reality is that while you entertain yourself with semantic fantasies about your pet org the rest of the world just it sees a mindless mob acting like a petulant child. Which it pretty much is.
Back in my day, we liked it when people RTFA and used the knowledge gained to supplement TFS for those who won't/can't RTFA. Not sure what's up with the idiocy of "karma whore" accusations. What are you, an 8 y.o.?
To say there are "members" and a "hierarchy" or even an actual group called "Anonymous" in any normal sense of the word reveals a lack of understanding of the phenomena. Yes well, here on earth we call that "indoctrination". Help is available!
Actually, RIM hardware is quite good quality compared to most of the Android phones I've seen. Not the highest spec hardware, but reliable, solid, and with reasonable battery life. My friends' Android phones have dreadful battery life and feel clunky and toy-like in comparison.
But back on topic, as a blackberry user I'm not sure I'd want Android binary compatibility. Maybe I would, but the Blackberry really has a much better security record than Android, and serious malware in Blackberry App World is rare, which can't be said of the Android Market Place.
Yes, but because that's really all that's necessary. The features of ADS you seem to feel are missing in *nix are simply unnecessary because we already have fine-grained control over user and group permissions built into the OS. The rest is merely syncing user data. We can do that easily enough with rsync.
No, The Windows world had that way of thinking with Roaming Mandatory Profiles where "System Policies" were "files" and "scripts" copied from shares. It was utter catastrophe.
Yes, well it works very well in the *nix world -- the NT failures you cite do not affect us at all.
The Unix 'copy the rc folder method is NT4 level thinking and not Acceptable in today's world.
Huh? No-one can seriously brag about the *registry*, it's the Achilles' Heel of windows! This can only mean you've never seriously used any other OS.
If it is to be acceptable in today's world it must be database driven and granular. This is why MySQL is so popular, and this is why Linux's directory services have gained no market or mind share.
MS has indoctrinated you well, but you don't appear to know enough about *nix to really participate in this discussion. Of course, it can easily be argued that I do not know enough about windows to participate in it, so perhaps we're even:)
Got a way for me to change your screen saver settings on every Ubuntu box in the company?
Are you joking? If I want to lock down and sync desktop configurations for all users/workstations or for groups of users/workstations in any *nix it could not possibly be easier, more reliable, transparent, or trouble-free using simple command-line tools . And maintaining that is as easy as invoking the contab editor.
I'm beginning to think the people who say that AD is a kludge for dealing with the registry are probably pretty much correct. It doesn't appear to offer much in the way of real benefits except to people who already use windows.
BTW, you know how I get my users (nearly all of whom were migrated from windows) to run my scripts? I give them an icon to click on:)
Obviously it's possible to build a crappy quasi-equivalent for one's own organization out of shell scripts, but it would be a lot of work to build and maintain, and it wouldn't be as flexible or as reliable.
Oh I don't know about that. Cron and rsync are pretty well proven to be quite reliable and flexible. Of course it does require some competence, no pointy-clicky...
Pure MS BS. I have Linux and BSD systems running for years on their original native FS with no more than 4% fragmentation and often mere tenths of a percent for ext3. With NT on NTFS you're lucky to get that out of a fresh install, much less after a defrag.
There is no advantage to "control of the Windows System Registry" except for windows users, so your logic appears a bit circular. You do know that there are Linux LDAP servers, right? Because so often discussing technology with microsofties is like trying to talk about good food with McD's addicts. They often have no frame of reference with which to discuss these things.
You know, that guy who always fails to get his wireless working in Debian, then downloads Ubuntu and goes on a rant about how everything should Just Work like Ubuntu did for him that one time on that one machine...
THink about it.... Do you enter a passwrod when start your phone?
Of course I do. Any real geek probably has a password set, and a suitably short timeout. Still, physical access to any device trumps almost any security measure. The headlines scream "iPhone" but this can be done with any mobile device, once you have it in your possession.
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The reality is that while you entertain yourself with semantic fantasies about your pet org the rest of the world just it sees a mindless mob acting like a petulant child. Which it pretty much is.
Back in my day, we liked it when people RTFA and used the knowledge gained to supplement TFS for those who won't/can't RTFA. Not sure what's up with the idiocy of "karma whore" accusations. What are you, an 8 y.o.?
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Actually, RIM hardware is quite good quality compared to most of the Android phones I've seen. Not the highest spec hardware, but reliable, solid, and with reasonable battery life. My friends' Android phones have dreadful battery life and feel clunky and toy-like in comparison.
Oh, that's hilarious.
But back on topic, as a blackberry user I'm not sure I'd want Android binary compatibility. Maybe I would, but the Blackberry really has a much better security record than Android, and serious malware in Blackberry App World is rare, which can't be said of the Android Market Place.
Yes, but because that's really all that's necessary. The features of ADS you seem to feel are missing in *nix are simply unnecessary because we already have fine-grained control over user and group permissions built into the OS. The rest is merely syncing user data. We can do that easily enough with rsync.
Well frankly, I don't think you're managing a lot of users from a desktop. Might I suggest you spend more time reading so you'll be qualified to post?
In the real world there is need to port windows problems to *nix. :)
Maybe, but if so you've still got a lot to learn. Like how to admin without KDE or gnome, for instance. :)
Oh, also: what the devil does all your ranting about "the desktop" have to do with it? The rest of us are talking about admining servers.
Stop awfulizing it -- scripting this is elementary in *.nix, and if you can't do it you're not a competent *.nix admin, period full stop.
Microsoft neither invented nor has a monopoly on the ability to use LDAP.
Yes, well it works very well in the *nix world -- the NT failures you cite do not affect us at all.
Huh? No-one can seriously brag about the *registry*, it's the Achilles' Heel of windows! This can only mean you've never seriously used any other OS.
MS has indoctrinated you well, but you don't appear to know enough about *nix to really participate in this discussion. Of course, it can easily be argued that I do not know enough about windows to participate in it, so perhaps we're even :)
Are you joking? If I want to lock down and sync desktop configurations for all users/workstations or for groups of users/workstations in any *nix it could not possibly be easier, more reliable, transparent, or trouble-free using simple command-line tools . And maintaining that is as easy as invoking the contab editor.
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I'm beginning to think the people who say that AD is a kludge for dealing with the registry are probably pretty much correct. It doesn't appear to offer much in the way of real benefits except to people who already use windows.
BTW, you know how I get my users (nearly all of whom were migrated from windows) to run my scripts? I give them an icon to click on
Oh I don't know about that. Cron and rsync are pretty well proven to be quite reliable and flexible. Of course it does require some competence, no pointy-clicky...
You're right, he does appear to be describing something we easily achieve with a crontab entry, or by manually using rsync.
Pure MS BS. I have Linux and BSD systems running for years on their original native FS with no more than 4% fragmentation and often mere tenths of a percent for ext3. With NT on NTFS you're lucky to get that out of a fresh install, much less after a defrag.
There is no advantage to "control of the Windows System Registry" except for windows users, so your logic appears a bit circular. You do know that there are Linux LDAP servers, right? Because so often discussing technology with microsofties is like trying to talk about good food with McD's addicts. They often have no frame of reference with which to discuss these things.
So IOW it sells to people who don't understand how to manage users and groups?
Gentoo is in very fine shape these days, I'm using it daily!
You know, that guy who always fails to get his wireless working in Debian, then downloads Ubuntu and goes on a rant about how everything should Just Work like Ubuntu did for him that one time on that one machine...
Awww, why'd you do that? Reading the serious responses to posts like yours is half the fun of /.!
For the same reason everyone locks their doors, in spite of the fact that all locks are defeatable: it works *most* of the time.
Of course I do. Any real geek probably has a password set, and a suitably short timeout. Still, physical access to any device trumps almost any security measure. The headlines scream "iPhone" but this can be done with any mobile device, once you have it in your possession.
Ah, of course -- the OCD market!