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Comment on Bose SoundDock & apple iPod by Kevin Caldecott

Kevin Caldecott — Mon, 11 Aug 2008 19:42:43 +0000

I found this website which as a Bose sounddock cable for sale. It’s in the USA and it’s not cheap but I intend to give it a try.

Comment on Open Letter to Palgrave.com regarding “Engineering Mathematics” by Andy

Andy — Mon, 11 Aug 2008 17:49:43 +0000

Correction made.
(Having just finished reading “Weaving the Web” - I should know better!)

Thank you!

Comment on Open Letter to Palgrave.com regarding “Engineering Mathematics” by Tomalak Geret'kal

Tomalak Geret'kal — Mon, 11 Aug 2008 17:39:39 +0000

Just a small correction; Berners-Lee invented the World Wide Web, not the Internet. And yes, there’s a difference.

Comment on Time to learn GPG by AlexM

AlexM — Thu, 07 Aug 2008 13:51:56 +0000

Don’t forget Labour introduced legislation meaning that if they believe you have an encryption key they can force you to hand it over or face prosecution…

Comment on What makes us happy? (or happiness and Digital Design) by Dustin

Dustin — Mon, 04 Aug 2008 00:38:49 +0000

Its true, complicated things (in general, from a relative standpoint) tend to be more annoying and less useful to use.

And in regards to the pleasant life, I would compare this to some types of projects: its usually far more fun to work on the project than to actually use the project.

Comment on GNU/Linux by Peter Lewis

Peter Lewis — Fri, 25 Jul 2008 14:46:32 +0000

Hey Andy,

I think that all depends on what the “product”, as you put it, is. Are you trying to persuade people to use a Linux kernel? The Ubuntu distribution? Free Software? Open Source Software? Depending on what you’re trying to push, I think the name can be quite important…. especially when trying to justify why you’re trying to push it.

Comment on RHEL5 & OpenLDAP by Andy

Andy — Thu, 03 Jul 2008 16:49:33 +0000

James,

I don’t have any articles on why it’s bad to use the RHEL supplied binaries. The issue is that they’re only designed for client-side use - and are also quite a few releases out of date.

The pace of FLOSS development is so fast in this area, that they’ve fallen behind and offer their own Directory Server as the ‘only viable option.’

However, thanks to guys like Buchan Milne, and those at Suretec and Symas - we can all enjoy Enterprise level LDAP directories.

Check the openldap mailing lists for extra information, there should be a few threads on there. However, the list is well moderated for openLDAP (rather than distribution specific) problems.

Hope this helps.

Comment on Howto: ppolicy & openldap by Andy

Andy — Fri, 20 Jun 2008 17:07:29 +0000

vanpeer,

I’ve looked into it further, and you’ll find an answer in my latest blog post: http://tinyurl.com/67uja4

There are a couple of shortcoming which I hope to address - but providing you can write some simply ldif scripts, the current method should work reasonably well for small to medium sized implementations.

Comment on RHEL5 & OpenLDAP by James C

James C — Wed, 18 Jun 2008 15:42:39 +0000

I’m in the process of writing an implementation plan for openldap and I was trying to find backup articles as to why it’s bad to use the RHEL5 + the stock openldap… I noticed it did not come with precompiled modules which is a minus for me but do you have links to some of the newsgroups/postings as I’d like to use it as backup for my choice.

Thanks in advance!!

Comment on RHEL5 & OpenLDAP by AP

AP — Thu, 12 Jun 2008 22:46:59 +0000

We cracked the nut and now things are working. No client package updates were needed. Uncommenting the right things in the schema file was a critical step. The other other gotcha was needing to disable hashed passwords on the client side /etc/ldap.conf. For anyone else out there struggling with the minLength or pwdInHistory policies make sure you have “pam_password clear” set in your client’s ldap.conf. Obviously using this without TLS enabled is not best practice.

Thanks for your help Andy. We could not have done it without your pointers.