Tuesday, August 31, 2010
ODSEE vs RHDS?
No, this isn’t going to be an in-depth analysis of the relative strengths and weakenesses of Oracle Directory Server Enterprise Edition (ODSEE) and Red Hat Directory Server (RHDS). Sorry. Just some reflections on the broader trends I’m seeing in the directory server space and where I think things may be going.
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Monday, August 16, 2010
Stronger passwords
From a new report on how much better the odds now are for brute force password attacks that employ modern processors. The main point, anything less than 7 characters is crazy and even 12 may be vulnerable without some compositional complexity.
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Thursday, August 5, 2010
Who said using Java isn’t any fun?
So, last week Eclipse broke because Oracle pushed a new update for Java that changed the company name field from “Sun Microsystems” to “Oracle”. The comments attached to a Slashdot story about the problem were merciless. Being predominently a Linux geek publication, the expected animus to Java in general was right out front. Here’s a sampling:
Lemme guess, you’re sweating bullets wondering if you’re going to spend all night pissing on fires while the C guys laugh at you and drink beer?
When to fix the time in an Oracle AS infrastructure
If time ever gets out of sync on an Oracle AS infrastructure cluster, that’s a severe enough situation that you should feel comfortable just going ahead and making the fix one server at a time.
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Wednesday, August 4, 2010
Managing replication agreements in DSEE 7
This is another (see my original DSEE 7 Cheat Sheet) short article on getting things done with Oracle’s Directory Server Enterprise Edition (a/k/a Sun DSEE) version 7. In this post I provide some common commands for managing replication agreements with the product.
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