Why I stay with CentOS
By now very few people in the open source community don’t know that there’s been a bit of an issue over management of the CentOS Project in the last few months. Although the immediate crisis seems to have been resolved, the whole situation has caused many to question whether sticking with CentOS is a good [...]
Virtual Machines and usbfs
Some time ago I wrote a post on getting Palm sync to work in a Windows guest on a CentOS/RedHat Enterprise host. Ironically, the main source for that article was the Ubuntu Forum: proving that Linux is, after all, still Linux, no matter who distributes it. Since moving to Ubuntu Intrepid Ibex (8.10), I’ve found [...]
LDAP is like COBOL
Not really, but Dave Kearns has a post reflecting on his remark at the recent European Identity Conference that LDAP “is the COBOL of identity”. According to Dave, it was “intended as 1) a cheap laugh; and 2) as a short, memorable way of saying that LDAP would always be with us.”
As Dave says, the [...]
Cleaning up dirty data with perl
I considered putting this post on my general tech blog, onemoretech, but finally decided to put it here as something of great interest to other directory admins.
There’s this data feed I’ve been importing into my directory for almost 7 years. Over that period the import routine has had to be modified in one way or [...]
Whither OpenDS?
The sad, pathetic, case of Sun management’s effort to strong-arm former developers, including founder Neil (he is, and always will be, “Directory Manager”) Wilson, on their OpenDS project has boiled over into public view.
A summary is up on El Reg today, written by John Waters, entitled Sun accused of hardball open source project tactics. For [...]
Sun’s Latest Brag
I couldn’t help myself. After reading a recent entry on Symas’s blog, I forwarded the link to my bosses with the comment “Howard Chu chews up latest Sun DS brag ad”.
Yeah, yeah, I know their blog is shamelessly self-promoting, but having read Howard’s posts on various mail lists over the years (particularly over on the [...]
Simply Unreliable, or another Saturday lost to Sun DS
For the second time in as many months I’ve had one of our Sun master directories go south on me. The details are unimportant. What is important is that this incident is giving me ever so much more incentive to get my company off a directory server product that has proved unreliable at the least [...]