Using a Sun or Red Hat DS into a simple LDAP proxy
While Oracle’s Virtual Directory and Sun’s Directory Proxy Server have lots of features that make deploying them worthwhile, if all you need is a simple pass-through LDAP proxy the standard Sun and Red Hat (a/k/a Netscape or 389 Directory) servers support a feature called Chaining that does the job.
Basically chaining involves substituting a remote Sun/Red [...]
How do I search on a name value that has a parens in it?
How do I search on a name value that has a parens ["("] in it?
You have to escape both parens characters in the LDAP search filter.
“(givenname=stephan \(IT\))”
why? Because the parens is what LDAP uses to determine where the filter begins and ends!
Just another reason never to let anyone store parens or other non-alphabet characters in [...]
increasing efficiency with a wiki
For anyone who still doubts the usefulness of wikis in facilitating the kind of collaboration that can increase worker efficiency, check out Stewart Mader’s Future Changes site. Mader has a couple of books on wiki adoption, as well as a short video series, 21 Days of Wiki Adoption, where he makes the point with such [...]
What’s in a footprint?
Google the words, “windows 7 footprint”, and you’re likely to get back an interesting collection of articles.
The physical disk space that operating systems consume has been increasing exponentially over the years, as more and more capability was packed into the O/S as opposed to user land applications. Over in the Linux world we’ve been seeing [...]
Ubuntu Forums
The Ubuntu Forums are a really valuable resource for anyone working with Linux. Even back when I was on mostly Red Hat derived systems, searches would often lead me to answers there. To see what’s available, browse on over to:
http://ubuntuforums.org/index.php
Oracle Middleware on x86_64 Linux
A collection of links to Oracle’s official certfications for various middleware products on x86_64 Linux (x86_64 not to be confused with pure 64-bit Itanium, for which there are binaries of most products).
What we’re talking about here is running 32-bit products on a x86_64 platform. This article focuses on Linux, specifically Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) [...]
Reality check: the state of portable computing
We have a few different portable computing devices here at the house. Besides the 3 year-old Dell Inspiron 1200 there’s the OLPC XO, some Nintendo DS’s and a Wii. Oh yes, and a pair of not-networkable Palm Zire 31’s. This tally doesn’t include the various laptops I’ve brought home from work over the years — [...]